Pressies, Top 5 & Fritters!

We have had SO much fun unpacking Christmas stock! There's something for mum, dad, hubby, your bestie and for your work mate's Secret Santa!

Here are 10 lovable gift ideas that are in stock now:

1. Akin gift packs
2. Cheeki stainless stee

l insulated mugs (our price is $19.95, not $24.95)!
3. Sweet William chocolate santas (dairy, gluten and nut free)
4. Bodecare body brushes
5. Doulton water filters
6. Byron Bay Bliss Balls
7. Weleda sea buckthorn gift packs
8. Sukin gift packs
9. Bee Natural beeswax candles (from Boambee)
10. Noosa Naturals choc coated blueberries, coffee beans and whole strawbs

We're putting up the Chrissy tree today!

Top 5 Things I LOVED This Wk:

1. Playing hide and seek with my niece and nephew. When I walked into the bedroom I called out “Is anybody in here?” and I hear a little voice from the wardrobe yell out “No!”
2. The cutest baby capsicums growing in my garden! They look like little toys.

3. My Om Veda gold face moisturiser. Bit decadent? Sure, but I’m worth it.
4. Friday midday smoothie: coconut water, watermelon, 2 mango cheeks, mint from the garden, passion fruit from Vanessa’s vine, 1 Tbsp LSA, frozen raspberries!
5. Rocking out to the Triple J’s ‘Like A Version’ volume 8 cd at the shop. YouTube: City and Colour playing Kimbra’s Settle Down and Jinja Sarari’s cover of R Kelly’s Ignition.

PS. Don’t forget to sit outside in the sun on your lunch break this wk!

I found a recipe for corn fritters in one of my recipe books so I “naturopathifyed” it! I whipped these puppies up this arv and threw the mixture in the fridge. My husband and I cooked them up when we got home from Cross Fit and demolished 

the lot!

Golden Vegie Fritters
1 ½ cups wholemeal spelt flour
½ cup polenta
1 tsp bicarb soda
2 free range eggs
1 ¼ cup soy milk
1 cup grated cheese
1 corn cob, kernals sliced off
1 zucchini, grated
1 carrot, grated
3 shallots, diced
Chives, diced

In a large bowl, mix together the flour polenta and bicarb. Add everything else. Form into little patties and cook in a frying pan on a low heat with coconut oil until golden brown. Serve with a salad. Wheat-free, vegetarian, dairy-free (if you leave out the cheese).

Emma the Naturopath xx

Summer loving

To mark the 1st wk of Summer for 2012/2013, I thought I’d do a….

Top 5 Things I LOVE About Summer:
1. Ocean swims in the morning then afternoon swims in the river to wash off the salt
2. Wearing mismatched bikinis with tangled beach hair
3. Daylight savings making your life feel like you fit so much more quality into it

4. Fresh juice and crunchy salads
5. Feeling like that the sun on my skin FEEDS me

What do you LOVE most about Summer?

The old lady next door wandered over to me as I was weeding my garden yesterday. She asked what I do for work and I replied that I'm a naturopath.

"Oh so you sell lingerie"?

I'm not sure what sort of naturopaths she'd seen in the past...?

Top 5 Things I LOVED This Wk:

1. Writing a whiteboard full of To Do’s but only doing the fun things ie. Paint nails, water pot plants instead of the boring things ie. Pay superannuation, vacuum floor.
2. Stunning violet agapanthus chopped 

from the garden and put into vintage glass bottles and placed around my house and clinic.
3. Riding my bike to work! My inner child LOVES speeding down the hill!
4. The most ridiculously delicious smoothie: coconut water, mint from the garden, chia seeds, ½ a mango, 1 tsp spirulina, organic raspberries thrown in the blender. Promise me you’ll try it!
5. Giving my husband the finger when he dropped in on me at Shelly Beach this morning.

Have a wonderful week everyone! Re-read your favourite book this wk.

Emma the Naturopath xx

Butter London, back bends & coconut oil

New Butter London has arrived!

So many deliveries are arriving every day in the shop! It's like, well... CHRISTMAS!

Yesterday we unpacked a whole plethora of wild new nail polishes by Butter London! With names like Trout Pout, Disco Biscuit, Come To Bed Red, Slapper, No

 More Waity Katie and Cheeky Chops as well as acetone-free polish removers, base coats and top coats!

Butter London lacquers don't contain the 3 main chemicals that other polishes do that are attributed to cancer formation. Guess what? Our price is only $16.95 a bottle! We dare you to find a better price!

Top 5 Things I LOVED This Wk:

Well this weekend wasn’t like any other. I took myself to a Hatha yoga retreat a couple of hours away in the hinterland. Possibly the third best decision I’ve ever made (after marrying my husband and studying 

naturopathy).

I had some big realisations and I’m so excited to share with you my insights and experiences at a later date. I’ve actually taken tomorrow off work to just reflect and absorb everything.

So this week is a very special ‘Top 5’.

1. Doing pranayama in the shala at 5:30 each morning watching the mist roll through the valley like waves.
2. Unbelievably delicious vegan food cooked with love by a gorgeous Ayurvedic chef.
3. Sitting on a couch in front of the fire while sharing laughter, stories and homemade chai with new friends.
4. A mindfulness meditation in the middle of a rainforest with our eyes closed. Raindrops were falling through the canopy and birds were singing their tunes.
5. Walking through the heavy rain after a 2hr asana session back up to the farm house to find a bubbling pot of pumpkin soup and a roaring fire.

Enjoy your week everyone. Turn the TV off this week and pick up a book instead.

Dear coconut oil,

I love you.

Emma the Naturopath xx

My latest post for ST Surf Images

http://www.stsurfimages.com/featured/crazy-as-a-coconut/

Yumminess for the tummy and the mind

BLUEBERRY BREAKFAST SLICE

One of my awesome natural mama customers let me in on this epic little blog Natural New Age Mum.

I just whizzed up her Blueberry Breakfast Slice and it is unbelievable (and SO easy)!! ...

It was in the oven in the same time it took to make my chai on the stove :)

THE GOODS:
3 cups of organic oats

3 Tbsp coconut oil
2 bananas
2 eggs
2 Granny Smith apples
2 Tbsp chia seeds
1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
1 cup organic frozen berries

TO DO:
1. In a large bowl mash the bananas with a fork then whisk in the eggs and coconut oil.
2. Throw in the oats, cinnamon and chia seeds.
3. Grate the apples and add to the bowl along with the berries.
4. Line a baking tray with grease proof paper and smoosh mixture down with a wooden spoon.
5. Bake for 30mins in a 180C oven. Boom! That's it!

Such a great lunch box snack or yummy for brekkie with yoghurt on top. Try it! Substitute oats for quinoa flakes to make it GF :)

Please share any great blogs or healthy snack recipes you know of!

Top 5 Things I LOVED This Wk:

1. Finding a peacock feather on the ground on the way to work on Fri. I had no idea peacocks roamed the streets at night in Coffs. It’s a bit like the alligators in the sewers of New York theory.
2. Pinching flowers from every gardenia bush I walked past this week. The scent takes me straight back to the Summer of 2003.

3. Having lengthy conversations about what we’d do with the $100 million jackpot.
4. Rainy weekend comfort food: steamy miso with wakame, chic and vegie soup with pasta spirals, berry and coconut spelt pancakes with maple syrup, hot tea in cafes with good looking people.
5. Surfing at Arrawarra with my 8 yr old flower girl. I think we both got the longest rides of our lives today!


If you see a donation tin or tip jar this week, throw some shrapnel in.

Ahhhh Wednesdays! I may have mentioned that I now take Wednesdays off as a bid to maintain balance in my life. Today looked a little something like this:

Vegie juice
Solar eclipse
Surf at Diggers
Sushi

1 and 1/2hr Ayurvedic facial with Trista at Ayurvedic Skin Care & Reflexology Fusion. (Do yourself a favour!)
Gardening
Peppermint tea
Now off to yoga followed by a bath

*Exhaaaaaaale*

What would it take for you to get a babysitter for the kids or finish work at 2pm so that you can have a slice of YOU time? You will think clearer, look and feel better and value the time you have with loved ones more. I highly recommend it.

Don't forget to head over to Facebook and press LIKE on the Essential Health Coffs page!

Take care of yourselves!

Emma the Naturopath xx

Be soft.

"Be SOFT. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your SWEETNESS. Take PRIDE that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a BEAUTIFUL place" -Kurt Vonnegut.



Top 5 Things I LOVED This Wk:

1. The happy yellow colour of my zucchini flowers.
2. BUYING TICKETS TO JAPAN FOR JAN/FEB!! Hello snowboarding and dumpings!
3. Sunset surfs and snorkelling at Cresent Head.
4. Standing in the supermarket snif

fing mangoes.
5. Naming the blue tongue lizard in my garden a cute old man’s name so it wouldn’t give my a heart attack every time he pokes his out from behind my strawberries. Now we just go “Oh, its just Alfred!”

Any hot tips for Japan??

Emma the Naturopath xx

PS. Don't forget to head over to Facebook and like the Essential Health Coffs page!

Traralgon Ingredients

*For all the wheat-free, gluten-free, nut-free, dairy-free, yeast-free, soy-free, egg-free, vegan, etc etc etc peeps out there*


Check out the Traralgon Ingredients online store for all those hard to get specialised products and maybe a bit of Christmas shopping. They deliever all over the country. Oh yeah, and it's owned by my big bro and his missus ;)

http://www.traralgoningredients.com.au/

Tea and underarms

ALPHABET TUESDAYS

~T~ is for Tea

“There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea” –Bernard-Paul Heroux

Ahhh is there nothing better than a hot cup of tea? Unfortunately too much black tea is a diuretic and is quite acidic, so herbal tea is the way forward! Tea drinking is a wonderful way to top up your hydration levels as well as getting a gentle therapeutic effect. When possible I grow the herbs in my garden, otherwise I’ll buy organic tea. If you’re pregnant or on medications, have a quick chat to your naturopath first.

My Top 10 Medicinal Teas:

Ginger: morning sickness
Fennel: tummy upsets
Licorice: dry tickly cough
Chamomile: period pain
Green tea: weight loss
Dandelion root: liver detoxification
Rosehip: osteoarthritis
Thyme: sore throat
Lemon balm: anxiety
Passionflower: for sweet dreams

Think I might go and put the kettle on now! What tea are you loving right now?

Emma the Naturopath xx

ALPHABET TUESDAYS

*U* is for Under arm deodorants

Some antiperspirant deodorants contain aluminium ions that enter the skin cells, causing them to swell and blocks sweat from being secreted. This stops the natural elimination of toxins, which is what our bodies are actually designed to do.

Having aluminium in cells located close to the breast tissue and lymph nodes is not a comfortable thought for me, as the long-term effects of this has yet to be confirmed safe.

Let’s face it, many natural deodorants don’t work that well and try to mask odour with a herb garden full of essential oils. Some research shows that if you are swapping to a natural deodorant from an antiperspirant, you may initially need to reapply throughout during the day as years of blocked perspiration will need to clear. But then you’re right as rain for one daily application.

The deodorants our customers love the most?

MooGoo
Mayvers Neroli
The Body Crystal roll-on
MiEssence Organic Tahitian Breeze

What’s yours?

Be mindful of what you’re putting on your body. You’d be surprised about how much you actually absorb into your blood stream!

Emma the Naturopath xx