Gem Davies Herbal Medicine Naturopath | Writing service

Gem Davies Herbal Medicine Naturopath

Phone: +61 410 373 318

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Public figure
• Naturopath
• Writing service
• Writer

22.01.2022 One of the finest moments in recorded music history happens about 3 minutes into The Rolling Stones’ ‘Gimme Shelter’. Gospel singer, Merry Clayton, in one of... the finest backup performances I know of, is so swept away by the intensity of the song that her voice almost collapses and gives way; ALMOST. What actually happens is a vocal moment so transcendent, so fucking indescribably cool, that Jagger can be heard ‘Whoop!’ing in ecstasy, in involuntary response, to the live magic. It is a second of sacred, pure, raw channeling of soul. It’s nothing that could ever be directed or planned. Mah people. Moments, tiny and transcendent moments like these, happen in life when we step into and fully own our VOICE. The gospel tradition is centred in strong practice, soulful experimentation, deep faith and serious play. We can learn from this in our writing, and through writing hard and heartfully, we can experience and express these potent expressions too. As a professional writer, I have to support outsourcing writing. But as a writing and creativity coach, I have to say that when you do so, you eliminate the possibility of channeling genius. YOUR genius. That means getting to feel suspended, pure, ecstatic moments in time -through word and voice - and getting to make stuff that transcends others, too. If heartfelt, potent, ecstatic, true-voice writing excites you, go sign up at www.gemdavies.com for SHINE - 45 minutes of free writing coaching that’ll help you create a soulful, authentic ‘about’ page and give you a taste of my teaching. #merryclayton #rollingstones #gimmeshelter See more

21.01.2022 45 minutes of free writing coaching to help you finally nail an ‘about’ page you’re proud of? Yep! Sign up at www.gemdavies.com and let’s get this shiz do...ne. #aboutpage #getitdone #finally See more

20.01.2022 Massive webinar recording fail: boo! Non-alcoholic gin and tonic so I can remember dysfunctional wallowing without having to live the dysfunction: yay! @l...yresspiritco were ever-so-kind to send me a hamper of their wares, so I reckon they qualify as my first sponsor! Here’s to a Spring of fancy teetotaling tippling! #sobernaturopath #soberherbalist #soberwriter See more

19.01.2022 If you utilise medicinal plants in your work, the best and clearest knowledge and wisdom you can receive ABOUT them is THROUGH them. Direct experience fundam...entally trumps, and often overrides, any information you glean from any other source whether that’s a clinical trial, a famous teacher or a fellow plant person. Stripping things back and working with one plant at a time; creating and deepening relationship and recording and writing about this evolution is a lifelong practice. It will make you as a plant healer. It’s scary and intimidating to surrender our reliance on ‘data’ and embrace what the plants have to tell us directly. It may contradict what we thought we knew. It can make us feel small and disconnected at first. But humbling to the path yields the wealth. #directexperience #plantpath #communication See more

19.01.2022 Webinar recording success calls for a different sober drink! You should totally go to www.gemdavies.com and do my free class - SHINE: Your Authentic ‘About’ ...Page. It’s fun, I promise! And it’ll help you get shit done! #freeshit #webinarsuccess #timeforadrink See more

18.01.2022 Learn to see the blank page as a big, open sky and a vast horizon. #bigsky #ideacreation #firstdrafts

17.01.2022 This is such a great example of how easy and fun it can be to address groups of people (like your thriving email list!) using inclusive language. Everyone, h...owever they identify, deserves healing and deserves to read your words and feel connected with. #inclusivelanguage #responsibility #funwithwords See more

14.01.2022 The Maton guitar exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum is exciting to me on a healing level. Part of the neurological picture of my recently discovered chronic... vitamin B12 deficiency has been a slow, sad failing of fine motor skills and hand grip along with worsening parasthesia and nerve pain in my hands. On the upside, it has meant creating innovative (weird) ways to play my beloved ukelele and guitar, not letting the frustration divert me completely. Replenishing B12 means these symptoms are improving day by day. I’m excited to experience how my music playing can evolve now I’m on healing and on track. #matonguitars #powerhousemuseum #b12deficiency See more

13.01.2022 Always one to creatively leverage off everything life throws at me, my currently misbehaving blood has me swiftly developing a fascination for haematology. T...he Powerhouse Museum houses these cool bloodletting instruments that were used in early 20th century Chinese medicine and the same display reminded me that surgeons still use this technique - along with leeches! My job now is to get my red blood cells to chill out, reduce their size and multiply. No bloodletting for me. Blood building! #b12deficiency #bloodbuilding #bloodletting See more

13.01.2022 Happy Monday! And happy birthday to me! To celebrate, there’s 45 minutes of free writing coaching for you at www.gemdavies.com. Go sign up and get a taste... of my teaching. #freeshit #gifts #shine See more

11.01.2022 This morning, my son said very clearly: ‘The reason I’m getting so good at sculpting is because I put so much time and energy into it’. Honestly, he sounds l...ike an enlightened old wizard sometimes. These school holidays, he’s been pouring passion into Play-Doh. What used to be a silly sensory ‘toy’ has become his preferred creative medium. He spends hours experimenting with techniques and tools, happy in the process of building a craft of his own. Over the last couple of days in particular, his creations have started to take on a delightful and almost absurd animism. They seem ensouled, as if they will leap off his desk and start wreaking havoc around the house. Their creator is curious, experimental and at once lighthearted and very serious. This is where their ‘aliveness’ originates. Working with words is like working with any medium - the element of play and the commitment to understanding the nuances of texture, tools and mindful manipulation are the keys to evolving mastery. Most importantly, working with words is a learned skill, and a joyful and fulfilling one. You don’t have to outsource writing. Anyone you pay to write has learned their craft, and continues to play. You can do that too. I’m here for folks, especially wellbeing professionals, who feel the call of their heart to attend to their own writing. You can jump on my email list and get a taste of my teaching at www.gemdavies.com. #kidscreations #playdoh #sculpting See more

10.01.2022 Tried and tried, folks! Like and follow the new page - I’ll be shutting this one down in August.

10.01.2022 Not much longer than two weeks ago, I found my magic potion. For the last several years, I have struggled with a spectrum of symptoms that have built up stea...dily but insidiously. Extensive, random and quite severe pain all throughout my body but seemingly centred around my left hip and leg, abdomen, right shoulder down the arm and to the knuckles. Fuzzy thinking, blurry vision, issues with balance and vertigo, intense palpitations, restlessness and agitation, and insomnia caused by all of the above. Just recently, I fell very awkwardly and unnecessarily and broke a toe. Frankly, it’s been a shitshow. I’ve visited doctors many times, who have sent me to physios, acupuncturists, suggested anxiety medications and meditation but landed on nothing resembling cause or solution. I have been left to try to accept what has been happening, surrender to and manage it as best I can. Despite my 17+ year qualifications as a naturopath, herbalist and nutritionist, it wasn’t until just recently that I made a really obvious connection. I have been struggling with the classic, textbook symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency. The immensity and intensity of relief from virtually everything I’ve suffered from for years in a matter of weeks, supplementing with a liposomal active form of the nutrient, has been nothing short of miraculous. The intense nerve pain that has plagued my body for years has all but subsided. My brain is clearing, along with my vision. My heartbeat no longer perceptible, just healthily, softly pumping. And I am sleeping. Good God; sweet sleep. I am experiencing the magic bullet, and it is a total headfuck. The magic bullet is what we all want, what all our clients and customers want, but we kinda know it doesn’t exist. Yet here I am, having an experience I’d have never believed possible, all thanks to one nutritional molecule my body was desperately lacking. What a trip. In a way, I feel like a process towards wellness would have been easier for my mind to handle - a lot of adaptation, resilience and tenacity has been cultivated during these years and a sudden reversal of so much is almost a shock. I’m not sure what to DO with myself. We dream of magic potions and silver bullets. But what metabolises better in the human psyche, what we are built for is process and slow builds. Embracing a creative life, particularly through writing, is about embracing the slow build while equipping yourself for shocks and miracles. Working my way through a sudden healing is involving even more pen to page than usual. More than ever, I’m so grateful for the practices I have in place. I even made a podcast about it this week! Sharing the practices that work to expand, heal and transform us is my modus operandi. I now know it’s more important work than ever. Not just as my offering to you, but as my offering to myself. So much good stuff is coming your way from me. I can’t wait to share more with you. #magicpotion #silverbullet #prepareformiracles See more

09.01.2022 My wonderful mate and fellow wellness elder, Jo, has put a transformational program together for wellness professionals. I’ve had a hand in editing and developing her upcoming book and she works with deep, juicy, embodied practices with wonderful emerging crone humour and wit, Come get an intro to her work on Saturday!

08.01.2022 Exciting $3 op shop find. #wildmedicine #indigenousmedicine #australianplants

07.01.2022 ‘Heal yourself with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon. With the sound of the river and the waterfall. With the swaying of the sea and the... fluttering of birds. Heal yourself with mint, neem, and eucalyptus. Sweeten with lavender, rosemary, and chamomile. Hug yourself with the cocoa bean and a hint of cinnamon. Put love in tea instead of sugar and drink it looking at the stars. Heal yourself with the kisses that the wind gives you and the hugs of the rain. Stand strong with your bare feet on the ground and with everything that comes from it. Be smarter every day by listening to your intuition, looking at the world with your forehead. Jump, dance, sing, so that you live happier. Heal yourself, with beautiful love, and always remember - you are the Medicine’. - Maria Sabina #mariasabina #youarethemedicine #electionselfcare See more

06.01.2022 Processing the last week. #wired #2020whatayear #headfux

06.01.2022 When we find our medicine, or perhaps it finds us, life begins to shimmer. #lilac #sydneyspring #nervinetrophorestorative

05.01.2022 At pivotal, big, juicy times I often, even usually, find that I have very little to ‘say’ in writing. It doesn’t mean I’m not writing; I’m always writing. But... my bandwidth prioritises nourishing myself and my internal spaces in my writing practices, rather than trying to make sense of external events, just yet. We can put an awful lot of pressure on ourselves, as healers, to generate wisdom or solace or comfort during tough global times. It’s part of our makeup; our DNA. But it is not our responsibility. We are allowed to attend to and prioritise ourselves. We are allowed to hold space for ourselves. We are allowed to pause while we process. Giving ourselves this permission, when we need it, is the hallmark of sustainability as both healers and writers. In the grand scheme of things, your wise take on the world is valuable AND it can wait. Until you are ready. You will feel this readiness in your body. #wisewriting #electionselfcare #sustainablewriting See more

05.01.2022 Why a lack of this one molecule has caused such immense pain and disorder in my body and psyche, and why supplementation with an active form of it has created n...othing short of miracles (with a lot more to come) in just three weeks remains to be fully understood. As is often the way of orthodox medicine, my doctor earnestly, honestly wants me to stop supplementation and return to a full symptomatic state for 3+ months - intense neuropathy, balance problems, blurred vision, limb numbing pins and needles, constant sighing for lack of oxygen, insomnia, disassociation and cognitive struggles - in order to get an accurate blood result of ‘how bad’ my deficiency is. And then prescribe me vitamin B12. She also needs an expensive neurologist to confirm my very obvious neurological symptoms. I really like my doctor. REALLY like her. But I also understand that she has been trained within a systematic shitshow that is designed to diagnose no matter what, and will not even stop short of patient gaslighting in order to do so. I’m on a ride and I’m taking it with an enormous pinch of salt and an understanding that I will need to constantly self advocate, occasionally defy advice and mostly take matters into my own hands. #vitaminb12deficiency #nutritionalbiochemistry #nutritionaldisorders See more

03.01.2022 What she said. #teach #learn #grow

03.01.2022 Up until a month ago, I thought of my nervous system as a concept rather than a real, tangible thing. Rather arrogantly, and ignorantly, I thought of my ‘n...erves’ as being completely within my control. In the midst of an ongoing neurological meltdown involving blurred vision, balance problems, restlessness, pins and needles, extensive and intense chronic pain, insomnia, cognitive decline and feelings of dread, dissociation and faintness, my default position was to view it all as ‘in my head’, therefore in my control to improve and eliminate and, therefore, my failing to have been unable to manage. It turns out, after 3+ years of regular presentation to doctors who put me on mental health and pain management plans, that I had a serious vitamin B12 deficiency. And it turns out that all of these symptoms have dramatically improved with just a month of simple, cheap supplementation. It also turns out I have nerve damage, some potentially permanent, because of this basic missed investigation. It’s World Mental Health Day today, and I’m thinking about how while breaking the stigma of mental illness is still so critical, so is the call to make knowledge of nutritional deficiencies and dysfunctions and their connection to psychiatric and neurological symptoms absolutely mainstream and orthodox. If you are struggling with what has been perhaps labelled as a ‘mental health issue’, please advocate for yourself and insist, also, on comprehensive testing of nutrients and their absorption among all available functional tests. Because it might not be in your head at all. Didn’t come for easy; came for interesting. #worldmentalhealthday2020 #vitaminb12deficiency #healing See more

02.01.2022 Happy Wednesday! There’s a free writing class treat up at www.gemdavies.com! Let’s get your ‘about’ page done!... #writingclass #aboutpage #freeshit See more

02.01.2022 There’s an art to talking about yourself in a way that touches and attracts others and feels comfy and true to you. To access my free webinar - SHINE: Your A...uthentic ‘About’ Page - just sign up at www.gemdavies.com. It’s 45+ minutes of free writing coaching, just for you. #shine #aboutpage #authenticity See more

01.01.2022 www.gemdavies.com It’s alive!