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Body-Mind Medicine

Fertility and Your Liver

August 7, 2011

The liver plays a critical role in fertility, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Along with paying attention to the state of kidney energy, practitioners have long relegated great importance to the state of ‘Liver Blood’ in treating infertility, and a range of other gynacological problems that commonly affect women.   In fact, the Liver is [...]

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Biomimicry – The ‘New Science’ of the Divine Feminine

June 6, 2011

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Pregnancy – a Time of Swift and Profound Changes

May 15, 2011

                                       During pregnancy you will go through change on all levels of your being more rapidly than at any other time in your adult life. The only other time your body and mind changed so swiftly and [...]

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In Support of Teen Mothers

May 8, 2011

  How inappropriate is it that Julia Gillard’s latest foreshadowed tax cut targeting disadvantaged teenage parents who refuse to attend school or training and punishing them by taking away their benefit, hit the headlines in the week prior to Mother’s Day?   From my perspective, apart from the fact that this particular social group is [...]

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Embracing the Divine Feminine

December 19, 2010

  When women artificially control their hormones and their fertility they are affecting more than just bodily processes. For example, taking the contraceptive pill can result in physical side-effects such as weight gain, as well as personality changes including depression. When a woman is on the pill it is so much more difficult for her [...]

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Infertility – Stand Up Men and Be Counted

July 25, 2010

More than one in six couples in Australia experience delays in conceiving. While the common perception is still that women are largely at fault when there are fertility problems, medical researchers are stating unequivocally now that the male carries at least 50% of the responsibility.   In fact, since 2004, a flurry of research into [...]

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Risks of Caesarean 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 choose it and those who consent [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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