Body
Perimenopause on a Plant-Based Diet: What Changes
What happens hormonally when cycles begin changing again, this time not because of undernourishment or a temporary disruption to ovulation, but because the reproductive system is moving towards menopause? Does a plant-based diet still offer the same benefits? Do nutritional needs change? And can food meaningfully ease symptoms such as hot flushes, disrupted sleep, mood changes and shifts in body composition?
By Camilla Brinkworth · 3 Sept 2026
Body
Perimenopause on a Plant-Based Diet: What Changes and What Your Body Actually Needs
Perimenopause is a time to become more attentive to protein, calcium, vitamin D, vitamin B12, iron and essential fats. It is also a time to move away from restrictive eating, erratic meals and the assumption that every symptom can be solved with a supplement.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 5 Aug 2026
Mind
Nervous System Regulation for Anxiety and Panic Disorder
A nervous system approach does not dismiss thoughts, beliefs or life circumstances. Instead, it asks a wider question: what is happening in the body that makes danger feel so present? It also asks what helps that body regain flexibility. From a naturopathic and somatic perspective, this may include nutrition, sleep, breathing, sensory regulation, trauma-informed therapy and, for some people, exploration of family patterns that taught the nervous system to remain vigilant.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 5 Aug 2026
Mind
Nervous System Regulation for Anxiety and Panic Disorder
Learn how nervous system regulation can help manage anxiety and panic attacks. Discover somatic and naturopathic tools to regain control and feel safe in your body.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 4 Aug 2026
Mind
What Are Business Constellations? How Hidden Family Patterns Affect Your Success
Business Constellations is a systemic approach used to identify hidden dynamics affecting a person’s career, business or organisation. It can explore personal blocks, team difficulties and wider organisational culture.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 26 Jul 2026
Mind
How does Right Relationship Connect with Health?
Over the years, both through my own healing journey and through supporting clients as a naturopath and Family Constellations facilitator, I have found myself returning to one idea again and again. Beneath almost every symptom, every recurring pattern and every moment of transformation lies the question of relationship. Not simply our relationships with other people, but our relationship with our own body, with food, with nature, with our family system, with animals, with meaning and with whatever we understand as sacred.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 17 Jul 2026
Mind
How Do Family Constellations Bridge Therapy and Shamanism?
If you have ever felt that a fear, grief or repeating pattern does not fully begin with you, this work speaks to that mystery. Rather than asking only, “What happened to me?”, Family Constellations also asks, “What happened in the system I come from?”
By Camilla Brinkworth · 17 Jul 2026
Mind
What Happens in a Family Constellations Session?
What happens in a Family Constellations session is usually much calmer, more contained and more practical than people expect. It is not about blaming parents, exposing family secrets or forcing emotional drama. It is about seeing what may have been unseen, giving a place to what has been excluded, and allowing the client to relate to their life with more clarity.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 6 Jul 2026
Body
Why You Might Not Be the Star Sign You Think You Are
Most people in the Western world know their star sign. They may not know their birth time, rising sign, moon sign or planetary placements, but they usually know whether they are supposedly a Leo, Scorpio, Pisces or Gemini.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 4 Jun 2026
Mind
How Hidden Patterns in Love, Work and Health are Discovered
People come to Constellations work for many different reasons. One person may come because their relationship feels trapped in the same argument, no matter how many times they try to resolve it. Another may come because their business will not grow, even though they are talented, experienced and deeply committed to their work. Someone else may feel blocked around money, visibility or leadership. Another person may arrive with a chronic health condition and a quiet sense that their body is carrying something they cannot quite understand.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 4 Jun 2026
Body
Health Constellations: When the Body Carries a Story
Health Constellations can complement naturopathy by exploring how family systems, inherited stress, grief and hidden loyalties may shape symptoms and healing.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 4 Jun 2026
Mind
How Can Family Constellations Help Relationships?
Explore how family loyalties and past partners create an invisible third in your relationship. Learn how Couples Constellations help resolve hidden dynamics.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 2 Jun 2026
Body
When the Body Holds the Story: How Rapid Core Healing Can Support Health Conditions
Rapid Core Healing offers a way to work with the deeper emotional and systemic layers that may sit beneath chronic symptoms. When combined with naturopathic care, it can help us understand the body through a wider and more compassionate lens.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 29 May 2026
Mind
What Is Family Constellations? A Different Way to Understand the Patterns That Shape Us
Family Constellations is a systemic and experiential therapeutic approach. It explores how hidden dynamics within families and relational systems can influence our emotions, relationships, choices, health and sense of belonging.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 28 May 2026
Body
PMDD versus PMS: When Premenstrual Symptoms Are More Than “Just Hormones”
There is a particular kind of distress that many women with PMDD know intimately. For part of the month, they may feel steady, capable, loving and connected to themselves. Then, somewhere after ovulation, something changes. Their emotional world becomes sharper. The body feels heavier. The mind becomes more easily overwhelmed. A small relationship tension can feel enormous. A passing worry can become consuming. A woman may look at her life, her partner, her work or even herself through an entirely different emotional lens.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 22 May 2026
Life
Astrology Lost the Stars
Astrology was once exactly what its name suggests: the study of the stars.
It began with people observing the Sun, Moon and planets against the fixed backdrop of the constellations. The zodiac was not originally an abstract personality system or a symbolic calendar. It was a visible belt of stars through which the Sun appeared to travel over the course of the year.
That is what makes the modern situation so striking. Much of Western astrology no longer measures the heavens against the stars at all.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 28 Apr 2026
Body
Can Trauma Be Passed Down Through Families?
In recent years, researchers have become increasingly interested in whether the effects of severe stress can extend beyond the individual who first experienced it. Studies in epigenetics and stress physiology suggest that trauma does not always end with one generation. Under some circumstances, the biological and emotional effects of overwhelming stress may influence children and even grandchildren.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 26 Apr 2026
Food
Can a Raw Vegan Diet Really Work Long Term?
Many people feel extraordinary on a raw vegan diet, at least for a time. They report easier digestion, clearer skin, unparallel energy, a greater sense of vitality and, sometimes, a feeling of living in closer alignment with nature. Others begin with similar hope but gradually find themselves depleted, anxious, bloated, underfed or increasingly rigid around food. Both experiences are real, and both deserve to be taken seriously.
By Camilla Brinkworth · 14 Apr 2026
