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Holistic Practice Lisa Anderson | Adv Dip HSc
Naturopath | Nutrition |
Medical Herbalist 🌿
I help people by treating the root cause of the health condition

We are happy to measure temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate, because they tell us at a glance how a body is doin...
13/10/2026

We are happy to measure temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate, because they tell us at a glance how a body is doing. Your cycle deserves a place on that same list.

It is a vital sign, and arguably the most honest one a woman has, because it responds to almost everything happening in your life. Stress, food, sleep, thyroid, blood sugar, and emotional load all show up in it. A comfortable, regular rhythm is a sign the whole system is well. A rhythm that is painful, erratic, heavy, or absent is your body telling you something upstream needs attention, often well before a blood test would.

The good news is that reading it is simple. It is not obsessive tracking or another way to grade yourself. It is gentle attention, a minute a day.

Next week I am sharing a free guide that walks you through exactly how to do it, from the very beginning. Follow along so it lands in front of you when it drops.

We have been taught to treat the days before our bleed as something to apologise for. Too sensitive. Too emotional. Too ...
09/10/2026

We have been taught to treat the days before our bleed as something to apologise for. Too sensitive. Too emotional. Too much.

I want to offer you a different way to see it.

In your inner autumn, the days before your bleed, your hormones begin their final dip and your sensitivity rises. That rising sensitivity is not a fault to be medicated into silence. It is a lens. It shows you, often with uncomfortable clarity, what is not working in your life. The boundary you have not held. The resentment you have swallowed. The rest you have not taken.

Traditional understanding treats this as a time of heightened perception, not derangement. So more often than not, when everything feels like too much in those days, it is worth asking a gentler question. Not what is wrong with me, but what is this showing me?

Your autumn is not betraying you. It is telling you the truth.

Does this land for you? I would love to hear in the comments how your own premenstrual days speak to you.

If you learn one thing about your body this year, let it be this.Your cycle is not one steady state that occasionally go...
06/10/2026

If you learn one thing about your body this year, let it be this.

Your cycle is not one steady state that occasionally goes wrong. It is a tide, made of two hormones rising and falling in a rhythm that repeats with beautiful consistency, and it moves you through four inner seasons every single month.

❄️Inner Winter is your bleed, a time to rest.

🌿Inner Spring is the rise, a time to begin.

☀️Inner Summer is ovulation, a time to be seen and to connect.

🍂Inner Autumn is the descent, a time to slow down and listen. Each season shifts your energy, your mood, and what your body is asking for.

When you stop expecting yourself to be the same woman every day, and start working with the season you are actually in, everything softens. Work stops feeling like a fight against yourself.

Save this so you can come back to it, and tell me in the comments, which season are you standing in right now?

02/10/2026

If you have ever left an appointment holding normal results and a heavier heart, this is for you.

More often than not, the women who find their way to me have already been told they are fine. Their bloods are in range. Nothing is wrong. Perhaps they are just tired, or stressed, or getting older.

And slowly, quietly, they start to doubt themselves. Maybe it really is all in my head.

Here is what I want you to hear. Being told nothing is wrong is not the same as being understood. A busy system is built to name a symptom and quieten it, because that is fast, and looking at a whole woman takes time.

Your fatigue, your mood, your skin, your cycle, your sleep are not ten separate faults. More often than not they are one story, told by one body, that no one has slowed down enough to read as a whole.

You are not imagining it. You just have not been truly listened to yet.

Save this for the day you need the reminder, and share it with a woman who has been made to feel it is all in her head. She deserves to know it is not.

I've been working with herbs for years, and I still went back to being a student.I recently finished Low Dosage Methodol...
01/10/2026

I've been working with herbs for years, and I still went back to being a student.

I recently finished Low Dosage Methodology in Herbal Medicine with Rixt Botello, and it completely changed how I think about the dose.

Here's what stayed with me:

1. There's no one "right" dose. Traditions around the world measure and prepare plants in very different ways.

2.Less can be enough. A few carefully measured drops, matched to the person.

3.The person matters as much as the plant.

4.Using less means harvesting less, which protects the plants and the whenua.

That last one took me straight back to my horticulture and Rongoā roots, where respect for the plant always comes first.

And here's the best part. You don't need to be qualified to do this course. If you love herbs and have some basic plant knowledge, you'll get so much out of it.

📅 Next intake starts Sunday 18 October
💻 8 weeks online, tutor-led, with live Zoom classes
💰 NZD$850 (discounted from $1,135, last chance pricing)
✉️ Enrol: [email protected]

Sometimes the most powerful dose is the smallest one. 🌿

Do you ever feel like four different women in a single month?Bright and capable one week, flat and tearful the next, and...
29/09/2026

Do you ever feel like four different women in a single month?

Bright and capable one week, flat and tearful the next, and quietly convinced that a well woman is supposed to feel the same every day.

She is not. You are not broken, and you are not unstable. You simply carry a rhythm inside you that no one ever taught you to read.

Your body moves through four inner seasons every month, the way the year moves through spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each one shifts your energy, your mood, and what you need.

When you cannot see that rhythm, it feels like chaos.

When you can, it becomes a forecast you can plan your life around.

That is what I am walking through this month, one season at a time. Follow along, and send this to the woman who needs to hear that she was never the problem.

Which season do you think you are in right now? Tell me below.

The most common fibre mistake I see is not eating too little. It is going too hard, too fast, with only one kind.Someone...
25/09/2026

The most common fibre mistake I see is not eating too little. It is going too hard, too fast, with only one kind.

Someone decides to get healthy, doubles their fibre overnight, and ends up bloated, crampy and putting it in the too-hard basket. Usually with not enough water to match.

Fibre is not a number to hit as fast as you can. It is a variety to build slowly.

So add a little at a time over a few weeks. Drink more water as you go. And spread the types across your day. Oats and chia at breakfast. Legumes and greens at lunch. Cooled kūmara or potato with dinner. Fruit with the skin on.

Around 30g a day is the general goal for adults, and more often than not people are getting about half that. You get there gently, with variety, not by force.

Slow is not the impatient option. Slow is the smart one.

What is one fibre-rich food you could add this week? Tell me below.

Once you know fibre is not one thing, the next question is simple. Which one is for me?Here is how I match it in my prac...
23/09/2026

Once you know fibre is not one thing, the next question is simple. Which one is for me?

Here is how I match it in my practice.

For high cholesterol, blood sugar swings or loose stools, soluble fibre is your friend. It forms a gel that slows things down and helps carry cholesterol out. Think oats, apples, chia and kūmara.

For sluggish, backed-up bowels, insoluble fibre adds the bulk that gets things moving. Think wholegrains, skins on your veg and fruit, leafy greens and nuts.

For your microbiome, immunity and skin, resistant starch and prebiotic fibre feed your good bugs. Think cooled cooked potato and rice, green banana, legumes, onion and garlic.

If your gut is sensitive or reactive, this is where getting the type right matters most. We go low and slow, and often start with gentle soluble fibre.

Food first, always. Save this for your next shop.

Friday I will share the one mistake that quietly undoes all of it.

A client came to me still constipated after doing exactly what they had been told. Eat more fibre. So they had piled on ...
21/09/2026

A client came to me still constipated after doing exactly what they had been told. Eat more fibre. So they had piled on the bran and the wholegrains, and somehow felt more blocked and bloated than when they started.

Here is what almost nobody explains. Fibre is not one nutrient. It comes in a few different types, and they do completely different jobs in the body.

Soluble fibre dissolves into a gel that steadies blood sugar and softens things. Insoluble fibre is the rough, bulky stuff that gets your bowels moving. Resistant starch feeds the gut bugs that quietly run your immunity, mood and skin.

For this person, more insoluble bran on an already irritated gut was like scrubbing a graze with a wire brush. The answer was not more fibre. It was the right type for their gut.

More often than not, that is the whole problem. Good advice, wrong match.

On Wednesday I will break down which fibre suits which condition. Save this and follow along.

Which type do you think you lean on most? Tell me below.

Three foundations. Three small shifts. Nothing overwhelming.On Tuesday we talked about why the basics, sleep, food and m...
17/09/2026

Three foundations. Three small shifts. Nothing overwhelming.

On Tuesday we talked about why the basics, sleep, food and movement, matter more than ever as the season turns. Today, what to actually do. One honest shift each, not ten.

💤Sleep. Pick a wind-down time, not just a bedtime. Thirty minutes before sleep, lights low and screens down, so the nervous system knows the day is done.
🍅Food. Build one plate a day around protein and colour. Not a full diet overhaul. One reliable, nourishing meal you can repeat without thinking.
🚶‍♀️Movement. A ten minute walk after one meal, in daylight if you can. Gentle and doable, and your blood sugar and mood will both thank you.

Notice how small these are. That is the point. Foundations are not built in a weekend. They are built in the ordinary days, repeated.

So start with the one that feels the most cracked for you, and give it a week. Just that one.

Small and steady is how the body rebuilds.

Save this one for the week ahead, and tell me which foundation you are starting with.

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