As a neonatal nurse and health coach, I am passionate about nurturing newborn infants and enabling them to feel safe, secure, nurtured and loved. My research and experience of observing, well, less well and premature infants, has repeatedly shown me that skin to skin is where an infant prefers, and needs, to be.

Recipes for easy, safe alternatives.

Awareness of the mind - brain - body connection can reduce and remove fear of symptoms as it enables understanding of why your body is responding in a particular way. This summary guides you in what you can do to support your healing process.

Supporting you through your pregnancy and postpartum journey.

The connection between high copper levels and postnatal depression. A factor little discussed or even considered.

In part 4 we look at postpartum depression and how thyroid imbalance may impact on this.

What symptoms might you experience from thyroid imbalance following the birth of your baby, and is there any effect on breast feeding.

Miscarriage is a traumatic, and for many, a devastating time in one’s life and even more so if repeated. A high rate of recurrent miscarriages has been demonstrated among women with thyroid imbalance. Thyroid imbalance can also have an impact during pregnancy.

Thyroid imbalance creates a myriad of symptoms that affect your physical, psychological and emotional health. In part one we look at the connection of thyroid imbalance and infertility.

Feeling overwhelm is known to most of us. What situations create overwhelm, what is happening in our body when we feel this, and how we can help ourselves to restore calm and a sense of safety.

The role each aspect of your lifestyle and life goals has on your healing journey of Hashimoto’s. Restoring your hope with knowledge and gentle loving supportive care. To know there is a way forward for you to ease your suffering, to follow your dreams and live the life of your choosing.

Continuing your understanding of and addressing 3 more of the 8 milestones to restore health: your stress triggers, beliefs, and need for social connection.

Understanding the natural biological process without fear that empowers you to support your healing and the restoration of your health. The first 3 of 8 milestones to address in your healing journey from Hashimoto’s. Your symptoms, the organ tissue involved and emotions associated.

A medical perspective, stages of progression, understanding blood tests, and an introduction to the Meta-Health / Meta Consciousness mind - body - brain view of Hashimoto’s, its themes and two phases of healing.

Life is full of experiences which seem to arise to teach us, and they can lead us down a different path to the one we had intended. Gaylene’s story of her journey of discovery and learning that she continues to be deeply grateful for.

A summary of 5 days of Meta-Health presentations and workshops with world trainers and presenters, a conference held in beautiful Hawaii. A repeated theme in many presentations is the need for us to be truly authentic to ourselves.

Key points in latching your baby to breast feed.