Liliana, 42

Liliana is a nutritional counselor based in Vancouver, Canada. She has been pivotal in helping me through the last seven (now approaching eight) months of chronic herniation-related pain. I first approached her for general nutritional guidance but as I became increasingly debilitated and cut off from everyone/everything due to my back injury, she really served as a lifeline to sanity, peace of mind and hope. She, along with my parents, family and few close friends, was the main constant in my life and, thanks to Skype, it was easy to have access to her wealth of scientific knowledge, spiritual wisdom and emotional guidance. Liliana herself has been through some extraordinary life experiences. Her personal and professional journey creates an interesting context for her thoughts on living through the 20s, 30s and 40s and what it means to age well beyond that.