Women and Children’s Health
Women’s Health
Supporting women’s health through every stage of life
A woman’s body changes considerably throughout her lifetime.
From the establishment of menstruation in adolescence, through the reproductive years, pregnancy and motherhood, to perimenopause, menopause and the decades that follow, each stage brings different physiological demands.
Yet one principle remains constant:
Health matters at every age.
I work with women who want to understand their bodies better, address the underlying conditions contributing to ill-health and build the strongest possible foundations for lifelong health.
Whether you are struggling with painful or irregular periods, trying to conceive, wanting to manage your fertility naturally, approaching menopause or simply know that you could feel considerably better than you do now, Nature Cure offers a different way of looking at women’s health.
Your symptoms are telling us something
Painful periods.
Irregular cycles.
Heavy bleeding.
PMS.
Fatigue.
Digestive problems.
Changes in weight.
Poor sleep.
Hot flushes.
Mood changes.
These experiences may be common, but common does not necessarily mean healthy or inevitable.
Nature Cure does not begin by asking only:
“What can we take to make this symptom go away?”
We ask:
“Why is the body expressing this symptom in the first place?”
Symptoms provide information about the conditions under which your body is functioning.
My role is to help you understand those conditions and identify the factors that may be contributing to your current state of health.
Menstrual health
The menstrual cycle provides women with an extraordinary amount of information about reproductive and general health.
Painful menstruation, irregular cycles, abnormal bleeding, PCOS, endometriosis and other reproductive concerns should not simply be regarded as inconveniences that a woman must learn to live with.
From a Nature Cure perspective, we look beyond the diagnostic label to the health of the whole woman.
What is influencing normal physiological function?
What conditions may be contributing to inflammation?
How well is the body functioning overall?
What aspects of lifestyle can be adjusted to create better conditions for health?
The objective is not simply to manage a menstrual cycle.
It is to improve the health of the woman having that cycle.
Natural Fertility
Fertility is not an isolated function of the reproductive organs. It exists within the health of the whole person — and successful reproduction involves the health of both partners.
I work with couples who are trying to conceive naturally, particularly those experiencing subfertility who want to investigate and improve their health before progressing to more invasive reproductive technologies.
An important part of this work is teaching women to accurately recognise their fertile window and understand the biological signs occurring throughout their menstrual cycle.
Understand and manage your fertility naturally
Women are frequently taught how not to become pregnant without ever being taught how their fertility actually works.
I believe reproductive literacy should be part of every woman’s education.
As an accredited Billings Ovulation Method® teacher, I teach women to recognise their individual patterns of fertility and infertility through the natural biological signs produced by their own bodies.
The method can be used to avoid pregnancy, achieve pregnancy and understand changing reproductive patterns throughout a woman’s fertile life — without relying upon calculations or predictions of an assumed “normal” cycle.
Menopause is a transition — not a disease
Menopause has increasingly become discussed as though every woman approaching midlife is entering a state of hormonal deficiency requiring treatment.
Nature Cure offers a different perspective.
Menopause is a normal physiological transition in a woman’s life.
That does not mean every woman will experience it in exactly the same way. Some women transition with relatively little disturbance, while others experience hot flushes, disrupted sleep, mood changes, weight changes and other significant symptoms.
But the presence of symptoms deserves a deeper question than simply:
“Which hormone has declined?”
We look at the health of the woman entering menopause.
Her level of inflammation.
Her metabolic health.
Her sleep.
Her movement.
Her nutrition.
Her stress and emotional wellbeing.
Her lifestyle.
And the accumulated state of health she brings with her into this next stage of life.
My objective is not to medicalise menopause.
It is to help women enter it as healthy as possible and remain healthy throughout the decades that follow.
Women’s health is more than reproductive health
Of course, women are much more than their reproductive systems.
I also work with women experiencing broader health concerns including fatigue, digestive disturbances, poor sleep, chronic inflammation, weight changes and the many other signs that the body is not functioning at its best.
Whatever brings you to me, we don’t treat you as a collection of separate symptoms.
We look at the whole woman.
Working with me
Working with a female practitioner allows us to speak openly about the things that affect women’s lives — menstruation, fertility, sexuality, pregnancy, menopause, relationships, stress, ageing and everything in between.
Your health program is individual.
Rather than giving every woman with the same diagnosis the same protocol, I look at the circumstances that have contributed to your state of health and help you identify the changes most relevant to restoring and maintaining it.
Nature Cure is ultimately about education.
I want you to understand your body sufficiently well that you become an active participant in your own health rather than a passive recipient of treatment.
Because whether you are 18, 38, 58 or 78:
It is never the wrong time to build health.
Infant and Child Nourishment and Wellbeing
What greater gift could a parent possibly give to their child, than the gift of health? Sadly, chronic childhood illnesses and behavioural disorders are more commonplace today than at any other time in history. But you do not have to accept ill health as being unavoidable in your child’s destiny. In the immortal words of K. S. Jaffrey ND, DC… “It is natural to be healthy”.
In no other area of my naturopathic practice do I see such responsive health restoration than working with children. We are by our very DNA programmed to be healthy. Working with children is the area of my practice I find most rewarding. Children are easy to work with and extremely responsive. Results usually come quickly and are long lasting.
In this field I work with expecting mothers, newborns to toddlers and up. If your baby or child is not healthy and happy, then together we will address the seat of the problem and return them to their natural state of thriving good health!