Sarah Woolner ⎮ Naturopath

28/11/2022

Monday park adventures 🌲🪵

03/11/2022

Friday breakfast date 💛

29/10/2022

Quiet Sunday morning with a cuppa, watching over our plant babies 👩🏼‍🌾🫐

25/06/2022

After spending the majority of the past 2 weeks at home sick (with a sick toddler), it feeling amazing to be out in the fresh air and sunshine with relatively clear sinuses. Happy Sunday, indeed 💛

03/06/2022

Sitting down to a few quiet hours of clinic work with a coffee and some very scattered but, most welcome sunlight. Happy weekend xx

24/02/2022

We were gifted this pretty little batch of blue eggs on the weekend. I have noticed that people who grow their own produce are incredibly generous in sharing it 💙🥚

06/02/2022

These delightful little gems plucked straight from the garden and into our lunch bowls 🍅

09/01/2022

Hello and happy new year 🤍

I am back in the clinic this morning and really excited for the year ahead. 22 is my favourite number, so I think this year will be a cracker. I have a few exciting projects in the works, which I will share with you soon.

I hope you are all feeling rested and rejuvenated after the holidays. Wishing you all a beautiful 2022 xx

19/12/2021

Don’t forget to do something to nourish your mind today. A quick breathing exercise, connecting barefoot with the earth, or even just a quiet moment to yourself 🤍

14/12/2021

This evenings harvest with my little garden buddy. Baby carrots, beetroot, mint and lettuce 💕

05/12/2021

WORLD SOIL DAY 👣

Healthy soil is essential for supporting our health and wellbeing. It provides nutrients and nurtures the food we grow, filters and stores precious water, and is home to many microorganisms.

I see soil as our planets microbiome, and although I am only just starting to learn about it, I can clearly see that we need to take better care of our soil. Just like our gut microbiome, a healthy soil contains a very diverse microbial population.

Industrial agriculture practices, chemical fertilisers, pesticides, compaction and increasing salt levels all contribute to the reduction of soil biodiversity and health.

Use of regenerative farming practices, crop rotation, planting natives and local endemic species, preventing soil erosion and reducing (ideally stopping) deforestation can all help to restore our soil ecosystems, which can then continue to sustain us.

It is simple and it is complicated. But, we need to start restoring soil health if we want to continue to thrive.

04/12/2021

These dainty little leptospermum flowers are just exploding in our front garden. My goodness, they are beautiful 💕

11/11/2021

This was breakfast this morning. Mushrooms and greens on toast from . So delicious 💚💜

03/11/2021

Rainy day, hot coffee and reviewing research for patient cases 🤍🤓

02/11/2021

Have you been given a diagnosis of PCOS?

This past week in the clinic, quite a few of my patients have come in with a PCOS diagnosis. After in-depth discussions about the symptoms they are experiencing and reviewing blood work and imaging studies, we discovered that it may not actually be PCOS for some of these patients.

The first thing to consider with PCOS is how it was diagnosed. Two out of the following three criteria must be met for a diagnosis of PCOS:
* irregular or absent periods
* elevated androgens
* ultrasound showing polycystic ovaries

It is important to know that ultrasound alone is not sufficient for a diagnosis. Also, an ultrasound may not be necessary if the first two criteria are met.

As with every patient that comes in with a diagnosis (any diagnosis), I always ask, “what else could it be?”. Understanding the specific drivers of a condition is key to successful treatment.

28/10/2021

Roses are in bloom 🌹

23/10/2021

Salt, sand and sunshine with my little lady this weekend ☀️

21/10/2021

I am available for naturopathy consultations at the beautiful clinic space, Adytum.ltd , on Mondays and Tuesdays. Appointments can be made online 🤍

Our Naturopathic practitioner works within an established clinical framework to create harmony between your body, mind and spirit and to clarify your health and wellbeing priorities, to set you on a path to vitality.