(a love note to exhaustion) Dear Exhaustion, You are my greatest teacher. For most of my life, you were my constant companion, and I never knew why. I accepted you as ‘normal’. I thought that this feeling of utmost depletion and burnout was ‘just life’ … for all of us. I learnt that in order to function the way I...

When it comes to your health and your life, do you feel like you’re drowning in a sea of noise? I used to. Everywhere I looked, I had a barrage of conflicting information being thrown at me, by every second person who claimed that they had ‘the answer’, ‘the path’, ‘the way’, ‘the pill’, ‘the diet’, ‘the truth’, ‘the secret’....

Love yourself where you are at. Just do it. Whether you are ‘happy’ with yourself or not …. with your body, with your emotions, with your life path, with your finances, with your career, with whatever … just freaking LOVE yourself where you are at! Do you think you are going to make any sort of positive forward movement or...

How easy do you find it, to let people down? As in … how ‘ok’ are you, with choosing your own basic (or not-so-basic!) needs over others needs, from time to time? In my work, ALL of my clients are women who struggle with one or more of the following things: / Burnout / Adrenal fatigue / Overwhelm / Hormonal imbalances /...

Things I wish every woman knew. Over the past few years as I’ve inadvertently ended up working only with women (I’ve seen only TWO men in my career – I didn’t do this on purpose either!), there are certain things that I find myself desperately wanting these women to deeply know and understand. Here’s a list of some of them!...

The world told me to push, force, fight and strive, in order to be a success. But I couldn’t ignore any longer the PMS, exhaustion, depleted adrenals, wired nervous system, anxiety and insomnia. The world told me that in order to be liked and appreciated and approved of, I needed to please absolutely everyone. But I discovered that this was...

There is a reason that hormonal imbalances, burnout, exhaustion and overwhelm run SO many women’s lives and health.  And, this reason is usually the very last thing to be addressed. Many of us want to think that if we take a million supplements, or eat enough organic food … we will heal. And magically become calm, balanced, energetic, and brimming with vitality. But the truth...

When life feels busier than ever, it’s ridiculously easy to fall into the habit of ‘pushing through’. We push through illness, we push through our emotions, we push through events and jobs and responsibilities that aren’t authentic to us. Most commonly, doing what I do, I see people push through burnout and exhaustion. We seem to think, if I can...

For all of the burnout out, overwhelmed, people pleasing women: If you ever find yourself tiring of how people treat you, or what they expect of you; if you feel like you’re constantly pleasing everybody but yourself … I see you, I hear you, I feel you.  Lately in my life, I have been absolutely SLAMMED with the lesson of learning...

Adrenal fatigue, more correctly described as ‘HPA-axis dysfunction’,  is the most common scenario that I see as a Naturopath in a clinical setting.  Modern life offers us many perks, but one of the downfalls is that collectively, our health is suffering – and so often, this is simply from burning the candle at both ends, being too busy, and never slowing...