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Rose Cacao Ritual: A Ceremonial Cacao Recipe for an Open Heart Cacao has been close to my heart for as long as I can remember, and Anima Mundi's rose powder is my favourite new addition to it: a quarter of a teaspoon with ceremonial cacao, a little maca, vanilla and hot water, thirty seconds in the blender. My favourite ritual, and the recipe. Eating for Your Cycle: What to Eat in Each of the Four Phases Around day eight, a big raw salad is exactly what I want. By day 24 the same salad looks like homework. For years I read that as inconsistency. One week I was the woman who ate beautifully, the… How to Track Your Cycle & Find Your Own Monthly Pattern Your body is not the same woman on day four as she is on day fourteen, and she keeps changing all the way through. Here is how to follow your own rhythm, and what it can show you that a single day of testing never will. Period Farts: Why You Are Gassier Before & During Your Period If you are gassier in the week before your period, and gassier again in the first day or two of bleeding, you are not imagining it and there is nothing wrong with you. They are two different… ZenCleanz Kits Explained: ONE, FORGIVE & the Rainbow You have probably heard of ZenCleanz by now, but you're probably wondering, which one do I do first? Where do I actually begin? Which of these is the one for me? These three are where most… The Truth About Hydrogen Water Bottles: Five Things to Check This is an expensive category full of confident claims. Here is what a hydrogen water bottle actually is, the five things worth checking, what two independent laboratories measured, and why I would rather you were sceptical than sold to. How to Balance Health with the Five Flavours of TCM The five flavours are sweet, sour, bitter, pungent and salty. Traditional Chinese medicine associates each one with a season and a part of the body, and the idea is not that any flavour is good… The Years I Did Not Want to Be Seen Because of My Skin My skin was painful, uncomfortable and impossible to hide, no matter how many layers of makeup or clothes I put on. Cystic hormonal acne. Guttate psoriasis all over my body. Pigmentation and… Coming Off the Pill: What the First Year Was Actually Like This one is for the woman who has already decided, with her doctor, that she is coming off the pill, and who would like somebody to tell her honestly what the next few months might look like. Female Intuition & Your Cycle: When You Hear Yourself Most Clearly You are probably here because you would like to feel more connected to your own female intuition. And you may be wondering why she seems to come and go, why you can be so certain of something… Is ZenCleanz Available in Australia? How Ordering Works Short answer: yes. They ship here, direct from their own site, and it arrives. As many of you know, I am based in Australia. I have lived in a lot of countries over the years and ordered… Digestion & Emotions: What I Notice When I Am Holding On Constipated, gassy, bloated, and fairly sure the answer is another protocol? The part most people skip is not a food or a protocol. What I eventually noticed was that my digestion was at its… What to Eat in Your Luteal Phase: The Two Weeks Before Your Period The luteal phase is the stretch between ovulation and your period. Roughly two weeks, days 18 to 28, though bodies do not read the textbook and yours may run to a different clock. My Experience with the 7 Day ZenCleanz Rainbow Kit The ZenCleanz Rainbow Kit is a seven day liquid fast. No solid food for the whole week, your first meal on the morning of day eight, and the two single day kits sitting at either end of it: ONE… Cyclical Living: Unlock Your Feminine Superpowers For a stretch of the month you feel unstoppable, and a fortnight later you cannot face the list you wrote. Nothing has gone wrong with you. Here is what each phase tends to ask for, and how to plan a month around it. Preparing for Pregnancy: Why I Am Giving It Years, Not Months Three months is how long it takes to make sperm. It is not how long it takes to get a nervous system, a relationship and a support network ready for a child. Here is what I have been doing with the years instead. My ZenCleanz ONE Review: What I Wish I Had Known First If you have found your way to this ZenCleanz review, you are about where I was when I first heard about these products. Curious, and reading everything I could find, which back in 2020 was not… What Are Plant-Based Digestive Enzymes & What Do They Do? What plant-based digestive enzymes are and what they actually do, and why I would look at how and when you eat before reaching for a supplement. Wondering how to food combine for optimal digestion? Food combining means paying attention to what goes on the plate together. Fruit on its own and on an empty stomach. Protein and starch in separate meals. Vegetables with almost anything. A gap… The Food Combining Chart: What Goes Together & What to Eat Alone A food combining chart you can read in a minute and print for the fridge. Which food groups go together, which to keep apart, and what to eat on its own. What Questions to Ask Yourself Before Any Cleanse Six questions worth answering honestly first: what is my intention, can I actually clear the time, where am I in my cycle, have I spoken to my doctor, do I have a history of disordered eating… Emotions You Don’t Process Can Be the Root of Your Dis-Ease When was the last time you swallowed an emotion down? Perhaps a conversation that went somewhere you did not want it to go. Perhaps news you were not ready for. Most often, though, it happens in… Wisdom Women Needed to Learn in School, & What We Missed Almost every woman I know worked out how her own body operates somewhere in her thirties, alone, on the internet. We learned the mechanics of reproduction at school and essentially nothing about… The Most Spiritual Places in the World, & the Earth Chakras The places named most often as the most spiritual on earth are Uluru in Australia, the pyramids at Giza, Mount Kailash in Tibet, Mount Shasta in California, Bali, Haleakala on Maui, Lake… A Detox Workshop For Women in Ubud, Bali: Cycles, Food & Rest This is a day for the woman who has been handed a plan built for somebody else's body and told to try harder. We spend it on your cycle, on what to eat and when, on rest that is actually rest… Symptoms of Hormonal Imbalance in Women, & What to Write Down The symptoms women most often describe, why so many of them arrive at the same point every month, and what to have written down before you sit in the appointment. Intuitive Eating: Learning to Trust My Body Again A gentle note before you begin. How we eat is a tender thing, and often a deeply wired one, so any method that asks you to change it deserves to be approached carefully. If you have a history of…