MOVEMENT & EXERCISE

Do you get headaches and neck pain, especially around the base of your skull or that feel like a band around your head? Are your symptoms worse after spending all day at work or sitting on the computer? Your suboccipital muscles can often be the cause.
Stiff upper back, neck pain and headaches are common occurrences for most of us, especially as we spend so much time sitting hunched over laptops and desk. This simple yet effective thoracic mobilisation will help reverse 'sitting-at-the-desk' syndrome and is also the easiest exercise a physio will ever give you!
CORRECT core activation is essential to living without low back pain, reducing diastasis recti post pregnancy and moving well without injury. Unfortunately, many of have trouble knowing how to do this properly due to lack or proprioception, overstretched muscles and fascia or poor education.
 
Breathing - the one 'exercise' all of us do everyday without having to think about it. Incorrect breathing patterns means more than 24, 000 reps of strengthening the wrong muscles...find out which ones they are and how to test if you're using them in this video!

Do you have an abdominal separation that's just not healing? Then this video is for you (and it's not just for mums!)

Diastasis recti (commonly known as an abdominal separation) happens mainly in pregnant and postpartum women but also affects men and babies. In this video I go into into two relatively unknown (and seldom addressed) factors that can make a HUGE difference to whether a separation comes together or stays apart.

 

NUTRITION

Think you've got your gut health covered by taking probiotics and eating fermented foods? Unfortunately, you're likely still missing a vital component to improving your gut microbiota and having better immunity, gastro-intestinal issues and other benefits long-term. In this video, we'll go into what these essential factors are and how you can get them naturally!
This chocolate icing is made from 3 ingredients most of us will have in the house. Plus it's a healthier version I'm happier to give my toddler as a sometime...

Starting Solids Webinar. Full recording of the live talk I did in conjunction with Playgroup QLD on Monday 25th May 2020.

INTERVIEWS TO INSPIRE, INNOVATE & INTRIGUE

I chat to Nicky Barker from international sleep program, Little Ones about maternal and pre-conception health. In a two-part series, we discuss how important your health and movement is right from pre-conception through pregnancy and through the post-natal period.

In part 2 of my interview with Nicky Barker from Little Ones, we talk about self-care and why its so important before, during and after pregnancy, an easy way your partner can help reduce stress and my best advice for mums.

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