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Self-care is not selfish - It's essential!






Meet Kim Morrison

 

Kim Morrison is a professional health and lifestyle educator with over twenty five years experience in the health, fitness and beauty industries. Kim developed her skills in aromatherapy alongside tactile therapies, homeobotanical therapy, fitness consulting and personal training.


Visionary, creative and innovative, she has been acknowledged as a world leader in her field. Kim proves that you can have it all - a successfully balanced career, family, social and community life - while maintaining a healthy sense of self. Her self-care workshops and keynote presentations are uplifting, practical and inspiratinoal. Personal experiences are shared along with an extensive knowledge of her craft, offering tools to help people transform lives.


With extensive research and dedication, she continues to create, promote and endorse products that come under the 'ethically natural' category.


It is her mission to see women acknowledge their strength and beauty, take responsibility for their health and wellbeing, constantly challenge their potential and take good care of themselves. And she knows it can be done without it costing a lot of time and or money.



'That’s how this self-care message was born. It began in 2000 with my dear girlfriend Fleur Whelligan. It was a vision combining our professional know-how with ideas and real-life situations plucked from both our own lives and those around us, to write our first book that we hoped would benefit thousands of women searching - just like us. We did, and nine months later it was received with great excitement. We toured and spoke to women in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa to find that ALL women identify with the same needs - and desperately want tools to help them achieve the balance and happiness they crave in their own lives.

Ten years on and four books later, we found ourselves with a newly written Like Chocolate for Women, but this time with twenty years of experience and a few more books behind us, taking the knowledge of all the work we have done and combining all our written work into an easy dip-into book. It’s a book that can be your tool, your support and even your refuge as you face life’s many challenges.

Since working together over the years we have faced many of our own challenges. Many a time the steep learning curve of motherhood and relationships has had us pick up the phone and call each other for support. When we each lost loved ones in our families we learned the true meaning of friendship and what it is to be there for someone in pain. We have faced hard financial times together and even moved countries in 2006 from New Zealand to Australia where we had to pull on all our resources to settle children, make new friends and re-establish ourselves in the business world. 

In 2009, after a ten year dream, we proudly launched our own chemical free Aromatherapy and Skincare range called Twenty8 - where we wanted to provide an affordable yet luxurious, ethical and chemical-free range of skincare and aromatherapy products easily accessible online to everyone. The money I had earmarked to launch this range, our self-published updated version of Like Chocolate For Women and our website was ripped from me in a financial institution crash that affected many lives not just mine and my husband's. It was hideous, scary and down right devastating. But after much thought and reflection it came down to asking two questions... Is this the Universe saying give up? Or is this the Universe asking how bad do we want it? We chose the latter.

But just to keep me on my toes - it all changed again. For personal reasons, in the middle of 2012 Fleur made the tough but ultimately amazing decision to return to live in NZ with her beautiful daughters. She left the business altogether to start on a new adventure - including her gorgeous 'Vitality Health & Beauty Clinic'. Although she has gone and we miss the daily contact hugely, what we have learned through all of this is to truly appreciate the amazing tools that we have preached about for over twenty years and to give each other our love and blessings for the next chapter in our lives - that is the greatest gift ever a best friend can give!

So what is Like Chocolate For Women and Twenty8 - and who am I now? I am very proud and excited to say that I have a new business partner, someone who has come on board to help me take this message to the world. Someone who was inspired by a talk Fleur and I gave many years ago and has travelled the self-care journey with us. Stacy MacKellar is a phenomenal soul. Her business prowess is not to be under-estimated. Her love and passion for health, fitness and beauty admirable and she is an inspiring soul in her own right. You never know what is around each corner but I am forever grateful for what Fleur gave me to start this journey and what Stacy has given me to continue it.

I live and breathe what is written here and in these books, yet I too feel I am a student of life, forever open to learning and adjusting my sails. I don’t know it all and don’t pretend to — that’s what the journey of self-care and growing older is all about!  I simply look forward to continuing to soak up new things, educate myself and share what I can with others. I have run a number of ultramarathons and marathons and truly believe running is just like a metaphor for life. Life really is one big marathon race. You feel fantastic at times, fit, on top of the world and you are on a runners high. Then before you know it blisters appear, the chafing is raw and you are hitting the wall wondering if you will ever finish. Only to push through the pain, learn from mistakes and feel the euphoria of being fully present and alive again. It's constantly ever changing.

I believe every woman needs to make their self-care and spiritual wellbeing an absolute priority in their own race. It is imperative women 'love' who they are and that they feel comfortable in their own skin. This is not a dress rehearsal. This is it. One life, one body, one race, one YOU! It's time to be proud of who you are and hey - if you are not happy then its time to do something about it. No more complaining, no more I can't - but time for - I can do this! I owe it to myself, my kids, my partner, my loved ones, my work.

It has been the feedback of women in our workshops and from the books we have written that has helped me to grow and fine tune this message — a message we all need to be reminded of constantly: self-care is not selfish. It’s essential. Welcome to Like Chocolate For Women & Twenty8!

A celebration and acknowledgment of womanhood!


We strive to be the ‘best’ friend, sister, daughter, wife, mother, cook, home-manager and businesswoman, yet often we fill our cup to overflowing and forget about being our own best friend and nurturing our own needs!

Well girls I am here to help, I am here to educate, hopefully to inspire, to support and to remind you that self-care is not selfish – it’s essential.

So come on the Like Chocolate For Women journey, discover nature’s wonderful self-care tools, drop the guilt, learn to make yourself a priority and start to nurture yourself again - inside and out. Like Chocolate For Women is about creating a happy, healthy, fulfilled and contented life. It's about budgeting but not going without. It's about indulging but not feeling guilty. It's about getting as close to a chemical-free lifestyle as possible and using the most extraordinary gifts from nature in beauty and natural skincare, health and fitness, spirit and soul. It's not only about finding that inner spark and holding onto it - but actually doing something with it. It's about creating a legacy, making a difference and inspiring change.


Take care, indulge and enjoy!


Kim Morrison


PS. I would really like to acknowledge a lot of the images and photography in the books I have written and co-written as we use many of the images on our sites. Many thanks to Luci Harrison and Suzanne Hall in NZ and Leanne Harrison in Australia. Your creativity and skill helped capture our messages beautifully, thankyou from the bottom of my heart.


Terry, SA.


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