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Reflections on living well and staying healthy

Understanding Our Inner Spring: Nurturing Creativity
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Understanding Our Inner Spring: Nurturing Creativity

Our inner Spring occurs as the bleed part of the cycle ends and we move towards ovulation. It is sometimes referred to as the follicular phase of the cycle as it is when the ovaries are developing one of the follicles to be released later in ovulation. 

This phase has similar qualities to nature's spring of rising energy and growth. However, like those delicate new shoots and leaves we can see outside, we need to treat ourselves with a little tenderness during this phase…

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How to Start a Home Yoga Practise: 5 Easy Steps
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How to Start a Home Yoga Practise: 5 Easy Steps

Have you always intended to have a daily yoga practise at home but struggle to make it happen?  You are not alone!

In my experience the biggest hurdle for a yoga practise, is to get past the initial inertia and resistance. 

We often set ourselves up for failure by trying to take too big a step in one go. (Like getting up at 6am to a one hour daily practise!) We need to set small achievable goals until it is a new habit and second nature. Then we can move on from there. Here’s how to set yourself up for succes and ease…

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Understanding Our Inner Winter: Rest & Reset
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Understanding Our Inner Winter: Rest & Reset

Our Inner Winter refers to the bleed phase of the menstrual cycle. It is when we are called to retreat and renew. This is the time typically that our physical energy is the lowest and a time when we need to withdraw from the world and rest. You may feel a sudden urge to stop, a physical need to slow down. There may be a heaviness which can feel like lethargy but also can be deeply grounding.

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Understanding Our Inner Autumn: Self-Care to Ease PMT
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Understanding Our Inner Autumn: Self-Care to Ease PMT

Following the heightened energy and social vibrancy of our Inner Summer, Inner Autumn is about turning inward. Energy begins to wane, and focus becomes more internal and reflective. It is this time our inner truths may surface courtesy of our inner critic, and we are no longer tolerant of what does not serve us. This inner critic can trigger emotions like anxiety, rage, grief, and irritability. I like to rename PMT as Pre-Menstrual Truth!

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Preparing for Baby: 8 Tips for the Final Days Pregnancy
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Preparing for Baby: 8 Tips for the Final Days Pregnancy

Those final days waiting for baby to arrive can in some ways be the most challenging. You are on maternity leave and there is nothing else really to do other than wait for labour to begin! It can be hard to know what to do with yourself and how to be. Here are some of my tips I share with clients about managing those final days:

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Planning for Postnatal Recovery
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Planning for Postnatal Recovery

In pregnancy we spend so much time thinking about and planning for the birth and preparing everything the baby might need, but very often we don’t have much in place to care for our own needs once baby is here. We also tend to think about investing in support in pregnancy and birth and buying things for baby but not setting a budget for the help we need for postnatal recovery. Believe me, you are worth investing in and your recovery is important for the welfare of the whole family so it is not being selfish!

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How Menstrual Cycle Awareness Can Help Period Problems
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How Menstrual Cycle Awareness Can Help Period Problems

Our menstrual cycle is the barometer of our overall wellbeing. If we are struggling with our cycle, it is often showing us that something in our lifestyle is not working for us. We may feel that something is wrong with our cycle and it needs fixing in some way. However, I have noticed that if we try to improve our lifestyle rather than trying to fix the cycle itself, very often the difficult symptoms improve or resolve themselves.

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Why Your Baby's Due Date is Completely Wrong!
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Why Your Baby's Due Date is Completely Wrong!

If you are pregnant or ever have been, you will know that very often the first thing people ask you is when is baby due? So ingrained in our culture is the idea of a due date, it may often be one of the first things we do ourselves. Yet we don’t recognise that the very idea of a due date is artificial and that setting one is in fact a medical intervention in itself.

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Why we don't all automatically need HRT for menopause
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Why we don't all automatically need HRT for menopause

Today for the ‘nth’ time I have heard from medical sources that nature never intended us women to live beyond our fertile years and that therefore menopause is a modern condition that we ‘suffer from’.

I am furious such nonsense is being peddled as the basis for official medical guidance, which tends to see menopause as a condition of deficiency that needs to be fixed by HRT  - ‘to replace what’s been lost’. I’m not against HRT at all when it is an informed choice based on an individual’s specific case history. I’m against women being told their body is inherently unable to manage menopause because nature never meant for us to survive.

Ladies, we are not deficient, we are coming into our power!

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Why We All Need Extra Vitamin D
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Why We All Need Extra Vitamin D

Did you know that you can only generate Vitamin from sunlight when your shadow is shorter than your actual height?

This means that even on a sunny days, we are unable to make any vitamin D through sun exposure at our line of latitude in the autumn and winter months.

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Can You Really Breathe Your Baby Out?!
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Can You Really Breathe Your Baby Out?!

As someone who works with a lot of pregnant women, birth is something I get to talk about quite a bit! Someone recently asked me whether it was really possible to breathe your baby out having heard it mentioned in a conversation. The short answer is, yes with the right breathing it is possible and it does happen. Let me explain how that can work.

First of all though, I would like to remove any concept of judgement around birth, and what is a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ way to birth…

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10 Ways You Can Support Someone With Cancer
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10 Ways You Can Support Someone With Cancer

Thankfully these days, most often a diagnosis is not a death sentence; but it can be life changing. Diagnosis and treatment can be a frightening, bewildering and challenging process. Numerous studies have found that cancer survivors who have strong emotional support tend to adjust to the changes cancer brings to their lives more easily, have a more positive outlook, and often report a better quality of life.

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