Dr Laura Lum

30/12/2025

Warmest wishes from our team to you and your loved ones this holiday season and for the year ahead.

As the year draws to a close, we hope you find moments of rest, connection, and care—whatever this season looks like for you.

Thank you for the privilege of caring for you, your families, and our broader community – your trust in us means more than words can say.

23/12/2025

15/12/2025

The tragedy in Bondi yesterday has shaken all of us. My heart is breaking with our community.

This was not an attack on one community, one faith or one identity. It was an attack on all of us — on our shared sense of safety, humanity and belonging as Australians.

Today I’m holding in my thoughts:

• The victims and their grieving families

• Everyone who is afraid, feeling shocked, heartbroken, angry, frightened or numb

• The witnesses, first responders and health workers

• Everyone who is feeling shocked, heartbroken, angry, frightened or numb

If you are finding it hard to sleep, feeling constantly on edge, replaying images in your mind, or noticing waves of anxiety and/or sadness, please know these are common reactions after a traumatic event.

If this is you, please reach out to others. Talk to people you trust, step away from the news and social media when it becomes too much, and seek professional support if things are not easing with time.

You do not have to carry this alone. You deserve care and support even if you “weren’t there” or feel others have it worse.

As a psychologist, I am here to offer a calm, grounded space to talk through what you’re going through, make sense of your reactions, how this has shaped your views and work out how to find connection and meaning in the middle of all of this as well as what might help you feel safer and more supported in the days and weeks ahead.

From my family to yours, I choose compassion over hate and togetherness over division.

Healing grows in care, courage and solidarity 💔

26/11/2025

30/10/2025

What a pleasure to speak at this Manly 42 event with such inspiring health professionals and a vibrant audience!

It was refreshing to challenge all-or-nothing thinking and share practical hacks for turning good intentions into lasting habits.

The conversation went far beyond “healthy eating” however…

🧠 we explored the psychology behind cravings, our choices and the role of the gut microbiome.

🦠 We unpacked why digestion starts long before our meals even reach our gut and focused on how our gut microbiome is shaped by what we “feed our bugs”: they multiply according to our food choices and so we have the power to shape the balance of helpful/unhelpful flora in our gut.

🫶🏻 So grateful for the chance to connect, collaborate, and learn from our local community.

👥 Events like this show how powerful community can be in supporting true wellness.

11/01/2025

Happy Holidays from all of us!

As we celebrate this special season, I want to thank you for trusting us with your health and wellbeing.

I hope you thoroughly enjoy your plans in the coming weeks.

Enjoy more time to play, more time to connect with loved ones and more time to rest and settle if that’s what you need. Nourish yourself with delicious foods and may you be able to do more of what brings you joy.

Wishing you a year of peace, connection, and vibrant health.

04/08/2024

🌿 Some key takeaways from my talk this weekend on how to cultivate a happy healthy gut microbiome:

1. **Nourishment:** To understand how to improve gut health we need to look at how foods are absorbed and assimilated in our digestive tract. We can be ‘over fed and under nourished’ and still very hungry if our gut microbiome is imbalanced. An imbalanced gut with too much ‘bad’ flora and not enough ‘good’ flora means that even the highest quality fruits and vegetables, pastured eggs, meat, dairy and fish may not make an appreciable difference for someone depleted and malnourished. After all, it’s not us that digests our food it’s our gut microbiome. 🍏🥦

2. **Manage Stress:** Stress has been shown to directly damage the composition of the gut microbiome, depleting the good bacteria you need to stay well. It also shrinks brain regions like the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, crucial for memory, mental ‘horsepower’ and emotion processing ability. 🧠

3- **The 80-20 Rule:** It’s better to eat the wrong food with the right attitude than the right food with the wrong attitude. This means that 80% of the time, focus on a low-inflammation diet rich in biocompatible proteins which provide all the building blocks for a healthy gut lining, alive and probiotic foods like sauerkraut and sour cream to boost the diversity of your gut bacteria, prebiotic foods like roast pumpkin and vegetables to feed your good gut bacteria. The remaining 10-20% of the time, enjoy whatever delights you 😊 whether it’s meals shared with loved ones or foods you associate with happy memories. Becoming stressed about food choice to the point of being rigid can cause more harm than good. We discussed how a mindset of deprivation is a stressed mindset and how harmful this can be. True health involves not just a considered and balanced wholefoods diet, it also involves connecting to others by sharing meals and enjoying the pleasure of trying new things ☕🍰

#80-20Rule

04/08/2024

🍼👶 My little beloved recognizing her Mumma’s photo as we arrived in the beautiful Hunter Valley this weekend! 🌿

🌟 What a privilege to be invited to speak at Elysia Wellness Retreat this weekend.

I shared insights on maintaining a healthy gut microbiome and its impact on both mental and physical health. 🧠💪

It’s been an honour to be of service to others in a place I personally treasure so much. Thank you and to everyone who attended this talk and in doing so brought these topics to life. 🙏❤️

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27/05/2024

What a great start to our lunch break today raising a glass to celebrate Dr Yimei Sun. Thanks for baking me such a delicious refined sugar free Black Forest birthday cake to pickup just in time for her celebration 🎂

05/09/2023

Happy Fathers Day to the love of my life and now the father of our gentle bubbly little girl.

He shows us love, kindness and so much care every day.

I am deeply thankful that I get to live love, life and parenthood with him. Having shared many exhilarating life experiences as well as challenges that have stretched us to our limit, this week we celebrate the most sensational shared experience so far.

If Zahli could speak, she would tell us how grateful she is that she has been welcomed into this world with Tom as her father.

05/09/2023

Joy 💃🏻

21/03/2023

There are times in life when we carry a heavy heart because of a tragedy.

Then there are other times when we carry a heavy heart because of the joy and happiness we have in our lives.

Today I feel the shadow of this joy saying farewell to Dad as he boards his plane to return to Mom and life in Spain.

I am reminding myself that I’m lucky that it’s the latter, having shared both so many wonderful moments but also the simple everyday life moments with him, Tom, Zahli and also puppy Chai who adores him.

These normal life moments are the ones I love sharing most with loved ones and the ones I miss the most while we are living far apart.

I am calmer and more grounded stepping forward into the coming days with Zahli because of Dad being by our side.

Zahli is so blessed to have internalised Dad’s ever flowing love, generous cuddles, calm presence and his amazing microbiome 😂

So I have a very heavy heart as we say farewell.

May there be many shared tomorrows 💔