08 Sep 2026
5 Steps to Women’s Wellness
Women’s health is a lifelong journey. The choices you make today have a powerful impact on your future health, independence, and quality of life — and the good news is, it doesn’t require perfection.
Category Archives: Women’s Wellness in Midlife
05 Mar 2025
Breast Cancer and Exercise Therapy
Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer, with one in eight women diagnosed in Australia. While advancements in treatment have significantly improved survival rates, many individuals face ongoing challenges related to fatigue, reduced strength, mental health impacts and overall quality of life. Exercise has widely been recognised as a powerful tool in cancer care, offering benefits that have led to it being advocated as a standard part of cancer care. Let’s dive into the evidence-based recommendations.
06 Sep 2023
Returning to exercise after hysterectomy
Hysterectomy is one of the most common types of elective surgeries for Australian women, however it’s not exactly the most talked about! We tend to understand that there is a period of rehabilitation after any major abdominal surgery, but it can be challenging to know where to seek help on how and when to return to physical activities.
01 Aug 2023
Women’s Wellness in Midlife and Menopause
Women’s midlife is an important transition stage between our younger and older selves, that is all too often ignored and not given the importance it deserves.
21 Sep 2022
Looking after your pelvic floor
Our pelvic floor is made up of muscles and tissues that stretch, like a supportive trampoline, from your pubic bone at the front of your pelvis, to your tailbone at the bottom of your spine. It also stretches sideways from one sitting bone to the other. Your pelvic floor muscles work with your…
27 Jun 2022
How to Interpret Your Bone Density Scan Results
How to interpret your bone density scan results So, your GP has had you get a scan to assess your bone density. You might even have a copy of this scan and a brief explanation of what it means, but let’s be honest – sometimes the numbers can be a little confusing. Let’s take this…
13 Jul 2021
Exercising with Osteoporosis – Not all exercise is the same for bone health
We often think of our bones as quite brittle structures, but they are actually very metabolically active and always respond to the different stimuli that we give them. Bone responds to mechanical loading, and therefore loading bone specifically has the ability to stimulate bone development. This is why not all exercise is equally effective for…
04 Jul 2019
What Exercise is Best for Osteoporosis?
One of the most effective lifestyle strategies to reduce losses in bone mineral density is physical activity and exercise [3]. Having a direct impact on bone properties means that exercise can not only play a role in prevention, but it can improve quality of life for those with osteoporosis and slow the progression of the…
06 Sep 2018
Have you put your own Oxygen Mask on first?
This week is women’s health week and the theme is “Women it’s time to put our own health first”. This resonates with me both as a health professional and a mother and wife running a business. I have many conversations with women about this issue and often I talk about the analogy of putting your…