By Lauren Vaknine When lockdown began, I’d wanted to write an article about how parents with young children would be the Winston Churchills of this war, motivating our children and reminding ourselves of the superior importance of our role. The onus was on us to display the kind of strength and resilience that could only…
Parenting
When You’re A Nutritionist & Health Food Blogger… And Your Son Gets Diagnosed With Malnutrition
There’s a reason I lost my shit the last time (because this has happened many times) a well-meaning fellow mum said to me, “Just arrange the vegetables in smiley faces, that worked for our son who was *really* fussy”. Genuinely, I’ve wanted to smack the smirk off every single person who has said that to…
The Art Of Giving Birth
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Homemade Vitamin Gummies
I often get asked what supplements I give my son and how I keep him healthy the natural way. People often ask if I give him a multi-vitamin. Hell. No. Multi-vitamins (for children and adults) are usually made using synthetic hormones and ‘vitamins’, in a very non-bioavailable source, not to mention all the additives and…