The Healthstyle Doctor

The Healthstyle Doctor Empowering you to take control of your health- whatever wellbeing means to you.

As a Certification Lifestyle Medicine doctor, I want to inspire sustainable personal and planetary vitality through delicious recipes, online resources and consultations

None of this is in your head ❤️You deserve to feel heard, feel in control, and feel like yourself again.On 1 September I...
01/08/2026

None of this is in your head ❤️

You deserve to feel heard, feel in control, and feel like yourself again.

On 1 September I'm opening a space for exactly this.

🌟Comment EARLY to be first in.

Perimenopause is like a good sourdough- it gets better after it is messy 🫶.
31/07/2026

Perimenopause is like a good sourdough- it gets better after it is messy 🫶.

If you keep trying to overhaul your health and it keeps falling apart — it might not be you. It might be your nervous sy...
25/06/2026

If you keep trying to overhaul your health and it keeps falling apart — it might not be you. It might be your nervous system.

Real, lasting change is hard to build from a body stuck in stress mode. When your body feels safe, your choices start to line up with the person you want to become. The good news: a few tiny, repeatable habits can send your body that "you're safe" signal — slow breathing, a quick sigh, cold water on your face, a walk in the morning light, a little stillness.

Inside *Your Lasting Change* I go deeper on all of this — and you also get six guided meditations to use whenever you need them. If you'd like to change your health in a way that actually lasts, comment **LASTING**. ❤️

22/06/2026

If you know all the right things to do for your health — and still find yourself not doing them — it's not a willpower problem. I promise.

Six years ago I was hot and sweaty on my bike, training for a big ride, half-listening to a podcast about happiness — and one idea stopped me mid-pedal. We make hundreds of tiny choices a day, and each one moves us a little towards what we value, or a little away from it. Get clear on what actually matters to you, start choosing towards it, and change stops feeling like discipline and starts feeling like coming home to yourself.

That one idea is the whole foundation of the guide I've just made.

💕If it speaks to you, comment LASTING and I'll send it over — it's $17 until Sunday.

22/06/2026

If you've started over with your health more times than you can count, I want you to hear this: you're not lacking willpower, and you're not lacking information.

I'm a lifestyle-medicine doctor — I've spent years studying how behaviour change actually works, taught it to women through hundreds of courses, and sat with so many of them one-on-one in clinic.

And the pattern is almost always the same: it's not more knowledge that's missing. It's the deeper stuff — *why* you want this, the values and the identity underneath it — and then turning that into goals and habits that actually fit your life. Those few foundations are the real ingredients of change that lasts.

That's exactly what I've put into *Your Lasting Change Guide* a digital pdf for you
— plus a meditation menu, and an option to let AI interview you through it if you're not a paper-and-pen kind of girl.

If you're ready to stop starting over, comment LASTING and I'll send it over — it's $17 this week. ❤️

17/06/2026

"Your results came back normal."

I hear this constantly — from women who are exhausted, foggy, not themselves, and have been told there's nothing to find.

Normal means you fall inside a reference range. It doesn't mean your levels are optimal for how you want to feel.

There's a meaningful difference between the two — and for women in perimenopause especially, levels that sit at the low end of normal can be enough to affect energy, mood, cognition, and metabolism.

The markers I look at in clinic go beyond a standard blood panel. Ferritin above 50, optimal thyroid function, not just TSH in range. Fasting insulin alongside glucose. These are the numbers that tell a fuller story.

If you've been told everything's fine and it doesn't feel fine — it's worth looking deeper.

Comment CONSULT if you want a review with me (NZ only)

Comment HARMONY if you want to understand your metabolism and numbers in my Metabolic Harmony course — it covers the full rundown of what to look for and what optimal actually means for metabolic health and weight management.

It was never an OR, it's an AND.I've spent years feeling torn between two versions of myself. The doctor and the lifesty...
16/06/2026

It was never an OR, it's an AND.

I've spent years feeling torn between two versions of myself. The doctor and the lifestyle woman. The low-tox mum and the one who still loves getting her hair and nails done. The serious GP and the one out snowboarding on weekends.

I used to feel like I had to pick one. Stay in a lane.

But sitting with a question I've been thinking about lately — what story are you telling yourself that's no longer serving you? — it finally landed.

It was never an or. It was always an and.

The truest version of me is the whole, both-at-once one. And I think that might be true for you too.

You're allowed to be two things at once ❤️

Most of us have set the same goal two, three, five times.And it's not because we're not trying hard enough. It's because...
08/06/2026

Most of us have set the same goal two, three, five times.

And it's not because we're not trying hard enough. It's because goals alone don't have staying power. When motivation fades — and it always does — there's nothing left to pull you forward.

The missing piece is almost always the value underneath. The deeper why. The thing that connects the action to who you actually want to be.

When that connection is there, change stops feeling like a task on a list. It starts to feel like integrity.

I've been quietly working on something for the woman who's ready to go deep — who wants to go beyond the plan and get to the real why underneath.

More soon.

For now — comment VALUES below and I'll send you the values chapter I've been working on. It might be the most important thing you do for your health this week.

05/06/2026

"What is wrong with me?"

If you've thought this — and haven't said it out loud — I want you to know that I hear this in clinic more than almost anything else.

Usually from the most capable women in the room. The ones who've managed everything, for everyone, for years. And who are now finding that something has shifted and they can't quite put their finger on why.

In most cases, nothing is wrong with you. The biology of perimenopause is real, it starts earlier than most women are told, and it changes the rules. The same effort, the same strategies, the same you — but a different hormonal landscape underneath.

If you're ready to get some answers — start with your GP or a women's health specialist. If you'd like to work with me, comment CONSULT below (New Zealand only) 💛.

If your BV keeps coming back no matter what you do — you're not imagining it, and you're not doing anything wrong. It's ...
03/06/2026

If your BV keeps coming back no matter what you do — you're not imagining it, and you're not doing anything wrong. It's one of the most common things women quietly deal with, and the repeat-antibiotic cycle is maddening, because it clears the bad bacteria without ever rebuilding the good.

Think of it like a garden: antibiotics pull the weeds, but nothing replants the flowers that keep it balanced. So the weeds grow back.

The good news is there's a lot that genuinely helps once you stop treating it as "just another infection" — replanting the right bacteria, restoring the acidity, the partner piece no one mentions, and the oestrogen connection in perimenopause.

I've written the full, honest guide. Comment ARTICLE and I'll send it to you.

And if a friend's stuck in the same cycle, send this to her. 💛

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