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Healthy Pregnancy: Conscious Conception
3 August 2012
On special request by a number of my readers as a follow up to my Fertility Friday posts, this is the first post in a series on conscious, healthy, natural pregnancy. Before we launch into the how to of ensuring emotional and physical health throughout pregnancy, it is necessary to take a step back to look more…
Wild Weeds You Can Eat: Picking Nature’s Superfoods (for free)
29 April 2012
Nature really is bountiful and does provide, as long as you know where to look and what to look for. Along with Spring comes picking and foraging, activities that I have recently added to my healthy habits. As someone who really doesn’t know much at all about flower, plants, trees, this is really so easy, more…
Overeaten? Judging Yourself For It? 3 Top Tips To Get You Back On Track
15 April 2012
Family holidays such as Easter, Christmas and other major holidays can be challenging when it comes to healthy eating and can leave you feeling bloated, sluggish, with a bit more of a belly than you had a few days ago, moody, with poor digestion, perhaps spotty skin and generally feeling slow and low on more…
Is Your Deodorant Safe?
25 March 2012
When it comes to perfuming your pits, did you know that your regular deodorant could actually be contributing to ill health? Let me reassure you. I know that some of you think I’m a ‘posh hippy’ with my nature & planet loving ways, but I do draw the line. Yes, I do use deodorant. I more…
‘Detox’ Is Not A Dirty Word
10 January 2012
de·tox·i·fi·ca·tion /diˌtɒksəfɪˈkeɪʃən/ [dee-tok-suh-fi-key-shuhn] noun 1. Biochemistry. the metabolic process by which toxins are changed into less toxic or more readily excrete-able substances. 2. the act of detoxifying. 3. the state of being detoxified. 4. a period of medical treatment, usually including counseling, during which a person is helped to overcome physical and psychological dependence on more…
Fertility Friday: Use These Nine Steps to Safely Detox Before & During Pregnancy (guest post)
18 November 2011
By Guest Blogger on November 18th, 2011 Recent studies have found over 300 toxic chemicals in umbilical-cord blood. During 2011, the U.S. President’s Commission on Cancer, declared that babies are being born “pre-polluted.’” Of course, these high levels of toxicity negatively affect women’s health as well the health of our children. To help give your more…
Natural Remedies for Blocked & Sniffly Noses
26 October 2011
Autumn is well and truly here and along with it, the sniffles, colds, sore throats and flus. We all know that prevention is better than cure, right? And we all know that a healthy diet and appropriate lifestyle choices build optimal health and immunity. And we’ve all read a heap of articles about immune boosting more…
Wild and home-grown herbs for health
26 September 2011
I don’t know about you, but I love spending time in nature, taking a step back from the busy-ness (and business) of urban life. Even if just a few minutes, hours, or better still, days or weeks. Unless you want to live in a totally man-made world (shudder), it is so important to take the more…
Fertility Friday: Mama Naturelle – Chemical Free Beauty for Pre-conception Care
5 August 2011
The average woman uses up to 13 beauty products on her skin (soaps, creams, make-up, hair products, perfume, self-tanning lotions, hair dye, sunscreen…) leading to the absorption of over 500 different chemicals every day. These toxins overload our bodies, placing extra strain on the task of daily detoxification.
Fertility Friday: Reducing Toxins Pre-conception
29 July 2011
Natural, green living is something that I am passionate about, and especially so when it comes to helping my clients prepare their bodies pre-conception to boost their natural fertility and ensure that they bring their future baby into this world with the best possible health. By ‘best possible health’ I mean thriving, optimal health and more…
