Interview with a two-time cancer survivor

by | Nov 5, 2019 | Health and wellbeing

Chat with my friend Annie, a two-time breast cancer survivor. Here is an important message “chemo brain” sifted out of the conversation but which Annie would really like people to hear:”Most importantly, CONTINUE TO CHECK YOUR BREASTS LADIES (AND...

Updated self-lymphatic drainage video

by | Jun 24, 2019 | Health and wellbeing

I’ve updated the video I give to my clients for homework, hopefully making it a little bit clearer.  Use this video for general health and wellbeing, Lipoedema or when detoxing.  Do not use if you have had lymph nodes removed or radiated. Diagram for...

What a session with me can look like

by | May 24, 2019 | Health and wellbeing

Continuing on from my “coming out” blog last week, I thought I might write about a few sessions I’ve had recently, just to give you an idea of how they differ from a typical massage treatment. A client came in for her session and I could immediately...

Whole body/mind/spirit treatment

by | May 13, 2019 | Health and wellbeing

I figured it was time I “came out”.  The truth is, I don’t just work on the physical body.  I’ve always been a little different to most people and I have kept that side of me separate from my work for all these years.  Or so I thought....

Make Me Me

by | May 23, 2017 | Health and wellbeing

Last Monday night, at our monthly support group meeting, Nicola Beverley came to talk to us about makeup post cancer treatment – she runs Make Me Me,  a voluntary, community based event created for women dealing with cancer or long term illness to...

Lymph Taping

by | Oct 31, 2016 | Health and wellbeing

This weekend was spent learning how to do Lymph Taping.   We were taught by Joyce Bosman, assisted by my original Vodder trainer, Jan Douglass, who now runs the training in Australia. Lymph Taping was developed in 1978 by Dr Kenzo Kase in Asia (Korea and Japan) and...