Regain Your Balance The Natural Way

By Damita Miller-Shanklin

Christina and her husband Aaron Gobert found their company Natural Healing Wellness Company together in an effort to educate People of Color about disease in the mind and body and how to regain balance the natural way. Gobert's husband is an advocate for the Alkaline Lifestyle and does more of the back-end/behind the scenes tasks for the business. I had the opportunity to speak with Christina about their business.

Christina Gobert’s spiritual awakening that changed her view of how she saw the world began around 2016. When she started she didn't know it was a spiritual awakening. But once she started diving more into this world of spirituality, she came across that wording, spiritual awakening, and she knew immediately that was her experience. Gobert says she finished school, got her master's and did everything that everybody said she was supposed to do to achieve the American dream. And yet she was not happy, she wasn't fulfilled. She remembered thinking there has to be more to life than this. Shortly after she encountered an app called Insight Timer and learned about meditation. There was a meditation for everything, every mood, everything you deal with, so resonated with her. GobertI remember feeling a sense of peace that she had not felt before. She took off meditating and learned about spirituality and realized we've been programmed to believe certain things, but through the world of meditation, there was this whole other world out there.

Gobert got more into spirituality and started having different experiences that solidified for her She wanted it to be to live a more spiritual life. “I started using all natural products and stopped drinking alcohol. It was a natural progression for me and nobody said to me to be spiritual. You need to stop doing these things. I just naturally started doing them,” says Gobert. She remembers feeling more in control of her life, she felt like a better person. It also helps her to handle interpersonal conflict better by being a more spiritual person and understanding people when trying to have compassion and have more empathy for people.

One of the practices used by Gobert is the Ayurvedic Lifestyle. She explains Ayurvedic is a 5000 year old practice that is spiritual based. But really it is a way of living and it's basically just connecting and aligning with nature for optimal health. “There are different practices you do and a lot of them are really popular and trendy right now, but what people don't know is a lot of these practices started in Ayurvedic. Practices like dry brushing your skin to get your lymphatic system moving. And the lymphatic system is where we get rid of toxins in the body. Brushing your tongue is another practice.” If the lymphatic system is stagnant, it can increase risk of disease and you're more likely to be overweight. And so in Ayurvedic they teach what's called a Dinacharya which is a daily routine. You are maximizing your health by doing these daily practices. So things like tongue scraping, things like dry brushing, eating with the sun, so when the sun is at its highest point is when we should be having our biggest meal because that's when we can metabolize food the best. And that people don't realize that that has its origins in our Veda and natural practices. Ayurvedic practitioners do things like detoxification practices where they can help you detox your whole body. This helps people get in touch with their natural self.

“My husband and I combine the Ayurvedic Lifestyle with the Alkaline Lifestyle into our business.” So what is the Alkaline Lifestyle?

Gobert explains that Dr. Sebi was an African man but he was from Honduras. He got really sick, she believes he was in his 20s and he went to go see a healer and herbalist in Mexico. The herbalist told him to eat for his genetics, since he was African he needed to be eating food for his genetics, that's why he was sick. And apparently Dr. Sebi was overweight. He was experiencing psychosis and all this different stuff. It was believed he had diabetes too. So the healer treated him and Dr. Sebi was cured, From that point forward, Dr. SEBI devoted his life to telling other people the foods that we are eating are killing us. And this was back in the 70s. So this was from a long time ago, and you can imagine how much worse it is now. Gorbert goes on to say Dr. Sebi created a list of foods that are the least detrimental foods and these are like fruits and vegetables. So a lot of the fruits and vegetables that we eat are actually not real fruits and vegetables. Some of them are foods that have been created in the lab and then they sell them and they make them look like fruits and vegetables. When our body digests these foods because our bodies have this wisdom that our minds don't have, our body doesn't recognize it as food. Dr. Sebi has this list of foods and that's what she and her husband eat primarily.

Gobert and her husband eat food from the food list. Since eating these foods, she has experienced illnesses that she cured from eating from the food list, and practicing Ayuvedic lifestyle. For Gobert working high stress Social Work jobs, she was highly anxious. “I had really bad acne because I was just eating whatever. I was in the community, on the go and not eating healthy. I had a lot of teeth problems because I was eating a lot of sugar all the time. So every time I went to the dentist, I had to get something pulled or filled. During the pandemic, her and her husband switched to the Alkaline lifestyle. They immediately dropped about 15 to 20 pounds and this was in less than a month. And most of the weight that Gobert dropped was not fat, it was all from her colon. “Dr. Sebi teaches that when we eat the wrong foods, it gets trapped in the colon. The colon doesn't expel it, and that's also why many black people have high rates of Colon Cancer.” And the other thing I should say is “my husband is the one who introduced me to the alkaline lifestyle. He was doing this before he even met me. He would tell me about it all the time. And I'd be like, I'm not doing that. It was not enough food for me.” she laughs. She was already Pescatarian at the time, so I was eating seafood. Eventually, she started getting tired of seafood. That’s when she decided to try the Alkaline process. Gobert noticed she immediately had no more acne and her anxiety went away after she supplemented her diet with Sea Moss and herbs. who might be stuck in their minds. about? She has a certification from the Deepak Chopra program. With coaching, “I help people who want to achieve a wellness goal or anybody who might be stuck in their minds like maybe it's not just about wellness It can even be about relationships. The person may be having a conflictual relationship.” It's an even richer experience because of her background as a Social Worker and Counseling.

So what should people know about Natural Healing and Wellness Company. In our current society we have gotten away from living natural lifestyles and this contributes to illness

Gobert thinks what's most important is getting people to understand that if they want to get rid of chronic illnesses like diabetes, high blood pressure we don't take them seriously enough. What I mean by that is that in our communities, we think of these things as not a big deal because everybody has it. But what we have to realize is that with these illnesses, we are literally shortening our lives and that's the long and short of it. Our body is not running as well as it could if you have diabetes or high blood pressure. It doesn't matter if you're on medication. Over time, the medication can weaken certain organs. With the Alkaline and Ayurdevic lifestyle, it is not about treating symptoms, it's about curing the body and getting it back in balance. Gobert teaches people to “take your power back, empower yourself and to align with nature.” With any change, start off small and gradually change your outcome.

Through Gobert’s business she also does coaching. So what is that

To find out more about Natural Healing and Wellness Company, visit their website at Natural Healing and Wellness Company You can also find them on IG and Facebook.