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Mindful eating is about being present in the moment when you are eating a meal and enjoying every mouthful. It’s also about listening to your body's cues in respect to hunger, satiety and taste. Studies have...

Forest Bathing - a health promoting practice

Should Your Next ‘Bath’ Be in the Forest?

Yep, it’s a thing…Forest Bathing…a big thing actually! A quick search revealed no less than 9 books on the topic, and loads of research. It’s huge on social media and the original movement across Asia is boo...

Sleep: How Far Down Your List?

Sleep…Mmmm…blissful, warm, dreamy, regenerative, and often times, elusive! I wanted to delve into sleep for a couple of reasons. Firstly, sleep has the power to really restore or maintain your health. Second...

Hair Loss – A Canary in the Coal Mine

Hair loss is scarily common. In fact, hair loss can affect up to 50% of women and 20% will have significant hair loss. In men, hair loss sits at about 70%. There are two broad categories of hair loss, diffus...

Family camping trip with Kirsty Wirth of Kultured Wellness

My Family Camping Trip

In this video, I cover: The highlights of my camping trip Why it's important to get into nature and camp How camping benefits our nervous system How to pre-prepare nourishing food while camping What we eat ...

Anxiety is on the rise. Do you know what a profound role our gut health plays in our mental health?

Anxiety – Our New Age Companion

We have all experienced stress or anxiety at some stage in our life and there are so many words we use to describe this: 'stress and anxiety' 'anxiety and depression' or even 'chronic stress'. The question I...

Supporting Our HPA Stress Response

Our last blog was all about how we respond to stress via our HPA axis and how, when incorrectly functioning, this can have huge effects on our health. So many of you seemed to have resonated with parts o...

Mind Full…or Mindful?

What Actually Is Mindfulness? Mindfulness refers to a meditation practice that cultivates present moment awareness. It can be defined as paying attention to one’s inner and outer experiences in a nonjudgm...

A Calm, Content Christmas For All

Tis the season to be jolly, or so they say. However, for many of us, Christmas is one of the most stressful and busy times of the year. Party after party, family gathering after family gathering, picnics, co...

The Adventures of Gut Healing

I left school with a dream to travel the world doing outdoor sports. I loved the adventure of the outdoors and the connection to nature brought me so much joy. The time spent with friends, conquering my fear...

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Nutrition…Can We Regain Our Common Sense?

Once upon a time nutrition wasn’t a controversial topic. We only ate foods from a plant, from the ground, or from an animal that had been treated well right up until its slaughter. Veggies, some seasonal fru...

Optimal health isn’t for the charmed ones, the young ones or the rich ones. It’s for you, if you are willing.

Health is Not Optional!

Somewhere along the way it seems that the human necessity to be thriving and vital has been misplaced. We once had no choice, for if we weren’t fit and agile we would be hunted down and killed by a predator,...