Pete Evans reveals why his daughters started therapy at 12 months old
He’s no stranger to controversy, with celebrity chef Pete Evans having been slammed by the medical community for his advice on diet, health and lifestyle in the past.
But speaking on news.com.au podcast Balls Deep, the My Kitchen Rules judge says the criticism doesn’t faze him and that he has no regrets in the lifestyle he chooses, especially when it comes to how he raises his two daughters – Chilli, 13, and Indii, 10.
“I have no guilt whatsoever about the lifestyle that I choose to live,” he said, before revealing that he part of the holistic “journey” has been doing Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET) for the past 20 years.
He added that his daughters have also been undertaking the therapy technique from as young as 12 months old.
“It’s something I do with the kids from time to time ever since they were basically one-year-old,” he explained.
“It’s just like taking your car in to get serviced,” he explained of the sessions. “Some people, like myself, like to take our minds or brains in to get emotional work and releasing done to help navigate this world that we live in.”
According to Innovative Medicine, NET is a psycho-emotional technique and based on the foundations of stress-related responses. It aims to work with in conjunction with other medical therapies to remove psycho emotional blocks that may help the body to repair itself naturally.
Pete added: “In my journey as a human being … I have experienced many different forms of nourishment for the body, mind and spirit. I’ve never seen a psychiatrist or a psychologist [because] I see different types of people in that emotional space.
“It’s helped me a great deal and helped different members of my family, and I’ve seen the results these people have so why would I not want to include my children?
“Some people might look at that in different light, but I would say don’t knock it until you try it.”
Pete said his eldest daughter started the technique at an early age as she was born with a tumour and was admitted to hospital as a baby for treatment. He says the use of the therapy enabled her to “get in a state of healing”.
“Psychiatry and psychology is proven that it doesn’t really work that much,” he said. “The amount of people that are prescribed antidepressants these days as a get out of jail free card … without looking at the body and mind holistically … is causing so many issues,” he added.
“Most forms of modern therapy like psychiatrists and psychologists sort of miss the mark on understanding how to deal with a human being,” he said. “Very much like how modern doctors have no idea about how the human bodywork in relation to nutrition. I’m not saying all, but most.
“I find this sort of work that I am talking about [NET] is a great tool for them [daughters] to discover their own unique self. It gives them an understanding of how their mind and bodywork.”