Lately I’ve had an abundance of women, from all walks of my life, talk to me about coming off the oral contraceptive pill. As a naturopath, this please me VERY much, because I know how much life can change when you move away from synthetic hormones and allow your own, natural hormones to kick back in, and naturally balance. HOWEVER,...

Digestive difficulties are ALL too common for most people – but they shouldn’t be.  Our tendency is to immediately think, ‘food – I must be allergic / intolerant to something’. (More and more people are requesting food allergy testing from me for this reason). And, while this certainly can be the case, it’s definitely not the ‘only’ factor that needs...

We all know that phrase, ‘I’m sick and tired, of being sick and tired’ … but today I wanted to offer you a different perspective on feeling this way.  Often, we berate our bodies for feeling the way they do. As if our poor bodies are punishing us – through illness or burnout or exhaustion. But, really … there is...

Period pain: normal or not?  If you’re someone who suffers with period pain each month, it can be disheartening and overwhelming to hear, ‘period pain isn’t normal and we’re not supposed to get it’, from someone who’s supposedly ‘in the know’. Well, what am I doing wrong, you might think. And why do I get it?  As a naturopath, I...

I’ve now entered my 30’s – and the one thing I am mega certain about as I move through this new milestone is this: I’m simply not interested in being exhausted and burnt out anymore. Can you relate? Over the years – in this crazy journey that we call life! – I have come to deeply believe that it is...

Are your hormones talking to you lately? Here are my top 7 things that I believe are interfering with the hormonal status of Modern Women: 1. Too much coffee / caffeine. Caffeine directly drives stress hormone production within the body, which is at the root of so much of the hormonal disharmony women experience these days. A little bit is ok...

In 2014, when I was in my last year of studying to become a naturopath, I was sick 8 months in a row with the same glandular virus – from January through August. Every four weeks, I’d get it again. It would knock me around for about a week at a time. In that year, I was overloading online theory...

My journey Like so many teenage girls, I was put on the oral contraceptive pill at age 16, to ‘help’ my acne and irregular periods. Far from ‘helping’, I believe this experience (and this very powerful pharmaceutical), contributed hugely to the anxiety, intense unexplainable sadness, and mood swings I experienced over those years. At one point, I was even placed...

Hormonal imbalances are reflective of SO much more than just our physical health – they often reflect things about our lives that desperately need to change.  They shine light on what isn’t working, where we need to draw stronger boundaries, and dramatically raise our own self-care.  So often, we just ignore our hormones, and brush off any hormonal symptoms so...

Me and anxiety have always been old friends.  About 12 years ago, I was a 19-year old uni student, and I used to have to run out of the lecture theatre as an impending anxiety attack would approach, fearing the ‘closed-in-ness’ of those walls. I used to be driving on the freeway and be scared that I’d crash my car...