This week on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm tackling a topic that came top when I ran a poll on what's holding you back from making health changes: Snacking and cravings.
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I answer a question from a mother struggling with feeling tired all the time, low energy and generally feeling unwell.
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This week on Raising Healthy Mothers I take you on an unforgettable adventure, packed with personal discoveries, heart-pounding challenges, and a healthy dose of cheesy self-reflection.
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Today on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm welcoming Emma Cottam of Isabella and Us back onto the show to discuss journalling, the transitions in motherhood and learning to listen to your intuition.
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Today on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm talking to Kate Longden, also known as the Food Doula. Kate describes herself as Chef, Nurturer, Cooking Coach and Founder of the original food hug meal delivery service offering edible support across the UK.
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In a society that expects mothers to immediately return to their pre-baby lives, a sleep-deprived co-sleeping, breastfeeding mother has to face some uncomfortable choices to make for her health, family and career.
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In today's episode I'm talking about the importance of a morning routine for getting a good night's sleep. It sounds counter-intuitive but how you start your day has a huge impact on your night - and it's all biological!
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My guest this week is fellow nutritional therapist Alice Godfrey. Alice specialises in thyroid issues, helping women nourish and support their thyroid with her 10-step programme, Love Your Thyroid.
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Today I talk to Mary Cotter, fellow nutritional therapist specialising in bladder health. She helps women heal their bladder and find freedom from chronic symptoms.
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This is the last episode for this season of Raising Health Mothers and today I am taking the issues around exhaustion and fatigue a step further than what you can do on a day-to-day level. Because when I work with clients with symptoms of stress, exhaustion and fatigue, one of the first things I do is recommend some basic blood tests. So today I'm covering the 6 basic blood tests almost all of my clients start with when they start working with me.
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Today on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm talking to the wonderful Nicky Lowe, founder of Wisdom for Working Mums, supporting women to combine their work and family life in a more successful and sustainable way, helping mums to truly thrive.
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This week's episode on Raising Healthy Mothers is a bit of a personal one, because I'm talking about the stress I've been experiencing in the last 7 months and the journey I've been on to cope with it and build my resilience which has clearly taken a knock in the past two years since becoming a mother.
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This week on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm talking to Francesca Mastrojanni, nutritional therapist, about blood testing and why we use it in practice as nutritional therapists and how it can help us to understand our clients's symptoms and help focus on a plan.
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This week on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm talking about supplements and whether you should consider supplements beyond pregnancy and into motherhood.
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This week on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm talking about all things tea with the fab Bethan Thomas of HotTea Mama. After moving to China, Bethan fell in love with all things tea and started a lifelong obsession with it, culminating in founding a tea company making functional teas specifically for mums and womanhood.
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This week on Raising Healthy Mothers, I'm speaking to Bec Milligan, a fellow nutritional therapist and EFT practitioner. We discuss building stress resilience as a mother and having a toolkit to come back to in the moment to cope with difficult situations.
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On this week's episode I'm talking to Sophie Messager, a doula and perinatal educator and healer, best known recently for her fantastic book 'Why Postnatal Recovery Matters'. In this episode we cover Sophie's 4 pillars of postnatal recovery and talk at great length about each one and why they're so important.
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Have you written a birth plan? What about a breastfeeding plan? So often new parents spend a lot of time planning the nursery, researching prams and buying a bigger car but very few consider the nuts and bolts of how they will make breastfeeding work.
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In this week's episode on Raising Healthy Mothers, I'm discussing six key micronutrients I think are often problematic for mums in growing, birthing and feeding their children. When clients come to me with symptoms of fatigue, low motivation, poor sleep, low energy and difficulty losing weight, these are the topmost nutrients I have in mind.
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In today's episode I'm talking to Chloe Manlay, a fellow nutritional therapist who specialises in acne and skin health, helping women transform their skin from the inside out. I know skin is often a problematic area for mums after giving birth so I know this is going to be one of those really eye-opening episodes.
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