The Holland Clinic

The Holland Clinic Promoting the health & wellbeing of women over the age of 35 using a holistic, multimodality approach

The Holland Centre is a Healing and Wellness Centre, dedicated to treating and promoting wellness at all stages of peoples life cycle. We seek to support, educate and empower our patients on their journey to greater health and wellbeing. We offer alternative, pain-free and natural solutions to inspire our patients to thrive, not just survive. Our team works in partnership with you to develop perso

nalised and realistic health and wellness plans, which relieve presenting symptoms and treat the underlying cause, to achieve long-term results for your overall health and wellbeing. Patients of the Holland Centre benefit from quality care from a collaborative and diverse team of highly qualified healthcare professionals in Herbal Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Massage, Dietetics, Psychology, Midwifery, Counselling, Life Coaching, Support Groups, Kinesiology and Shiatsu. The Holland Centre is a safe, warm and confidential environment, where you can openly discuss your current condition and take that first step to restoring balance in your life.

08/09/2026

You can have regular periods and still be in perimenopause.

According to Canadian endocrinology professor Jerilynn Prior, a midlife woman with regular cycles is likely to be experiencing perimenopause if she notices three of these nine changes:

• New heavy and/or longer periods
• Shorter cycles — less than 26 days
• New sore, swollen or lumpy breasts
• New mid-sleep waking
• Increased menstrual cramps
• Premenstrual night sweats
• New or significantly increased migraines
• New or increased premenstrual mood swings
• Weight gain without changes to eating or exercise

And sometimes the biggest clue is simply:

“The week before my period, everything gets messy.”

One of the women I’m consulting with today described exactly that, brain fog, exhaustion, night sweats, restlessness and feeling like she simply can’t function.

Last month, she bled for an entire month.

This is why we need to stop thinking that perimenopause begins when periods become obviously irregular.

Ovulation can become less reliable while periods continue. Progesterone can decline. Estrogen can fluctuate dramatically, and at times be very high.

Your cycle might still look “normal” on the calendar while you feel anything but normal.

Don’t just track the period.

Track the woman.

Wondering whether what you’re experiencing could be perimenopause?

Comment QUIZ below and I’ll send you my Perimenopausal Self-Assessment Quiz.

Warmly Dr Kirstey Holland O.M.D 🌺

04/09/2026

Hello Eumundi! 👋🌿

We’re new around here.

I’m Kirstey, my husband Jan & I , and our two miniature schnauzers, Scotty + Lulu 🐾🐾.

We’ve just relocated to beautiful Eumundi and are very excited to call this little part of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland home.

And already, a few local shout-outs…

💛 Dr Carla Patton , thank you for such a beautiful welcome & treatment.

🔥 Wildfire Fitness — our new local fitness home. We’ve joined! Thanks to the beautiful instructors already x

📚 Eumundi Writers Festival , what timing! I’ll be there this Sunday with This Is Perimenopause.

☕ And you’ll find us at EATS - Empowering All Through Support on Memorial Drive for the Writers Festival Literary Lounge.

If you’re around on Sunday, please come over and say hello.

We’d genuinely love to start meeting our new neighbours.

Here’s to new beginnings, new friends and becoming part of this beautiful community. 🌿

Kirstey, Jan ( German) , Scotty + Lulu xx

04/09/2026

Most people think perimenopause is about low oestrogen.

I would say that is backwards.

I would not say progesterone is more important than oestrogen, both hormones play essential roles, but progesterone is often the earliest hormone to change in perimenopause, and I think that deserves far more attention than it currently receives.

The first thing that often changes is ovulation.

As women move through perimenopause, ovulation becomes less regular, and because progesterone is primarily produced after ovulation, it is often the first hormone to decline.

Oestrogen fluctuates rather than simply switching off, some days higher, some days lower, and those fluctuations are part of why symptoms can feel so unpredictable.

Understanding that biology changes the questions we ask.

Instead of simply asking, is my oestrogen low, a woman might ask, am I still ovulating regularly/ robustly enough, could a decline in progesterone be contributing to what I am experiencing.

This shifts the conversation from looking for one hormone in isolation to understanding the hormonal patterns of perimenopause.

And that is exactly what I want women to do: ask better questions, because better questions lead to better conversations, and better conversations lead to better care.

Comment BOOK below and I will send you the link.
Warmly,
Dr Kirstey Holland O.M.D
Author of : This is Perimenopause

21/08/2026

People often ask me whether there was one patient who inspired this book.

There were hundreds.

Then thousands.

Over nearly three decades in practice, I kept hearing the same story from women who looked completely different on the surface.

Different ages, different careers, different families, different lives.

Yet they would say almost exactly the same thing: I do not feel like myself anymore.

Many had been told their blood tests were normal.

Many had begun questioning themselves because they could not explain what was happening.

The pattern became impossible to ignore.

That is really why I wrote this book.

I wanted women to have the information I found myself explaining in consultation after consultation.

I wanted them to recognise themselves sooner, understand what was happening to their bodies, and realise they were not imagining it.

If this book shortens the journey from confusion to clarity, even for one woman, then every page was worth writing.

Comment BOOK below and I will send you the link.
Warmly,
Dr Kirstey Holland O.M.D

20/08/2026

Your migraine is information.

So is the week of your cycle it turns up in.

Most women are taught to treat the symptom and hope it settles.

I want to teach you to read it instead.

When you take your temperature each morning before you move, and you track your symptoms across your whole cycle (yes, even if you are no longer bleeding, because you are still a cyclical being), your body starts to tell you the truth.

Quantitative basal body temperature charting shows me whether you are ovulating, and whether your progesterone in the luteal phase, the second half of your cycle, is strong or declining.

Progesterone is the first hormone to leave the scene in perimenopause, and a weaker luteal phase is often the first clue.

Then it gets useful.

When you see where a symptom falls, you can tell what is driving it.

A luteal-phase migraine can be progesterone deficiency.

It can just as easily be low iron or low ferritin.

The same headache, two very different treatments.

Tracking is how we know which one is yours.

This is your own N of 1 experiment, and it is how you become the expert of your own body.

If you want to begin, comment QUIZ and I will send you my perimenopause self-assessment.

Warmly, Dr Kirstey Holland O.M.D

18/08/2026

Your story is data.

A blood test can give us valuable information about your biology — but it’s a snapshot. Your story is the movie.

One of my greatest missions is to restore body literacy: to give women the language, tools and information to understand what is happening in their own bodies.

Because perimenopause doesn’t look the same in every woman.

Declining progesterone. Fluctuating oestrogen. Changes in sleep, mood, energy, appetite, cognition, cycles and capacity. The pattern is uniquely yours.

That’s why I guide women through their own N of 1 experiment — learning how your body responds to the way you eat, sleep, move, think and connect.

The goal is not to become dependent on someone else to interpret your body for you.

It’s to become so body literate that understanding what you need becomes second nature.

You aren’t imagining what you’re experiencing. When you understand the pattern, you stop feeling broken.

Comment CALL and let’s see if we’re a good fit.

14/08/2026

The woman I am hoping this book reaches is the woman who knows, deep down, that something has changed.

She may not even know the word perimenopause.

She may simply know that she does not feel like herself anymore.

Maybe she is exhausted despite sleeping, lying awake at three every morning, anxious when she has never been anxious before, struggling to concentrate, gaining weight despite doing everything she always has, or wondering why she suddenly feels disconnected from the person she has always been.

She may even have been told that everything is normal.

If that is her, then this book is for her.

But I also hope it reaches the people who love and care about women: partners, daughters, friends, employers, and healthcare practitioners.

Because when the people around a woman understand what is happening, she no longer has to work it out alone.

If a woman closes this book feeling seen, understood, and hopeful, believing there is a path forward, then I will know it reached exactly the person I wrote it for.

Comment BOOK below and I will send you the link to this is Perimenopause. The symptoms that were missed, the diagnosis you deserve & the healing plan that really works.

Warmly,
Dr Kirstey Holland O.M.D

13/08/2026

If people remember just one thing from this conversation, I hope it is this:

Women deserve to feel well 🌺

So many women have been told, that exhaustion, anxiety, brain fog, poor sleep, weight gain, and simply not feeling like themselves are just part of getting older.

I do not believe we should accept that as the end of the conversation.

I want women to know that their story matters, that they are not imagining what they are experiencing, and that their body is not working against them, it may simply be asking for something different.

Most of all, I want them to know that vitality is not reserved for a lucky few.

I genuinely believe that vitality is something every woman deserves.

If this book helps one woman feel seen, understand what is happening in her body, and realise there is a path forward, then I have achieved exactly what I set out to do.

Comment BOOK below and I will send you the link.

Warmly,
Dr Kirstey Holland O.M.D 🫶🏻

11/08/2026

The very first thing I want you to know is this: I believe you.

Just because your bloodwork is normal does not necessarily mean you feel normal, beautiful.

Blood tests are incredibly valuable, but they do not measure everything that matters.

They do not measure your exhaustion, your anxiety, your brain fog, your disrupted sleep, or that feeling that you have somehow lost yourself.

That is why I often say that your story is data.

Your symptoms matter, the pattern of those symptoms matters, and how you have changed over time matters too.

If you know something has changed in your body, do not ignore that inner knowing simply because one set of results came back within the reference range.

Keep asking questions.

Find a clinician who will listen to your story as carefully as they look at your blood tests.

Most importantly, please do not conclude that you are broken.

There is often an explanation, and there is often a diagnosis, and there is almost always something we can do to help you feel more like yourself again.

Comment BOOK and you can take the perimenopause self assessment & get your hands on a copy of the correct foundational bloods that need to be done in mid life.

Warmly,
Dr Kirstey Holland O.M.D 🌺

You don’t create great sleep only at bedtime.I didn’t get a 94 sleep score by focusing on sleep.Last night my Oura gave ...
08/08/2026

You don’t create great sleep only at bedtime.

I didn’t get a 94 sleep score by focusing on sleep.

Last night my Oura gave me a 94 for sleep and 92 for readiness.

And yes, I’m delighted. But what interests me far more is how we create the conditions for restorative sleep , 😴 particularly through perimenopause and midlife.

Because better sleep isn’t simply about going to bed earlier, taking magnesium or putting your phone away.

You build tonight’s sleep throughout your entire day.

This is exactly what we teach inside the Vitality Clinic.

We look at the whole woman through our Vitality Protocol:

EAT , How are you nourishing yourself? Are blood glucose, protein, meal timing and your gut supporting a settled nervous system?

SLEEP , 😴 Are you working with your circadian rhythm and giving your brain and body the signals they need to repair?

MOVE , Are you moving enough to support metabolic health, mood and sleep pressure , without pushing an already exhausted body harder?

THINK , 🤔 What is happening in your nervous system? What are you carrying to bed with you?

CONNECT , Do you feel safe, supported, seen and connected? Your relationships and environment are part of your physiology too.

TEST , Are there underlying reasons you’re exhausted or waking at 3am? Hormones, glucose regulation, thyroid, iron, nutrients, cortisol and gut health can all give us important clues.

PRESCRIBE , And where appropriate, we can use carefully selected botanical, nutraceutical, psychobiotic and other medicines to beautifully support what the body is trying to do.

That’s the difference.

We don’t just treat sleep. We create a body that is better able to sleep.

And when sleep begins to improve, so many other things can become easier too: energy, appetite regulation, mood, cognition, metabolic health, recovery and our capacity to meet the day.

If you’re exhausted, gaining weight, struggling with your mood, waking through the night or feeling as though your hormones are all over the place, you don’t have to keep guessing.

Comment CLINIC and we can start getting to the bottom of what your body needs today. 🤍

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