Traditional Medicine vs. Modern Parenting
This is a question I feel deeply — not just as a practitioner, but as a mother.
Mothers are some of the most intuitive healers on the planet. And yet, somewhere along the way, we’ve been trained to forget that.
Where Traditional Medicine Truly Shines
I have enormous respect for traditional doctors — especially in emergency situations.
If your child breaks a bone, needs surgery, or is in an acute medical crisis, modern medicine is incredible. There is no question about that.
But where I see so many mothers struggle is when it comes to chronic, ongoing issues:
• Gut problems
• Sensory challenges
• Developmental delays
• Behavioural or unexplained symptoms that don’t fit neatly into a box.
Too often, mums walk out of appointments with a prescription… but no real answers. No understanding of why the issue is happening or how to support the body long-term.
When Fear Turns Into Determination
Years earlier, I’d already been through a health journey with my daughter when she was very young. Watching her struggle with gut issues and behavioural changes was what first sparked my curiosity around alternative healing. Back then, it was curiosity.
With my son, it was desperation.
When he became seriously unwell years later, everything shifted. This wasn’t curiosity anymore — this was survival. I was a mother watching her child fade, and something deep inside me knew I couldn’t stop searching.
So I went all in.
I dove headfirst into alternative and integrative therapies. I travelled. I studied. I learned from specialists, researchers, and practitioners across the world. I looked beyond symptoms and started asking deeper questions about the body, the nervous system, the cells, and the environment we live in.
And somehow… it worked.
Not just for one child — for both of them.
The Question That Changed My Life
As I watched my children’s health return — energy coming back, light back in their eyes, life flowing again — a question landed heavily in my heart:
If it took this much digging, learning, and searching just to help my own children…
how many other parents are out there feeling just as lost and scared as I was?
That’s when it became clear.
I didn’t start Shine Health & Wellness to “start a business.”
I built the place I needed when I was in that fight.
A place where people are seen as whole human beings — not just lab results.
A place that looks beyond symptoms and asks why.
A place that blends advanced technology, alternative therapies, and deep compassion under one roof.
Why Shine Health & Wellness Exists
Shine Health & Wellness was born from lived experience — from fear, love, determination, and hope. Every client who walks through our doors reminds me of my own journey as a mother searching for answers.
Today, our clinic in Yandina Creek on the Sunshine Coast is the physical expression of everything I’ve learned along the way. It’s a space created to support the body, calm the nervous system, and help people reconnect with their health and vitality — especially when they’ve been told “there’s nothing more that can be done.”
Because I know what it feels like to be on the other side of that sentence.
If you’re reading this and you’re in that place right now — feeling scared, unheard, or exhausted — please know this:
You are not alone.
And there are more options than you may have been told.