10 Steps to Sushi Success
My daughter’s very good friend is half Japanese and my daughter is half Chinese. I’m fond of Asian cuisine and especially being a Chinese medicine practitioner, I’m extra keen on food from Asia. My daughter loves sushi and so I mentioned one day how I’d love to learn to make it. My daughter’s friend’s mum […]
Breastmilk-Making Fish Soup for Postnatal Care
This is a very traditional breastmilk-making fish soup that Chinese women make for their daughters or daughters-in-law to encourage breastmilk production in the early weeks of establishing breastfeeding. My mother-in-law swears by this recipe. This is her recipe – she made it for me when my children were babies and now she is passing it […]
Three Natural Hayfever Remedies to Combat Seasonal Allergies
The winds are up and the weather is changing from hot to cold to rainy, all in one day. The pollen is flying like crazy. ‘Tis the season to be sneezy! You want some relief, but you prefer natural hayfever remedies to pharmaceuticals wherever possible. So what can you do about managing your allergies to […]
Fertility and the 30-Day Ab Challenge
I’m trying to fall pregnant. Should I do a 30-day ab challenge? The answer is, it depends. So you’re concerned about your fertility and the 30-day ab challenge sounds like a good idea? If you’ve been trying for some time to fall pregnant and your period went away for a while, then the answer is […]
Birth Dancing with Rhea Dempsey
Today we bring you a special guest post from one of our favourite birthing educators, Rhea Dempsey. I love this video clip of Yuki and her husband Connell talking about the birth of their son at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Yuki’s “birth dancing”. This video encapsulates a number of key concepts that I have been […]
Traditional Chinese Postnatal Soup
To congratulate Naomi on the birth of gorgeous baby Koben, I wanted to make this traditional Chinese postnatal soup with the help of my mother-in-law Kim. It’s packed full of protein and warming food properties that are so good for a mother’s milk, energy and blood. It will help her to recover and replenish […]
The Lunchbox – Finding the Balance
Packing their school lunchbox can be hard can’t it… you start out with really good intentions in kindy, you’ve got what you think they should be eating down pat. But they’re so busy with school five days a week, they sometimes forget to eat. Your child who once devoured all her food is now not! […]
My Beautiful Natural Labour
Our client Charlene Shenton tells the story of her beautiful natural labour. We decided to start trying to conceive whilst on a wonderful family holiday to Ibiza in the June. Within 3 months and within my first ovulation we conceived and were absolutely over the moon. I was so excited that I was pregnant after being […]
7 Ways to Keep Well in Winter
As a Chinese medicine practitioner, I love to think about how the external environment and seasons affect us. It can be a challenge to keep well in winter. Colds and flus are everywhere, and most people have bouts of feeling low energy, run down and flat. It is easy to fall into the pit of […]