Liver Function: 5 foods that boost and balance your health
(Featured in Body+Soul, 10th January, 2016) If your liver had a personality, it would be the classic type-A, hardworking overachiever. It’s one of the most complex organs in the body, responsible for filtering about 1.5L of blood every minute [...]
5 ways to stay healthy over Christmas
Christmas is my absolute favourite time of the year. I love everything about it – Christmas carols playing at the shops, deciding the colour palette for my gift-wrapping, the warm sunny weather, the ‘we must catch up before Christmas’ [...]
7 Snacks for Boosting Energy
Snacking can be a really useful strategy for helping to maintain your blood sugar levels, which by default, helps to keep you energised! The down side of this strategy is that you can sometimes (especially when you’re busy), find [...]
Spring Cleanse at Home: 7 tips for better health
I love Spring! Not only does it mean that summer is well and truly on the way, the mornings are brighter, the days are getting longer and it’s the perfect time to do some decluttering and letting go of the [...]
5 foods that are good for your gut
Our digestive systems are so amazing! Not only do they allow us to extract nutrients from our food and eliminate the stuff we don’t need, it also help program and support our immune system, produce hormones and neurotransmitters (the little chemicals [...]
Tax Time: Out of Pocket Medical Expenses
Understanding deductions, knowing what you are eligible for and what you can claim be tricky if you're not trained in tax. On top of this, the rules around 'out-of-pocket' medical expenses have changed recently. I've called in The Wealth Guy, [...]
The Power of Gratitude
If there is one thing that I hate more than bananas, it’s being stuck in traffic. I find it the biggest waste of time doing nothing apart from waiting for the cars in front of me to move or the [...]
Taming the little voice in your head
How often do you pay attention to that little voice in your head? You know, the one that chitter-chatters away, providing a running commentary on the things that you’re doing (or not doing) in your life? The other day, [...]
Supercharge your Immune System
It’s that time of year again where warm, balmy nights and days soaking up the sunshine seem like a distant memory (sigh). As we get set for coats, scarfs, gloves and boots, being able to dodge the coughing and [...]
The blog post that almost didn’t happen
This month’s blog post almost didn’t happen. It had nothing to do with time or organisation or my willingness to write; it was purely because I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to write about. Zip, zilch, nada...I [...]
Is coffee really that bad for you?
I suppose there is something I should probably disclose before I continue writing this month’s blog...I’m a complete and utter coffee lover! When I was at uni, I affectionately became known as a ‘coffee snob’ as I’d regularly walk [...]
Lessons from Brunch
I happen to think that brunch is one of the best inventions ever! I’m not sure why, but sitting and chatting or relaxing with a book or the paper and having your breakfast spaced out over an hour or [...]
Do you really need to detox?
If your Christmas holidays were anything like mine, your eating patterns may have changed a little (or a lot!) with all the socialising and festivities. And while I always remain conscious of what I am putting in my body, [...]
Life Lessons from Yoga
6 weeks ago, I considered yoga to be something I did on 'special occasions' - health retreats, holidays, the odd class to catch up with a girlfriend...but did I consider myself someone who 'did yoga'? Probably not. One morning [...]
What sort of donkey are you?
One of the things that I really love about my job as a naturopath is the number of amazing people that I come into contact with on a daily basis. Whether it’s my patients, my students or my colleagues, [...]