HOW DID YOU KNOW you’d entered perimenopause?
I saw a social media comment recently where a lady shared that she was recently ‘diagnosed’ with perimenopause and she’d cried. I can’t imagine how upsetting it must have been for her to have such news delivered in a doctors office following blood work analysis. No...
Not Waving
Not Waving But Drowning Is the title of one of my favourite poems. It’s about a drowning man, thrashing about in the water, who was mistaken for waving. The poem by Stevie Smith touched me deeply the first time I read it and still does. Perhaps it touches me because...
The Perfect Diet
WHAT DOES THE PERFECT DIET LOOK LIKE? In my experience as a women’s health and wellness coach, I’ve come to believe that there are as many perfect diets as there are eaters in the world. Just like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, when we find the perfect...
Menopause
Five years ago, aged 48 I entered the first stage or menopause known as perimenopause and I’m still in that phase today. I did not see it coming, I’d heard of menopause of course but I knew nothing about it and for over a year I had no idea that...
The Law of Karma and Our Daily habits
In the ancient texts, cause and effect is called Karma- Vipaka Karma describes the way our daily experiences unfold. “From intention springs the deed, from the deed springs the habits. From the habits grow the character, from character develops destiny.” A good...
Ayurvedic clock
Nature works through rhythms in time. Our bodies thrive when we synchronize them with the seasonal, lunar, daily and time of life rhythms. Researchers and ancient medical systems like Ayurveda have long described biological clocks and Nobel Prize-winning researchers...
