VICTORIA PURDON
About
Hi! I’m Victoria, and welcome to Manifesting Health.
I'm a registered Nutritional Therapist of 8 years, and Somatic Stress Release Practitioner in training, with a background in Corporate Wellbeing & Development. I support perfectionist, high-achieving women who are ready to feel grounded, resilient, and at ease in their body.
My approach blends nutritional therapy, lifestyle practices, mindset work, and somatic tools, creating a space where healing feels safe, playful, and deeply empowering.
I’m an Aries sun Cap rising, 4/6 Projector, and an Enneagram 1 - which basically means I was destined to burn out following society’s systems, so I could learn and then guide others toward a more gentle (and more effective) system.
I learnt the hard way that real transformation doesn’t come from pushing harder and hustling. It actually comes from feeling safe enough to slow down, explore, and grow.
My Values
Safety
— the foundation for all healing. Together, we create an environment where your body and nervous system can finally exhale.
Play
— because curiosity, creativity, and joy are powerful medicine. Healing doesn’t have to feel heavy. :)
Growth
— the natural result of feeling safe enough to expand into who you truly are, not who you’ve been conditioned to be.
How I Got Here
My path to this work has been a wiggly one - like most healing journeys are!
But when I look back, I’ve always been fascinated by the mind-body connection. During my art degree, I explored the subconscious through meditative drawing - long before I realised it was a form of somatic practice.
Then came my “high-achiever era.”
I was climbing the career ladder at a start-up, studying nutrition, procurement, collecting promotions and responsibilities… and running entirely on caffeine and adrenaline. I told myself it was busy and exciting, but underneath the productivity was exhaustion and health issues which eventually, caught up with me.
After qualifying as a Nutritional Therapist, I helped people heal their gut and skin, but one thing kept showing up blocking their progress: stress. At the same time my career transitioned to leading Wellbeing and People Development in tech. There I saw how even the most capable, intelligent people were running on empty - despite having all the tools available to them.
You can eat the perfect diet, have a great routine, but if your body doesn’t feel safe to rest you'll end up burnt out - like I did.
Enter somatic work... the missing piece of the puzzle I had been looking for, for myself, and the people I supported.
Now, I support others to ground their nervous system with holistic tools tailored to their life goals, so that they can operate with more calm, ease and resilience.
I know what it’s like to feel guilty for resting,
to have a mind that won’t switch off,
to believe that being “useful” equals being worthy.
And I also know the deep exhale that comes when you start living from safety, play, and growth.
Qualifications
— Nutritional Therapist, CNM
— Registered with BANT & CHNC
— Somatic Stress Release Practitioner
— Background in Corporate Wellbeing and L&D
— 100's of workshops run with a 93% satisfaction score
— A lifelong student in all things self-development, health, spirituality and art
"Victoria is a pleasure to work with - warm, understanding and incredibly knowledgable, with an ability to express the complicated science-y bits in digestible layman’s terms.
She is also a realist - offering a comprehensive overview on ways to improve energy and treat ailments in an achievable, bite-size way that promotes positive change."