Get ready for Spring!!

Hello 27 degrees in sunny Coffs Harbour! There are only 4 sleeps til Spring... and I've already sussed out where all the jasmine bushes are on my morning walk so I can bury my head into them!

ALPHABET TUESDAYS

S is for Spring!

It’s Spring on Saturday! Spring is actually acknowledged as the first season of the year as it focuses on renewal and beginnings. Our energy starts to flow up and outwards after the colder contemplative months of Winter.

I’ve noticed my customers and clients are beginning to feel lighter emotionally and physically as the weather warms up, and our diet also needs to reflect this. Opt for stir-frying or steaming your veggies so they still have that crunchiness and start reintroducing salads to your meal times.

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine the liver and gallbladder are more sensitive during Spring. So give them a bit of extra love by starting your day with a squeeze of lemon in warm water, swapping one of your coffees for dandelion root tea, whizz up a fresh vegies juice each morning and release anger and resentment.

Go play outside in the fresh air and have some fun!

As it’s my fourth fun filled day of my holiday in the bay of love, I’m giving you a very special...
Top TEN Things I LOVED This Wk:

1. The lighthouse being lit up yellow for Daffodil Day
2. CoYo organic coconut yoghurt
3. Going for a lighthou...

se walk and the whales jumping out of the ocean all over the place like fireworks!
4. Red Saltwater sandals.
5. A 5am wakeup call, 9 km, 15,334 steps (according to my pedometer)… also known as conquering Mount Warning! Having to pull yourself up to the summit by chains is not for the faint hearted. But oh the view!!! I am so thankful to have such healthy legs.
6. A refuelling feast at the Bangalow Markets! Homemade chicken dimsims, gluten-free orange blossom cupcake with passionfruit icing, seafood paella with fresh lemon, a spirulina, mango, banana, macadamia nut smoothie. In that order!
7. Drinking a dandelion almond milk latte while hypothesising about life with a girlfriend at The Conscious Café.
8. How crystal clear (and fresh!) the ocean is this time of year.
9. A phone call from my long lost parents.
10. Not washing my hair since Thursday, because hey, it’s just going to get salty again tomorrow!

Enjoy the last week of Winter everybody!

Emma the Naturopath xx

PS. I’ll be physically back in the shop tomorrow after my holiday, but my mind and heart may still be in Byron Bay :)

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Rest, nut milk & My Top 5!

ALPHABET TUESDAYS
~R~ is for Rest.Relaxation.Revitalise.Recharge.Rejuvenate.Rekindle.Repair.Retire.Reconnect.Revive.Retreat.Revamp.

The 2nd of this month marked 6 months of being married. I then quickly came to the realisation that i...

t had been 6 months since my last holiday/break!

I marched myself straight over to the calendar and marked myself down for 6 days off starting this Thursday! I’ve packed my bag for a little R and R up in Byron Bay. A place I used to call home and where my heart feels lighter.

Pop into the shop and say hi to my effervescent naturopath Vanessa. You don’t know the definition of bubbly until you have met this woman! She’ll take good care of you.

I love being a naturopath. But I love being Emma more :)

 

Cuteness!!

Even if you never make nut milk (although why wouldn't you? It's THAT easy), you HAVE to watch this 1:24 min clip!

Top 5 Things I LOVED This Week:

1. Hanging out my sheets to dry over 4 chairs in my sunny courtyard this morning. Then grabbing all the pillows in the house, a pot of thyme tea and a book and camping under there for a couple of hours.
2. My new pimping hot pink watering can.

3. Discovering plentiful amounts of organic produce at my local Coles: beetroot, ginger, broccoli, mushies, frozen berries, eggs, kalamata olives! Also impressed with the organic-ness at Happy Frog, the Thurs Growers Markets and the Jetty IGA. High five Coffs!
4. Starting a 6 week Hatha yoga course last Wednesday night.
5. That moment that occurs around 2pm every day when the last cd on the 6 stack stereo finishes playing and the lunch rush dies down. And I work for a while just in cleansing silence.

Have you noticed the effect the smell of Spring is having on people’s moods? Loving it!

Emma the Naturopath xx

Postcard people

I had such a refreshing conversation last week with a woman about honesty. We agreed that we –as women, need to be more honest with each other about what’s REALLY going on in our lives. That way we don’t compare ourselves to the person who we are talking to who has this effortlessly “flawless” life, even though it’s rarely the case.

I call them “postcard people”. On the back of the postcard with the blue sky, turquoise water and white sand there’s a message that reads “Weathers been great, loving the food, its paradise”. Even though the prawns they had last night gave them food poisoning, their wallet got stolen and they haven’t stopped fighting with their partner.


Perhaps your husband bought you flowers BUT we had an argument about him not pulling his weight around the house. Or yes your job is fantastic BUT your boss is being an absolute nightmare which is causing you to lose sleep.


And there is nothing wrong with any of those things! It’s called LIFE! Nobody is perfect.


Let’s create a trusting and nonjudgmental environment to open up to each other and be supported. Competitiveness is SO high school.


Today I felt a bit overwhelmed and exhausted, but then I went for a walk in the sunshine with my good friend and now feel really uplifted. Now you try... xx

The Healthy Bones Workshop

What happens when you put a naturopath/nutritionist (myself, Emma Caller), a physiotherapist (Tamara Urquhart) and a pilates/yoga/gyrokinesis teacher (Suzanne McCarty) in the one room?
THE HEALTHY BONES WORKSHOP!

First off I’ll be speaking about food as medicine ways to prevent and treat osteoporosis, followed by Tamara who will be answering all your questions on exercise and bone health. Finally Suzanne is going to run a pilates mat class specialising in osteoporosis care.

The workshop is being held at 10:30 on Saturday the 8th September at Hara Beyond Movement Studio on Little Street in Coffs Harbour. The price is $45. To make sure you secure a space, please call Suzanne on 0266 524 462.

Emma the Naturopath xx

Did you have a coffee this morning?

Guess what I found out today! 2.7 MILLION TAKEAWAY COFFEE CUPS ARE THROWN OUT EVERY DAY! And that's only IN AUSTRALIA! Holy moly... Hello landfill, not to mention the toxic petroleum based plastic lining :(

So what can we do about it?

*Take your own mug to the cafe

*Encourage your local cafe to use eco friendly BioCups and support the ones that do eg. the Top Shop in B Bay

*Buy yourself a reusable Cheeki stainless steel mug

*Give a coffee drinking friend a Keep Cup as a gift

*Take your own flask of coffee/tea to work with you




Stay mindful. Emma the Naturopath xx

Surf health & dry skin!

First up, I'm now a health blogger for ST Surf Images!! I'll be banging on about surf health every fortnight. So head over there and have a read and check out all the stunning images that Tom and Sherrin Woods take of our beautiful Coffs Coast! http://www.stsurfimages.com/featured/introducing-little-emm/

On a different note...

One day my nutrition lecturer bluntly pointed out that DRY SKIN is an essential fatty acid deficiency, not a Sorbolene deficiency. How good is that!


Our cell membranes are made of fat/oil so if we’re low in essential fatty acids, the wate...r inside the cell will leak out. And if we’re dehydrated, our vital organs steal the water from our skin to carry out our more important bodily functions like liver detoxification. That leaves the poor old skin looking as scaly as a snake!
There’s a whole lot of dry skin going on in Coffs. Crowds of customers are coming in asking for a heavy moisturiser, which is all very well and good, but I always ask them what they are doing INTERNALLY.

I’m a bit of a broken record. It goes like this...

*How much WATER have you had to drink today? Or have you just been having English breakfast tea intravenously?

*Have you taken your fish OIL/flaxseed oil/coconut oil/sea buckthorn oil today?

*Have you eaten many OILY FOODS like olive oil on your salad, avo’s and fish?

*Have you been EXERCISING for thirty minutes a day, having massages and dry body brushing to stimulate your circulation and LYMPHATIC SYSTEM?
My fave winter moisturiser is using a pure oil like cold-pressed apricot kernel, almond, black sesame or coconut! How many ingredients are in your moisturiser?



Emma the Naturopath xx

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Winter Wonderland

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”  John Steinbeck.

Well when you put it THAT way :)

Here's a little something I created yesterday morning before clinic... And it actually worked!!


Spiced Banana and Yoghurt Cake


250g organic wholemeal spelt flour

80 g organic brown rice flour...

2 tsp gluten-free baking soda

2 tsp ground cinnamon

2 Tbsp extra virgin cold pressed coconut oil

200g plain Greek yoghurt

2 free range eggs

1 ripe banana, mashed

200g raw organic sugar

Sliced peaches





Preheat the oven to 170 degrees and grease a square cake tin with coconut oil. Sift flours, baking powder and cinnamon into a large bowl.
In another bowl add the banana, oil, yoghurt, sugar, and eggs then pour into the dry ingredients bowl. Mix for 3 mins with electric beaters.
Pour into cake tin and add the peach slices on top. Bake for about 45 mins or until golden then leave to stand for 10 mins before you slice and DEVOUR it!

Enjoy! xx Emma the Naturopath



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