‘IT’ can start creeping slowly into our lives, can increase steadily after experiencing a common cold, or can knock us for six from one day to the next. You may be aware of other niggling, non-specific friends coming along with ‘IT’: sleep disturbances, achiness, mental fog, apathy, nervousness.‘IT’ was a female thing in the past...Continue reading→
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Dynamic Stretching for great results
How do you prepare for sport or exercise?Pre-sport exercises (this includes you runners out there!) take up a very short amount of time and can save you money when you need to see people like me!So…. why don’t people do them?For most people I think the answer to this is one of the following: You...Continue reading→
Healthy Men: What’s the point?
As a human being and a male, I am given from time to time to consider various eternal questions. Why are we here? What is the point of existence? Which Stoke Newington Church street establishment has the best coffee and cake? Etcetera etcetera. All of the above are potentially vexing avenues of enquiry. In reference to...Continue reading→
Naturopathic Approaches to Men’s Health
I still see more women than men in my practice, but I am finding that more men are now seeking help with their health. However, there is still a tendency for men to ignore health issues, which in some cases means that they become more difficult to treat. Preventable DiseaseMany health conditions like type 2 diabetes...Continue reading→
Aromatherapy for Men
Many often think of aromatherapy as being a girlie floral thing.And yet men have played key roles in ‘aroma’ long before it became a ‘therapy’.The ancient Egyptians used plant oils and perfumes constantly for their effects on both men and women, and for offerings to the gods. Indian and Chinese cultures have long histories of...Continue reading→
A Commitment to health
Life has the ability to allow us to forget to be with ourselves. We are constantly running from place to place, stressed, overworked and overwhelmed.We don’t have time to exercise or to cook a wholesome meal, we end up rushing through a million tasks; we speak without weighing the consequences our words can have. We are...Continue reading→
Coping with sensitivities and the crashing body.
I may have tempted fate, because as soon as I said “my skin hasn’t looked this flawless in a long time” and that “it’s been ages since I was sick”, it all went down hill from there. The combination of having a difficult week at work, battling a mini mid life crisis and not having...Continue reading→
Mastectomy and Massage
In my last blog I touched on the benefit of massage and how it had helped to calm and support me during the first 10 weeks leading up to surgery.Forever, I have been an advocate of complementary health care, for some, it is hard to believe or to prove it’s benefits or efficacy.For me, it...Continue reading→
Tapping our way back to Health
For years, when I referred to ‘tap tap’ it was my shorthand for a very gentle style of Japanese pediatric acupuncture called Shonishin – which involves applying very light stimulation using silver acupuncture tools to the developing meridians in children with the aim of balancing their energetic system and enabling the body to regain it’s...Continue reading→
Spotting overwhelm
I only realize that I need to stop when my body hits an absolute wall.The red flags of frustration, anxiety, unmanageability and irritability just do not seem to register as much as my body giving up on wanting to function.I have a wonderful busy life, juggling clinic management and massage treatments. I organize social media,...Continue reading→
