Nurture Nutrition

Nurture Nutrition Hi, I'm Julie a Holistic clinical Nutritionist and I help Women through Perimenopause naturally. Thyroid, PCOS, PMS, Endometriosis? I can help.

I help busy Women find the root cause of hormone imbalance, heal and thrive. I can help you get your mojo back.

Midlife Awakening/Shedding/Rebecoming🥰
06/12/2025

Midlife Awakening/Shedding/Rebecoming🥰

I've been posting in my group this week. Feels a little more intimate. Especially when we talk about intimate things lik...
06/12/2025

I've been posting in my group this week. Feels a little more intimate. Especially when we talk about intimate things like v***a balm. Feel free to join us 💚👇

Your nervous system will override your values. Trauma and instability will teach the body to accept what the soul would ...
28/11/2025

Your nervous system will override your values.

Trauma and instability will teach the body to accept what the soul would never consciously chose.

It isn’t a moral failure; this is a survival pattern.

Growing up a highly sensitive person in an unstable environment that lacks emotional safety can destabilise your nervous system.
It’s not just the worst trauma that can do this - so let’s not gaslight ourselves or let anyone else.

Your nervous system will have you chose familiarity - chaos over calm - find the others shaped by dysregulation and trauma.
Feel grounded in chaos.

Why do people stay with someone who lies, hides, gaslights, cheats or beats?
Familiarity.

Your brain can’t out logic your nervous system.
Others moral judgements won’t change a thing.
All this just adds to your internal shame.
Your internalised gaslighting.

I haven’t learned this from a textbook or study.
I am someone who has walked myself out of it and I’ve come to realise:

This is why some of my clients don’t implement.
This is why self-blame is so deep.
This is where most peoples ‘blocks’ come from.
This is where true healing lies.

My clients are as much my teachers as I am theirs.

The most important thing I want you to get from this is - It is not about learning concepts - It is about learning to embody safety.
It is about reclamation.

Let me be clear here - You are not failing because you lack discipline.
You were shaped by an environment that taught your nervous system that chaos is safer than calm.

And when you heal by re-patterning your nervous system, you will feel empowered by your ability to achieve despite the barriers.

This is the medicine.
This is the final piece of the puzzle.
The human condition.
I couldn’t help from an open wound but I can from a scab or scar ✨

Hence my inward before outward turn 🦋

Can we talk about the nocebo effect and why I refuse to be a voice of fear?The nocebo effect is the darker twin of the p...
04/11/2025

Can we talk about the nocebo effect and why I refuse to be a voice of fear?

The nocebo effect is the darker twin of the placebo effect . This is where negative expectations create negative outcomes.

When we’re told to expect suffering, our body often delivers. And this is why I refuse to be a voice of fear around menopause.

Fear-based messaging has become the norm: headlines, influencers, even doctors implying our hormones are “failing” and that we’ll fall apart without a prescription.

But fear isn’t education, it’s conditioning. And it’s profitable.

Recent reviews found 93 % of major menopause influencers promoting hormone therapies have a direct or indirect conflict of interest through paid partnerships or pharma ties.

When fear fuels clicks, it’s not awareness, it’s marketing.

Despite the hype, less than 5 % of women are actually on Hormone therapy. Most are still navigating midlife naturally, through nutrition, lifestyle, and self-care, just as women navigate birth and have traditionally navigated menopause.

Spending time in menopause is not a new phenomenon and this is not the first time menopause has had a 'moment'.

The problem now is that we don't always know when we are being marketed to.

I’m not against women using the tools available to them when needed.

I am not denying Hormone therapy can help some women.

But I will always be against manipulating women’s fears to sell products.

And the vast majority of women I have worked with have had other root causes driving or worsening their symptoms, more than just the perimenopausal hormone recalibration.

We deserve the full story, not a fabricated one that makes us doubt our biology.

When we strip away the fear, we remember:

our bodies aren’t broken,
our hormones and their decline aren’t mistakes,
and perimenopause isn’t a deficiency, it’s a recalibration.

My work is about helping women reconnect with their body’s wisdom through education, nourishment, and self-trust - not fear.

It’s been 3 years since my mask cracked. 3 years since I developed Bell’s Palsy. What I did not realise at the time was ...
31/10/2025

It’s been 3 years since my mask cracked. 3 years since I developed Bell’s Palsy.

What I did not realise at the time was that I was not just losing movement on one side of my face, I was about to drop the mask I was wearing.

The one performing, smiling, holding everything together on the outside while the inside crumbled.

As I reflect, I see that Bell’s Palsy wasn’t just a random event, it was the breaking point after years in survival mode

Bell’s palsy was a physical manifestation of a nervous system pushed beyond its capacity, over and over again. And while by all accounts I appear mostly healed, my face still reminds me if I overdo it or if I simply just need to stop and rest.

Interestingly the left side of our body is the feminine side, are we receiving or are we only giving?

Are we allowing ourselves the same care we give to others?

Clearly that balance was out.

The healing wasn’t just about facial symmetry. It became about truth.

Slowing down. Letting softness in. Letting myself be seen, really seen, not just the carefully curated version.

This story isn’t just mine.

Many midlife women reach a point where the mask begins to crack
Where the nervous system says 'enough.'

We can’t carry all of this anymore!

We can’t keep pretending we are ok when we are not.

It’s not weakness.

It’s a call back to balance and wholeness.

If you’re in your own cracking-open season, know this: it’s not the end of you.

It’s the beginning of your metamorphosis 🦋

Most women will enter perimenopause in their 40's because perimenopause is the 2-12 ish years prior to menopause. The av...
28/10/2025

Most women will enter perimenopause in their 40's because perimenopause is the 2-12 ish years prior to menopause. The average age women stop menstruating in NZ is 52. You may, like me even start perimenopause in your late 30's!

The first hormone to decline is progesterone. This is why fertility slows. Progesterone is a calming hormone so one of the first symptoms may be an inability to handle stress like you used to.

Alongside progesterone slowly declining, in the earlier part of perimenopause estrogen is actually surging higher than ever. It might be surging to twice the levels you experienced between 25-35!

So you might be having PMS on steroids at the same time as having less calm in the farm. What goes up must come down too so you may also have symptoms from estrogen withdrawal.

All of this can be happening while your cycle length is still the same or maybe shortened. We don't tend to skip cycles until we get further along.

This is why I don't talk about balancing your hormones in perimenopause as it is a natural time of flux. It does not mean there is nothing we can do though!

Supporting secondary hormone production (our adrenals can give us a nice buffer), support estrogen clearance, supporting blood sugar balance, repleting nutrients and dealing with any underlying imbalances, deficiencies and inflammation can go a really long way to helping you feel better while your body recalibrates.

Perimenopause doesn’t have to feel like chaos. With the right support, it can be a time of renewal and reconnection with your body. If your symptoms are taking over your life and you’re ready to get to your root cause and feel calm, energised, and clear-headed again reach out and we can make a plan 💚

Let me know if you have any questions or anything to share, always love hearing your story ✨

I forgive myself for the choices I made when I was drunk on estrogen 😄 Is estrogen the people pleasing hormone? The horm...
16/10/2025

I forgive myself for the choices I made when I was drunk on estrogen 😄

Is estrogen the people pleasing hormone? The hormone of self sacrifice? We need it for child bearing but coupled with societal conditioning often fall into the trap of taking care of everyone else except ourselves.

Now we may find ourselves with no choice but to direct some of that energy inward. Sorry but resistance is futile ❤

I wrote this a year ago and with the amount of thyroid clients I am currently seeing, it is definitely worth resharing....
15/10/2025

I wrote this a year ago and with the amount of thyroid clients I am currently seeing, it is definitely worth resharing.

My thyroid healing journey was what put me on the path to doing the work I do now, and it taught me that true healing is never just physical.

We often talk about antibodies, hormones, and nutrients (and yes, they matter hugely), but we rarely talk about what sits underneath.

For many women I’ve supported, and for myself, thyroid disease arrived at a time of deep depletion.

After an extended period of giving to everyone else first.
After an extended period of holding it all together.

We arrived at a point where our bodies finally said no more!

Mine boiled to the surface in that vulnerable post partum window, after simmering for years.

Perimenopause is an even more common time for thyroid disorders to surface.

When we’ve spent too long constantly overextending, feeling unsupported, or silencing our own needs, the body can start mirroring that inner conflict.

It becomes hyper-alert, overprotective, and in autoimmune conditions, that protection gets confused and turns the attack inward.

My own healing required gut repair, nutrient repletion, and rebalancing my thyroid hormones.

But it also required me to slow down, set boundaries, speak my truth, and honour my own needs.

Your thyroid sits at your throat, the energetic centre of voice and truth.

Sometimes, healing it means finally allowing yourself to be heard.

The throat is the chakra system in focus in our 40's.

💛

If you’re walking this path, know that you’re not alone, and that healing includes both the science and the soul. It really is that proverbial onion analogy when the peeling back of one layer reveals another.

You can read the full piece on my blog if you’d like a deeper dive, link in first comment.

Happy Friday 😄Some of us get the opposite too right? You are too young to be experiencing the menopause (hello perimenop...
09/10/2025

Happy Friday 😄

Some of us get the opposite too right? You are too young to be experiencing the menopause (hello perimenopause where the symptoms actually happen and can be 10 years or more prior!)🙄

What if the conversation shifted from losses to gains?Because the truth is, this transition gives as much as it takes.No...
09/10/2025

What if the conversation shifted from losses to gains?
Because the truth is, this transition gives as much as it takes.

No, I’m not menopausal. Back to clockwork regular cycles even 🤦🏻‍♀️

But these words… they come from menopausal women.

We’re talking about it more now and that’s progress, but the focus is still so often on what’s lost.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

And on a deeper level, what’s really happening is a stripping away of roles, pretense, people-pleasing, and noise.

Change is uncomfortable. Stepping into the unknown is scary.
If you’ve ever birthed a baby, you know this all too well.

And you do have to go through the process.
No one is coming to save you. There is no magic pill.

You might be confronted by all the things you’ve been hiding from.
The mask may drop.
You may feel exposed.

You may realise the way you’ve lived the first part of your life will no longer work in the next phase.

One part that’s not talked about enough is what’s happening beneath the surface, the emotional and spiritual recalibration that comes with this transition.

On the other side are gifts that can only be unleashed through the process.

Clarity.
Authority.
Liberation.
A sense of power that no longer seeks permission or validation.

I know this transition can be brutal for some, physically, emotionally, existentially.
It’s not about pretending it’s easy for everyone.
It’s about remembering that beneath it all, something beautiful is being revealed.

If you need an ally, I can’t save you, but I can walk beside you and help you find ease and balance as you find your feet.

Endings give birth to beginnings, and perimenopause may just be the unleashing of who you really are. ❤️

Oh yes! 🤣
12/09/2025

Oh yes! 🤣

Thank you to those who like/comment or message me to say that my posts help you - just when I am ready to give up you re...
22/08/2025

Thank you to those who like/comment or message me to say that my posts help you - just when I am ready to give up you remind me of my why and I appreciate you 🥰 The algorithm is not always my friend.

Happy Friday yo! x

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