Sleep’s Silent Saboteur:  The coffee and adenosine connection

Sleep’s Silent Saboteur: The coffee and adenosine connection

Does your quest for a good night’s sleep have a silent saboteur? Now, coffee may not be the entire culprit of your insomnia, but it’s a good place to begin with troubleshooting sleep issues. If you’ve ever wondered why drinking coffee late in the afternoon or with dinner ends with ..Continue Reading

Unraveling Sleep Disruptors:  7 Silent Saboteurs of Restful Sleep

Unraveling Sleep Disruptors: 7 Silent Saboteurs of Restful Sleep

What’s keeping you awake at night? Hint – it could be something you may not have even considered.  Finding out what that may be is the first step in setting yourself up for a good night’s sleep. Sleep is a basic human need (like water), so it’s important to ensure ..Continue Reading

Peanut Butter Biscuits (GF)

Peanut Butter Biscuits (GF)

Peanut butter biscuits always bring back childhood memories for me.  An old fashioned favourite for many, Actually, peanuts are a legume, not a nut, so you get all the healthy goodness of a legume like soluble and insoluble fibre (your gut will love you), proteins (for healthy moods and body ..Continue Reading

9 Signs Your Body May Be The Victim of Stress

9 Signs Your Body May Be The Victim of Stress

Signs that your body may be the victim of prolonged stress can be obvious. Or, hidden. Either way, stress can be the driver that’s undermining your health. Stress can be a good thing It can make you feel alive, important, useful and energised. But, it can also bring about health ..Continue Reading

Adrenal Fatigue Checklist:  Assessing Your Energy and Health

Adrenal Fatigue Checklist: Assessing Your Energy and Health

Adrenal fatigue has now become a common term. But, what does it really mean? Your adrenals are small organs that sit near your kidneys and one of their jobs is to manage your stress.  Such busy little organs, pumping out stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol when needed, managing other ..Continue Reading

Mastering Hunger Signals: Your Path to Weight Loss and Energy

Mastering Hunger Signals: Your Path to Weight Loss and Energy

Mastering your hunger signals is a key ingredient in achieving lasting weight loss, plus giving your body the energy and vitality you want. Because, there’s times you think you’re hungry.  And then, there’s real hunger. Do you know the difference? Sometimes your body can play sneaky tricks on you.  It ..Continue Reading

Two effective techniques to combat food cravings

Two effective techniques to combat food cravings

You can learn to combat food cravings with these two effective techniques. It can be done. It’s not lack of willpower or determination, or a weakness on your part that sees you repeating the same unwanted behaviour again and again.  Because, most cravings are nothing more than habits, actions which ..Continue Reading

A Consistent morning routine:  your blueprint for productivity

A Consistent morning routine: your blueprint for productivity

Setting yourself up with a consistent morning routine, every day, will change your life.  It will become your blueprint for productivity. Because, people who practice a consistent morning routine have been shown to get more done, have better focus and step into their day with more purpose and commitment to ..Continue Reading

Post Holiday Gut Reboot:  3 Naturopathic Tips for a Fresh Start

Post Holiday Gut Reboot: 3 Naturopathic Tips for a Fresh Start

I was reminded at the start of this year just how much our digestion can take a hit over the festive season, because my tummy definitely wasn’t happy. It made me wonder: how often do we put up with digestive discomfort long past the point we should? December is tough ..Continue Reading

Breakfast Mushrooms with Herbs

Breakfast Mushrooms with Herbs

Top a piece of grainy sourdough (or gluten free) toast with these breakfast mushrooms with herbs, add some goats cheese and voila, you’ve got a healthy breakfast option that will satisfy all your nutritional needs, including taste. Apologies, but getting a mouth watering photo of mushrooms on a plate is ..Continue Reading