Dr Marissa Kelaher
Easy Ways To Boost Your Mood This Winter
Winter can be beautiful. The slower mornings. The cosy evenings. The soup, the blankets, the darker nights, the feeling of turning inward. But winter can also be really hard. For many people, the colder months bring a noticeable change in…
Why Sleep Feels So Much Harder In Your 40s
If you’ve found yourself lying awake at 3am wondering what happened to your ability to sleep, you’re not alone. Poor sleep is one of the most common issues impacting women in their forties and beyond.. It often starts innocently enough.…
Stronger, Healthier, Happier: Your Ultimate Guide to Weight Management In Peri/Menopause
Are you in perimenopause or menopause and suddenly finding your weight more challenging? Maybe the scales are creeping up, your body shape is changing, or what used to “work” just… doesn’t anymore. If that sounds familiar—you’re not alone. Unwanted weight…
What If It’s Not Just Hormones?
Understanding The Missing Pieces of Perimenopause Perimenopause is often spoken about as a purely hormonal story. But for many women, that explanation alone doesn’t fully capture what’s happening in their bodies. Yes, shifting levels of oestrogen and progesterone play an…
Setting Intentions: How Clarity, Emotion, and Science Merge to Create Change
In a world that constantly pulls our attention outward—towards productivity metrics, comparison, and external expectations—it’s easy to feel disconnected from what truly matters to us. Many people sense that they want change, yet struggle to translate that desire into sustained…
Optimise Your Health Through Perimenopause and Beyond.
Are you in your late 30s, 40s, or 50s and noticing that your body—and life—feel a bit more complicated than before? You’re not alone. Hormonal shifts during perimenopause and menopause bring profound changes, yet these stages are rarely discussed…
How to thrive, not just survive, this festive season
It’s that time of year that everything seems to speed up, getting faster and faster until the days go by in a blur.. Many of us are trying to juggle work, family commitments, social events , while holding the excitement…
What to eat for a better night’s sleep
Science-backed nutrition tips to help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake feeling refreshed We all know sleep is essential—but getting a good night’s rest can often feel out of reach. Whether it’s tossing and turning, waking in…
What Every Woman Needs To Know About Protein
Confused about protein? You’re not the only one! Protein is one of the hottest topic in women’s health right now, and for good reason. We need it for so many functions in our body, and it’s key to thriving through…
Hormones and Your Blood Sugar: The Hidden Link
Are you a woman in your late 30’s or beyond, and noticing your body inexplicably changing shape? Or perhaps your energy levels are all over the place; sugar cravings are taking over; your HbA1c levels are creeping up; or you’re…
Why am I so tired…
Feeling bone-deep tired has become a modern badge of honour: we push through one more work e-mail, one more school run, one more Netflix episode, all while clutching a double-shot flat white.But when waking up exhausted becomes the norm, your…
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
Lifestyle medicine is an emerging area of medicine, that focuses on using evidence based healthy lifestyle changes to prevent, treat, and even reverse chronic diseases. Instead of just managing symptoms with medications, lifestyle medicine aims to address the root causes…