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Are you constantly playing catch up with your health? (Video)
29 April 2013
It’s what you do most of the time that counts, not what you do some of the time. (you can quote me on that one) It’s not when the proverbial hits the fan that you are going to start implementing essential health habits and strategies to help you through with ease and flow. You need more…
Do you really understand all that health info? (Video)
22 April 2013
You’re an intelligent, informed, health conscious woman. Yet still, so much health information can just seem like mumbo jumbo and can get really confusing when food is broken down into its individual nutrient parts – vitamins, minerals, trace nutrients. Is this a typical conversation for you: “Hm, what d’you fancy for lunch?” “I was thinking more…
Healthy Pregnancy: Physical Well-being
2 November 2012
Physical well-being isn’t all about what we do or don’t eat. It’s also based on movement and physical therapy. Although it’s important to slow down and be gentle with yourself during pregnancy, this doesn’t mean that you have an excuse to become a couch potato! You’ll feel it if you do. Aches and pains, constipation, more…
Healthy Pregnancy: Optimal Nutrition
6 October 2012
Optimal nutrition during pregnancy will ensure that you keep your energy levels up and experience full well-being to support the increasing requirements placed on you physically and emotionally over the months to come. So many complications experienced in pregnancy, birth and beyond are due to inadequate nutrition. Beginning motherhood or welcoming a second, third…child into more…
Healthy Pregnancy: Balancing Emotions
31 August 2012
The emotions that you experience from the first moment of conception teach your baby how to view the world. Whether you experience a calm, happy pregnancy with oxytocin flowing freely, or stress and anxiety with cortisol flooding your body will affect which parts of your baby’s brain are programed for growth. Is more growth going more…
10 Everyday Uses For Apple Cider Vinegar
24 June 2012
If Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) isn’t a staple in your house, it will be once you realise just how many benefits it has (other than to make a delicious vinaigrette). ACV is one of my favourite ingredients to use in the kitchen, bathroom and around the house. ACV has been used for hundreds of years 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…
Fertility Friday: Unleashing The Power In A Woman’s Cycle (guest post)
9 February 2012
By Guest Blogger on Friday 3rd February 2012 For centuries, the female menstrual cycle has been shrouded in mystery; a taboo subject, seen as unclean or a ‘curse’. But it shouldn’t be like that. Every woman has a right to know what is happening in her body, and the empowerment that comes with this knowledge more…
Fertility Friday: EFT For Fertility (guest post)
12 January 2012
By Guest Blogger on Friday 13th, 2012 The 4 S’s for Pregnancy Success! Number 1: STRESS OK, so you may think that stress isn’t really a key to pregnancy success. You’re right – stress in its many forms can often be harmful to our overall health and well-being, including of course your reproductive health and 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…
