From the category archives:

Body-Mind Medicine

Risks of Ceasarean Birth

November 12, 2009

According to two recent Radio National Health Reports (2nd November and 9th November) about one third of all babies being born in Australia are being delivered by Caesarean section, that is a surgical cut through the mother’s abdomen.
  There are two main groups of women having caesareans: those who [...]

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The Diabetes Epidemic

August 29, 2009

On Friday 21st August on Tony Eastley’s AM morning program on ABC Radio National there was a discussion on the alarming increase in juvenile diabetes in Australia. More Australian children are being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes than ever before. A new report reveals that were 900 new cases notified in 2007.
That represents a 30% [...]

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Stress and your Sex Life – enter Blue Mink

May 25, 2009

Introducing ……….. Blue Mink
This is one of the exciting NEW flower essences that is part of my Spirit of Woman Australian Flower Essences range. The range will be launched at the Endeavour College
on 21st June, 2009. For details and to register for an invitation click here

Blue Mink
Ageratum Houstonianum

Description:
Native to tropical Mexico, this member of the [...]

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Healing the Mind-Body Split

May 15, 2009

I heard recently of a medical conference being held to discuss the link between depression and heart disease. Hailed as a first in the industry, it appears to be a real ground-breaker, challenging the old Cartesian notion, which is the basis of modern medicine and emphasizes the split between Mind and Body. And not before [...]

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Protecting You and Your Family from Swine Flu

May 1, 2009

Keeping warm is one of the ways to protect you and your family from Swine Flu.

 Despite dire warnings being bandied about in the media, and regardless of how virulent an infectious disease is, the best way to keep safe is to be super-healthy and honour the energy needs of your body.
Your ’super-immunity’ is in your [...]

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How Important it is for Women to keep Warm in Winter

May 1, 2009

 Optimum female health depends on staying warm, so Winter is the season to rug up, making sure that your body,
especially feet and legs, is always toasty. This keeps the all-important blood supply to the pelvis circulating
freely, ensuring that periods are painless and trouble-free.

More seriously, chronic cold affects a woman’s fertility, making pelvic circulation so sluggish that [...]

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Women Staying Healthy

March 27, 2009

 
How can women take back ownership of their bodies and their souls, so that they are in control of the physical functions and processes that are uniquely their own?
Currently many women give over control of their body-mind to doctors and allow themselves to be guided and led by a medical model that runs [...]

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Bush Flowers as Tools of Personal Empowerment

March 6, 2009

The Australian Bush Flower Essences have been a vitally important part of my life journey. Although I am not teaching the Levels 1 and 2 anymore, the Correspondence Course and the Teacher Training Course for natural medicine colleges, both of which I authored, are still valuable components of the Bushie’s body of work right around [...]

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Emotions and the Body-Mind

March 4, 2009

 
Vale Jess – a valiant healing journey

 
Sadly today, I learned of the death of a friend who had been battling with breast cancer for many years. Jess’s death was peaceful even though the disease was rampant in her body during the last six months. She had embarked on a path to healing and even [...]

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