Understand & Solve Your Period Problems
One question my pre-conception and fertility clients frequently ask me is how long should they start preparing their bodies for pregnancy. This is such a great question, I just had to right a blog on it. There are several things that are important to consider. How ready are you mentally …
One thing many of my clients have asked me a lot recently is “how do I come off the pill?” What to expect, what to do. Many of them are anxious about symptoms, nutrient deficiencies and other issues. Please note I am using the terminology “the pill” to refer to …
One of the most annoying and frustrating things that my fertility clients hear from well meaning family and friends saying “just relax, de-stress and forget about it and you will get pregnant”. Which (ironically) usually adds to the stress of trying to conceive. So is there any truth behind this at …
I love helping women with their period problems, and many of you reading my blog ask me about online programmes and learning how to help other women too. One of the women I trained with is my friend and mentor, Nicole Jardim, a woman’s health and functional nutrition coach. She has …
Last month I attended the Fertility Show in London, (you may have seen me on the Fertility Massage Therapy stand). I love doing these shows as it is great to hear people’s thoughts and answer questions that they may be too embarrassed to ask other people. It also shows me …
It’s coming up to that time of year again, where we have over-indulged over the holidays and we are starting to come up with our dreams for the new year. Usually health, health, fitness and weight loss will be in there at some point and inevitably some people are going to …
In my early teens I would get terrible period pains and a fellow musician told me her story. We were both classical musicians and as such we had been getting Alexander Technique integrated into our learning. However, she had gone to a private teacher and done a lot of one …
I often think that Ovulation Predictor Kits also known as OPKs I have so many clients asking me the same thing over and over again when it comes to ovulation predictor kits (OPKs). How long from when I tested positive do I have to conceive? Is the kit working? It says …
Fertility is about having babies, right? Well, that’s what we are told, but in reality, fertility is a scorecard of your reproductive health. Whilst many of my clients come and see me for abdominal and womb massage, reflexology, nutritional therapy or natural family planning because they want to get pregnant, they …
When you become open enough to start talking about your bleeds, the terminology can get confusing and different people mean different things when they say “their bleed” or “their moon”. If you’re bleeding at irregular intervals, mid cycle or during ovulation, you may be confused and wondering which one is …