By Teodora

06/10/2026

A woman can spend the day answering emails, making decisions, remembering appointments, locating missing school shoes and mentally calculating whether the towels ever made it into the dryer - then wonder why the thought of someone touching her body at 9:14 pm is repelling.

The conditions are not exactly seductive…

Desire can shift under chronic stress. It can become responsive rather than spontaneous. It can be affected by perimenopause, iron deficiency, pain, pelvic-floor tension, mood, motherhood, medication and the quiet disappearance of your identity beneath everyone else’s needs.

Which makes “low libido” a remarkably small phrase for everything it may be trying to contain.

❤️‍🔥 New in the Body Archive: Low Libido in Women: Why Desire Changes Under Stress. 🔗 in bio

05/10/2026

This was meant to be dark chocolate, rose + pepita fudge 😅

I made a list. I took said list to the shops. I returned without the dark chocolate…the rather load-bearing ingredient in dark chocolate fudge.

The recipe was therefore adjusted live using cacao, my excellent mathematical skills and an absolute refusal to return to the shops.

Against the basic principles of recipe development, it turned out FAB 👌🏼

Recipe in the slides.

28/09/2026

You can become incredibly efficient at accommodating a difficult period: painkillers tucked into every handbag, black un**es on day two, the first morning of your bleed quietly kept clear because experience has taught you not to make plans you may have to cancel. After a while, the workaround simply becomes normal..

📝 Over your next few cycles, start noticing what repeats. The spotting that arrives three days early. How quickly you fill a period product. Whether the clots are occasional or frequent. When the pain begins, how long it lasts and what it prevents you from doing. Whether your bleed is consistently very light, unusually short or brown beyond its usual edges.

These details help me decide whether we need to look more closely at ovulation and progesterone, iron status, thyroid or prolactin, energy availability, inflammation or possible structural causes and where nutrition and herbal medicine may genuinely be useful.

If you would like help making sense of your pattern, book a free health assessment 💌

Your period should not have to become unbearable before it becomes clinically interesting.

15/09/2026

It’s so easy to discredit our progress the moment it stops looking “perfect”. To convince ourselves we’ve fallen off, failed or somehow undone it all. But health is built within a full, changing life.

It can look like training when your body has the capacity and resting when it doesn’t; preparing a nourishing meal one day and sharing something delicious and indulgent with friends the next. It can mean honouring your need for sleep tonight, then staying out late laughing and feeling connected tomorrow.

A well-supported nervous system isn’t one held inside a perfect routine. It has the flexibility to move between effort and rest, structure and spontaneity, solitude and connection—and find its way back again.

So give yourself grace when the path gets messy. Beginning again doesn’t erase what came before; it’s all part of the progress ❤️‍🔥

22/08/2026

Cervical fluid is one of those exquisite pieces of female physiology we barely talk about 💦

It shifts with oestrogen, reveals the fertile window, and creates a sperm-friendly passage.

When it’s consistently absent, the standard “drink more water” advice simply doesn’t cut it. Hormones, ovulation, medications, nutrient status and vaginal health should all be considered.

Swipe for my go-to herbs, nutrients and foundations—and book a free health assessment if you’d like to understand what yours might be telling you ❤️‍🔥

05/07/2026

There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes from feeling unwell while everyone around you insists that you’re fine. You begin questioning your body. Then your memory. Then yourself. Until one day you catch yourself apologising for symptoms you can feel but can’t yet explain. The diagnosis matters, of course. But so does the moment someone reminds you that your experience was real all along.

If your body has been trying to tell you something, I’d love to help you listen ❤️‍🔥

23/06/2026

What I love about herbs—other than the fact they make me feel (even more) like a real-life witch—is that they’re rarely one-dimensional.

Within a single plant you’ll find compounds capable of influencing inflammation, circulation, neurotransmitters, hormone signalling and immune function. Not separately. Simultaneously.

Then there are the energetics ⚡️

Some herbs are warming, others cooling. Some nourish, while others move. Some settle an overactive nervous system; others restore energy where it has been depleted.

Somewhere between the chemistry and the tradition is where the magic lives 🔮

03/04/2026