Female health
Female health encompasses a wide range of topics unique to women. Our expert contributors provide information and advice on issues such as reproductive health, hormonal balance, menopause, and overall wellness. Learn about preventative care, healthy lifestyle choices, and medical advancements that can improve your quality of life. Our articles aim to empower women with knowledge and support for every stage of life.
Eight Habits That Help Overwhelmed Mothers Regulate Their Nervous System First
Most advice aimed at tired mothers starts in the wrong place. It tells you to eat cleaner, sleep earlier, exercise more, and build better routines, as if willpower were the missing ingredient. But if...
Motherhood as The Second Adolescence No One Warns You About
When we think of adolescence, we picture awkward growth spurts, changing hormones, emotional ups and downs, and the exhausting question, "Who am I now?" Most of us assume we leave that chapter behind...
Aging Gracefully After 50 and a Global Guide to Self-Care, Intimacy, and Sensual Confidence
Women over 50 are entering a new era, one where sensuality, self-care, and emotional wellbeing are finally being recognized as essential components of healthy aging. Yet, despite this cultural shift...
Beyond Compliance and Protecting Informed Consent Through Honest Communication and Doula Support
In healthcare, consent is often treated as a signature, a checkbox, or a verbal agreement. Yet true informed consent is much more than obtaining a “yes.” It is a process of honest communication that...
The Art of Touch, Sexual Healing & Postpartum Pleasure
Postpartum intimacy begins far beyond physical recovery. While childbirth transforms the body, it also reshapes how we experience closeness, pleasure, and connection. As a holistic coach and...
Why Your Gut May Be the Missing Piece in Managing Perimenopausal Hot Flushes
For many women, perimenopause arrives like an unwelcome guest. One day, you are managing your career, family, and social life with relative ease. Next, you are waking at 3 a.m., drenched in sweat...
Seven Powerful Reasons Doulas Should Expand Their Skills and Services
Becoming a doula is a trendy topic right now. Most people assume doulas only attend births, but doulas are for much more than that. Doulas are an anchoring, wraparound care provider for families during...
Healing Your Identity, Rediscovering Your Femininity and Opening Your Heart to Love Again
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 39, I understood immediately that my body would have to endure a great deal. There would be chemotherapy, surgery, scars, physical pain, and...
3 Postpartum Recovery Priorities Every New Mother Should Focus On
I left the hospital seven days after a less than ideal labour and delivery. There was no clear recovery plan and very little explanation of the physical trauma my body had just endured. Yet I walked out...
A Fertility Nutritionist's Guide to Preparing Your Body for Pregnancy
If you're searching for a fertility nutritionist in Vancouver, a fertility nutritionist in Abbotsford, or a fertility nutritionist serving clients throughout British Columbia, you're likely looking for natural...
Five Ways Compassion Fatigue is Stealing Your Health and What Every Nurse Mom Needs to Know
You were trained to push through. To keep going when your body says stop, to hold space for others when you have nothing left, and to show up shift after shift, then come home and do it all again as a mom...
Holistic Approaches to Relieving Constipation and Natural Strategies for Long-Term Digestive Health
Constipation is one of the most common digestive concerns I see in practice as a Vancouver holistic nutritionist. While occasional constipation can happen to anyone, chronic constipation is a sign...
Seven Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 39, I remember feeling as though the ground beneath my feet had disappeared. One moment I was living what appeared to be a successful life. I had a...
Why Your Body Isn’t Working Against You, It’s Trying to Get Your Attention
Many people today feel like their body is working against them. They eat better, try to stay active, and follow the advice they’ve been given, yet they continue to struggle with weight gain, fatigue, and symptoms...
The Hormone You Never Thought About, Until It Was Gone
I was in my mid-thirties when I had a full hysterectomy, which put me straight into surgical menopause. I did what I always do, I got on with it, kept performing, delivering, telling everyone, and...
