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Understanding Period Pain
Let me start by saying whilst period pain is common it is not something that you should have to endure. I would also like to differentiate between two types of period pain. Now I want to say normal period pain but that just doesn’t seem to fit after what I just said...
Why we need fats in our diets. Reversing the trend of the low-fat era.
Unfortunately many people today are scared to consume fats for the fear that eating fat will make you fat - thanks to the many years of being told this is true. I am here today to tell you this is not ture. As a child of the 80’s and 90’s with a mother who wanted to...
Zucchini Fritters
Breakfast just got a whole lot tastier with these Zucchini Fritters. Crispy, golden, zesty - these fritters are perfect on their own or pair so well many of my favourite ingredients such as goats cheese, baby spinach, bacon, smoked salmon or avocado. My favourite...
Rejuvenate your whole body with a detox
This time of the year detox becomes the buzzword in the health space. It’s like you have to undergo a special cleanse to make your body do it’s detoxification thing. Spoiler alert! Your body is actually performing this detoxification day in day out, hour by hour,...
Change is not linear or instantaneous – it is a journey
I know, I know that word journey… but I want you to stop for a moment and really think about what a great journey entails. The kind of journey that you remember forever, talk about for years after and catch yourself randomly smiling about… Those journeys aren’t the...
I was so disconnected from my body
As far back as my teens I was all about the the doing, the hustle, the achieving. My dream job when I finished school and headed off to uni to study a BBA was to be CEO of Cadbury’s. I wanted to wear the power suit, I wanted to have my own office and I always wanted...
1st of January 2021: An excerpt from my journal.
At the beginning of the New Year I love watching the day break + writing in my journal. This year began no differently. As I opened my journal to begin I told myself that I didn't want this entry to be doom + gloom. I have seen so many posts on my socials along the...
Rethink your resolutions this New Year
Last year I wrote a blog leading into the New Year about the pressure of New Years Eve - the setting of New Year Resolutions, the way our New Years Eve ‘should’ play out. This came from the emphasis that was everywhere regarding the fact we were heading into a new...
What nearly 20 years on contraception has taught me.
Whilst I can’t remember the exact age a doctor first prescribed me the mini pill, I do know it was somewhere between the age of 11, when I first got my period and 13, when we moved towns. At the age of 30, after nearly 20 years of an array of contraception, I decided...
My 38th Lap Around The Sun
Ah… My 38th lap around the sun… I don’t even know where to start. Like most people the past year has been nothing like I had planned it. In fact this time last year I hadn’t even decided to come to England yet. And here I am having ticked over 10 months of being...