Shannon Dunn

Dairy Allergy? Try These Plant-Based Milks Instead

Nut, seed, grain and legume milks may be the new dairy, but knowing the nutritious from the health-hyped goes beyond reading ingredient labels. While cows may be resting little easier in the wake of a new-found love of alternative milks, there’s good reason to make your own say some of the country’s leading dieticians and nutritionists. From sugar-loaded Ultra Heat Treated (UHT) varieties to made-from-concentrates, there are often more than simply nuts, seeds, legumes and grains in store-bought milks, says accredited practising dietician and FoodTal[...]

Holistic Beauty

What’s Your Summer Skin Type?

With the change of season can come a change of skin. As we say see-ya to heaters and hello to sunshine in the Southern Hemisphere, there's a good chance you might need to mix up your skincare routine, too. Here's a rundown on how to care for your body's largest organ during the warmer months: Sensitive Skin Anyone with sensitivities will know the hurdles of applying too many combinations of chemicals that are often part of everyday skincare products. Keeping it simple is the best rule of thumb if you’re prone to breakouts, blemishes and burns, as the[...]

Empowerment

How to Use doTERRA’s New Yoga Collection

Created with the help of Art of Attention author and creator of teach.yoga, Elena Brower, the just-released doTERRA Yoga Collection consists of three 5 mL blends: Arise, Anchor, and Align. Each is carefully designed with a unique combination of essential oils to provide different scents and benefits for the beginner or experienced yogi. Below is a step-by-step guide on how best to use each oil.read more[...]

Women's Wellness

Prolapse of the Uterus & My Healing Journey

prolapse of the uterus is a condition that affects thousands of women. However, it is possible to heal naturally.

Yes, it is absolutely possible to heal prolapse of the uterus. I was recently interviewed by healer and intuitive, Rebecca Dettman, for her Soul Doctor Show podcast—specifically for her Womb Worship episode. This was the first time I had spoken publicly about my four-year journey holistically healing one of the Western world's most common health conditions. It's a topic I'm deeply passionate about, particularly as so many women feel that surgery may be the only option to heal what is essentially a body way out of balance. Prolapse of the uterus is a[...]

Holistic Beauty

Coffee Beauty Benefits + Recipes

One of the world’s favourite brews has many more benefits than a mid-morning caffeine kick. Coffee is actually a potent, multi-purpose beauty ingredient that can add lustre to your hair, while diminishing appearance of cellulite and under-eye shadows. While the health benefits, or lack thereof, of drinking coffee may always be a hot topic for debate, the topical uses of this caffeine-fuelled brew, and the aromatic beans from which it’s derived, offer big beauty pluses that can’t be denied. From giving gloss to over-stressed locks, to minimising darks c[...]

Wellness

The Importance of Doing Nothing

It's one of the most important keys to good health, yet fast-paced living and a seemingly insatiable appetite for achieving more is putting our wellbeing at risk. Put your feet up and do absolutely nothing and you just might achieve more, say some. Are you stressed and don’t know it? Are you caught in a constant cycle of doing more, wanting more and achieving more? If you’re not sure of your emotional state right now, take a minute to focus on your body. Are your shoulders tense? Is your breath shallow? Is your stomach in knots? Often we get so used to being[...]

Wellness

How to Use Activated Charcoal

Whether it’s for pearly whites or as a hangover helper, activated charcoal is garnering much-deserved attention as the latest wellness and beauty do-it-all. While Gwenyth Paltrow has waxed lyrical about the benefits of activated charcoal for a booze-induced upset tummy, there’s actually a host of wellness and beauty can-dos with this simple yet potent ingredient. A health go-to for more than 10,000 of years, activated charcoal is a carbon-based porous powder—usually sold in capsule or powder form, traditionally to be taken orally to alleviate sym[...]

Women's Wellness

Why I Didn’t do Physio to Heal Uterine Prolapse

Do you want to heal uterine prolapse? Usually the first suggestion people make—health practitioners and otherwise—when you have a physical condition, is to do something physical to fix it. But what if it isn't always the right choice? When I found myself with second degree uterine prolapse more than five years ago, I knew visiting the physio was not the answer, despite well-meaning family and friends telling me to high tail it pronto to someone who specialised in pelvic floor dysfunction. I knew this deep in my core (probably a reason for that!) and followed[...]

Women's Wellness

Kimberly Snyder on the Importance of Emotional Wellness

Our emotions are responsible for a lot more than we give them credit for. At the core of emotion creation are our thoughts - the captain of our emotional ship, so to speak. Pay attention to our thoughts, and the emotions they create, and life can literally change course. Ten years ago, I overhauled my diet, becoming raw vegan overnight. Back then, I believed deeply it was the health and wellness cure-all. But, I'm the first to admit, I was wrong. Very wrong. What I didn't factor into this equation? My emotions and the stressful thoughts I'd become accustomed to t[...]

Wellness, Women's Wellness

Homeopathy for Pregnancy & Beyond

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When you're a mama that has a child with eczema and food allergies, you become somewhat of a detective - especially when you're not willing to walk the path of steroid creams and topical, short-term fixes. So where do you turn when you decide to treat your child holistically? No one can answer that question for you because every child is different and has different needs, different triggers for their allergies and different constitutions. A good start is to tune into your mama gut. I filed away good-meaning advice, disengaged my brain for a moment and tuned into[...]