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Rewilding health, Melbourne (2025)

29/03/2025

The Last of Summer, The Start of Something New 🍂🌿

As the final summer harvest rolls in—tomatoes, zucchinis, cucumber and late berries—we welcome the slow shift into autumn. A season of letting go, replenishing, and planting new seeds (both in the garden and within). 🌱✨

🌾 Garden Tips for the Seasonal Shift:
🍁 Harvest & Preserve – Pick the last of summer crops and start fermenting, drying, or freezing for nourishment through cooler months.
🌿 Prepare the Soil – Enrich your garden with compost and mulch to restore nutrients for autumn planting.
🥬 Plant for the Cooler Days – Now’s the time for leafy greens (spinach, kale), brassicas (broccoli, cauliflower), and root veggies (carrots, beetroot).

Just like the garden, autumn invites us to turn inward—reflect, declutter, and nurture what truly matters. What seeds are you planting for your next season of growth? 🌾✨

25/10/2024

🌙 The Consequences of Sleep Deprivation on Your Body and Mind 🌙

Did you know that not getting enough sleep can have major effects on both your physical health and mental well-being? 😴💤

Here are some ways lack of sleep can disrupt your body and mind:

Physiological Effects:
🤧Weakened Immune System: Without adequate rest, your immune system can't function properly, leaving you more vulnerable to illness 🤒
🫀Heart Health Risks: Chronic sleep deprivation raises the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke ❤️
🧶Metabolism Disruption: Poor sleep interferes with hunger hormones, leading to weight gain and increased risk of diabetes 🍩
🌓Hormone Imbalance: Your body’s ability to regulate stress, growth, and reproductive hormones suffers without proper sleep 🧬
🧠Brain Health: Sleep helps your brain detoxify harmful proteins—lack of it may increase the risk of cognitive decline and conditions like Alzheimer's 🧠

Psychological Effects:
🥲Mood Disorders: Poor sleep can make you more prone to anxiety, depression, and irritability 😣
🧠Cognitive Impairment: Your memory, concentration, and decision-making take a hit when you're not well-rested 💡
😭Emotional Instability: Lack of sleep heightens emotional reactions, making stress harder to manage 😫
👽Hallucinations: Severe sleep deprivation can even cause hallucinations and disordered thinking 🤯

Long-Term Risks:
If left unchecked, chronic sleep deprivation can increase the risk of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease—and even reduce life expectancy 🕰️

Your sleep is crucial for holistic health. Let’s prioritize it! 🌿

11/10/2024

🌸 Spring Giveaway Alert! 🌸
Spring is here, and it's the perfect time for a fresh start for your mind and body! To celebrate this season of renewal, I’m offering a special giveaway at Rewilding Health 🌿
✨ Six lucky winners will receive:
Your choice of either....
A Naturopathy consultation to address your health needs (gut health, immune support, female reproductive health, and more!)
A Myotherapy session to release tension, improve movement, and restore balance.
For the low price of $50each
🌺 To Enter 🌺
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💐 Tag someone who you know will love this service. Each tag is an entry
🌻For an extra three entries share this post or your favourite rewildinghealth post in your stories. Don't forget to tag me so I can keep track of you
✨ Thanks for all the support and love.
🌟Best of luck
💫 Winners will be chosen the 17.10.2024

05/10/2024

🌩 Thunderstorm Asthma Season in Melbourne 🌩

With Melbourne’s spring in full swing, we enter thunderstorm asthma season—a serious phenomenon triggered by airborne grass pollen combined with the unique atmospheric conditions of a thunderstorm. This can rapidly affect individuals, especially those with asthma or respiratory conditions. If this sounds like you, taking precautions to protect your health is important 💨

Here are some preventative measures to consider:

⛈ Stay Weather Aware: Keep an eye on local pollen forecasts and thunderstorm alerts. Knowing when pollen levels are high can help you prepare.

⛈ Asthma Action Plan: If you have asthma, hay fever, or other respiratory conditions, consult your healthcare provider about creating or reviewing your asthma action plan. This plan should outline steps to take if your symptoms worsen during high-risk times.

⛈ Indoor Sanctuary: Create a safe indoor space by using air purifiers with HEPA filters, keeping windows closed during high pollen times, and staying indoors during thunderstorms. Minimize outdoor activities, especially strenuous exercise, when thunderstorms are forecasted.

⛈ Allergen-Proof Your Space: Consider using allergen-proof bedding to reduce pollen exposure while you sleep, creating a more restful environment.

🌿 Natural Support: Herbal remedies and natural supplements can support your respiratory system during allergy season.

Book a consultation to explore which remedies are right for you

04/10/2024

🌿 Spring Wellness: A Holistic Approach to Seasonal Health 🌿
As nature blossoms around us, so too can our health. But for many, spring brings allergies, digestive imbalances, and emotional shifts due to environmental factors, seasonal transitions and fluctuating weather conditions✨
🌼 Environmental Allergens: 🌳 Pollen is in the air! Managing seasonal allergies naturally involves modulating our immune system, using herbs like nettle and quercetin, and reducing exposure where possible. A balanced immune system can help keep hay fever symptoms at bay.
🌱 Detoxification: Spring is a time of renewal, making it the perfect season to cleanse the body. Supporting the liver with detoxifying herbs like dandelion and burdock helps eliminate toxins and reset our system for the warmer months.
💪 Immune & Digestive Health: Gut health is the foundation of a strong immune system. Probiotics, fermented foods, and seasonal greens can help nourish the gut, reducing inflammation and boosting resilience against spring illnesses.
🤧Colds and respiratory infections: The alternating warm and cold days of Spring can lead to a weakened immune system and a higher likelihood of colds, flu and other respiratory infections. Boosting immunity with foods high in vitamin C, zinc and herbal remedies like Echinacea may help.
💖 Emotional Health: Following the reflective energy of winter, Spring brings more light, activity and growth, which can also stir up emotions like anxiety or stress. Using adaptogens like ashwagandha or mindfulness practices helps balance the mental and emotional shifts that come with the season of growth.
🌿 Energetic Shifts: In Traditional Chinese Medicine, spring is connected to the liver and wood element, symbolizing growth, movement and renewal. It’s the time to move energy, get outside, and align your body with the energy of the season.
Taking care of yourself this spring allows you to flow with the season’s energy and thrive. 🌞🌸

02/10/2024

🧘‍♀️ Downward Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana): Strength Meets Surrender 🧘‍♂️
This foundational yoga pose offers full-body activation while promoting deep stretching. Here's how it works:
✨ Muscular Activation: Engage your arms, shoulders, and upper back to hold steady, while your core and quadriceps provide strength and stability. This is a power move for building upper body endurance!
🌿 Stretching: Feel the release in your hamstrings, calves, and spine. Downward Dog also lengthens your Achilles tendon and decompresses your lower back, making it a perfect antidote to tight muscles.
🔄 Philosophy of the Pose: As an inversion pose, Downward Dog allows blood flow to the brain, helping to reenergize and revitalize the mind while promoting balance and grounding. It’s a powerful blend of strength and surrender — while you engage and stabilize the body, you also soften into the stretch, inviting a balance between effort and ease. This inversion encourages a fresh perspective, both physically and mentally.
Find strength in stability and peace in letting go. 🧘‍♀️🌸

02/10/2024

🌸 Spring Giveaway Alert! 🌸

Spring is here, and it's the perfect time for a fresh start for your mind and body! To celebrate this season of renewal, I’m offering a special giveaway at Rewilding Health 🌿

✨ Six lucky winners will receive:
Your choice of either....

A Naturopathy consultation to address your health needs (gut health, immune support, female reproductive health, and more!)
A Myotherapy session to release tension, improve movement, and restore balance.

For the low price of $50each

🌺 To Enter 🌺
🌸Like, follow and save this post
💐 Tag someone who you know will love this service. Each tag is an entry
🌻For an extra three entries share this post or your favourite rewildinghealth post in your stories. Don't forget to tag me so I can keep track of you

✨ Thanks for all the support and love.
🌟Best of luck
💫 Winners will be chosen the 17.10.2024

02/10/2024

Rewilding Health has moved to Richmond!
🌿 Discover Your Path to Wellness with Rewilding Health! 🌿
Are you feeling out of balance, stressed, or in need of some natural healing? At Rewilding Health, we're here to help you reconnect with your body and bring it back to its natural state of vitality and health.
✨ Our Services Include:
Naturopathy: Personalized, holistic health plans focusing on your unique needs—whether it’s gut health, immune support, mental wellness, women’s reproductive health or any health complaint
Myotherapy: Targeted muscle therapy to relieve tension, pain, and improve mobility.
Remedial Massage: Release stress and tension while promoting healing and relaxation.
Our focus is on supporting your body’s innate ability to heal and thrive, using natural therapies and hands-on treatment to bring you back to optimal wellness.
🌼 Whether you're dealing with chronic pain, fatigue, digestive issues, or simply looking to feel more balanced, we’d love to help you on your wellness journey!
📍 Located at SoulPod Health and Healing at 14 Stanley Street Richmond 🌱 Ready to take control of your health naturally? Contact us today to book your first appointment

https://www.rewildinghealth.com.au/

25/09/2024

🌿 Claude Bernard & Louis Pasteur: Fathers of Modern Medicine with Two Opposing Philosophies 🌿
Claude Bernard and Louis Pasteur were contemporaries in the 19th century, both are considered fathers of medicine, both holistic and allopathic, yet they had very different views on health and disease
🦠 Louis Pasteur believed in the germ theory, where external pathogens (like bacteria and viruses) are the primary cause of disease. His work paved the way for vaccines and antibiotics, focusing on eradicating these "invaders."
🌱 On the other hand, Claude Bernard emphasized the importance of the “terrain”—our internal environment. He believed that disease arises when the body's internal balance is disturbed and that maintaining a healthy internal state is key to preventing illness.
✨ These two perspectives are still highly relevant today. In my practice, I integrate both:
Supporting the immune system and gut health to keep the body's "terrain" strong (Bernard).
Addressing acute infections or pathogens when needed (Pasteur).
Together, they provide a holistic view of health-protecting both from external threats and nurturing internal balance! 🌿
Interestingly Pasteur is also known for developing pasteurization, vaccines and fermentation. On his deathbed, he is alleged to have admitted that Claude Bernard was right about the “terrain theory”, saying “The microbe is nothing; the terrain is everything”.
Interestingly Bernard introduced the idea of the “milieu interieur” (internal environment), later known as homeostasis. He emphasized the importance of maintaining a stable environment for the proper functioning of the body. He also paved the way for extensive study on the gut, liver and nervous system; and their synergism in digestion, conversion of nutrients and assimilation.

23/09/2024

🌸 Spring Equinox: A Time for Renewal & Growth 🌸
As we welcome the Spring Equinox, we celebrate a moment of balance, where day and night are equal, marking the shift toward light, growth, and new beginnings. 🌞🌿 Rooted in ancient Pagan philosophy, this time was traditionally honoured as Ostara, named after the goddess of fertility, Eostre. It symbolized rebirth, the earth's blossoming and life after the long winter. 🌱✨
This season is the perfect moment to: 🌿 Reflect on the past and let go of what no longer serves you. 🌷 Set new health intentions to align with your body’s natural rhythms. 🌼 Embrace creativity, growth, and self-nourishment.
Incorporate spring’s energy into your life with rituals like planting seeds, meditative walks in nature, or simply celebrating the renewal within. Let this equinox inspire balance and healing. 🌿💖
🌱 Health Intentions for Spring:
Refresh Your Diet – Embrace seasonal, fresh produce to support vitality and digestion.
Move with Purpose – Reconnect with nature through daily walks or gentle outdoor exercise.
Balance Within – Focus on mindfulness and meditation to bring harmony to your inner world.
Detox Naturally – Consider gentle herbal support or a naturopathic cleanse to boost your energy levels
Plant a garden – Whether you have a huge yard or a window sill available, watching something grow and thrive is remarkable
Set New Goals – Like nature, this is your time to grow and thrive! 🌿
Let’s celebrate new beginnings by nurturing ourselves from the inside out. 🌸
✨ What’s your health intention this spring? Share with us below!

16/09/2024

One of my favourite Anaïs Nin's quotes, "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom," This quote reflects a powerful metaphor for personal growth, suggesting that there comes a point when staying in a state of fear or limitation becomes more uncomfortable than the risk of embracing change and transformation. It emphasizes the importance of taking risks to grow and thrive.

This poem can be beautifully related to the concept of health autonomy. Health autonomy is about taking control of one's own health decisions and journey, stepping out of passive dependence on external authorities, and embracing self-empowerment for one's well-being.

"Remaining tight in a bud": This can symbolize the state of not taking ownership of one's health—perhaps staying confined in negative holding patterns, in conventional medical systems, societal expectations, or even personal fears about making changes. People may stay "tight in the bud" by avoiding new approaches, being hesitant to question advice, or feeling overwhelmed by health choices.

"The risk to blossom": Just as blossoming requires breaking free from the bud, achieving health autonomy involves taking risks—whether it’s trying new therapies, advocating for your needs, or embracing holistic health practices like naturopathy or integrative medicine. It can be risky to step into the unknown or go against the grain, but it's necessary for true growth and healing.

Health Autonomy: Taking control of your health can feel risky, especially when venturing into uncharted or alternative paths. Yet, there often comes a time when the discomfort of staying in a passive, restricted state becomes more painful than the uncertainty of making empowering, autonomous health decisions.

I truly appreciate the strength of each person who has made the radical decision to sit in a place of discomfort and reevaluate their long-term holding patterns or bad habits that negatively impact their health. I have truly loved seeing so many people blossom

10/09/2024

🌸 Spring Giveaway Alert! 🌸

Spring is here, and it's the perfect time for a fresh start for your mind and body! To celebrate this season of renewal, I’m offering a special giveaway at Rewilding Health 🌿

✨ Six lucky winners will receive:
Your choice of either....

A Naturopathy consultation to address your health needs (gut health, immune support, female reproductive health, and more!)
A Myotherapy session to release tension, improve movement, and restore balance.

For the low price of $50each

🌺 To Enter 🌺
🌸Like, follow and save this post
💐 Tag someone who you know will love this service. Each tag is an entry
🌻For an extra three entries share this post or your favourite rewildinghealth post in your stories. Don't forget to tag me so I can keep track of you

✨ Thanks for all the support and love.
🌟Best of luck
💫 Winners will be chosen the 20.09.2024

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