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Here we aim to share information, tips, stories and expert advice on a variety of topics including mum and bub health, physical recovery, mental training techniques, nutrition tips, healthy recipes, and plenty more to keep you inspired and on-track to being the best version of yourself!r.

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Pre and post natal care with naturopath Bel Rowntree

In this video, Clinical Naturopath and Caia practitioner Bel Rowntree shares tips and advice on pre and post natal care and recovery. Topics include perineal healing, nutritional advice for tissue...

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Cate Campbell: Australian Swimmer and Olympic Champion

As part of our #RecoverBetter series, Cate Campbell, Australian Swimmer, Olympic gold medalist and multiple world record holder talks to BodyICE about her injury management routine, how she recover...

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Teaching Mindfulness to Children

Mindfulness is an ancient practice that is gaining more and more acceptance as part of mainstream medical treatments and overall wellbeing. Mindfulness helps us (and children too) regulate emotions...

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Myth About Butter

If you’ve always thought that butter was bad for you, you’re not alone. Over time, food manufacturers have found fat-substitutions and offered low-fat options for almost everything. For over 5 deca...

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Top 5 Tips for Exercising During Pregnancy

As a mum of 3, a perinatal physiotherapist, and founder of FitNest Mama, Kath Baquie is passionate about empowering women to help them have a wonderful pregnancy journey and after birth recovery. ...

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Your Post ACL Reconstruction Game Plan  

Being side-lined due to injury can be a very frustrating time for any athlete or active individual, but coming out from an ACL reconstruction surgery may at times simply feel hopeless. Fortunately,...

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Perineal Recovery After Childbirth

Ok, your due date is approaching and you’re preparing yourself for what ever nature throws at you. So many questions and so many unknowns but we do the best we can to prepare. We take antenatal cla...

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Top 5 Ways to Teach Kids Organisational Skills

When you know where stuff is, and have simple routines and habits in place, you can free up an incredible amount of otherwise wasted time and energy. Taking this a step further by guiding your chil...

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Jeffrey Hodges: How to Effectively Motivate Yourself & Others

The secret to motivation is the way you communicate with yourself, and others. Communicate in a particular way and all you'll get is resistance and apathy; change your communication style and you w...

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Engorged Breasts and Effective Ways To Soothe Them

Engorgement is a postpartum complication that occurs when breast tissue overfills with milk, blood or other fluids. This pain may surface anytime between the first and second week of birth as the b...

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Helping Your Kids Deal With Injury Recovery

It’s tough when your child gets hurt. As parents, the last thing we want to see is our child in pain. Because kids often go off our reactions, the way you handle the injury at the time of the occur...

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BELLE BROCKHOFF: AUSTRALIAN SNOWBOARDER

As part of our #RecoverBetter series, Belle Brockhoff, Australian Olympic Snowboard Cross athlete shares her athlete journey and recovery tips. She talks to us about her recovery journey, the impor...

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Midwife Tips for Postpartum Recovery

No matter how you delivered your beautiful baby into this world, the postpartum period or the ‘fourth trimester’ is a pivotal and life-changing time for you and your family. Education is one of th...

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Super Easy, Super Tasty Pork & Bean Burrito Bowl

Love your Taco Tuesdays? What about mixing it up with a burrito bowl instead? There’s nothing better than a tasty burrito, except perhaps this bowl version which gives in to your Mexican craving, w...

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The Eight Limbs of Yoga

  No matter why you practice Yoga today, there is no denying that it is a powerful tool to help shape lives (and bodies!) and to bring some more calm to our busy modern lives. However, it’s import...

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Hospital Bag Essentials - By Skye

Need a thorough hospital bag packing guide? Sky from Living The Blessed Life opens up and shows us what she is packing for her birth. This list is separated into items for mama & items for baby...

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RETURNING SAFELY TO SPORT

 As we begin to return to our favourite sports after lockdown, physiotherapists and doctors are anticipating an influx of soft tissue injuries and strains as a result of people going too hard, too ...

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Top Tips For Injury-Free Running

Running offers a myriad of health and wellness benefits.  It is often documented that good physical conditioning through regular exercise (along with good diet) is simply the best, most natural, an...