I attended about ten sessions of accupuncture from December 2011 to present and I found it to be very beneficial for my anxiety and stress levels. I work in a stressful environment and found myself having panic attacks during the day and night.My heart raced most days and I often woke during the night with hot sweats and my heart thumping. I suffer with an underactive thyroid and when I started these sessions my thyroid was low and had been for...

Acupressure Suzanne went through the various pressure points that are helpful for preparing the uterus for birth, and those points that were helpful in alleviating pain during labour with myself and my husband. In the week leading up to the birth my husband worked on the pressure points for preparing the body for labour a few minutes each evening. It was a really nice ritual and we felt like we were doing something positive to prepare for the...

After reading up on effects of medical interventions in child birth I was  determined to have as little medical intervention as possible during the birth of my baby.  The research shows that one intervention often leads to another, and I felt strongly that being pregnant and in labour was not an illness but completely natural and shouldn’t necessarily warrant drugs or surgery if myself and my baby were perfectly healthy. It was after...

  ‘ Acupuncture ‘….oh where would I be without it?     In 1998, as a mother of four children under the age of 7, my life was very demanding, tiring and stressful. At the age of 32 my first experience of acupuncture was when my fourth child was 11 months old ( she is almost 13 now).   I was suffering with sciatica. I had three treatments using vacuum cups and acupuncture, after which, I have to date, never suffered...