About Sally Mathrick

B.Arts (Melb Uni), B.Nat. (SCU), Grad.Dip.B.Med.Management (UTas)

Sally consults privately as a naturopath, is an academic at Torrens University and runs Sparkle Well School with on-demand  Shape Your Menopause Programs (12 week), Alcohol free in 14 days, and 21 day Cleanse and Renew programs. As a speaker she inspires and educates workplaces, public and her peers with empowering health presentations.

She is awarded a fellowship of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (F ASLM), and was on the board of the Naturopaths and Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA). Established over 100 years, NHAA lobbies for naturopaths and herbalist to be recognised in the health care system in Australia. During her director tenure, she initiated the NHAA environmental subcommittee.

Sally is a widely published health writer in the popular press and in a number of textbooks and industry journals.

Sally Mathrick is a health educator and communicator.

Sally is passionate about empowering people to make the right choices about their health, and the health of their environments.

As an experienced, university trained naturopath, Sally is able to translate complex health concepts for the general public.

BOOKS:

• Sparkle Wellness and Detox e-Guide (2013)
• Treating Kids Naturally (2016)

SPARKLE WELL PROGRAMS & COURSES:

• 21-day Cleanse & Renew
• Alcohol free in 14 days
• Shape Your Menopause – Manage Menopause Weight Gain
• 5-day Reset Yourself (Free)

TEXTBOOKS:

• Associate editor for the Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Textbook
• Contributor to Herbs & Natural Supplements: An evidence based guide by Braun & Cohen 4th edition 2014

WORKPLACE WELLNESS:

Since 2005, Sally has delivered health education in workplaces.

Currently, workplace presentations focus on improving awareness about menopause and resources for people experiencing it, to reduce business impacts. Her workplace wellness presentations give a rounded insight about this natural process and the issues that can occur along the way, and provide evidenced, effective lifestyle medicine, nutritional and herbal therapies to nourish and support.

PRESS:

• Columnist for Wellbeing Australia, The Northern Star and The Bendigo Adverister (Fairfax).
• Published freelance health writer for many magazines including Mindfood (New Zealand), Spa Asia Magazine (Singapore) and Nature and Health (UK). Publication list here.
• Interviewed for comment by numerous publications including The Herald Sun, Women’s Day and other magazines.

RADIO:

• Sally, “Naturopath to the Stars” was a lady expert on ABC Radio National Lonely Hearts Club program.
• From 2005-07 she had a weekly radio segment with Mick Corkhil on North Coast NSW ABC.
• Sally has also provided comment and interviews for various radio shows in Australia.

CONFERENCE CONVENING: 

• Sally directed five Byron Integrative Medicine Conferences with colleague Dr Anthony Solomon. These conferences educated and aligned health professionals to facilitate patient-centered integrative medicine practice.
• In 2017 – 18 she worked with the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine ASLM, to curate and convene Lifestyle Medicine 2017 and 2018 conferences for 400+ health professionals.
  

Sally is a(n unofficial) thought leader.

Here are some of the ideas that she’s been actively passionate about in her professional life:

• 2023 Founder of the Darling Muffs of May, celebrating the feminine, and raising money for women’s health and wellbeing (like Movember, but for women ;)
• Now (since 2002) – creating Sparkle Well School courses which empower with insights into connections between personal and planetary health
• Now (since 2012) – highlighting the need to think differently to reduce toxic exposure to regenerate health and fertility
• 2008-2016 – Wellbeing Australia Magazine she wrote the “DIY Detox” column. These articles imbue concepts of inter-connection and regenerative ways of healthy living
• 2009-2004 – directed and convened a series of integrative medicine conferences supporting systems thinking and shared, patient-centered care embracing multiple paradigms in health care
• 1997 – with other Greenpeace activists, put solar panels on the Australian Prime Minister’s house, highlighting the opportunity for Australia to become a world sun-power leader
• 1994 – 95 managed the first internet cafe in Europe providing public access to the internet, held community forums to discuss how the internet might shape the earth and society
• 1993 – began learning yoga and meditation (still learning)
• 1992 – graduated from Melbourne University with a major in political psychology, psychoanalysis and social theory & art history; having learned to identify the mechanisms that perpetuate the ideas and ways of thinking that impede us from making the changes we all want to make