"Marissa is an award winning speaker and one of the most inspiring young female role models of our 21st Century. As well as being a qualified expert in psychology, public health and nutrition (BSc, MSc), she has successfully overcome anorexia nervosa (which she suffered throughout her teenage years), depression and body dysmorphia.

Her transformational journey was hugely aided through learning and utilising the art of self love, developing positive relationships with food and body, alongside following her own nourishing routes towards happiness and health.

According to Marissa and the Nourishing Routes philosophy, authentic happiness and health is not achieved through following faddy diets, counting calories, losing weight, embarking on rigid fitness regimes or even getting the perfect grades and career (as she knows all too well), but instead by learning to accept ourselves as we are now, expressing our creativity, enjoying food, making positive social connections, living more mindfully, being grateful for what we already have, engaging in pleasurable movement and becoming empowered to follow our own path (nourishing routes) in life rather than trying to meet the unrealistic and damaging expectations of others, social media and other pressurising societies.

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Marissa was awarded distinctions in health sciences and Nutrition (BSc) at Liverpool Hope University, while completing a nationally recognised service and leadership award due to her ongoing contributions to voluntary sectors, youth support sessions and multiple community empowerment organisations.

Believing that there was so much more to health than food and exercise, she then completed a masters in psychology (MSc), as well as becoming trained in counselling and public health (PGdip). After two years working in public health research activities related to eating behaviour, stress and addictive behaviours, Marissa finally quit her full time job to continue blogging, writing and focussing on following her own heart - with the ambition of being able to share her own story and the Nourishing Routes philosophy far and wide.

Marissa recently won an award for the best social value organisation in Liverpool and is recognised as a revolutionary public speaker, peer mentor, eating disorder recovery coach and newly published author. Through delivering interactive workshops that take place in classrooms, workplaces and online settings, she shares the Nourishing Routes philosophy in a very passionate and 'easy to grasp' manner.  In April 2017 she won another award for Highly Commended Individual at the National Symposium Health and Wellbeing Awards in Kent, Sponsored by Kims Hospital.

Marissa additionally has expertise in delivering workshops and talks that raise awareness about issues surrounding eating disorders, stress, poor body image and pressures around social media, so talks can be adapted and tailored to suit the unique needs of different schools, colleges, universities and age groups.

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In a nutshell, Marissa is well on her way to inspiring thousands (and eventually millions) of individuals to live more compassionately and love themselves from the inside out. Through her empowering talks, new book and online content, Marissa is rapidly spreading a very powerful message across the globe that is positively transforming the way our current and future generation views happiness and health.

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Ultimately, Marissa is here to mission to help, inspire and empower you and your students to resonate with a very important and revolutionary message, so individuals can realise that they are amazing and fully worthy enough to appreciate their own unique qualities.

Nourishing Routes is here to place our lives back on the menu, so that we can all become the very best version of ourselves and reach our full potential in whatever shape or form that may be"