Renew, Restore, Reset: Natalie Murray’s path to transforming your life in 2025
Published:Wednesday | January 8, 2025 | 12:05 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter
For 2025, Wellness Coach Natalie Murray is set on continuing her goals with her Renew – Restore – Reset detox gateway programme designed to assist persons with sleeping better, feeling better and thinking more clearly.
On Monday, The Gleaner caught up with Murray, owner of the health and wellness store, The Life Store, located at the Super Valu Towne Centre in Constant Spring, St Andrew, where she explained the significance of this year’s detox.
Each word, Murray said, represents something significant to her as she goes on her own detox journey and guides her clients on their detox journey as well.
“I want to help you renew by adding in really good foods, and that’s also going to help your body restore, because you’re going to stop feeding yourself junk, and it’s going to give you a reset. A lot of people use it [the programme] as a little mini reset after the holidays or before a special occasion and some people do it once per month, but at the end of those three or five days, you feel renewed, you feel restored and you feel like your diet is reset,” she explained.
Murray started the Renew – Restore – Reset detox a decade ago in 2014. The monthly three-day programme, which can be extended to five days, is by registration only at www.natalie-murray.com/3-day-detox.
“This programme is run as a group. We have monthly sessions and people are encouraged to sign up and register the week before the sessions start. It’s not something that you can just walk in and purchase. You have to register because I do have some health-related questions on my intake so that I understand a person’s goal and limitations,” Murray, who also does weight loss programmes, hormone testing, nutritional genetic testing, food intolerance and coaching practice from The Life Store, said.
“I need to understand if they are on any medications, if they have any illness [or] allergies,” she said.
Not only does the programme focus on the participant’s health but also their habits.
“I’ve found that it’s easier for me to say, ‘Give me three days of your life and let’s see how good you feel after we make some changes for three days’, and then what I’ve found is when people see how good they can feel, by just making those changes for the three days, it’s a lot easier for me then to have a longer-term conversation to say, ‘What are some of the habits you learnt in those three days that you can do forever?’ and then ‘How else can we make little modifications outside of that programme, so we can get you healthier and happier?’,” Murray said.
Murray’s detox programme and recipes have special ingredients that includes local fruits and vegetables; vegan protein powders; Jamaican herbs, such as turmeric, and superfoods to support the liver such as sea moss.
“I’m trying to get people to change their life. I’m trying to get them to change what they eat, how they eat, drinking water, being more mindful about what they put in their body, but when I talk to people about the rest of their lives, they get a little scared,” Murray said.
“It’s difficult for people to say I’m ready today to say, ‘I’m ready to make a decision on changing so much about myself for the rest of my life,” she shared.
On the Renew – Restore – Reset programme is a simple green smoothie, which is Murray’s go-to which includes a banana, a cup of spinach or kale or bok choy or green leafy vegetables with a scoop of protein powder.
“And that with some water and ice is a very simple way to get some vegetables and fruits and protein into your body at any point of the day. You can use it as a breakfast replacement for people who are busy and on the go, or you can use it as a pre-workout or a post-workout for people who are exercising or as a healthy snack, but you have to consider your overall goals and your overall calorie intake when you’re going to add in something like a smoothie,” Murray explained.
“Just because it’s blended up, doesn’t mean it’s not adding carbohydrates, adding natural sugars and adding calories, so you do need to consider it in the rest of your diet,” she said.
Murray’s fitness journey started when she was 16 years of age, with the guidance and influence of her father when he put her on a specific fitness regime, given that she was heavier than what he believed she should have been weighing at the time.
His influence, guidance and suggestions have pushed Murray and her children to become lovers of wellness.
The goal, the former banker told Lifestyle, is meaningful transformation.
“I’m trying to make people level up how they feel; level up their baseline health and wellness. I couldn’t see myself being happier doing anything else. It really gives me great joy to see how, over a period of time, I’m able to work with clients and literally transform their lives. The ripple effect is very alive in what I do, because I’ll work with a woman, and over the course of a year, her husband loses weight because there’s that ripple effect. I work with one member of the family, and everybody benefits, so it’s really beautiful and fulfilling,” she said.