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Inner Wisdom Health, Titirangi, Titirangi (2025)

28/05/2025

Yesterday I attended a seminar that promised to talk about a “better health” for the future….
I walked in hopeful—and left with a heavy burning heart…

Because the conversation was not inclusive.
It was led through a masculine lens, disconnected from reality.
No mention or recognition of Indigenous health.
No acknowledgment of women’s health crises.
No attention to trauma, systemic inequities, or the nervous system.

Instead, we heard about fasting as a universal solution—
a diet approach that can actually harm many women.
Food was spoken about with fear, restriction, and judgment.

And it made me reflect on the deeper crisis we are in:
🧠 A global mental health emergency, especially among women
🍽 A massive rise in eating disorders and disordered eating
📉 82% of women report struggling with their relationship to food and their body
💔 Misinformation, toxic health narratives, and the absence of compassionate care are only making it worse

We are living in a moment where wellness is often sold as control.
Where healing is oversimplified into hacks, plans, and protocols that ignore the complexity of being human—especially in a body that has been silenced or dismissed.

So today I want to share what I believe in:
A model of care that feels human.
That sees the whole person, not just their symptoms.
That honors the intelligence of the body.
That recognizes that health is shaped by context, relationships, history, and culture.

— 75% of biomedical research is done on male bodies
— Most medications are tested and dosed for men, despite women being the majority of users
— Endometriosis takes 7–10 years to diagnose
— PMS affects 90% of menstruating people, yet it’s barely researched
— Only ~11% of NIH funding is allocated to women's health

This isn’t accidental—it’s systemic.

But I dream of something different.
A paradigm of care that is cyclical, slow, embodied, and grounded in respect.
That includes science, yes—but also the body’s wisdom.
That centers compassion, safety, and sovereignty.
AND WHERE EDUCATION IS IN THE CENTER ❤️

That’s what I’m here to build.
And if this message resonates with you- thank you for being part of the CHANGE.

💜🔥🐍

17/04/2025

💔 For decades, women’s health has been underestimated, misunderstood, and often reduced to just reproduction. Real pain is dismissed as "normal," deep symptoms are masked with pills, and too often we’re left without answers — just silence.

🤍 That’s why me and are building a project that aims to change this narrative — through holistic support, science-based education, and true empowerment. In all the important areas 👀

📣 Your voice matters.
We’d love for you to take a few minutes to fill out our survey. It will help us shape a space for women and people who menstruate — one rooted in wisdom, care, and connection to the body.

👉 The link to the survey is in my BIO
Thank you for being part of the change 💜

02/04/2025

✨ What a beautiful experience to witness how everyone wanted to share their stories — how we all carry some kind of history around our bodies, and how deeply those beliefs are shaped by our families, culture, trauma, and society.
Thank you Relish festival, and for the beautiful curation of the workshop space — and for allowing me to share my passion and connect with such a beautiful community 🌱💛
We explored the roots of our relationship with the body and food
🌀 Here's a glimpse of what we covered:
🔥The Body as a Battleground of Ideas
Our bodies are not neutral. They’ve been shaped by cultural, medical, and social expectations. Many of us grow up learning how we should eat, look, and behave — often disconnected from what we truly feel or need.
⚡ Fragmentation & Disconnection
We’ve been taught that others know more about our bodies than we do. This leads to mistrust in our own signals and biology. But knowing your biology is power.
🧠Where Beliefs Are Born
Body stories come from families, friends, fitness culture, trauma, media, and more. Many are inherited and unconscious — until we begin to question them.
😶 Diet Culture & Health Myths
Diet culture moralizes food and equates weight with health, pushing restriction as willpower. But research tells us: weight is not the main determinant of health, and most diets fail long-term. We need contextual, compassionate, and culturally-informed nutrition, not black-and-white rules.
🧠 The Nervous System & Eating
Our relationship with food and hunger is deeply influenced by our nervous system. When we feel unsafe or stressed, digestion and hunger cues are dysregulated. Safety is foundational to reconnect with body trust.
💜 Embodiment as the Way Back
Embodiment means living in the body rather than observing it from the outside. It’s a practice of feeling, sensing, and responding with kindness. It’s also how we reclaim self-trust.
This was not just a workshop — it was an opportunity of remembering🌿💫

02/04/2025

✨ What a beautiful experience to witness how everyone wanted to share their stories — how we all carry some kind of history around our bodies, and how deeply those beliefs are shaped by our families, culture, trauma, and society.

Thank you Relish festival, and for the beautiful curation of the workshop space — and for allowing me to share my passion and connect with such a beautiful community 🌱💛

We explored the roots of our relationship with the body and food

🌀 Here's a glimpse of what we covered:

🔥The Body as a Battleground of Ideas
Our bodies are not neutral. They’ve been shaped by cultural, medical, and social expectations. Many of us grow up learning how we should eat, look, and behave — often disconnected from what we truly feel or need.

⚡ Fragmentation & Disconnection
We’ve been taught that others know more about our bodies than we do. This leads to mistrust in our own signals and biology. But knowing your biology is power.

🧠Where Beliefs Are Born
Body stories come from families, friends, fitness culture, trauma, media, and more. Many are inherited and unconscious — until we begin to question them.

😶 Diet Culture & Health Myths
Diet culture moralizes food and equates weight with health, pushing restriction as willpower. But research tells us: weight is not the main determinant of health, and most diets fail long-term. We need contextual, compassionate, and culturally-informed nutrition, not black-and-white rules.

🧠 The Nervous System & Eating
Our relationship with food and hunger is deeply influenced by our nervous system. When we feel unsafe or stressed, digestion and hunger cues are dysregulated. Safety is foundational to reconnect with body trust.

💜 Embodiment as the Way Back
Embodiment means living in the body rather than observing it from the outside. It’s a practice of feeling, sensing, and responding with kindness. It’s also how we reclaim self-trust.

This was not just a workshop — it was an opportunity of remembering🌿💫

19/03/2025

❌ No, pain it's not "normal."
❌ No, you're not exaggerating.
❌ No, your pain should not be ignored.

🌿 Endometriosis is not just a "bad period." It’s a systemic inflammatory condition that affects the entire body—disrupting immune function, the nervous system, and quality of life.

🔥 The pain is often as intense as active labor contractions.
🌙 The uncertainty of when the next flare will hit causes constant anxiety.
💫 It is physically, emotionally, and mentally exhausting.
🌻 It affects 10% of women, yet takes years to diagnose—often dismissed as "normal."

👁 You can’t always see it. Many live with endometriosis in silence because their pain is invisible to others.

💡 Surgery is not a cure. While it improves pain in some, long-term relief is not guaranteed—30-50% of cases experience pain recurrence within 5 years.

🧠 The nervous system plays a crucial role. Trauma, chronic stress, and nervous system dysregulation amplify pain and inflammation. This is not just a gynecological issue—it’s a complex condition requiring a whole-body approach.

✨ We need more than just surgery and hormones. An integral approach to manage endo can include:
✔ Pelvic floor therapy
✔ Nutrition
✔ Nervous system support
✔ Emotional & psychological support
✔ Adapted movement & exercise
✔ Supplements & herbal support
✔ Acupuncture

💜 You are not alone. Chronic pain does not define you, and you deserve compassionate care that sees your whole body, not just your symptoms.

🔍 This also means questioning the system. Maybe endometriosis isn’t explored as deeply as it should be because it forces us to challenge how women’s pain is perceived. It’s easier to blame the body than to fix the system that ignores it.

💜💜💜 Your body is not the problem

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25/11/2024

Estrobolome 🦠 the bacterias involved in your hormone health ❣️

☘️My agenda is now open for online and in person sessions 👇🏼
Click the link in my bio to schedule your appointment 🔮

17/09/2024

The ancestral medicine that strengthens and supports the nervous system, and is therefore KEY for hormones 🌿✨ For millennia, these powerful herbs have helped us adapt to stress and find well-being in body and mind. Are you already familiar with their benefits?

👀 NOTE: Like everything, there are some contraindications, so it’s important to consult a professional.

🍄 Discover how adaptogens, the nervous system, and women's health can help you manage pain from the root.

👇Join the waiting list for group programs, workshops and sessions on Women's and people who menstruate Health from the nervous system, nutrition, herbal medicine, and much more!!
👇 Be the first to access this natural and profound approach 💫

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02/09/2024

🔍 "Just listen to your body" – A very confusing and difficult idea for many....

Developing interoceptive awareness—the ability to read and respond to our body's signals—is an incredibly IMPORTANT skill.
🧠But for those who have experienced chronic stress, intense emotions, or trauma, the body can often feel like a confusing and even overwhelming place.

This might contradict what many suggest in social media, but the reality is that your body doesn't just hold wisdom. It also carries lost memories, repressed experiences, and deeply rooted emotions. All of this is stored in your nervous system, often manifesting in certain behaviors.

So, when we ask someone to "trust their body,"is much more complex than that....

A trauma-informed and nervous system-based approach involves first establishing a foundation of safety and stabilization. From there, it's about slowly, and in small doses, learning to differentiate and integrate the various signals and messages that come from the body—often with support.

The truth is, learning to trust is a continuous process, and we're all on that journey together.

From a nervous system perspective, it’s crucial to understand that our body doesn't always reflect the absolute truth. Sometimes, it reacts from a place of defense or survival. The key is learning to listen to these signals without assuming they always convey the definitive truth.
Learning to differentiate them is one of the most important parts of regulation and connection with the body 🌞

✨ In my consultations, we dive deeply into the nervous system and behaviors, fostering change slowly and in a way that allows you to learn to trust yourself. ✨

💬 Have you ever felt confused by your body's signals? Share your experiences 💜👇

23/11/2023

🗣How you talk to yourself matters PT.1
Your body pays close attention to the words you use.
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A body subjected to judgment, criticism, and mistreatment has no room to flow, enjoy, and/or heal during challenging situations and imbalances 😢
A body experiencing imbalance or ailment that you criticize, compare, and judge listens, feels ashamed, and worsens ✋
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"Oh, look at those legs."
"Oh, look at that stomach. Summer is coming; you should be fasting and exercising a lot."
"I HATE YOU, I wish I could change you."
"Don't eat, you're ugly."
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Your body is attuned to and responds according to the signals you give👂
Your body is your home, the vehicle through which you communicate, move, and live.
🤔Do you truly want to treat your home disrespectfully, aggressively, and negatively?
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Your body will appreciate words of acceptance, respect, and affection.
It will listen and understand when you're making an effort, when you're in the process of respecting it.
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This is not easy if you been years use to a judgmental and harsh lenguage, It's a process, unlearning old patterns and acquiring new ways of relating to yourself.
And like any relationship, it takes time, trust, communication, and commitment.
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Self-care begins with the language you use with yourself.
And for your body, kind language is a soothing balm of love and pure NUTRITION🌺

31/10/2023

Trick or treat 👻 Diet culture got many tricks for you 😅
Pseudodiets, perhaps you are on a diet and you may not even realize it, as diet culture taught us that it was a form of 'self-care.' Being on a diet essentially means that we eat according to external rules imposed by diet culture, rather than listening to our own needs, health problems, root causes of our problems and, if possible, tuning in to our bodies."

This means that sometimes people may be following dietary restrictions without consciously recognizing it because they've been conditioned by diet culture to believe it's a form of "self-care", rather than a genuine response to their body's needs. Diets often involve external rules rather than intuitive, body-driven eating and well being being considered as a WHOLE

Ps. Diets will never considered your mental health, your body history and behaivours... being a short term trick which doesn't work and can give u loads of side effects.
Get informed
Ask for informed consent 🤗
You can work on your health and nutrition and do don't diets, actually working on your real nutrition is completely different and opposite than diets.

Your body is your home 🏡💜

05/10/2023

💮BODY IMAGE: One of the most important aspects of our health and well-being, often overlooked... and indeed the most challenging🤨
Body image is a perception, is how we THINK and FEEL about our bodies, not how we look.
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The way we perceive our bodies affects our entire life, our personality, our mind and our health decisions; how we perceive our body image (BI) influences our quality of life and how we live life.
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😥A negative perception of BI leads to low self-esteem and feeling insecure in our home (BODY), which means feeling bad, uncomfortable, and not valuing ourselves as a person! And this ultimately means not liking the person living in that body - YOU!👀
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🧠This generates anxiety, fear of relationships, disrupted social interactions, discrimination against other people (bodies), insecurity in all kinds of decisions, sexual difficulties, eating behaivours, eating disorders, diets, or chronic restrictions leading to binge-eating, diminished quality of life, denying oneself enjoyment and pleasure, physical-emotional self-care becomes almost impossible.
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The initial reaction when feeling this way is to exercise excessively, harm our eating habits (restrictions, diets, extremes), and engaging in self-destructive practices❌
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The work of healing/acceptance towards BI is not linear, it's messy, it's difficult but life-transforming.
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On this journey, we seek acceptance, understanding that it's not necessary to be 100% comfortable with BI 100% of the time🌸, eliminating self-criticism, eradicating stereotypical comparisons, and eliminating all kinds of destructive practices.
👇
Here, the most important thing is to ground yourself in the PRESENT, in the here and now with your body.
Accepting yourself on good days, bad days, and in-between. You are your main company.
This work is about LENGUAGE, how you talk and embody your home-body🙏
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The way to maintain a good and lasting relationship with your BI is through love, compassion, acceptance, self-care, and thus, improving your quality of life!
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ALLOWING UNCONDITIONAL SELF-ENJOYMENT AND WELL-BEING♡

01/08/2023

🩸Hormonal contraceptives are often prescribed to "fix or regulate" hormonal issues or the menstrual cycle, but they merely mask underlying problems. It's essential to understand that hormonal contraception suppresses ovulation, eliminating the true menstrual cycle's regular hormonal fluctuations.
☝️Instead, withdrawal bleeding occurs during the hormone-free interval, mimicking menstruation but not reflecting a natural ovulatory cycle.

⚡In cases of hormonal issues (e.g., PCOS, PMS), the root cause is not addressed, and contraceptives merely silence symptoms instead of addressing them.
🤔While contraceptives may offer relief to many women by reducing symptoms (while taking them), they come with side effects like nutrient depletion, masking of menstrual symptoms, and potential impacts on mental health and libido.

🥦Depletion of certain nutrients: B vitamins, selenium, zinc, and magnesium essential for hair, skin, nails, mood, and libido health.
💊Masking of menstrual symptoms.
🧬Masking nutritional deficiencies and other factors that can lead to hypothalamic amenorrhea (e.g., in eating disorders).
👀Changes in the intestinal and v@ginal microbiome.
🧠Predisposition to anxiety, depression, and mood swings.
👁Headaches and migraines.
🤲Skin problems.
😑Low libido.

💜People deserve informed consent and compassionate care from healthcare professionals, and normalizing symptoms or relying solely on contraceptive solutions may not be suitable for everyone. It's essential to be aware of potential side effects and consider alternative treatments when addressing hormonal health concerns.

*Note: In certain exceptional cases contraceptives may be necessary such as in genetic, gonadal, iatrogenic disorders, e.g., for managing endometriosis when there are many disabling symptoms, making it impossible to implement changes to improve it. But exploring the causes and other treatments should always be a priority.

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