Mala Govind - Coach, Author, Speaker
Come Home to Your Body
Self-Healing Coach - empowering mums navigating auotimmune disease - helping you trade fear and restriction for trust, energy, and a body you feel safe in again.Hi, I'm Mala.If you're here, chances are you're tired — not just body-tired, though probably that too. Tired of researching symptoms at midnight. Tired of another elimination diet that promised everything and gave you less. Tired of feeling like your body is something you have to manage instead of somewhere you get to live.I get it. I've been you.This is a space to come home — to your body, to trust, to the version of you that isn't constantly bracing for the next flare. Have a look around.
My Story
Why I Came Home
In November 2018, I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Proctitis — severe inflammation, ruptured ulcers, the whole terrifying, humiliating, exhausting picture. If you know, you know. The urgency. The pain. The way it quietly takes over every plan you make, every meal, every outing, until your world gets small.I was handed the standard playbook — medication, restriction, a body to be managed rather than trusted. And for a while, I followed it. But something in me kept asking a different question: what if my body wasn't broken? What if it was trying to tell me something, and I'd just never learned how to listen?So I got curious instead of afraid. I started paying attention — to food, yes, but also to stress, to emotion, to the stories I was carrying in my body that had nowhere else to go. Trial and error, month after month, I built a protocol that was mine. Within six months, I was discharged from the hospital system — no severe inflammation, no conventional treatment needed. I haven't needed it since.That healing journey is the whole reason I coach today.I now work with mums locally in New Zealand, and online across the globe who are living what I lived — the fatigue, the flares, the fear that food is the enemy — and I help them find their way back to body trust and food freedom, using the same tools that worked for me: German New Medicine, NLP (Parts Integration, Timeline Therapy), and a lot of hard-won, real-life honesty.My work isn't about another set of rules. It's about coming home — to a body you can trust again, and a life that isn't lived around your symptoms."Your body isn't broken. It's been trying to talk to you the whole time"
My Books
This is the GoodShit
Yes, that's really the title — This is the Good Shit: A Journey That Healed Ulcerative Proctitis/Colitis. I named it that on purpose. If you're dealing with a digestive illness, you already talk about poop more than anyone warned you you would. Might as well laugh about it. (Every chapter title has a "shit" pun in it. I regret nothing.)This is the long version of the healing story — the one I later condensed for my Change chapter. It's the real, occasionally-TMI account of ignoring my symptoms because I was too busy being a new mum and working full-time... getting a diagnosis I refused to accept as a life sentence... building my own food-based protocol through trial and error, cabbage and celery juice included... and then, right in the middle of 2020's lockdown, getting sick again and healing myself a second time — with the exact same method. Twice was proof it wasn't a fluke.I'm not a doctor. I'm a chartered accountant who got tired of being told her body was broken, and went looking for answers herself.
As Featured in: The Change
Come Home to Self-healing
I'm also a contributing author in The Change book series, where I share a shorter chapter, "Come Home to Self-Healing." It's the condensed version of the story above — how I went from diagnosis to discharge, told for a different audience.If you've just finished reading it — welcome. I'm so glad you're here. And if you want the full, unfiltered version, that's This is the Good Shit, above.The Change is coming soon — details and where to find it will be right here. In the meantime, to start your own Come Home journey reach out to me on Facebook Messenger below, let's talk, and you could join me on my free 4 Day Challenge.
The Future of Self-healing Autoimmune Disease
Inspired for Book two
Both This is the Good Shit and my Change chapter were really just the beginning. As I wrote my chapter for The Change Book series I have been inspired to write my second book! It will go deeper into everything those two only had room to touch on — and this website is where that story will keep unfolding.
Gifts
Gifts for you now
1. Self-Healing Journal - Print as you need its just 2 pages
2. 6 week detailed journal focused for you to map diet and any changes to symptoms to give you space and clarity as you start your healing journey
3. My top go-to recipes - my ethnic background is Indian there are a number of spiced recipes. All spices included are beneficial for the human body's healing as I learned from Ayurveda that worked for me.connect with me on Facebook and let me know which gift you'd like first. No catch, i'll just send it to you.