New mamas: Pre-conception, Bellies, Birth and Beyond!

Pregnancy and motherhood were hands down the most powerful catalysts for me to become more conscious and intentional with what I was putting in and on my and my baby’s body. It was that moment when I first saw my baby after I  gave birth that I instinctively felt an incredibly powerful urge to want to nurture and protect this perfect, pure and innocent being in order to give him the best possible start to life, unburdened with unnecessary and harmful toxins. 

I stumbled around in the dark not knowing which brands or products to use, largely ignorant to the slew of toxic ingredients found in with conventional products ubiquitously used even in the hospitals. 

Had I had access to the knowledge, resources and the supportive community that I have now, my experience as a young mum would no doubt have been radically different. 

If you are pulled to learn how to support wellness during the sacred journey of pre-conception, pregnancy, birth and beyond, then please join my free monthly community discussion on Thursday 5 Nov 7.30pm via zoom. 

Hear from numerous extremely knowledgeable and experienced oily mamas in my Young Living community who will share information and personal testimonials on how we use the Young Living oils and products to support:

- Pre-conception 
- IVF
- Pregnancy
- Birth
- Bubbas
- Fourth trimester

Did you know that Young Living are the ONLY oils company that have a range of essential oils and non toxic products specifically formulated for babies (called Seedlings)? 

To join the zoom gathering, simply click on the zoom link in our exclusive Member Resources page on my website. 

If you’re not yet a YL member in our community and would like to join the free community discussion - simply email me with your name and mobile phone number to have an honest chat about purchasing a YL starter pack and joining our heart-centred no-nonsense community where our focus is, and always will be, robust education and personalised and community support.

There’s no better time in human history for expectant and new mamas to learn how to best take care of themselves and their bubbas in order to build the healthiest, the most vibrant and most robust generation of children.  

Registrations close this Friday for my LAST Food as Medicine talk!

This Saturday 24 Oct 9am - 3pm will be my LAST Food as Medicine talk (held via zoom webinar). My co-presenter, Marieke Rodenstein - leading holistic dietician, GAPS practitioner and staunch advocate of regenerative farming- have had a sensational 2 year tour of Australia,  presenting on how food can be the most powerful medicine. 

In this transformational education-packed presentation we dive into the fundamentals of robust nutrition and robust gut health, and inspire you to become more conscious and intentional with what you are putting in and on your body from your food to your personal care products and household cleaning products. We discuss the 2 primary epigenetic factors that influence our health and unpack them into the 8 Foundations of Health.

We provide you with all the tools and resources you need to empower you to optimise your health including all 5 of my online cooking classes (retailing at $79 each!) plus a 65+ page ‘How To’ manual that sets you up for life so that you can indeed live your best life. 

Book here! 

Registrations close this Friday! 

The propaganda of normalising toxicity

I’m often surprised and puzzled when people refer to my diet and lifestyle choices as “extreme”. After all I’m just advocating a biologically congruent or species appropriate diet. How can that on any measure be considered extreme? How can anyone accuse a lion on the savanna of Africa eating meat or a rabbit eating carrots or a cow eating grass or a bird eating seeds of being extreme? If those animals ate anything other than what they have evolved to eat then yes that would be cause to call them “extreme” (defined as “not usual; exceptional” or “further from the centre”). 

For kids and teens, the desire to ‘fit in’ and be part of the tribe is so strong in their hierarchy of needs, that it completely overrides the need to be healthy. Thanks to the slick, sexy and clever marketing and deep pockets of Big Food, Big Ag, and Big Pharma, our kids are sent powerful subliminal and overt messages that processed “foods” and “drinks” and artificial substances are not only ok for them but are totally normal, cool and beneficial. And once something becomes ubiquitous, it becomes entrenched in the very fabric of society and normalised as safe. 

Conscious consumers understand that everything is information and affects our body at a cellular level, switching genes on and off for better or for worse. We understand that processed crap sold as “food” has deleterious effects on physical, mental and emotional health leading to gut, behavioural, skin and learning issues. 

As parents we only want the best for our children and want them to be the brightest, healthiest, and happiest versions of themselves. 

On this planet of free will, once your kids hit a certain age and have the power and freedom to buy and eat what they want, it is difficult as a conscious parent to sit back and watch them make choices that undermine their health driven by the need to “fit in” and also in part to rebel against their parents as a way of defining their own independence. 

All we can do is to drop the issue, lead by example, be a role model, surrender to what is, hope that they will at some stage tune into their body to appreciate the effect that their choices have on  their physical and emotional health and trust that one day they will, like we did, choose a more vibrant path. The hope is that they too will come to the poignant realisation that just because something is allowed to be sold or is ubiquitously consumed in society or by their circle of friends, that doesn’t make it safe. The hope is that they are conscious and courageous enough to choose a different, more nourishing path, that better aligns with who they truly are.  

“Sometimes we have to lose ourselves to find ourselves. 

Sometimes we need to travel to the extremes (junk) to come back to centre (nourishment). ”

Whether it is a pipe dream or the inevitable shift in our conscious evolution as a species, I do look forward to the day when the tables are turned so that natural becomes the normal, and toxic becomes the extreme.