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Alchemy Natural Health �� Naturopath ��

Helping to improve your health through diet, lifestyle and herbal remedies.

Spring doesn’t always arrive gently in the body, even though I think that’s how a lot of us envision it 🌸After months of...
26/10/2026

Spring doesn’t always arrive gently in the body, even though I think that’s how a lot of us envision it 🌸

After months of low light and slower rhythms, your nervous system starts to stir. You might notice you’re waking earlier, craving fresher food, feeling ideas and motivation come back, or suddenly wanting to clear out every cupboard in the house (guilty 😂)

For a lot of people that’s a welcome lift. For others it feels a bit restless and unsettled, like the body is shifting gears faster than the mind can keep up with. Both are normal. Your body is reading the light and responding, just as it did when it asked you to slow down in winter.

The invitation this season is to pace yourself. You don’t have to go from hibernation to full speed in a week, or even a month. Move your body a little more, get outside in the morning light, eat what feels fresh and nourishing, and let the energy build at its own pace. It’s not a sprint!

Save this one for the days spring feels like a lot. 🌿

And if that restless, unsettled feeling is sticking around, or you’re not sure whether it’s a seasonal shift or something more, I’m here. Link in my bio to book a consult💚

Another trip around the sun ☀️🌸My birthday falls in spring and every year, without fail, my mumma’s garden blooms right ...
20/10/2026

Another trip around the sun ☀️🌸

My birthday falls in spring and every year, without fail, my mumma’s garden blooms right along with it!

Lavender, roses and little daisies growing wild between everything else! It’s truly stunning! I took this photo a few weeks ago when I was visiting her and it’s a lovely reminder in my camera roll of just how much I love this time of year. A time of the year when everything starts to look and feel ALIVE!

There’s something about a spring birthday that feels like a gift inside a gift… everything waking up at once: the garden, the season and something internal as well 🥰

Here’s to another year, blooming at your own pace, in your own season and in whatever way feels right for you.

I am so glad it’s spring, and I’m so glad to be here with you 🥂🌸

🎃🍠🍞 SEASONAL EATING 🎃🍠🍞Suddenly all I want is soup, bread, roast veg and anything that’s been in the oven for a minimum ...
28/06/2026

🎃🍠🍞 SEASONAL EATING 🎃🍠🍞

Suddenly all I want is soup, bread, roast veg and anything that’s been in the oven for a minimum of 3 hours! Anyone else?

Contrary to what we might think, this isn’t just comfort eating, our body is genuinely asking us for something different. A change. And there’s a true physiological reason for this…

In winter, in the cooler months, our digestion slows right down. Which means, those fibrous salad bowls and smoothies suddenly feel heavy and unsatisfying (a complete contrast to how they felt in summer). They’re too hard for our slowed digestive system to adequately break down..

Root veg on the other hand (pumpkin, potato, carrot, beetroot) is often what our body is craving, and what a coincidence that they’re in season right now (it’s not)!!!

Our body needs the grounding, slow release energy that’s found in these types of vegetables. When these are slow cooked and paired with warming spices - you’ve got easy to digest foods AND nourishment! Keeping you full and fully energised through the day!

And if you’re curious about why your energy and motivation might dip that little bit more in winter, it’s not just the cold weather… and it’s not laziness… I’ve written a blog about it.

https://www.alchemynaturalhealth.com.au/blog/the-science-of-hibernation-sort-of

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For us in the Southern Hemisphere- Today is the winter solstice. 🌙The longest night of the year. The point at which the ...
21/06/2026

For us in the Southern Hemisphere- Today is the winter solstice. 🌙

The longest night of the year. The point at which the darkness peaks and then slowly begins to recede. Humans have been marking this moment for thousands of years. Not just as a calendar event, but as a threshold.

An invitation to pause, go inward, and acknowledge the season that the body has been navigating.

There is something I find deeply reassuring about the solstice. It is a reminder that rest has always been part of the rhythm. That the earth itself slows down and turns inward before it blooms again. That darkness is not something to push through or optimise away, it is something to honour, before the light returns.

If winter has felt heavy this year - if your energy has been lower, your need for warmth and slowness more insistent than usual, I want you to know that this is not a failure, it’s what is supposed to happen. It is a very old, innate response to a very real seasonal shift. Your body is reading the light. It is doing exactly what it is designed to do.

So tonight: light a candle. Make something warm. Go to bed a little earlier than feels productive. Let the longest night be long.

The light comes back from here 🌿

Bits and pieces from America 🇺🇸 SFO > NYC > ATX > SEA > 🏡
09/06/2026

Bits and pieces from America 🇺🇸
SFO > NYC > ATX > SEA > 🏡

I’m home 🏡 Almost a month away, 4.5 cities, one yoga class that broke me open (but in the best way possible) and a VERY ...
03/06/2026

I’m home 🏡

Almost a month away, 4.5 cities, one yoga class that broke me open (but in the best way possible) and a VERY strong craving for homemade sourdough. This truly was a trip of a lifetime!

I’m now back in Adelaide, in clinic, with a list of things I want to share with you all. And trust me when I say this list is a mile long 😅

I’ve written a proper reflection on the blog - about the yoga in Austin that moved me more than expected, about sitting in my friends kitchen watching her make the most incredible homemade sourdough, about the kind of nourishment that has nothing to do with morning routines and vitamins, but EVERYTHING to do with slowness.

It’s the most personal thing I’ve written in a while. I think you’ll like it.

Link to read 🔗 - https://www.alchemynaturalhealth.com.au/blog/what-three-and-a-half-weeks-away-taught-me-about-nourishment

Flowergram 🌸🌺💐🌹🇺🇸
26/05/2026

Flowergram 🌸🌺💐🌹🇺🇸

🔴 Your nervous system doesn’t always signal distress loudly 🔵Sometimes it looks like anxiety and a racing mind you can’t...
25/05/2026

🔴 Your nervous system doesn’t always signal distress loudly 🔵

Sometimes it looks like anxiety and a racing mind you can’t quiet.
Sometimes it looks like exhaustion so deep that rest doesn’t touch it.

And then sometimes it’s both, moving between wired and flat, never quite landing in the middle. The two opposite sides of the coin!

These are the two most common patterns I see when the nervous system is stuck: sympathetic overdrive (fight or flight) and dorsal vagal shutdown (freeze). They feel very different, but they share the same root… A nervous system that has been in survival mode for too long and doesn’t know how to come back to safety.

The important thing to know is that this is not a character flaw or a mindset problem. It’s physiology. And it changes.

Save this graphic and notice which signs feel most familiar to you. Sometimes just naming what’s happening is the first step toward shifting it.

If you’d like support in understanding what’s driving your nervous system patterns and what to do about it, I’d love to work through it with you. Link in bio 🔗

Exhausted but can’t sleep. Stressed but not sure why. Hormones all over the place…If that’s you - these are not three se...
14/05/2026

Exhausted but can’t sleep. Stressed but not sure why. Hormones all over the place…

If that’s you - these are not three separate problems!!

Stress, sleep and hormones share the same biological pathways. When one is disrupted, the others shift to compensate. Over time, this disruption becomes self-sustaining. It becomes a vicious cycle that keeps running even when the original trigger is long gone. With seemingly no beginning and no end 🙃

This is why so many women feel like everything is off, all at once. It’s also why fixing just one piece of the puzzle (taking a magnesium supplement, going to bed earlier, cutting out caffeine) only managed to help a little. It takes the edge off, but doesn’t quite fix it.

The triangle needs to be addressed as a whole.

Swipe through to understand how each one affects the others and save this one, because it’s the kind of thing that makes a lot of things, make sense.

If this sounds like where you’re at right now, I’d love to help. There’s a link in my bio to book a consult - we’ll look at the full picture together. 🌿

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🧠 Brain fog is one of the most common things I hear about in clinic.“I can’t think straight”“I lose my words mid-sentenc...
08/05/2026

🧠 Brain fog is one of the most common things I hear about in clinic.

“I can’t think straight”
“I lose my words mid-sentence”
“I feel like I’m wading through mud”

And it is almost never just tiredness…

In my experience, persistent brain fog usually has one (or a combination) of four root causes: thyroid function, iron and ferritin stores, blood sugar regulation and cortisol patterns.

The frustrating thing though, is that these are often missed on standard testing or dismissed because results are technically “in range”. Quite frankly, if this is how “in range” feels, we don’t want it…

I’ve written a full breakdown on the blog - what each root cause actually looks like, why standard testing doesn’t always catch it and what a more complete picture can reveal.

Link in bio to read 📖
And if any of this sounds like you, I’d love to help you work out what’s actually going on🌿

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