About

Hi, 

I'm Karlie, a naturopath specialising in pregnancy and postpartum gut health and histamine intolerance. I am the founder of Curative Botanica and creator of Belly Bliss.

Belly Bliss was created from my lived and clinical experience.

During my first pregnancy, I experienced debilitating nausea and indigestion, along with exhaustion, digestive symptoms and muscle aches and pains. I was counting down the minutes until the pregnancy would be over; 9 months seemed to drag on for a lifetime. 

After my subsequent miscarriage, I kept thinking about that pregnancy and how unwell I'd felt. I couldn't help but think, what if that had been my only experience of pregnancy?

That question became the beginning of Belly Bliss.

I wanted to create something that could help other women and mothers who were struggling in ways that felt all too familiar to me. Through my work, I was also seeing women struggling postpartum with depletion, poor gut health and exhaustion, often after experiencing similar symptoms during pregnancy.

It made me realise how often women are expected to simply put up with feeling unwell — during pregnancy, and then again when they become mothers.

But women need to look after themselves, too. They deserve to feel supported, to feel well, and actually to enjoy this chapter of their lives.

Because you never know when it might be your last time.

Women are the backbone, the pillars and the heart of their families. When we support the woman, we support the whole family.

That is the heart of Curative Botanica — creating thoughtful, targeted support for women through pregnancy and postpartum, informed by both clinical knowledge and lived experience.

Belly Bliss was the first product born from that vision.