The Hormone Herbalist

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The Hormone Herbalist

Hormone specialist and medical herbalist. I help busy mums improve energy, mood & heal their cycles This is especially true where the brain is concerned.

Medical herbalists diagnose and treat individuals in a holistic way. This means we look at the whole person – as well as your diet, lifestyle, sleep habits and medical history, we talk about your hobbies, relationships, what you do for fun and what makes you tick. Rather than thinking of the body as simply a collection of individual parts – for example, thinking of back pain as simply a ‘back problem’ – all body systems are seen to interact with each other in complex ways to bring about overall health. Diseases of particular organs are not seen in isolation, but as part of a wider picture of disorder within the body. The influence of the mind on health, and vice versa, is heavily stressed in holistic medicine. For example, there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that physical inflammation in the body from conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, gut problems or just poor diet & lifestyle, is associated with inflammation in the brain, having a direct effect on psychiatric conditions like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. And vice versa – low mood and low self-esteem can have a detrimental effect on our physical health, causing inflammatory responses and depressing the immune system. Holistic medicine also believes in the body’s natural ability to heal itself, and this is why we use plant-based medicines, or herbal medicine. Plants contain a mind-bogglingly large array of active chemicals that work together to subtly ‘nudge’ human physiology towards self-correction, and promote good health. To book a consultation, send me a message or email poppytheherbalist@gmail.com.

09/03/2026

From Chaos to Clarity - How to Restore Your Family’s Health Starting Now

Are you a mama looking for solutions for your own health, as well as your kids and menfolk?

Do you feel a bit lost with all the health information online, and confused about what approach to take?

Since incorporating hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA) into my practice, I’ve seen incredible results - not only with helping women heal their hormones & reclaim their energy, but also:

🌿 Kids having better behaviour & focus at school, leading to fewer parents meetings & calmer mornings
🌿 Dads improving their mood and energy levels, jumping out of bed to cook breakfast in the morning
🌿 Mamas feeling less stressed and more supported in managing the health of their families

I love treating whole families now because it’s a joy to watch Mum, Dad & kids heal together.

Minerals inform the basis of our nervous system, so healing our mineral patterns can even support healthy communication, conflict resolution and better relationships.

I’m honestly astounded by the power of minerals, and I want to share my knowledge and enthusiasm with you!

Join us this Friday at 1.30pm for a deep dive into minerals & how they can transform your health & experience of life.

You’ll learn:

🧪 What the real cause of stress is in the modern world
🧪 Why blood tests are not giving you enough information about your health
🧪 How to know exactly which supplements your body needs to heal

And it’s completely free! Comment SIGN ME UP 💜

04/03/2026

I’m not here to pretend that I’ve been my fullest, best, most energetic self throughout these entire four weeks - it’s been a challenging time, and there have been good days and bad days.

I’m here to share my experience of entering a major ‘crisis period’ of my life in total presence, alignment, and integrity.

My trip to Mexico gave me the gift of slowing down and being present for life just before I needed it the most.

Giving my body the minerals it was missing gave me the cellular energy to meet Life with tenderness even through the uncertainty of Death.

And my father… he has given me the greatest gift of all. He has effectively held up a mirror to my own spirit, reflecting my strength, humour, and courage back to me in the hardest days of his life.

My body knew this was coming before my thoughts ever did. And that’s the kind of intelligence I trust now - the kind that lives in my cells, in the subtle language of physiology and truth.

The kind that reminds me: you are not being punished, you are being equipped; you are not being broken, you are being readied; you are not being abandoned, you are being invited into the full, wild, beautiful spectrum of being alive.

And I intend to keep saying yes to that invitation.

Because once you’ve felt what it’s like to live from a mineralised, regulated, resourced body - you don’t want to go back to just “getting through the day”.

Once this chapter has come to a close, once I’ve given myself time to integrate and re-centre in this new reality - I will be running another round of my group program for mamas, The Hormone Mastery Method.

This is a space where we re-mineralise our bodies, re-connect with our cycles, and enjoy the magic of women gathering together.

If you want to start showing up for life from the full spectrum of who you really are - watch this space 🤍

03/03/2026

When we are physically depleted by mineral & nutritional deficiencies, we don’t produce energy efficiently at a cellular level.

The balance between certain minerals is key for the proper functioning of the nervous system, brain, adrenal glands (master glands of the stress response) and the thyroid - if the minerals aren’t available, function slows.

The slowing down of the metabolism (95% of adults today are in ‘slow oxidation’) has ramifications to our emotional & mental health just as much as our physical health.

At a very fundamental level, our ability to show compassion, feel gratitude or empathy, and have nourishing social interactions depends on the availability of key minerals like magnesium, zinc, sodium, and calcium.

This is the aspect of mineral science I’ve always been most fascinated by - the way that cellular nutrition changes how we perceive, experience and respond to life.

For example, a lack of magnesium can make you feel overstimulated, defensive, and easily overwhelmed under stress. This makes it hard to access your true feelings about a situation, which then makes it difficult to identify what you need, or express yourself truthfully.

A zinc deficiency can lead to anxiety, a lack of assertiveness, and social & emotional inhibitions. Low sodium also causes inhibition and fearfulness, since sodium is so crucial for the function of nerves & nerve conduction.

And why am I mentioning this, in a story about grief & loss? Because showing up in integrity for life (and death) requires us to be mineralised.

Not just nourished enough to survive - but nourished enough to feel, to stay open, to communicate, to get curious, and be grateful, even when things get “hard”.

When your body is depleted, life feels threatening. When your nervous system is under-resourced, everything feels like too much, and the slightest thing throws you off balance.

But when your cells are fed, when your energy is real and available - life starts to feel different. You’re no longer bracing against it - you’re meeting it head on.

(Part 5 tomorrow) 🤍

02/03/2026

Mid-January rolled around and I remembered my premonition… I wondered what was going to happen, if anything?!

Then… a week and a half after I landed from Mexico my father was taken into hospital with terminal cancer, emphysema, and a nasty case of pneumonia.

I realised “this is it”.

The last 4 weeks have been a whirlwind of hospital visits, tears, phone calls, long car journeys, longer conversations, decisions, laughter, panic, arguments, reconciliation, gratitude & total, complete presence for my father whilst he crossed the threshold from Life into Death.

It has been the biggest challenge and the greatest honour of my life to watch this great man come to terms with his own demise, and negotiate his way out of this life.

His spirit showed such strength, humour, and resilience while his body deteriorated, and my three siblings and I held him in reverence throughout the whole process.

On the day of his passing, the peace that filled the room was palpable.

He lost his battle with life - but in my eyes, his departure was nothing short of victorious. I can only hope that when it’s my time to go, I’ll show even an ounce of the courage, defiance, and lightness that my father brought to his last moments on this earth.

This is what I had been preparing for - it all made sense now.

These moments: when families rally together, neighbours leave food on the doorstep, and the only certainty of each day is that it will begin and end with uncertainty - is partly what we live for as humans.

It’s the type of stress that fuels us to move forward in integrity, to open our hearts & be curious as to what life is trying to teach us - not the type of stress that grinds us down and damages our health.

Being consciously present for the passing of a parent is an honour and a privilege - however, it’s also something that requires a huge amount of metabolic ENERGY.

And I’m not just talking about the energy to get up in the morning and get on with your day. I’m talking about quality of energy, and quality of presence.

(Part 4 tomorrow) 🤍

01/03/2026

I felt like I was leaving old pieces of me behind in Mexico - finally getting rid of thought patterns & perspectives that were keeping me stuck.

I don’t know whether it’s because I hadn’t had a proper holiday in about 10 years… but I came back feeling like a MILLION dollars.

I expected to feel rested after a month off work, but my body reached a state of calm that I don’t think it’s ever felt before. Every cell felt alive with life, yet peaceful and prepared - even after taking four flights to get back home to the Algarve.

When we finally got home, I felt forever changed. I was astounded by my energy & capacity.

Only a couple of years previously I had been knee-deep in a full-on, motherhood-induced, functional burnout. There were times I could barely drive 15 minutes to pick my son up from school - now I was flying across the world to go back-packing and feeling amazing.

Anyone who has ever been in an energy-deficient state for a prolonged amount of time can relate to the nagging feeling of dread you get when thinking about ‘doing things that will require energy in the future’.

Many of my clients feel this way: even long after they’ve recovered their energy, they approach exercise cautiously, because their body remembers the feeling of utter exhaustion and they don’t want to go back there.

I was SCARED of going to Mexico - not because I was worried about my safety, or my son’s safety, at all (actually I felt very safe, welcomed & cared for by the Mexican people at all times).

I was scared of being “tired”, because I knew that my type of tiredness - mineral-related adrenal & thyroid deficiency - could easily slip into a bone-deep depletion that I was no longer in control of.

Little did I know that the inner strength I gained as a result of this trip - the realisation that my metabolism was strong enough to handle jet lag, cross three states in Mexico, sleep in night buses, and take four flights home without crashing - turned out to be exactly the gift I needed for the next chapter of my life…

(Part 3 tomorrow) 🤍

28/02/2026

As a deep-feeling Capricorn woman, I am always trying to make sense of life. More specifically, I’m always paying attention to the timing of how life happens.

I’m in constant awe and admiration of how things always come together in the most perfect way to ensure that life is happening FOR us, even when it feels like you’re at sea in a sh*tstorm.

The last few months have been a whirlwind of destruction, transformation, grief, healing, joy, adventure & discovery. In my hope of making it all make sense, I felt the need to write about it.

I hope that by sharing my musings I can inspire you to always be looking for ways that life might be trying to conspire in your favour…even when it all seems totally overwhelming.

Last September, I felt the call to book a big trip to Mexico with my son - a real backpacking experience, where I would re-kindle my love of travel and experience freedom once again - this time, as a mama!

At the time of booking the trip, I had this distinct feeling in the pit of my stomach - an intuitive pang - that told me: “when you get back from Mexico, life will be different”.

This feeling was so pronounced, so obvious that I couldn’t ignore it. I told my friends - something big is happening soon!

I thought: maybe on a global scale, like a big political event?! I was apprehensive, but I knew that whatever would happen was meant to happen and there was nothing I could do about it.

I also had a deep inner ‘knowing’ that Mexico was going to prepare me for this event. I had no idea the “event” would be so personal… but I knew it was going to come at a time where I had all the skills, capacity and integrity that I needed to handle it.

Do not ask me how I knew all this.

(Looking back, I credit it to two things: firstly, my relationship with my body, my cycle, and the deep trust in myself that I’ve been intentionally cultivating; secondly, balancing my minerals & recovering my energy post-burnout.

An energy-deficient person cannot look very far beyond the present moment - we are trapped in survival mode: a tunnel-vision-like experience of life. More on this later…)

Back to Mexico…

(Part 2 tomorrow - full story in my newsletter) 🤍

07/01/2026

Especially when we’ve lived with early life stress or trauma, the essential minerals that regulate our nervous system and adrenals become depleted over time. And this is often made worse by pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.

Low calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium can quietly drive exhaustion, overstimulation, emotional reactivity and burnout — and no amount of yoga, Reiki, meditation or breathwork can correct that physiology.

So even when you’re doing everything “right” — therapy, somatic work, self-care — your minerals may still be working against you.

That was my experience.

I was doing everything to heal my motherhood burnout, nervous system overwhelm, attachment patterns and childhood trauma… and nothing shifted until I found HTMA and mineral rebalancing.

If this resonates, comment “hair test” and I’ll send you my free class on how mineral rebalancing supports deep nervous system healing.

And just a heads up: my 1:1 coaching prices will go up on January 15. If you’d like to work together in 2026, now is the time to lock in current pricing.

Ps. I won’t be doing connection calls whilst I’m away. If you feel called to work with me, go ahead and book and my team will get you started with all the support you need until I’m back

06/12/2025

Just another crazy client story that makes me angry & sad for the endometriosis sufferers amongst us.

Or, for that fact, any and all women who have been shunned, dismissed, invalidated or - worse - harmed by the medical industry.

They don’t mean to cause harm. They simply don’t know any better.

They don’t know that hormonal treatments worsen the underlying causes of an oestrogen-dependent condition:

👉 Liver stagnation
👉 Gut dysbiosis
👉 Hypothyroidism
👉 Adrenal fatigue
👉 Copper dysregulation
👉 Iodine deficiency
👉 Other key nutrient deficiencies like selenium, zinc, folate, B12 and B6.

They don’t know how to accurately pick up on or diagnose any of the above patterns of dysfunction in women, and therefore they don’t know how to treat the underlying cause even if they did know what it was.

Finally - they don’t know how women’s bodies should work when they are healthy, vibrant, and well-nourished.

They only know how to pick up on overt disease - once it’s really quite progressed - and treat with pharmaceuticals, which (at best) remove symptoms whilst making the person quietly sicker.

But, as the famous quote by Mark Twain goes:

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.
It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so”

Sorry not sorry 😘

30/11/2025

From Dec 15th I’m taking a whole month off to go backpacking in Mexico with my 7-year-old. A MONTH. Off work. As a single mum. After 10 years of barely taking 2 weeks off at a time 😅

But the biggest thing I’m celebrating here is:  I finally have the energy, bandwidth, and organisational capacity to actually do something like this.

This is EXACTLY why I do the work I do — so mums can get their spark back and create the lives they want, with the vitality to enjoy it.

My dear friend said it: “you are the living embodiment of what you teach”. And yeah… I am 🥳❤️

So I am walking my walk.
 And yes, I’m stressed about which electrolytes to take with me (so I’m taking ALL OF THEM) and whether I’ll get back alive.
 But I’m also deeply grateful to feel resourced enough to make these memories with my boy.

I’ll be mostly offline from Dec 15–Jan 13 to really take this opportunity to totally disconnect. My team will hold the fort, but no medicine will be made while I’m away — so if you need refills of your herbal prescriptions, get in touch ASAP.

Can’t wait to come back with stories, new perspectives, and fresh energy for the year ahead - which I can already tell is going to be good 🔮

Mexico… let’s go 🇲🇽✨

22/11/2025

My landlord said this to me today, and I burst out laughing.

Honestly, I AM bloody happy with myself 🤣

But seriously… why wouldn’t you be happy with yourself when you feel great, love the work you do, have built a support system for yourself, and finally reclaimed your power and authenticity?!

In my 20s, I used to be arrogant and over-confident. What I later discovered was that this was a mask for a deep inner sense of unworthiness.

Now my confidence comes from a real place. I went deep into my wounds and healed the pain of not being “good enough”. I now honestly believe I am enough just the way I am 😮‍💨

I also couldn’t have got to this place without correcting some serious mineral deficiencies I had that were keeping me tired and stuck.

The darker moments of my life actually led to a revolution in the way I practice healthcare - they led me to study HTMA and mineral rebalancing, and now I help other people step into their greatness by replenishing the lost minerals & nutrients that their nervous system, brain & hormones are crying out for.

If you want to know more about minerals and the quiet health revolution I’m leading from my practice in Portugal - sign up for next week’s free masterclass about Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis, and how it can transform you and your family’s health 💗

The link is in the bio where it usually is 😘

17/11/2025

After working with women for years, one thing kept coming up for me: you don’t just want sessions, you want a whole support system.

Somewhere you can learn, come back to, and feel held between your appointments.

This is why I developed my program, which is now running with a beautiful cohort of women. I’m really excited to see their transformations!

However, I also felt like my 1:1 clients needed a bit more support in between sessions.

From now on, when you book a 1:1 package with me, you’ll also get access to my brand-new Hormone Herbalist Hub — a client-only hub of short video lessons, checklists, recipes & action steps to guide you through your mineral rebalancing journey and/or hormone healing journeys.

Depending on which option you go for, you get:

🌿 A step-by-step guide to getting started on your mineral journey (HTMA explained, symptom checklist, what to expect, mineral-rich recipes)
🌿 Video lessons on hormone & menstrual cycle health + cycle tracking
🌿 A deeper dive into cycle awareness and learning to live in flow with your body
Another exciting announcement is that I’m starting to work more and more with dads and kids!

EVERYTHING I do in my business is guided by my intuition, my inner knowing, and what I see is needed from my clients - so my focus naturally changes & develops with time.

I’m really excited about this shift towards supporting the health of the whole family unit - especially supporting fathers, because this of course indirectly supports us mamas too!

These recent changes & new ideas are my way of making sure you feel supported not just in session with me, but each step of the way - and to help you feel really held during the process of mineral rebalancing 🧪

You can be sure that these modifications to my work & offerings come directly from the HEART - as does my social media content, my email newsletters and my masterclasses 🥰

I’m basically OBSESSED with the work I do and how it creates change in people’s lives - I’m also constantly inspired by my clients, and dreaming up ways to have even more impact 💥

If you’re interested in finding out more, comment “YES!” and I’ll send over some info 💎

10/11/2025

Today I’ve completed my first 7-year cycle of motherhood and what a wild ride it has been…

Motherhood is what led me onto the path of hair mineral testing, mineral rebalancing, and the way I now work with mums (and, recently, dads too!)

It’s what led me into therapy, personal discovery, and ultimately, becoming the empowered, centred, un-f**kwithable version of myself that now looks back at me in the mirror every morning.

Don’t forget, mama, that you are doing God’s work. Well bloody done to us 🥂💥

Endereço

Rua Nossa Senhora Da Luz
Lagos

Telefone

+351969091683

Website

http://poppytheherbalist.com/

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