Alexis Grewan

P O Box 53456 Wierda Park 0149
Tel: (012) 653 5798 Cell: 082 722 8837
Email: alexis@deliberatelywell.co.za

Qualifications
B.A. Social Work (Hons)  Wits University, South Africa  (1995)
Diploma Reflexology and Meridian Therapy, South Africa (2000)
PR NO 108 000 0221651

Registration
Allied Health Professions Council of SouthAfrica A02513
South African Council for Social Service Professions 10-17519

Membership
The South African Reflexology Society: Executive Committee Member
The National Reflexology Association.

Current work and interests

My primary interest is to encourage people to make independent and healthy decisions. A health care practice (with a specific focus on reflexology) incorporates interests in natural health and addresses all life aspects holistically. The support from my research in social work and children/family matters over the last 15 years enriches my interactions with clients. Creating awareness of the need for deliberate management of health is recognised as fundamental to individual and societal wellness. An easily accessible home based health care practice offers the community this opportunity and fosters greater responsibility for self care and prophylactic health.

Consultative services extend the facilitation of responsible and intentional choices to groups in the formal working sector, including health and educational facilities. Such services are tailored to address identified needs. Through various presentations, awareness of and access to health care choices and personal growth opportunities are possible for a larger number of people. Such presentations have addressed topics that include the role of natural health in supporting your body, in the workplace, in the health care sector and as part of childrearing. Emotional wellness and personal skills development amongst professionals is currently being offered to facilitate organizational wellness and develop more effective client – therapist relationships.


Why I’m thinking about what I’m doing

It all started with my birth choice. The enormous responsibility I felt in caring for another life allowed me to access the knowledge that life is everywhere and deserves care always, not just through the life of another…..

Natural birth is a very powerful life experience. The way my children entered this world remains the primary driving force behind all my decisions. Three healthy pregnancies and three healthy births gave me the opportunity to understand the wisdom and strength nature offers, unconditionally and continuously.

My birth stories are not so much about the details but rather about the overall impact on my life once I became a parent. A blissfully ignorant (or ignorantly blissful) first pregnancy allowed me to follow nature’s course (raising an interesting challenge about the harmful ‘value’ of too much information!). A healthy body at the outset, complimented with equally healthy feelings of absolute joy, commitment to good eating and adequate exercise, permitted an uninterrupted and safe development of the little being that was to become my child. Information accessed was intuition based – a tacit knowledge somewhere deep within - trusting that the process would know how to continue. And that it did: not once, not twice but three times!

The miracle of conception and subsequent healthy child birth still has me in awe. The complexity of the human body and the absolute wisdom it has to know how to function, how to reproduce, how to support and how to heal is a guide I continue to follow in my everyday parenting. It has also informed the career choices I’ve made. Natural birth allowed me to access the strength of nature, recognizing that it has an order and a balance that bring harmony and good sense. It awakened in me the realization that we can intentionally choose to follow what we have been given, as it has existed for eons and eons, without invasion, intrusion or interruption. We can find the answers in what is around us and in us if we just take the time, first to question, then to explore, follow what is being felt, and trust that voice deep within that actually has the power to ensure we are well and strong and beautiful! Natural birth and my children ignited in me a desire to learn more about myself, make decisions that were clear in intent and follow the numerous life options available that continue to support the most natural process on earth. Consequently, my professional work is able to offer this awareness to others.

I would wish my birth experiences on all who want to enter that magical, abundant, prosperous, often challenging but ever evolving journey. The great privilege of being able, and choosing, to honour my body’s capacity has returned to me in more great blessings than I’d be able to mention.



……. and so was born the desire to encourage all to think well about doing well
in order to be Deliberately Well!!