Healthy Living Naturopath

08/03/2026

Just wanted to share a little of my story and this is something I often remind the women I work with — healing doesn’t always look dramatic.

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is simply show up for the next small step.

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07/03/2026

International Women’s Day is a beautiful reminder that women are powerful, resilient, and deeply intuitive when it comes to their health.

As a naturopath, I have the privilege of working with women at every stage of life — from navigating hormones and fatigue, to rebuilding strength, managing stress, and learning to truly listen to their bodies.

Women’s health isn’t just about symptoms.

It’s about energy, nourishment, resilience, and living fully in the body you have.

Every day I meet women who are doing incredible things while still carrying so much for everyone around them.

Today is a reminder to pause and ask yourself:

✨ Have I nourished my body today?
✨ Have I listened to what I need?
✨ Have I given myself the same care I give to everyone else?

Strong women build strong families, strong communities, and strong futures.

Here’s to women supporting women, lifting each other up, and choosing health that lasts a lifetime.

Happy International Women’s Day 💚

— Tracey
The Healthy Living Naturopath

07/03/2026

Book in to the clinic to learn more about the importance of movement.

At Love Healthy Livin, we believe that movement is one of the most powerful tools in your wellness toolkit. For those living with lymphoedema, the question isn’t if you should move, but how to find a rhythm that honours your body’s unique needs.

Current research has made one thing abundantly clear: exercise is not only safe, but it is also profoundly beneficial for managing lymphoedema. The goal is simple: maintain a healthy weight and build fitness, all while working within the supportive boundaries of your age and any medical conditions.

To build a balanced routine, it helps to view exercise through three distinct lenses. Mixing these can help optimise your lymphatic flow and overall vitality:

𝘼𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙞𝙘 𝙀𝙭𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙚: This is all about getting your heart rate up gently. Think walking, cycling, or light swimming. It helps improve cardiovascular health and circulation.

𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙝 𝙀𝙭𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙚:: Building muscle helps support your joints and provides structure. This doesn’t need to be heavy lifting; controlled, body-weight movements can be incredibly effective.

𝙁𝙡𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙀𝙭𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙚: Maintaining range of motion is crucial. Gentle stretching ensures that your body remains supple, preventing stiffness and helping you move with ease.

While the three pillars above are the gold standard, we know that variety is the spice of life—and health!

There is a wonderful world of movement that may not yet have clinical "lymphoedema labels," but offers immense benefits for the mind and body. We encourage you to explore:

👉🏻 Pilates & Yoga, Tai Chi & Qigong, Aquatic Exercise,Breathing & Relaxation

The most important rule? Listen to your body. Consistency is far more valuable than intensity. Start where you are, move in ways that bring you joy, and remember that every small step is a step toward greater health.

10/02/2026

Special Guest at Butterfly Blue Massage – February 25th ✨

We’re excited to welcome Tracey Cook of The Breast Wellness Studio to Butterfly Blue Massage on February 26th for Breast Thermography Sessions 💗

Tracey is deeply passionate about proactive breast health and helping women understand why breast changes occur, long before disease develops. Her approach focuses on early functional changes, inflammation, circulation, and lymphatic health, offering women empowering insight into their breast wellness journey.

Breast thermography is a gentle, non-invasive way to monitor changes in breast tissue, especially helpful for dense breasts and ongoing wellness tracking.

📅 Date: February 25, 2026
📍 Location: Butterfly Blue Massage
📩 Interested or want more information? Please contact me directly to learn more or to reserve your session. Limited Appointments Available.

Early awareness, education, and whole-body support truly matter 💕

10/02/2026

One of the healthiest boundaries during cancer? You don’t have to explain yourself.

Truly. You don’t owe anyone your medical history, your treatment schedule, or an emotional breakdown just because life looks different right now.

Sometimes a boundary is as simple as:
• “I’m tired.”
• “I’m not up for that today.”
• “I need a quiet day.”

And that’s it. No follow-up. No justification.

Cancer affects everything — energy, focus, emotions, nervous system, body reserves.

So when something feels like too much… it usually is.

Some people may struggle with the changes in you. That’s okay. Not everyone is meant to have unlimited access to your time, energy, or healing space.

Protecting your peace isn’t selfish.
It’s part of your recovery. 💚

What’s one boundary you’re gently learning to honour right now?

09/02/2026

Compression Legs & Chemotherapy

Why supporting your lymphatic system matters — before and during treatment!

When preparing for chemotherapy, most people focus on medications and schedules.

But one of the quiet heroes of treatment support is your lymphatic system.

Compression leg therapy is a gentle, non-invasive way to support lymphatic flow — and it can be incredibly beneficial both before chemotherapy begins and throughout treatment.

BEFORE: Using compression legs prior to treatment can help:
• Encourage healthy lymphatic drainage
• Reduce existing fluid congestion
• Support detox pathways
• Improve circulation and tissue oxygenation
• Prepare the body for the metabolic load ahead

Think of it as clearing the drains before a big storm!

DURING: During treatment, compression therapy may help:
• Reduce swelling and heaviness in the legs
• Support toxin clearance
• Ease fatigue and that “heavy body” feeling
• Support immune and lymphatic function
• Promote relaxation of the nervous system

Sessions are gentle, rhythmic, and deeply calming — perfect for bodies doing hard work behind the scenes.

The lymphatic system doesn’t have a pump like the heart. It relies on movement, breath and gentle external support.

Compression legs help do just that — without strain, pressure, or exhaustion.

📍Always individualised.
📍Always supportive — never aggressive.
📍And always alongside your medical care team.

If you’re preparing for chemotherapy, currently in treatment, or supporting recovery — your lymphatic system deserves some love too 💚

DM us or book a session to see if compression therapy is right for you.
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Tel: 0437 960 160

08/02/2026

Gas Is Not Normal - So let’s clear this up once and for all.

Bloating and gas aren’t just “part of digestion.”

They’re signs that food is fermenting instead of digesting.

When digestion is strong → food breaks down smoothly.

When digestion is weak → bacteria feast → gas forms.

So no, it’s not “just sensitive guts.”
It’s undigested food waving a red flag 🚩

I love healing with food and this food combo supports the digestive process — not just symptoms:

🍌 Banana
• Gentle fuel for digestion
• Soothes the gut lining
• Feeds good bacteria, not the gas-producing kind

🌱 Fennel + Ajwain (carom seed)
• Traditional digestive carminatives
• Reduce fermentation & gas
• Support stomach acid and enzyme activity

🫚 Ginger
• Activates digestive fire
• Improves stomach emptying
• Reduces nausea and heaviness

🥝 Kiwi
• Contains actinidin (a natural digestive enzyme)
• Helps break down protein
• Supports regular bowel movement

🥒 Cucumber
• Hydrating and cooling
• Supports bile flow
• Helps reduce inflammatory gut heat

🍋 Lemon
• Stimulates stomach acid
• Signals the liver and gallbladder
• Helps food actually digest instead of sit and ferment

Gas isn’t something to suppress.
It’s something to listen to.

Your body isn’t failing you —
it’s asking for better digestion, not bandaids.

Digest first.
Absorb second.
Heal naturally.

From The Healthy Living Naturopath 💚

05/02/2026

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Why does breast cancer occur?

Breast cancer does not have one single cause.

It develops when breast cells undergo changes over time and begin to grow in an uncontrolled way. These changes are often influenced by hormones, inflammation, genetics, lifestyle, and breast tissue environment — sometimes years before a lump appears.

Common contributing factors:

🌸 Hormonal influences

* Long-term oestrogen exposure (early periods, late menopause)
* Hormone replacement therapy
* Oestrogen dominance and impaired hormone clearance

🌸 Genetic factors

* Family history of breast cancer
* Inherited gene mutations (e.g. BRCA1 / BRCA2)

🌸 Age

* Risk increases with age — but younger women are increasingly affected, especially with inflammatory patterns

🌸 Reproductive factors

* Late pregnancy or not having children
* Not breastfeeding

Breast tissue & inflammatory factors

* Dense breast tissue
* Previous breast conditions
* Chronic inflammation
* Lymphatic congestion
* Reduced circulation and oxygenation

Most women diagnosed with breast cancer do NOT have a family history.

That’s why breast health isn’t just about finding cancer —
it’s about monitoring changes early, long before disease develops.

At The Breast Wellness Studio, we focus on early functional changes, not just late structural findings.

🔸 Thermal imaging:
• Detects changes in heat, blood flow, and inflammation
• Is especially helpful for dense breast tissue
• Can be used earlier and more frequently
• Looks at patterns and trends over time
• Supports lymphatic and inflammatory breast health monitoring

🔸 Mammography:
• Looks for structural changes like masses or calcifications
• Often identifies disease later in the process

Should be used to identify - not as a routine procedure

These tools assess different stages of breast change — not the same thing.

Breast health is not a once-every-few-years event. It’s a whole-body, whole-life conversation.

✔ Know your breasts
✔ Monitor changes
✔ Support lymphatic flow
✔ Reduce inflammation
✔ Choose screening that suits your body

Early awareness saves lives — and peace of mind matters too.

03/02/2026

When you’re going through chemotherapy, your body isn’t just “tired” — it’s doing the hardest job of its life: breaking down toxic drugs, repairing damaged tissue, clearing inflammation, and trying to keep you upright and sane.

What a lot of people don’t realise is….

Rest alone doesn’t heal. Circulation heals.

And circulation comes from movement.

Follow me as I continue to unpack and educate the healthy healing aspects of this challenging journey.

03/02/2026

Most women don’t realise this…
Your breasts, chest, arms and upper back all drain through the lymph nodes in your underarms — called the axillary lymph system.

When this area becomes tight from:
• bras
• posture
• stress
• surgery
• trauma

fluid backs up into the tissue.

That’s when you feel:
• heaviness
• puffiness
• tenderness
• stiffness
• inflammation

This is why axillary release is one of the most important things you can do for breast and lymphatic health.

Gentle, slow underarm work helps:
• wake up the fascia
• reopen lymph pathways
• reduce swelling
• restore natural drainage

This doesn’t have to be a deep massage. In fact initially you may feel pain in this area so a light, intelligent touch that tells the tissue to soften and let go works best.

Your body already knows how to heal —
sometimes it just needs a gentle invitation.