about us

My name is Sharon Tay and I am a caregiver to my sister who has special needs.  Despite our family circumstances and the challenges of living with special needs, my mother tries her best to make the most healthful meals she can put together every day. Often she combines her traditional cooking skills gleaned from growing up on the kitchen floors of her parents’ restaurant in Indonesia, working with the seasonal availability of foods and most importantly, her unwavering belief that a real food diet is foundational in building my sister’s and our family’s health.

It was a trip I made in 2016 that unexpectedly set us further down this path to health. (Having grown up on home cooked meals, been physically active and worked in a lifestyle company that offers day spa experiences and farm-to-table dining, I had thought I was pretty healthy, but my world was just about to be opened up…). I had made a trip to attend my church Truth Tabernacle, Last Trumpet Ministries‘ Revival Meeting in Wisconsin, USA. The Ezekiel 4:9 sprouted bread on my host’s dining table caught my attention and on the back of the packaging, I read about a Dr. Weston A. Price. 

My church family – a couple of them who live in different countries and some battling health conditions – shared about how they were using foods to heal. One had undergone a series of operations on his stomach and improved his digestion with traditionally fermented foods. Another showed how she cooked with cast iron and taught what the benefits were. I added trace minerals to my water and tasted the difference for the first time. (Years down the road, one of them who had been at the same table shared about how he rebalanced his blood sugar with daily prayer walks and overhauling his diet to incorporate healthy dietary fats.) The atmosphere at that fellowship table was so peaceful, respectful, loving and all-round beautiful – and it left such a marked impression on me.

 

Greatly inspired, upon returning home to Singapore I immediately investigated the work of Dr. Price and other health pioneers, and started working with my family to make deeper changes in our way of eating. My husband and I travelled to homesteads and farms in New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia, and we went on to start an edible garden in our local community to help our neighbours develop food growing skills and access more nutrient-dense foods.

All seemed to be going well until November 2019 – something completely changed my outlook of health in 5 days. A close relative had fallen into a coma and was flown into Singapore for emergency treatment. Lord willing, I will never forget what the neurosurgeon did: instead of exploring surgery or other interventions that one might expect, the neurosurgeon attributed my relative’s health outcome to his lifestyle. It was in that moment for me that the head knowledge became heart knowledge.

 

In the weeks that followed, having experienced the grace of God, I came out of grief with a determination greater than ever before that nutrition has a vital role in our well-being. I thought deeply about my family and other special needs families and wanted to help better our health. With the leading and prompting of God, I started re-looking into going back to school for nutrition education and was considering enrolling with a naturopathic university, but family and caregiving considerations (I’d have to relocate for at least 1 year), as well as the world turning upside down in March 2020 meant that these plans had to be put on hold. But sometimes God closes one door to open another: I was brought back to those of the Nutritional Therapy Association (NTA) where I went on to obtain a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner Diploma, and afterward completed further trainings in biblical counselling, nutrigenomics, and special needs nutrition.

In April 2020, while working on a name for this (ad)venture that strives to glorify God and point to the Lord Jesus Christ by serving special needs parents, caregivers and families, the Bible verse of Matthew 19:26 came to mind. My husband’s encouragement was also to do this for Jesus. Leonard W. Coote’s records of God’s faithfulness in the book Impossibilities Become Challenges additionally provided much inspiration. Every step of the way here has been prayerfully considered and met with God’s open door.

So with Possible Nutrition, our goal is to bring you, my fellow special needs carer, a word of encouragement and truth, and perhaps through sharing my story, that you may come to see the hope and help that is very available to your family.

 

Health as a special needs family is possible. We are here for you.