How do we create health?
put simply
take out all the bad stuff
and put in more of the good stuff that I will teach you about
Our bodies have a powerful innate healing system. We simply need to activate it by removing and avoiding the negative inputs that impact our body, and instead, only provide what our body needs to function optimally.
I’m here to support you to take better care of yourself, and coach you on how to be healthy all on your own without having to pay expensive "experts".
Seriously… spreading knowledge to help you reach your health goals through my coaching is my passion, so I’m all in.
To this day, my favourite thing to do is work one-on-one with my clients and talk about the micro changes they can make to their nutrition to give them back their health.
Inspiring people like you to take up a healthy lifestyle, is what I live for. It’s where I get to have a massive impact. Through my health consulting, organic cafe and online wellness classes & courses, I seek to inspire and empower busy Mums + Dads with their wellness goals.
Meet Pete.
About 10 years ago, I ‘woke up’ and made a decision that before I hit the age of 50 I wanted a different life. A slower, more meaningful life filled with authentic friendships and a focus on service.
At the age of 42, it became really clear to me that my everyday thoughts and actions were creating my life, I was on autopilot. I knew I needed to make changes. I knew by being intentional I could create the life and business I wanted. I pushed myself to wake up to living, I saw which habits I needed to change to move closer to the life I wanted to live.
It hit me hard – I wanted to build financial freedom while remaining authentically me. I chose to follow my passion for natural, non-synthetic health and wellness solutions. Graduating from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition with a Health Coaching & Nutrition certification, and The Center for Excellence with an Advanced Aromatherapy Certification, and started sharing my love for creating health in more people’s lives. And I’ve basically had my nose in the health and wellness research books ever since.
I entwined all this around my existing social enterprise business portfolio I’ve been running successfully for the past 20 years in Northern Vietnam
And did I tell you I have a thing for good coffee?
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it's gotta be over ice
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with a splash of almond milk
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and a drop of pink pepper oil
Foundational Well-being Coach
I became a Foundational Well-being Coach to help busy people like you make small changes that can boost your energy, confidence, and vitality.
It all starts with a solid foundation of good nutrition because food plays a central role in our lives. Opt for fresh produce, whole grains, and lean proteins, and keep it simple. This approach, known as clean eating, is really just about choosing whole foods and avoiding processed ones.
While you're thinking about what you eat, it’s also important to consider how much you move. This doesn’t mean committing to intense workouts but rather finding activities that boost your energy, improve your mood, and leave you feeling better.
I believe health is a journey, and there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. By understanding your unique needs and taking small, consistent steps, you can start living a healthier, happier life.
Valerie Engelson ~ Testimonial
@valshealthycorner
During this thing called life, if we are fortunate enough to meet people who profoundly have an impact on our life, can meet us where we are at, and genuinely care about us, we are indeed blessed. This is Pete Wilkes.
Supportive, caring, and pushes me to do better, to be better. Working with Pete isn't work, it is fun, we laugh, we cry, and we help people in need. How great is that!
dōTERRA essential oils and personal care products have elevated my health. To have tools to support my health and the health of my family is invaluable. My toolbox can address most health issues that come our way. Nontoxic living is important to me and having personal care and household products that are safe and nontoxic is the key to overall health and longevity.
I can not imagine not having natural solutions in my life. There is an oil for just about every condition. And having the knowledge to use doTERRA products and oils for both my family and my clients is a gift I get to give every single day. So grateful.
I too am still exploring, evolving and looking for new ways to appreciate clean, whole living myself and I hope you’ll be inspired to do the same throughout our time together.
I’ve been sensitive my whole life.
I have a sensitive belly and sensitive skin I’m just a sensitive kinda guy. I even cried in Finding Nemo. When I was little, I was plagued with mysterious red patchy skin that had no apparent cause. By the time I was sixteen, I moved to Tokyo to study and my Japanese sponsor family rotated picking me up from school and taking me to different doctors in Yokohama to try to figure out what was wrong. No one ever could, and my symptoms kept getting worse.
When I was 22, I moved to a new apartment downtown in Tokyo, by that time I was getting hay fever it seemed every-second-week and I was covered in itchy, rash skin. As you can imagine, it was not ideal.
I was in my early twenties, living a fun student life in Tokyo, and I was dealing with a horrific trifecta: constant breakouts; itchy, dry scalp; and an undiagnosable body rash that wouldn't go away. I was already using two different heavy-duty medicated treatments for my breakouts and rash, and my Japanese dermatologist had just given me a new topical corticosteroid cream for my skin. But when I started to use it, I quickly and painfully realized that my new cream made my scalp freak out. Does this sound familiar?
This continued for all my
Adult life until I hit 40
I made a pact with myself that by 45 I would be a different person and by 50 I wanted a different life. I went back to school to study holistic health and nutrition. I had also been involved in fitness and health since back in my days living in Sydney, I managed a boutique fitness centre in the BoHo Kings Cross area. So by the time I hit 45, I had learnt enough about different nutritional theories that I was able to calm my allergies and eczematous skin by making tweaks to my diet, resetting my gut health (a lot more on that later) and ditching the toxic products in my home and switched them for cleaner ones.
It felt empowering to be able to fix myself when doctors had only been scratching their heads and prescribing me lotions and steroids for the longest time.
Helping people take better care of themselves and teaching them how to be healthy all on their own without having to pay expensive "experts" became a passion of mine.
I have studied holistic health and nutrition for years and have learnt so much about my internal health, I understand the importance of treating the gut to heal the skin. I’ve finally gotten healthy enough through my diet tweaks and gut reset to need a doctor only very rarely now.
As I said before, I was on actual prescription medications for my skin problems. In my early 40’s I was flying from Hanoi, where I’ve lived since 2005, to Bangkok for skin treatment, every 3 months for 4 years. I was given powerful steroid treatment which made me feel like I was an addict, but instead of being hooked on pills, I was hooked on creams. Owning an organic cafe in Hanoi only increased this guilt.
Those miserable, painful, years getting on the plane in Hanoi to Bangkok, inflamed and itchy, were my rock bottom. I just felt so ugly, itchy and frustrated, and I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't keep keeping getting steroid injections and using all the prescribed eczema products that were meant to help but were turning my life into a nightmare.
So I quit…
I stopped using every single skin-care product and medication. Overnight I made the decision. I thought to myself, I own an organic cafe in Hanoi why can’t I heal my skin using natural products without all the synthetic, engineered lotions and medications? It was my last, desperate attempt at finding some relief. I had been researching pure essential oils, I started using pure Frankincense oil, a quality probiotic, whole-food digestive enzymes and nutritional supplements to feed my blood and cells better health. I thought I feed my customers the best quality produce from my farm, why can’t I do the same with my body to heal my skin? To that point, I’d had no luck impacting my skin from the outside, so I decided to go from the inside.
And, shockingly, relief did come fast. It was pretty much instantaneous. During that whole first month of using no chemical products or corticosteroid creams whatsoever, all of my symptoms improved. And the next month, I felt even better. Every month, I waited for proof that this was too good to be true and my old eczema triggers would return. They never did.
I have my certification in holistic health and nutrition from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and I know that 80% of our skin’s issues are manifested by our gut health. Picture an iceberg. The 20% of the iceberg above the water is your skin, and the 80% of the iceberg you can’t see symbolises your gut. I started to see amazing things happening to my skin just by concentrating on my gut health.
I was eating good, clean food and whole-food enzymes to feed my body. I watched as my eczema improved month after month, I was getting no triggers and I had removed what was causing the sensitivities. I removed all commercial household cleaning products, changed my laundry and kitchen detergents and looked for where all the chemical toxins were lurking in my home.
This is super important and we will go into a great amount of detail here.
You achieve momentum in life when you feel what you are doing is an absolute blessing, when you feel grateful for what you get to have.
These days
I work with clients to teach them how to eat healthy and move their bodies to feel better. They already know how to think of good food and fitness as medicine. Yet somehow the idea to remove toxic products from their homes had not crossed over into conversations about being their health triggers.
Ingredients like preservatives and synthetic chemicals that have become hugely infamous in food do not have the same reputations when they are in our household products. And most simply and importantly, no one talks about how bioavailable supplements, which increase our macro and micronutrients and provide our bodies with healthy fats, are what our bodies need for optimal health.
So I found my mission
I launched my Foundational Well-being coaching company NourishedbyPete in 2018. Nowadays I teach workshops about my skin healing journey and the experience I’ve learnt. I give weekly classes about plant medicine and holistic natural wellness.
Over the years I’ve turned these classes into a community. I still can't get over the fact that NourishedbyPete is now in 47 countries and growing. People are finding natural solutions to heal their pain.
To this day, my favourite thing to do is work one-on-one with my clients and talk to people about the changes I made to my nutrition that gave me back my health.
Through my ReNew You program, thousands of people have started ditching their junky skin-care and household products and cleaning up their lifestyles with new healthy habits.
My ultimate goal is to get everyone to think of mainstream household and skin-care products as they think of packaged food: full of preservatives, unnecessary ingredients, and nasty chemicals. I want to push my health coaching clients to get rid of the hormone-disruptive chemical products in their homes that have been linked to eczema, reproductive disorders, asthma, and severe allergies. To make you understand that most of what you have been told and sold is not true and that the ability to have healthy, happy skin is totally and completely in your hands.
How to begin?
For you… let’s take this new journey in baby steps, though. I don't want you to feel you have to stop doing anything you like, but I want to help you not need any of the chemicals in your homes that are disrupting your health. I want you to feel like an expert on your body, to take the knowledge from our time together and dive deeper, to implement the knowledge into your life through practical day-to-day tips.
Cleanse Camp will show you how to be an expert on you, your body, and your skin. To feel like you're the boss and in control and, best of all, like you can stop stressing over how to have good healthy skin once and for all. How awesome would that be?
The best part is that it's not even going to be that hard.
This is about things that you intuitively know. You're going to read through everything and think, Ohhhhh, of course. I'm a testament to the fact that you can discover what's best for your health with some supportive guidance, just as thousands of others I've worked with, and all of the people I've never met who have figured out that going back to the basics, removing toxin triggers from their life, is the best thing you can live healthier and happier.
So, here's how it's gonna go.
We are going to talk a lot about food because a clean diet is the number one way to have a lifetime of great health. We're also going to talk about your household products and unveil the dirty chemicals that disrupt your health.
After that, I'm going to invite you to start a full-body detox to get your holistic health back on track.
Sound good?
Great! Cleanse Camp is the program I offer to clients who work with me because they're frustrated and fed up with their current situation and want answers. I hope you find all of your answers here, too!