Robyn Curnow

Beauty therapist and personal health experience contributor

Robyn Curnow is introduced in The Turning Point as a qualified beauty therapist working at Misty Mountain Lifestyle Retreat in Bellbrook, New South Wales. Her chapter biography describes helping guests prepare for a stay, answering their questions and supporting the practical running of their visits.

Her contribution, The Autoimmune Comeback, draws on a diagnosis of Hashimoto's thyroid disease in adolescence and the years that followed. Robyn describes how living with a chronic condition influenced her sense of identity and her interest in lifestyle and wellbeing.

The chapter explains the personal experiences and beliefs that led her towards retreat work. Her wish to understand what guests may be experiencing is presented as an extension of her own history, rather than simply a role within a business.

Robyn's professional background in the book is beauty therapy. Her account is an individual health story and does not establish that the approach she describes treats thyroid disease or allows someone else to stop medication. Decisions concerning prescribed treatment belong with the person's appropriately qualified treating clinician.