My Article for The Green Parent Magazine “Believe me; if you are told that some experience is going to hurt, it will hurt. Most pain is in the mind, and when a woman absorbs the idea that the act of giving birth is excrutiatingly painful—when she gets this information from her mother, her sisters, her…
Articles
Healing The Worms of Trauma
Because however much “self-development” one attempts in their lifetime, our visceral and inconvenient humanness ends up being the devil on our shoulder during our most testing times.
EAT, PRAY, LOVE; THE IMPORTANCE OF READING IT AGAIN, THIRTEEN YEARS LATER
I am not a re-reader. I think that if I allowed my inherent nature to make of all of my decisions, I probably would be, on account of my insatiable need to absorb every last tidbit of (often irrelevant) information that I come across. But another, perhaps more pertinent part of my nature is, unfortunately,…
Essential Oils for Labour & Childbirth
My journey with essential oils began back in 2016 when I was trying to recover from the postpartum arthritis flare-up I was in since having my son. I’d been in remission for a long time so navigating myself through a flare-up, now also with baby in tow, and with all the challenges that come…
8 Tips To Holistically Aid Your Fertility Treatment – My Article For The Natural Parent Magazine
My article, 8 Tips To Holistically Aid Your Fertility Treatment was published in The Natural Parent Magazine. Check out this AMAZING magazine on their website and make sure to subscribe! So many incredible articles and inspiration for natural parenting. The article is below: IVF is a gruelling process. It is impossible to grasp just…
How ‘Bounded Rationality’ Is Being Used To Manipulate Us Into Vaccinating
A good friend of mine, a conscious parenting mum of three who also happens to be an Oxford-educated lawyer (information I feel I have to share for fear that the perception is that all us ‘crunchy mums’ are residing in a cave in the Himalayas chanting into the mountains and doing yoga with goats–not that…
10 Beginners’ Tips To Creating A Healthier & More Natural Family Home
Are you one of the many people who would like to adopt a more natural lifestyle for your family, but the thought of it is so daunting that you don’t know where to start and shy away from it each time you think of it? If so this post is for you! It took me…
Flu-Busting Elderberry Gummies
I really hate the term ‘flu season’. Flu is not a season! Influenza is a virus that, with an adequately supported immune system, will, at worst, leave us feeling pretty crappy for a few days, we may even experience a fever – heaven forbid! – but, assuming we don’t suppress it with fever-reducing medications and…
Why Our Children’s Mattresses Are Toxic, And How To Choose A Safe One
When I first started researching natural health options over a decade ago, to help find a natural way to remission from the Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis I’d had since I was 2, I never realised the rabbit hole it would take me down. I wanted to learn about nutrition and about how the body responds to…
Lactation Tea Blend For Nursing Mothers
Breastfeeding. Ah, the ever contentious subject. Breast vs formula; breast is best; fed is best; blah blah blah. But let’s be real for a minute; however we all manage to feed our babies, it does remain true that nothing can compare to breast milk in all it can do for our tiny babies and their…