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Brenda Rogers Naturopath

Brenda Rogers is a naturopath, spiritual guide, and feminine leadership coach.

She helps women navigate midlife as a sacred initiation, blending natural medicine, intuitive wisdom, and practical tools to cultivate vitality, purpose, and joy.

07/10/2026

My husband came down with a bug this week.

I didn't reach for anything complicated. I walked out to the garden, picked a few handfuls of marigold flower, rosemary, thyme, lemon balm and made him a pot of tea.

It took ten minutes, and it reminded me why I fell in love with plant medicine in the first place. It's not always a protocol or a product. Often it's the simplest form of care there is: someone you love is unwell, so you go outside, gather what's growing, and slow down enough to make something warm.

Women have been doing this for as long as there have been kitchens, gardens and people to look after. Long before it was called naturopathy, it was just called tending.

I think we've made wellness feel more complicated than it needs to be. Sometimes the medicine is a pot, a handful of leaves, hot water and a bit of patience.

What's one plant you grow, or wish you grew, that you reach for when someone at home is under the weather?

06/10/2026

𝗪𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝟯𝗮𝗺? 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲.

Progesterone, which is calming and sleep-supportive, tends to fall and fluctuate in perimenopause. Add stress, blood sugar swings and a busy mind, and the small hours can become a battleground.

It's not a personal failing. It's often a body in transition, and it deserves real support. 🌙

What helps you when sleep won't come? Share it below for the women reading at 3am 💛

Free guide in bio: go.brendarogers.com.au/freeguide

06/10/2026

Dragon Time and PAUSE have a new home 🐉

You can now find my book Dragon Time: Menopause as Mystery, Medicine & Power and PAUSE herbal cacao tonic powder at Pura Holistic Studio in Canberra.

A hair studio is where women slow down, get looked after and talk honestly. It feels like exactly the right place for this conversation.

Thank you, Pura team 🤍 Pop in, have a look, and say hi.

06/10/2026

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝟰𝟬𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘀 "𝗼𝗳𝗳," 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁.

Perimenopause can begin years before periods stop, and the first signs are often not the ones we've been told to look for.

Swipe through for six that women often mention. This isn't a diagnosis. These symptoms can have other causes, so it's always worth having them checked. But knowing what's on the list can be a huge relief. 👉

Which of these surprised you? Free guide in bio: go.brendarogers.com.au/freeguide

05/10/2026

𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 "𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲," 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗸𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻-𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲.

Before there were clinics, degrees or supplement aisles, there were women who knew which plants eased a labouring body, settled a gut or brought a fever down.

They learned it from their mothers and grandmothers. They tested it on their own families. They passed it on.

That's the root of naturopathic medicine. Not one founder. A lineage.

Hippocrates is often given the credit for the idea that the body can heal itself, and he deserves a place in the story. But he was formalising what healers, many of them women, had practised for generations.

I think about this often in clinic. When a woman tells me, "I just know somethings off in my body," shes drawing on that same source: an embodied wisdom that was once trusted, and then talked over.

Plant medicine, food, rest, ritual, being truly listened to. None of it is new. Its old, and worth reclaiming alongside the best of modern science.

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹?

If you'd like a map of your own menopause journey, my free guide is here: go.brendarogers.com.au/freeguide

02/10/2026

𝗪𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲?

We mark first periods, weddings, births, even retirements.

Menopause — arguably the biggest hormonal and identity shift a woman goes through — usually gets marked with silence, or an apology.

"Sorry, hot flush."

"Sorry, Im not myself."

"Sorry, menopause brain."

Sorry for what, exactly?

For a transition that half the population goes through, and that every single other person has watched a mother, partner, colleague or friend go through too?

What if, instead, this stage was met the way other cultures have met it for centuries — as a woman moving into her most authoritative, most useful, most herself decades?

Not despite the change. Because of it.

Im not asking anyone to pretend the symptoms dont exist, or that the transition isnt hard for many women. It genuinely is, and it deserves real clinical support.

But the meaning we wrap around it — decline versus arrival — that part is still ours to choose.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁?

30/09/2026

She was told shed "come out the other side."

Nobody told her what that actually meant.

A client came to see me eighteen months post-menopause. The hot flushes had settled. Her sleep had mostly returned. By every clinical measure, she was "through it."

But she said:

"I dont recognise who I am now. Everyone stopped talking about it, like the hard part was over. But this is when I actually needed to figure out who I am next."

Post-menopause can be a third of a woman's life, and potentially one of its most settled, capable chapters. But after years of poor sleep, stress and depletion, the body is often exhausted.

Before we ask a woman to find her purpose, sometimes we need to help her find her energy.

So, could a herb help? Depending on the whole picture, I might consider nourishing herbs like withania, motherwort or lemon balm, alongside good food, strength, deep rest and connection.

The first step isnt fixing her. Its rest, nourishment, and permission to discover the woman she is becoming.

If youre post-menopausal, did anyone ever talk to you about this chapter, or did the conversation just… stop?

Grab my free guide here: go.brendarogers.com.au/freeguide

29/09/2026

Did you know your gut microbiome helps decide how much oestrogen actually circulates in your body?

There's a specific collection of gut bacteria — nicknamed the "estrobolome" — that processes oestrogen after your liver has broken it down. If that gut ecosystem is out of balance, oestrogen can be reabsorbed instead of cleared, or cleared too efficiently. Either way, your gut health is quietly shaping your hormonal experience of perimenopause.

This is emerging research — not yet a fully settled science — but it's a compelling reason to think about menopause as a whole-body event, not just an ovarian one.
Swipe through for the basics 👉

Want the full picture? Free guide in bio: go.brendarogers.com.au/freeguide

25/09/2026

I turned 60 last Sunday, and I have a confession: I genuinely can't decide what to do with my hair. 😅

Keep dyeing it? Let it go grey? Will grey age me, or will it just look like me?

After decades of helping women through life's biggest transitions, here I am facing my own small (but not-so-small) one.

Because underneath "should I go grey" is a bigger question: how do I want to meet this next decade? Keep managing how age looks, or let it show, and trust that it's not decline, it's evidence of a life well lived?

Honestly, some days I want the grey. Other days I love my colour. Maybe I don't have to choose forever, maybe I can just choose for now.

To grey, or not to grey? Tell me where you land. 💜

24/09/2026

Pregnancy can leave behind something extraordinary: a lasting cellular connection between mother and child. 🧬

It’s called fetal microchimerism. The presence of a small number of fetal-origin cells in the mother’s body after pregnancy.

Researchers have detected these cells years, and in some cases decades, after pregnancy, including in tissues such as the blood, liver, heart and brain.

But here’s where the science gets especially interesting:

What are these cells actually doing?

Researchers are still exploring whether fetal microchimeric cells may have roles in tissue repair, immune responses and other biological processes. There is still much we don't know.

What fascinates me is the reminder that the body is not static.

It carries traces of our experiences, our history and the changes we've moved through.

And perhaps that gives us another way to think about the incredible complexity of the female body particularly through the many transitions of midlife.

Swipe through to learn more.

Did you know about fetal microchimerism?

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