27 Oct

Educate before you Medicate

Brain fog, anxiety, low mood and depression are the three most common symptoms of the perimenopause, followed by aching joints and disturbed sleep. It is...

27 Oct

Emotional Amnesty

I am deep into my perimenopause and my cycle is becoming more and more erratic as is my mood. I’m not ovulating regularly, so I’m...

27 Jul

Energy vs The Voice of Doom

During our menopause transition, one of the most common and debilitating, universal symptoms is a drop in our energy levels. And when we are feeling...

17 Jul

Fat Around the Middle

Every year during perimenopause 75% of women will gain 1.5 kg.Oestrogen gives us our feminine shape and as our oestrogen declines, we start to lay...

10 Jul

Why Do We Ignore The Signs….?

As women with busy lives and responsibilities, we have a tendency to ignore our body when it is talking to us. We can be inclined to...

03 Jul

Want to Reclaim Your Sex Life?

Sex shouldn’t be a chore, something that needs to go on our to-do list along with shopping, cleaning, ironing, it shouldn’t be a 'to-do' packaged...

24 Jun

Try This…

To avoid pain during intercourse at any age we need adequate lubrication. Lack of natural lubrication doesn’t mean a lack of sexual interest or response,...

16 Jun

Oestrogen and Insulin

There are over 40 hormones involved in the perimenopause, but the top dog is Oestrogen. We have oestrogen receptors in almost every cell of our...

09 Jun

Pelvic Floor

Our pelvic floor is a huge muscle mass that stretches like a hammock from our tailbone at the back, to our pubic bone at the...

03 Jun

Three things

If you tuned into my Live on Instagram this week with Herbalist, Jessie Martlehof, you will have heard us talking about the gut, liver and adrenals and the integral...