After decades of clinical practice and walking alongside countless healing journeys, I'm delighted to announce my book The Door Behind My Belly Button is in development.

This work represents years of insights, stories, and wisdom gathered from my practice as a homoeopath and midwife. It's more than a book—it's a culmination of everything I've learnt about healing, connection, and the remarkable resilience of the human spirit.

Below you'll find an early overview of what's to come. I'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, or reflections as this project unfolds—please don't hesitate to reach out.

Thank you for being part of this journey with me.

Two healthcare models, biomedicine and homeopathy, have offered contrasting perspectives and competed for patients for more than two hundred years. Biomedicine is considered the dominant modality in the Western world. Nevertheless, it is criticised, both from within and outside, for using unscientific methods and life-threatening procedures. To maintain its position, proponents of this approach have developed and put into action a variety of tactics. In contrast, homeopathy is struggling to maintain a mainstream position in health care (throughout this thesis, I have used the words 'health care' when referring to a noun and 'healthcare' when referring to an adjective). Defenders of homeopathy have sought to find recognition or acceptance from proponents of biomedicine. Read on

Homœopathy, once an accepted form of medicine, is currently under attack in Australia, so much so that its very existence is threatened. To illustrate techniques of marginalisation of homœopathy in Australia, the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) report of 2015 is examined. As there is no standard framework or classification of marginalisation techniques, boundary work ideas were used to suggest techniques used in the process of marginalisation. To condemn homœopathy, the NHMRC used at least eight techniques: authority, asserting protection of autonomy, exclusion, double standards, normalisation, denigration, censorship, expansion and diversion. The NHMRC report is a revealing example of how biomedicine uses various tactics to marginalise alternative therapies, thereby maintaining biomedicine’s dominant position.