By Margaret Maccoll
The Brow Bar founder Chernae Silk used the Covid-19 shutdown of her beauty salons to lose 20kg, discover the way to deal with her emotional eating and establish a new health retreat to help others deal with their weight issues.
This week she launched Fitlife Health Retreat with a trial retreat. She has brought together a group of health therapists and trainers and 10 guests who will spend six days improving their health through education and activities.
“I want to share my message now as Covid restrictions lift, that it’s ok to choose you,“ she said.
“I’ve learned a lot during self quarantine, while my beauty businesses were completely closed down and I had zero income, that self educating is everything and we had the gift of time, so I used it. I learned in three months that everything just clicks when you are willing to do the work.
“I was 145 kilos before Covid hit. I’ve been doing the wellness ‘work in and out’ with my experts online and now I’m 125 kilos. I’m on my way to a functionally fit healthy, strong 75 kilos.“Chernae intends her retreat to adapt its education program to the needs of its clients and deliver topics including nutrition and cooking for energy systems, men’s mental health and fitness, women’s mental health and hormones, mums and bubbas and children’s health.
She said the focus of her wellness retreat would be on emotional and mental health, fictional fitness and soul adventure.
“Wellness comes from emotional self-respect … . not external bodily perfection,“ she said.
“For me It’s all about wellness, fitness, fat loss and adventure as well as what a functional fit body, mind and soul can do and how it feels rather than what it looks like.
”Located within the Noosa National Park guests of the Fit Life Health Retreat will be able to reconnect not only with themselves but to the healing power of nature.
Chernae is a self-confessed serial-retreater who said despite attending a multitude of Australian and International Health and Fitness retreats she was never able to resolve her ongoing problem with emotional eating.
She embarked on her own research journey and sought out Australian healers and therapists who specialise in understanding and helping to heal the emotional eater.
Chernae discovered this was the life changing element that the retreat world was missing.
She determined the pivotal question she had to resolve was:
“For what and why are you really weighting (waiting)?”
“When your relationship with food, body image, weight and self-confidence is an ongoing “ground-hog day” problem what your head, heart and body is actually “weighting” for is a powerful and life changing question,“ she said.
“Fit Life Health Retreat actually helps guests find once and for all, their own private answers and discover their personalised solution to reboot a new freedom and a way of living a Fit Life.
“Together with my experts we have created a Health Retreat like no other in the world. I’ve custom built this transformational program to support my own health journey. I want to share this journey of education with all communities as it’s not currently offered within a retreat style program anywhere across the globe.”
