Emma the Naturopath

10/11/2025

*PUT THINGS IN YOUR WAY*

This is my apple cider vinegar bottle and reishi mushroom powder that permanently live on my kitchen bench. I still only drink the ACV 2-3 times a week but it would be zero if it lived neatly in the pantry.

-Leave your yoga mat rolled out.
-Keep your joggers next to the front door.
-Put your supplements in an old person pill box next to your toothbrush.

Emma the Naturopath xx

09/11/2025

529. Top 5 Things I LOVED This Wk:

1. My husband returning home again after two weeks at sea!
2. This crossover period of Spring and Summer where you can smell jasmine, gardenias and frangipanis all in the one walk.
3. Eadie scoring a try at touch footy as well as her first goal at soccer!
4. Gifting myself a Daughters of India dress for surviving two weeks of solo parenting.
5. Tomorrow is the day we have been counting down to for a while! The tradies are coming to get our backyard ready for our pool to be delivered on Thursday!

Emma the Naturopath xx

PS. I've been soaking up our backyard a lot lately. We were the first owners of this house that we moved into eleven and a half years ago when I was eleven weeks pregnant. Our backyard was full of knee-high shrubs that over time grew into a wild jungle -some double the height of our roof! My husband and my Dad sneakily built me The Garden of Eden (a veggie patch) one day when I was eight months pregnant, which Eadie and I have tended to over the years.

Then an arborist came on Monday and cleared it all away for our family's next chapter.

Let it begin. Pool party at my house everyone!!

02/11/2025

528. Top 5 Things I LOVED This Wk:

1. The sound of giggles and squeals coming from over the fence since we gave our neighbours our trampoline.
2. Seeing Eadie excited about things like dressing up with her friends for Halloween and seeing that she'd laid out her soccer clothes and boots on her bed ready for that afternoon.
3. Eggs from Glitter, Sparkles, Eddy and Geoff the chooks.
4. A week of solo parenting without any glitches. Well except for running out of gas during dinner and the plug in the kitchen sink no longer working.
5. A blustery, rainy walk around the jetty and marina just before it got dark on Saturday night.

Emma the Naturopath xx

Have a beautiful week :)

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28/10/2025

*EMMA EATS*
Balanced food for busy ppl!

I am here to promote “decent” brekkies! Not just a coffee. Not your kid’s sad toast crusts. But a protein-filled, nutritious meal which your cortisol levels and hormones will love you for.

We had spag bol last night so I saved a little portion for this morning. I also boiled up a bunch of eggs yesterday just to have them handy. So while the mince was heating on the stove, I peeled my eggs and made the toast. It took all of about 4 minutes.

Emma the Naturopath xx

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26/10/2025

26/10/2025

527. Top 5 Things I LOVED This Wk:

1. To look into the face of my long lost bestie and spend the day in Byron together drinking iced chai, eating falafels, walking uphill and lying in the sun.
2. Staying in a beautiful studio that overlooked the Bangalow hinterland. There was a swinging chair on the deck and I sat there for hours with a mug of tea, totally transfixed on the view with nowhere else I needed to be.
3. This is so random, but teaching Eadie how to light a match. I realised this week that she didn't know how so I bought a big pillar candle and she lights it every night. She nearly gets it on the first go now.
4. Monotonous cooking. Actually there's probably a more romantic term for it... I find a lot of joy in the repetitive flow of cooking/baking thing like risotto, lasanga, lamingtons or assembling sushi and rice paper rolls.
5. The way we will shout “Amelia!!” when Cookie Custard Cuddles Caller is doing something naughty. That was the name the foster place gave her when we adopted her. But she was way too mischievous to have a name like Amelia.

Emma the Naturopath xx

PS. I can't even remember who it was that told me so long ago that “The September winds bring change” but it's never left my mind. Those blustery September winds really come in and shake things up! People breaking up, changing jobs, moving house, losing loves ones, new babies being born, new ways of thinking.

This year was no exception. Is it because it's Spring which symbolises growth, perhaps? It felt like this really overflowed into October this year too. People welcoming (or being pushed) into transitions everywhere. There's no coincidence that this is the same time as bottlebrush season which is the Australian bush flower which represents brushing away the past and having confidence to face new transitions.

I hope you're finding some peace wherever you are at in life at the moment.

Have a beautiful week :)

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24/10/2025

Found this love note in my inbox from a sweet client this week 💌

No husbands were harmed 🔪😆

Emma the Naturopath xx

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24/10/2025

*EMMA EATS*
Balanced food for busy ppl!

APPLE CRUMBLE (gluten & dairy free!) 🍏

Firstly, there is no aesthetic way to photograph an apple crumble. So you just have to put a nice tea towel underneath and hope for the best! 😆

So many crumble recipes are oat-based which is no help to a celiac like myself. This delicious one tasted like an Anzac bikkie!

3 Granny Smith apples, skin on
Cinnamon, measure with your heart
1 cup almond meal
3/4 cup coconut flour, I didnt have the right amount so I topped it up woth dessicated coconut
1/4 cup coconut sugar
1/3 cup maple syrup
More cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 170.
2. Cut apples into either wedges/thick slices/cubes and stew in a large frying pan with some water and cinnamon for about 10-15 mins. Keep addibg splashes of water as needed. We want the apples tender, not mushy.
3. While the apples are cooking, combine all ingredients into a mixing bowl.
4. Pour apple into a baking dish and cover with crumble mix.
5. Bake for 30 mins or until golden. Allow to cool slightly and serve with Coyo vanilla bean icecream!

Emma the Naturopath xx

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16/10/2025

*EADIE EATS*
Balanced food for little tummies!

CHIC, BROC + CHEESE NUGGIES!

500g chicken mince (you could use turkey)
1 broccoli
2 eggs
1/2 cup shredded cheese. Would use a saltier cheese next time like feta or halloumi!
1/2 cup gf breadcrumbs (I used the Orgran brand)
2 tsp dried Italian herbs
2 rounded tsp Nutra Organics veggie broth powder
Salt and cracked pepper

1. Preheat oven to 180.
2. Cut florets off broc and steam until tender. Slice finely and allow to cool slightly on chopping board.
3. Mix everything in a bowl.
4. Line a baking tray and smoosh into nugget shapes. Easier if you have a little bowl of water to wet your hands. I did one tray of 18 nuggies then on another tray I put 11 in two silicone muffin trays (pictured). It didn’t actually make it any easier because I had to roll them anyway… 🙃
5. Bake for 20 mins.

Great for lunchboxes for the kiddos, with a yummy salad for lunch or you could even make into burger patties and cook in a frying pan!

Emma the Naturopath xx

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10/10/2025

*THE EASIEST THING TO DO IS NOTHING*

My husband is an exercise physiologist. A brilliant one, actually. His depth of knowledge about the human body blows my mind. But most importantly, he understands people and has such genuine care for his patients.

He said something last week over dinner that really stuck with me. We were talking about habits and change and he said to me, “The easiest thing is to do nothing.”

It takes effort and a little bravery to leave our comfort zone.

We could make a delicious savoury breakfast to balance our blood sugar, cortisol and hormones or we could just chuck a slice of raisin toast in the toaster or not eat at all and have a coffee.

We could do the exercises the EP has prescribed to manage our chronic lower back pain or we could just take some pain killers.

We could seek out a great psychologist who specialises in couples counselling to help work through problems or we could do nothing and let resentment fester.

I could think of dozens of examples.

What is your body telling you that you need to change?

Emma the Naturopath xx

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