Discover the Power of Touch Wellness Clinic

Discover the Power of Touch Wellness Clinic Louise looks at the whole body, physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally to to discover the root cause of your issue.

I help high-achieving women who no longer feel like themselves regain their energy, clarity and confidence so they can thrive without running themselves into the ground
25 years experience
Science backed Soul Led
Book your free Strategy call with Louise Naturopathy, Naturopathic Kinesiology, RAW energies and Intuitive healing ,Louise uses herbs, supplements, nutrition, massage, and a range of ho

listic treatments to empower you on your journey to wellness. My Interest is in Thyroid and women's hormones, auto immune diseases, immune issues, digestive health ,weight management, chronic pain and chronic fatigue. Massage services
Louise looks at possible reasons for pain, both acute and chronic, she also assesses the body for Lymphatic clearance to improve fluid retention and overall wellbeing and releasing the fascia. Naturopathic Kinesiology, RAW energies and Intuitive healing. Sometimes it is easy to forget how important balance is while juggling everything in todays busy lifestyle. Kinesiology brings balance to your body which helps maintain wellness, vitality and personal growth.

Perimenopause can change far more than your menstrual cycle.For many women, it is the combination of weight changes, blo...
01/09/2026

Perimenopause can change far more than your menstrual cycle.

For many women, it is the combination of weight changes, bloating, brain fog, fluctuating energy and feeling increasingly unfamiliar in their own body that finally makes them ask, “What the hell is going on?”

That is a question worth investigating, not dismissing.

Inside Hormone Pathways, I look at the whole picture rather than assuming every symptom has the same cause. Book a clarity call the link is in my bio or send me a DM and lets have a chat.

Lou xx

Your lymphatic system needs you to move, but that doesn't mean you need to go to the gym.If you spend most of your worki...
01/09/2026

Your lymphatic system needs you to move, but that doesn't mean you need to go to the gym.

If you spend most of your working day sitting at a desk, there are hours where very little movement is happening through the lower half of your body. Gravity does what gravity does, fluid can accumulate around the feet and ankles, and by the end of the day you may notice that your shoes feel tighter or your ankles and legs look puffier.

Unlike your circulatory system, your lymphatic system doesn't have a central pump like the heart moving fluid around the body. It relies partly on muscle activity, breathing and the pressure changes created when we move.

This is why something as simple as lifting your heels off the floor while you're sitting at your desk can help. Roll your ankles clockwise and anticlockwise, swing your legs if you have the room, wiggle in your chair, roll your shoulders or shake out your hands and forearms. Then, when you can, stand up and walk around the office, refill your water or take the long way to the bathroom.

It doesn't have to be a workout because what we're after is tissue movement.

When the calf muscles contract, those movements help support fluid being taken up through the tiny lymphatic capillaries and transported through the larger lymphatic vessels towards the lymph nodes. Getting up and walking then creates more muscular and respiratory movement to support lymph travelling through the body before eventually returning to the venous circulation.

I notice the difference in my own body. If I've spent an entire day sitting without moving enough, I can end up with puffy ankles, knees and legs. On clinical days I'm moving constantly, and the difference is noticeable.

The important part isn't doing one enormous burst of movement and thinking you've ticked the lymphatic box for the day. It's remembering that every little bit of movement counts, particularly when it's repeated throughout the day.

So if you're sitting at your desk reading this, lift your heels a few times, roll your ankles and give your shoulders a roll.

Then get up when you can and take your lymphatics for a walk.

You are not broken. You are becoming.I don't mean that in the fluffy “everything happens for a reason” sense.Menopause c...
29/08/2026

You are not broken. You are becoming.

I don't mean that in the fluffy “everything happens for a reason” sense.
Menopause can be bloody difficult.
Your body can change in ways you didn't ask for.
Your energy may change, relationships may change and your tolerance for things you once accepted can disappear.

When looking at your life and genuinely wonder:

Who am I now?

I think we make that harder when the only version of success we offer women is getting back to who they used to be.

The old weight, energy, body and the old capacity.

The woman who could carry everything.

But what if she isn't the destination?
What if some of this transition is learning what the woman you're becoming actually needs?

She may need more recovery, different nutrition and movement.
Better boundaries, different relationships and a different way of working.
She may still want an enormous life, and may still be ambitious as hell.

But perhaps she no longer wants to sacrifice herself to create it.
There is nothing wrong with wanting your health, energy and confidence back.
I simply don't think you need to become your younger self to have them.

There is another version of you ahead. And she has everything you've learned getting here.

If you're somewhere between “I don't feel like myself anymore” and having absolutely no idea who comes next, book a Clarity Call with me link in bio or DM me

We'll work out where I would start.

Lou xx

This is something I would really like women to stop accepting without questioning.Is it common to feel different through...
28/08/2026

This is something I would really like women to stop accepting without questioning.

Is it common to feel different through perimenopause and menopause?
Absolutely.
Does that mean every symptom should automatically be dismissed as “just your hormones”?

No.

Nor do I think the answer is blaming your hormones for everything happening in your life.

If you're exhausted, living on caffeine, sleeping badly, carrying enormous stress, eating whatever you can grab between commitments, using alcohol to switch off and pushing yourself through exercise because you're frightened of gaining weight, your body is responding to much more than oestrogen and progesterone.

Menopause happens inside a body that has already lived a life.
Pregnancies, Illness, Stress, Work, Relationships, Loss, Nutrition.
Sleep, Movement and Genetics.

Decades of accumulated demands.

That's why I don't treat “menopause” as though every woman experiencing it is biologically identical.

I want to know your history, pathology, symptoms, nutrition, sleep, stress, what
your nervous system is like and your life.

Because sometimes what we've normalised as “just menopause” is a woman running on caffeine, cortisol and adrenaline and wondering why she feels terrible.

Common doesn't necessarily mean optimal.

And you don't need to wait until everything falls apart before you're allowed to investigate why you don't feel well.

If you've been wondering whether what you're experiencing is simply something you have to put up with, book a Clarity Call with me. ( link in bio or DM)

Let's look at what's actually happening.

Lou xx

One of the patterns I see repeatedly is a woman who is still functioning long after her body has started asking for some...
27/08/2026

One of the patterns I see repeatedly is a woman who is still functioning long after her body has started asking for something different.

She gets up.
Drinks coffee.
Goes to work.
Manages everybody.
Gets through the afternoon slump.
Comes home.
Does whatever still needs doing.

Perhaps has a glass of wine because she needs something that marks the end of the day.

Then she sleeps poorly and starts again tomorrow.
And because she is still doing everything, she assumes she's okay.

I see women like this in clinic.
They don't necessarily arrive saying, “I'm burnt out.”
They talk about weight.
Fatigue.
Brain fog.
Poor sleep.
Hormones.
Feeling anxious or irritable.
Not recovering from exercise.

Or simply:

💣“I don't feel like myself anymore.”

Then we start looking at the whole picture and realise how much her body has been compensating for.

Pregnancy and childbirth.
Years of interrupted sleep.
Work, Relationships, Stress, Illness, Caring,
Nutritional depletion, Perimenopause, Menopause.

Life.

The evidence isn't always one dramatic event where everything suddenly falls apart.
Sometimes it is the accumulation of years of asking a body to keep producing without giving it enough opportunity to replenish.
That is why my work isn't about blaming every symptom on menopause.

I want to know what this particular woman's body has been carrying and what it needs now.

If you've reached the point where pushing harder isn't working anymore, book a Clarity Call with me.( link in my bio or DM me and lets chat)

You don't need to know which of my programs you need before we speak. That's part of what the call is for.

Lou xx

Her Hormones Declined. The Woman Did NotSomewhere in the medicalisation of menopause, declining hormones became confused...
26/08/2026

Her Hormones Declined. The Woman Did Not

Somewhere in the medicalisation of menopause, declining hormones became confused with the decline of the woman herself. I think it is time we separated the two.

We have spent decades talking about menopause through the language of decline.
Declining oestrogen. Declining progesterone. Declining fertility. Changes in bone density and muscle mass.

Somewhere amongst all of that, I think we started talking about the woman as though she were declining too.

She isn't.

Her body is transitioning out of its reproductive years, but the woman entering post-menopause may be stepping into one of the most knowledgeable, experienced and authoritative periods of her life.
And yet we rarely talk about menopause that way.

Her hormones declined. The woman did not.

She is not becoming less valuable, less capable or less relevant because she has reached the end of her reproductive years.

She is carrying decades of lived experience, knowledge, discernment and wisdom that her younger self simply could not have had.

Perhaps the question was never how do we get her back to the woman she was before menopause?

Perhaps we need to ask what the woman she is becoming needs now.

Because she may still want to lead, build, travel, create, contribute, mentor, love and have an extraordinarily full life. She simply may not be willing, or physically able, to keep creating that life through exhaustion, over-functioning and pushing through everything her body is asking her to pay attention to.

💥That is a very different conversation from decline.
💣It is a conversation about transition.
💥And I think it is one we need to start having far more often.

If you no longer feel like yourself and you are trying to understand what has changed physically, emotionally and within the life you are living now, book a Clarity Call with me. We will work out where I would start.

Lou xx

I talk hormones, bodies, muscles, pain, life and all the things that happen post menopause and everything in between. I...
25/08/2026

I talk hormones, bodies, muscles, pain, life and all the things that happen post menopause and everything in between. I have deep conversations but also will call you out.
I don't fix you but guide you on your journey to improved and better health- this can be via - massage, lymphatic drainage, Kinesiology, Hormone pathways , The recalibration process or alignment coaching.
If this sounds like your kind of conversations and body work stick around.

Psst.. I work with men also

Lou xx

For generations, menopause was called “the change of life”.Some cultures describe the years that follow as a second spri...
25/08/2026

For generations, menopause was called “the change of life”.

Some cultures describe the years that follow as a second spring.

Yet somewhere along the way, we reduced an enormous transition in a woman's life to a list of symptoms that needed managing.

Hot flushes.
Weight gain.
Poor sleep.
Brain fog.
Mood changes.

And yes, those physical changes matter. I work with them every day.
But I think something gets missed when we talk only about hormones.

The woman herself is changing.

By the time many women reach their late 40s and 50s, they have spent decades building careers, raising children, managing households, supporting partners, caring for parents and becoming the person everybody relies upon.

Then their body begins changing at precisely the point when the demands around them may be greater than ever.

What worked at 35 doesn't necessarily work at 50.

And rather than questioning whether the way she is living still supports her, she often questions herself.

Why can't I cope anymore?
Why am I so tired?
Why can't I lose the weight?
What's wrong with me?

Perhaps there is another question worth asking.

What does my body need from me now?
Because menopause isn't simply something happening to you.
It is a transition through which your physiology, capacity, priorities and sometimes your entire sense of self can change.

That doesn't mean ambition disappears.
It doesn't mean accepting feeling dreadful because you're getting older.
And it certainly doesn't mean your most valuable years are behind you.

But perhaps we need to stop demanding that a 50-year-old woman's body operate exactly as it did at 30 while expecting her to carry everything she has accumulated during the twenty years between them.

If you're in that strange place of knowing something has changed but not knowing where to start, book a Clarity Call with me ( link in bio or DM me and lets chat)

We can look at the whole picture and work out what your body actually needs now.

Lou xx

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