The Gut Goddess Show with Kezia Hall (Kezia Hall)

There is so much we can do when it comes to supporting our mental health.

There is so much we don’t know or have never been taught - so now is the time to learn so that you can feel more joy and more moments of calm in your life.

As someone who has struggled with various mental health issues over the years, I have learned a lot about how the brain works and how to support it and I am sharing all that goodness with you today.

These are things I cover with my private clients and have done myself to ensure my brain is as resilient and stable as it can be.

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Welcome to episode 300!

Thank you so much for being here, whether you're new to the podcast or been listening for years, I appreciate you being here. I’m sending you so much love.

We're creating our own movement in this corner of the internet where we are becoming well women, where we are learning how to heal, thrive, energized, so that we can be radiant. That is available for you right here on the Gut Goddess Show with 300 episodes to help you.

So, let’s dive into this episode…

Today, I want to take things back to basics and look at eating. Eating 101  in a world where you are told probably five contradictory things every single day on Instagram about what you should or should not be eating so - what the heck do you eat?

As a Holistic Nutritionist and Coach, I'm going to be sharing with you the 5 different areas or structures that you want to be following and thinking about when it comes to food. You can fit in whether you're vegetarian, high-carb, low fat or plant-based.

Applying these principles will really help your hormones, your mental health, weight loss if that's necessary and desired, and also help with your gut health. 

Let's dive in!

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There have been a lot of people in my (non-work) life recently telling me how fat they feel. Frumpy, ‘huge’ and really what they are saying is they feel out of alignment. They feel ‘off’ and they are not enjoying being in their body, and its size and shape.

So, let's talk about feeling fat. What is really going on and what can you do to feel better and ENJOY being in the skin you are in whether or not you lose a stone in the next 24 hours…

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Today, I'm going to share with you why nervous system regulation is crucial for your belly, your hormones and your mood and why for a lot of you actually this is maybe a missing piece more than like making dietary changes and going gluten-free.

Nervous system regulation has become very popular. I am seeing tons of reels about it on Instagram and I'm so glad about that.

Actually, understanding your nervous system and being equipped with the right tools in order to regulate and balance it will really help all the other healthy things you do to just work much better.

This is a really key foundation and I want to share with you A) Why this important B) Three really important things that you can do to help regulate your nervous system this week so you can feel better, improve your belly, and improve your hormones and feel happier.

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How to create quicker results in your hormones & belly? And why things aren’t working? 

Why are all those healthy foods or healthy habits not making your bloating better or your periods better?

Why are you still tired even with your smoothies or gluten-free dinner.

That is what we are diving into in Ep 258 of the podcast and I am sharing with you the 3 step process I use with my client to ensure they make more progress in 3 months than they have in 3 years!

What is going on? What do your symptoms mean? Where do you begin? Find out what is going on in your body and do the Gut Goddess Quiz

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We are talking about feeling old before your time feeling stuck in a rut and fed up and what the root cause is? What is really going on to need all those really important and valid feelings? What are some of your root causes?

In this episode, I'm going to give you some clarity so that you can feel really empowered to know what is really going on and take really specific, accurate and effective action.

I have conversations with women about their health and about how frustrated and burnt out they feel, how they're at a low point or they're just not feeling like the best version of themselves and it's often the sense of vagueness and the lack of clarity around what their root causes are that keep them stuck living with the same symptoms year upon year. Most of the people I talk to have been struggling with the symptoms they have for a while.

So, what is it that is keeping you stuck? What is it that keeps you in that place of dis-ease around your body, that place of not feeling comfortable, not feeling radiant, not feeling confident. That's what we're diving into in this episode and I'm really excited to talk about it. It's going to be great!

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What are the foundations of feeling good?

What are the foundations for pain-free regular periods, a flatter bloat-free belly, a healthy body composition and body fat %, happy joints, quality sleep, and glowy skin?

Where do you even begin?

Well in this week's podcast, I want to introduce to you the 3 F’s for Feeling Good - my unique, holistic & science-based methodology that will help you feel good - fast!

After working with clients for years and lots of learning the following 3 areas are key to seeing lasting, big and sustainable changes (at an accelerated pace!)

- Food - because food IS medicine

- Feelings - how you feel and your nervous system is crucial to your healing, joy and health

- Function - how is your body functioning and a whole person holistic functional medicine approach (like for example the lab test I run are not diagnostic in any way but they do give us a picture of how your body is functioning - even if everything is ‘fine’)

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Chances are you don’t feel stressed and are tempted to skip this episode because you don’t think it applies to you.

If that is you MAKE SURE YOU LISTEN.

In this episode, I am talking about my own experience with stress addiction and how my BODY is the one that tells me - not my logical thinking mind.

So, if you are struggling with fatigue, imbalance hormones, irritated skin, bloating, weird poo or low mood - make sure you listen to this episode.

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Confession - I also sometimes get totally overwhelmed at what to eat and this whole health thing.

With tiny kids, a career I love, relationships that are meaningful, and a body and mind to take care of it's easy to feel like it's all too much. That is why in today’s episode I sharing with you the 3 things that I do to set myself up for success. The 3 tips and things I do to ensure I eat well and make time to look after myself.

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There is nothing more annoying than feeling like you are being intentional with your health and food and you still feel rubbish.

The biggest reason most people give up on their health is that they feel like ‘things didn’t work’. So, what is holding you back or slowing your progress?

That is what this podcast is all about - the 5 common mistakes women make that hinder their progress and stop them from feeling better - fast!

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Why do you wake up with a flatter tummy and end the day with what feels like a huge bloated belly? This is a problem so many of my clients have and they're confused as to why this is happening.

This also used to be me… I would wake up in the morning and look at my belly and think this is roughly how my belly looks/is meant to look and then at the end of the day, I would wonder what has happened to my insides. I would feel sore and would wear stretchy things because my jeans wouldn't fit anymore and I would just be so uncomfortable.

Why does this happen? What's going on? Why are you bloated in the evening?

We are going to dive into some of the reasons in this episode.

I also want to remind you, no matter where you are in your health, if you're feeling stuck, you're feeling overwhelmed, if you're in a lot of pain, you're having a really hard time with your health, things can change. It's like when you're in the depth of winter and it's so dark and you wonder if you will ever see the sun again and then the season changes and it happens quite quickly. It’s the same with your health.

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Today we are talking about the new era for women's hormones - for periods and for hormonal health because we are in a new era and enough is enough with all the shame with all the hiding. No more ‘let's not talk about the periods’ or ‘Oh my gosh, she dropped a tampon on the floor’ and ‘we're not talking about menopause’

We're not talking about any of this stuff as much as we should be and enough is enough.

Did you know that your period and having female hormones is the reason humanity has existed for thousands of generations? How has it become something that is disdained, embarrassing, humiliating and ignored?

That is an atrocity in my books. So, I am just putting this out as his prophetic call. There's a new era for women's hormones. We're in it now. I hope you can feel it, listening to this podcast episode because your hormones can be here to enrich your life, to enrich people’s lives around you, but mainly that your life can be great.

If you live with hormonal imbalance, it affects your whole life. I want you to live your one awesome, brilliant, beautiful, messy, imperfect, adventurous life and it's hard to do that if you're on a cycle of pain, anxiety, heaviness, loneliness, sluggishness.

It is hard because you’re stuck in this vicious cycle and it doesn't need to be this way. Your hormones when they're balanced are an asset to your humanity

As you can tell, I love talking about it so it's gonna be like a passionate rampage of call to action and call to arms so that you can have balanced hormones because I really do want that for you.

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If you want to improve your mental health, your period or hormone balance, energy, belly and mood then improve your poo!

Your daily poo is such an important thing to notice, track and optimise because it impacts your whole life!

And if like me you used to struggle with poo drama then you already know the struggle is real and in this podcast, I am going to share with you what you can do to go from toilet struggle to boring regular bowels.

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Why do you have awful PMS? Why the low mood, sore boobs, insomnia? Why do you feel like crying all the time? Why do you get really anxious or depressed? What is with PMS? Is it a normal part of being a woman or is there stuff you can do about it?

Spoiler alert... There is definitely stuff you can do about it and I'm going to share the things that you can do because your periods and hormones are actually meant to be an incredible superpower. They're not meant to be this thing that limit you, hold you back, that you hate and make your life miserable.

You're not meant to be on this hormonal rollercoaster that you don't feel in control of. Your hormones are here to serve you, to add to your life and not take away.

I've worked with clients on their periods and hormones and I, myself have been on a rollercoaster with heavy, painful periods where I needed to be medicated for at least 3 days, just to make it through.

While it's normal to have fluctuating hormones, it's not normal to feel like you are being tossed around with every part of your cycle.

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In this bonus episode, I want to cover a really important topic: Why is it so hard to implement these healthy habits that you know about that you read about? Why do you struggle to actually do the things consistently that you know are good for you?

I share stuff on this podcast and you probably learn new things, new geeky information but there's also a lot of basic stuff, like the habits that we talked about in the previous episode that you maybe don't actually implement.

Why is it hard to do, why is it hard to go to sleep earlier, to stay hydrated, to have a better morning routine? This is what we're looking at today's episode because until you can understand what the obstacles are, what is really holding you back, having the information of the habits and the strategy is kind of pointless.

The only way you're going to see results is with the right personalised strategy and the ability to implement that strategy. This is where most people exhaust themselves. They spend so much time researching, Googling, learning and reading, getting strategies, getting formulas, figuring out, and yet they never spend any time understanding what is going to help them to implement that data and information which is pointless. 

It will actually leave you potentially more burnt out and feeling like you're working really hard on your health, but you're not actually seeing any changes because you're just gathering data, you're not actually able to implement anything.

I'm sharing the big picture, the historical picture, the present picture of why it's hard to implement and what you can do, what you can do about that, what you actually need to create incredible shifts and incredible changes, what you actually need so you can become your most radiant, energised, happy, confident version of yourself because that is possible.

Just because you maybe haven't created it before, doesn't mean it's not possible now. You just probably weren't supporting yourself, you weren't understanding both the strategy and the behind the scenes of what's going on in your mindset and in your beliefs and the obstacles that are making it feel hard.

Because it is possible for you! Yes, change can feel difficult and we need support with that but that doesn't mean it's not an option. It is an option for you. I want you to be your most wonderful self. So, let's dive into this podcast. I hope you enjoy it and I'll see you on the other side.

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This episode is both a love letter to your body and a big kick up the bum if you are spiralling down any food or body image-induced pits of DOOM.

Enough already - food does not get to tell you your worth or value. Your body shape or size does not get to tell you how worthy or precious you are. NOPE.

So if you want to hit the reset button, listen to this episode where I share with you one simple thing you can do to feel better right now.

Enjoy

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How do you transform your health when you are short on time or energy or money or all of the above? How do you create the change you want to see, the change in your hormones and your belly and in your mind and in your energy? How do you create that if you feel like you're lacking in one of these resources? That is what we're looking at in this episode. 

I'm going to share with you a two step process that is going to help you to move through these because I know from working with hundreds of people that if you feel like you're limited in time, in energy and money, you already struggle to make progress.

If you want to transform your health, if you want to create change, then know that you're going to have to overcome obstacles in order to do that. You won't create and totally transform your hormones and get rid of your IBS, for example, without overcoming and walking through resistance. 

Resistance is one of the things that keeps people stuck the most. If they are really clear that they want things to change, but they're not willing to walk through the resistance or overcome the obstacles that get in the way. I don't mean that all of this stuff has to be so hard and awful, it doesn't actually need to be, but there does need to be an awareness for you to be conscious of the fact that if you're saying you want to create change and transformation in your health, there will be obstacles.

So, you have to, with full awareness and consciousness, plan for how you're going to overcome those obstacles and that's what I'm going to share with you in this podcast.

This episode is going to be really helpful - Because I work with hundreds of people and who are short on time, energy and money, I'm going to share the tools that I use with my clients and for myself.

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Today we are talking about why your health is a radical revolution and why potentially it's feeling hard to change your habits, to change your routines, to create healthy changes that actually last and it's not because you lack self-control, it's not because you're useless or a failure or have lack of discipline. It's probably something much deeper and more systemic than that and that is what we're going through in this week's podcast, so, get ready to feel inspired, motivated.

This also might trigger off some slight righteous rage which is all okay so you know you might need to feel some feelings after this but I really hope that this inspires you to have more compassion on yourself because I think when you are kind and compassionate on yourself. This is kind of what really makes me different as a holistic nutritionist.

This isn't about ‘do this plan and work harder’ it's really about understanding what's going on in your body in a really holistic sense and then having compassion because you have that understanding and that is what allows you to take a line to strategic and consistent action.

It’s why my clients see incredible results and I want to share that with you today.

I hope you're ready to be inspired.

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Are continuous blood glucose monitors (CGM) useful or just another fad? Should you sign up for Zoe or some other thing that you're being advertised online?

If you're anything like me, with constantly being advertised to about these things - but is it right for you? In this episode, we’re talking about whether it’s useful to you and going to help you to shift your hormones, belly or moods?

I'm going to share the reasons why I like and sometimes use Blood Glucose Monitors as well as some of the reasons I don't like them plus more about my recent experiment and what I do with my clients.

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Why are you struggling or have you struggled to create new habits, new routines that you can be consistent with? Why is that a struggle?

Why does lowering sugar or caffeine or alcohol or doing yoga or meditation feel like so stop-start? 

What is driving this so-called lack of discipline or lack of self-control? That is what we're diving into today, and I know what I share with you is not anything that you all have thought about in terms of this area so, I really encourage you to listen to this.

It's an invitation to think about creating habits and routines and about how you can create massive change in your health this year in a way that's really different to anything that you've thought about before.

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What can you do to shift your belly, hormones, periods, energy and brain with more speed and ease?

That is what I am diving into in this episode - and it is not about a magic dieting or supplement. It's about making use of my favourite mindset tool.

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In this episode, we are talking about no longer tolerating discomfort and pain in our health and our bodies. I'm sharing with you some of the big wins from 2023, some of my own and my clients BIG wins. How they made changes despite being told to live with it and that things are ‘never going to change’.

But despite being fobbed off they have seen change, seen healing and completely transformed the symptoms that would never go away. 

So, I'm going to be sharing with you some of these big wins because we all need so much more hope. We settle for the IBS, the awful hormones, the anxiety, the antidepressants, the awful mood, the insomnia, the eczema, the acne, the painful periods and think that there's nothing we can do or there's nothing that can change but that's not always true.

So, let's just not settle for our own suffering. I don't want that for you. I don't want that for me. I don't want it for my clients. I don't want it for my kids. I don't want it for anyone in my community. I want you to be as well as you can be.

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If you're anything like me, then you probably want to see more results in your belly, hormones, energy, brain and mood by doing less things and also see results more quickly, right?

I'm a big fan of efficiency and seeing quick results, so that is always my goal with clients, but most of the time we get really fixated on this one thing, which is what I'm talking about in today's episode.

So, if you are wanting to see quick results, you need to change this one thing because it's really important and often not talked about.

I want you to know about it so that you can do something about it and see incredible results in less time because that's always the goal.

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2023 was a big year for me and my brain.

It was brilliant and awful all at once but as the year ends I am left with with so much gratitude for these two powerful lessons

These lessons are simple, but if you let them into your life they can change everything - they have changed my life for the better and I know they can change yours too.

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In this episode, we are looking at beliefs because as a Nutritionist and Coach, I've worked with loads of people over the years and I spend the majority of my time with clients looking at what actions they can take, what tweaks can we make, what habits can we shift, what foods can we add in, etc. - We create a personalised plan of action.

But taking the right kind of healing, wonderful actions that you need in order to be your most radiant, confident, energized, infused, calm, peaceful, happy self actually requires certain beliefs in order to take that action. This is a thing that people often miss.

They blame themselves because they just can't stop eating the sugar and bread or they can't seem to meditate and they just blame the fact that they're not taking the “right” actions. 

Sometimes you're not taking the right actions because you don't know what they are (and if that's the case you need to book your Well Woman Audit).

Or sometimes you know what the right action is but you are still not able to do it which is where it goes deeper and we need to review your beliefs.

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What are the secrets to stopping bad eating habits once and for all? That's what we're looking at in this episode.

I don't want you to have this ‘food drama’ going on where it's good food, bad food, on a wagon, off a wagon, where you are spiraling into a pit and you're feeling really guilty about what you eat. This kind of food obsession/focus is very draining. 

If you often think things like ‘I've been so good all week and I just ruined it by eating this’ or ‘why can't I stop eating sugar or bread’ this episode is for you.

I want you to enjoy your food, I want you to find pleasure in food, maybe even comfort in food. I personally do find comfort in food sometimes and that's okay! 

I don't want your relationship with food to drain your energy. Your relationship with food can have joy and creativity if you want it to, but it also needs to be kind of neutral. - The food that you eat doesn't mean anything about who you are or have any say in your worth or your value as a person but so often that's what we tie this to. 

“I've eaten bad food therefore I'm a bad person” - This kind of thinking needs to stop otherwise you're really going to struggle to make progress.

In this episode, I'm going to be sharing four secrets to stopping these bad eating habits or to stop spiraling into that ‘on and off / good and bad’ trajectory that so many of us are on.

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What are some of the habits that are actually going to move the needle when it comes to our health? 

What are the strategic things to focus your precious time and energy on?

I'm going to be sharing with you the four things that actually make a big difference and can really help you see some big shifts without you needing to do 20, 30, or 50 things.

When it comes to your health, when it comes to transforming your hormones, your IBS, your weight, your energy, and getting rid of pain, you need to be strategic.

It is unrealistic for you to try and do 20 or 30 things. This is the thing that holds most people back and stops so many people making progress because they try to do tons of stuff without ever really solving the main issues or without really being strategic in where to focus first.

I don't want that for you. I am a holistic nutritionist. I'm super strategic. I like things to be efficient so that's what we're diving into in today's episode. I hope that you enjoy it.

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How do you become your most radiant energised self this summer? Where do you get that summer glow from? And I can tell you it's not from a five-day juice cleanse. 

In this podcast episode, I'm going to share with you some of the summer glow basics.

This time of year can feel really hectic. Summer is often filled with a lot of busyness like weddings and holidays. It can also be really busy for some people as well, especially if you are a parent and are navigating school holidays and time off and work. All this busyness often means that it’s also a time when people are most likely to crash diet, do a juice cleanse or suddenly start going to the gym every day of the week to shape up for their bikini.

There is often an attitude of ‘sack it, what's the point? I'm just going to eat ice cream. I'll start again in September or I'll start again when the kids go back or I can't look after my health right now’

If that's going on in the back of your brain, I just want to call a bit of BS to that because this isn't about being on or off something. You don't need to do a juice cleanse in order to go into a bikini. If you need a new size bikini just buy one or just don't wear a bikini. Do whatever you want. It’s your body.

Remember that confidence is a practice. Confidence doesn't come from body size. Confidence comes from beliefs. It comes from something that we internally practice. It doesn't come from the label on your jeans or the label on your bikini. It comes from within you.

So, there can be a lot going on in the summer and so in this episode, I want cut through the crap and share with you some of the things to focus on, some of the things that I will be focusing on and give you a couple of essential reminders.

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What have I been doing as I noticed my anxiety and stress increase and my energy decrease?

What are the habits and small action steps I have been taking to get some quick wins in terms of my mental health and mood?

That is what I am addressing in this episode - the simple and holistic approach to seeing some quick changes in your symptoms. So while this is a bit more of a personal update you will learn the 7 things and tweaks you can make to feel more resilient, calm and  energised - despite the dark wintery days.

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• Listen to episode 241 about ‘Holistic Approaches to Anxiety & Depression’

In this episode, I’m talking about the weird and the not so weird things that I do to support detoxification and why you need to detox too.

I know that detoxification can be a bit of a buzzword and can feel like a bit of a fad, but I honestly have a lot of detox practices in my life that I do intentionally and plan in.

Even though there's the potential of this sounding a bit faddy, these are things that will help you balance your hormones, ditch brain fog, clear up your skin and improve your gut health.

Supporting your body to REMOVE toxins in such an important foundation to you feeling good - so let's dive in!

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When it comes to eating better, sorting out our hormones, changing our habits or getting the support we need we often feel limited by our lack of time or lack of money.

Feeling like you lack time and lack money is a surefire way to hinder your progress and limit your health.

So, in this podcast, I am sharing with you the two-step process and exercise you can do to get really clear on your resources and feel really good about how you spend your time and how you spend your money. I also dive into WHY you feel bad about spending time and money on yourself and how that guilt is the result of some deep conditioning - that you probably aren’t even aware of!

Because remember, when it comes to time and money - you are the powerful one, they are simply resources that YOU manage and cultivate.

So let's dive in.

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In this episode, we're talking about sugar and how sugar dims your light plus the how and the why of ditching sugar because I would call reducing and removing refined sugar a foundational basic step one and it's easy especially at this time of year (after Christmas) It is easy for this to kind of go dry and for us to lose sight of this so I'm going to share some of the geeky facts around this and inspire you and re-envision your thoughts around this basic area.

It's really simple, but the impact that it can have can be really profound. If you can have a healthy relationship with sugar, if you can, take the power back when it comes to your relationship with sugar or said another way in a more practical way: You can just remove refined sugars and refined carbohydrates or reducing them can have a profound impact on your mental health, hormonal health, belly and your joy and pleasure in the world.

This isn't about restriction and deprivation and removing food for the sake of being better, deprived and being miserable. This is actually about you feeling really good, feeling your happiest and most joyful and being the most resilient and energised version of yourself.

A lot of refined sugar and excess refined carbohydrate is going to dim your light and it's going to make you feel crap.

You might need to hit the reset button when it comes to your sugar intake or maybe you've never really addressed this area because it just feels so big and overwhelming.

I'm going to break it down into the how and the why.

Let’s dive in!

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In this episode, we're talking about sex! Specifically low libido which comes up a lot with my clients.

Why do you have low libido and how you can increase your sex drive?

Sex is something I talk about with my clients, but I haven't talked about it here on the show until now! Sex is so good for you and orgasms are incredible for your health. The more orgasms you can have, the more intimacy, pleasure and connection you can have with another person and yourself the better.

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• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

In this episode, I'm talking about my current glow-up plan and why I know it will work. I'm going to be sharing some of the things I'm working on and the shifts that I'm trying to create.

Specifically, I'm looking to shift some of my own body composition and increase my muscle, decrease a little bit of fat and also some other areas of my current glow-up plan. 

Glow-up to me means that next version of radiance, of joy, of peace, of wellness, of being that well woman. I talk so much here about being a well woman and how the world needs us all, needs more well women in it and how that is possible for you. You can be well, radiant, confident and feeling really good - That is what I preach.

I'm going to let you in on the behind the scenes and more about this plan I've created for myself, why I'm really confident that it's going to work and the key part of this glow-up plan is and why I'm so confident that I'm going to get to where I want to be.

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

How have I transformed my sleep despite having 3 young kids?

Is it even possible to have better sleep AFTER having children?

YES.

And the way I have improved my sleep is 

1. By tracking it closely and gathering data
2. Improving my circadian rhythm and insulin management throughout the day

So if you want to hear more about the practical steps I’ve taken to improve my sleep then make sure you listen to this week’s Gut Goddess Show podcast episode.

Head to iTunes and subscribe to The Gut Goddess Show or head to keziahall.com/blog to stream it live from there.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

Resources 

• Oura ring
• Book your free call with me here
• Find out more about the SHIFT Retreat

In this weeks show we are looking at something very obvious and logical BUT often get missed out and ignored.

When it comes to symptoms, niggly or awful things to do with our periods, our gut, our bellies, our brain we often think it's ‘selfish’ to deal with them, invest time or money into them and we just soldier on.

But today I want to share with you how these things impact your career, relationship, sex life, money and LIFE.

Let's dive into the show

And heads up - I am taking on new clients right now - so if you want to find out more about what your symptoms mean and what you need to do to get rid of them then book your free Clarity Call to find out more about what's going on and how you can work with me privately.

Resources:

• Book a free Clarity Call here 
• Read more about my story here
• Take the FREE Gut Goddess Quiz here

What is going on when you've been told everything is fine?

What is happening when you've been told, all your results look ‘normal’, everything's fine, there's nothing you can do? 

What can you do if you feel like you've been fobbed off or that you just are not fitting in the boxes in conventional medicine?

I'm going to share with you what could be really going on when you're struggling when you have symptoms when your are bloated, have skin issues, weird bowels, excess anxiety or struggling with your energy or unwanted weight gain. 

What is going on even if you've been told everything is fine?

I've been told that everything looks 'normal' so many times in my life, when I was clearly suffering and while I was grateful I didn't have a major known disease - it was frustrating.

I eventually found out what was going on and that was why I retrained as a holistic nutritionist because I realised that there are answers out there.

If you are struggling, there will be a reason and your job is to find that way.

Resources 

• Book your free call with me here
• Find out more about the SHIFT Retreat

As we enter one of my favourite times of year it's time to ask - how can you end this year feeling BETTER than when it started? How can you finish up this year feeling incredible?

Because THAT is my goal.

I am not looking for perfection and my year so far has been a whole lot of messy AND I still get to feel good in my belly, hormones, and mind.

So how well have you been looking after your body this year?

How have you been taking care of your beautiful temple?

That is what we are diving into in this Mini episode. 

And if you know you want to hit the RESET button or take your relationship with food and your health to another level, then join me for the Beat the Bloat 7-Day Holistic Reset Program.

I become your personal health coach for 7 days, holding you accountable and teaching you the essential foundations to beating the bloat, balancing your hormones, and supporting your mental health.

Find out more about here

Let's talk about what could be going on in your body. I'm a big fan of understanding your root cause. That's why I do what I do as a Holistic Nutritionist and Coach.

The reason that I talk about figuring out your root cause and asking why is because I know in my own health journey (and in the countless women that I've helped) one of the biggest obstacles is for you making progress and being that well, radiant, energised version, woman of yourself is often that you don't actually understand what's going on and when you don't understand what's going on, you don't feel empowered.

You feel stuck and hopeless and think there is no point in doing anything. Not having clarity will keep you stuck. It will also keep you feeling demotivated and uninspired.

In this episode, we're going to be looking at what imbalances you have and the top five root causes I see with clients is because I want you to start thinking about what is at the root of your symptoms whether that’s low energy, anxiety, awful periods, sluggishness, skin issues, irregularities in your period, an autoimmune condition. What could be the root causes?

When you start to understand the root causes, you gain clarity. When you gain clarity, you gain motivation and feel inspired, and you feel really hopeful.

These are the feelings that help you create change and take consistent action.

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

The pressure to be thin, this is finding a healthy body size for you - That's what we're looking at in this episode.

We need to do a lot of untangling around this. For most of you listening to this, you'll have grown up heavily brainwashed by dieting culture, and the idea that thin is best, most beautiful, most worthy, it's the goal.

But this is actually about being well, finding a healthy body size, being healthy and well in our bodies, and that might look different for all of us. - You can be thin and incredibly unhealthy, you can be thin and incredibly healthy, you can have a larger body and be incredibly healthy, you can have a larger body and not be healthy for you.

So, how do we untangle? How do you know, if actually you do need to shift some body fat and are thinking ‘Maybe that would help my hormones and my joints to my back and my autoimmune issue’  versus ‘I've just been brainwashed into thinking thin is best’.

It can feel really murky and messy. This is quite a bit of a vulnerable episode for me because I still feel this now. I still feel this pressure to be thin especially as a Holistic Nutritionist - being in the nutrition and wellness space, if I'm not careful I can feel these different comparisons and little threads and whispers in my brain that I should be thinner. Which is total BS.

So, we can live in this murky place. Do I need to lose weight? Do I want to lose weight? Is that just dieting mentality? Is that actually true? Will this actually help me? It can all just all feel very overwhelming and a bit messy.

So, in this episode, we're addressing decades of dieting indoctrination and how you can find a healthy body size for you.

Also, if you want to know more about this, I'm doing 3 workshops starting at the end of April to help you kick-start feeling well. To kick-start your hormone balance and your healthy belly and get help you get rid of IBS and help you sort out your body composition.

One of the workshops is going to be diving into body composition a little bit more because I actually have a lot, I have a very unique approach to body composition.

I have a lot of tools, a lot of strategies, and a lot of practical actions that can help, but I do think this is an important area that doesn't get talked about and I want to start talking about it. I want you to be free and well in your body and that might mean for some of you shifting your body fat and for some of you that might mean accepting where you are at and I want to help you with both.

You can find out all about the workshops here.

• Spring Workshops
• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Why does waking up feel so hard? Why are the mornings difficult and you feel sluggish with brain fog? Why do you really need that coffee or cup of tea in the morning?

This is something that a lot of people have and a lot of clients I work with come to me and tell me that this is one of the many symptoms they have.

Some people feel like they need a coffee IV trip or have to have a cup of tea, but actually, whilst it's really common to feel like this, it's not normal. - Your body should have a natural alarm clock system within itself and if that's not working and helping you to feel awake and alert in the morning, there are things going awry

In this episode, I'm going to share three different areas and three different reasons why mornings feel so hard and why you feel like you have to reach for that coffee or you can't function without the tea or Redbull or whatever it is that you reach for.

There are simple things that you can do, and if you implement them in the next two weeks, you could probably have better energy in the morning. Some of this stuff isn't hard. It's just that you have never been taught what's going on and what's going on behind this symptom.

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

This Mini Episode is a heartfelt message to remind you how powerful you are and that there is so much you can do to feel better.

I chat to people and they and through no fault of their own (no shame in this at all) but they literally did not know that they do not have to have awful periods, that they could get rid of their IBS, that joint pain could be a thing of the past, or that they could stop with the constant constipation or the loose horrible bowels or that their gallbladder issues or endometriosis could be helped.

When I'm talking about these things, I'm never mean ‘my way is better than surgery or my way is better than conventional medicine’ - I mean that people don't realize the breadth of what tools are available for them in order to heal and feel better so that they can wake up and enjoy being in their body.

Resources 

• Book your free call with me here
• Find out more about the SHIFT Retreat

Maybe you don't need more therapy. Maybe you need to support your brain.

This might be a slightly provocative title, but I have some thoughts on this as someone who has done a fair amount of therapy and values it deeply.

I am not anti-therapy, I just wonder how often we are missing the practical nourishment of our brains?

We usually always jump to therapy, which is well researched but how nourished is our brain with sleep, vitamins, fats, minerals, and the fuel it needs.

Because I can tell you it's going to be really hard for you to create all these new thoughts and all these new habits and these beliefs and identities if your brain is poorly nourished and struggling and just surviving.

In order for you to deal with whatever symptom that you're in therapy for, whether it's anxiety, depression or trauma, one of the things that you're trying to do is create more safety in your body and the easiest and simplest ways of creating more safety is making sure that your organs and your body are well nourished.

So, whether you're struggling with your mental health or not, we really need to learn to support our brains and we need to learn to support our children's brains.

When you have more resilience in your brain, you have more resilience in your hormones, in your gut, in your skin, in your sleep, in everything.

• Spring Workshops
• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Why do slimming clubs and diets work and why do people keep going back to them?

We're going to be looking at what essential needs these slimming clubs, diets and programs are meeting so that you can kind of take some of the good out of what is essentially a deeply flawed, oppressive system and apply them so that you can create success in your health, in your eating, in your relationship with food and your body.

If you didn't know, I joined my first slimming club when I was age 11. So, I've got a good amount of experience of brainwashing, of the structure of these clubs and of how they work.

Plus, I've had so many clients coming to me who have been in that cycle of joining slimming clubs on and off every few years - so let’s dive into what you need to make peace with your plate, body and how to shift unwanted body fat.

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Some days deciding what healthy food to eat can feel like a chore. 

So how can you make it easier?

What are some simple tricks to making eating healthy easier and less overwhelming.

That is what we are discussing in today’s podcast - my 3 top tips for reducing food overwhelm and what I do to eat consistently healthy …without getting totally stressed out of my nut!

Resources 

• Book your free call with me here
• Find out more about the SHIFT Retreat

In this episode, we're diving into gut health and looking kind of at a couple of basics - Probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics and synbiotics which is something that you might have seen on the internet.

I want to demystify this for you so that you know what that is, if it can help, and what is actually going to help your gut health because gut health is a foundation of hormonal health and healthy periods and healthy menopause and fertility.

Gut health is the foundation of mental health, of sleep, of glowing skin, it plays a role in body composition, energy production, your immune system and autoimmune conditions.

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

How can we become more resilient to stress? What can we do to feel calmer, more in control and balanced when life gets stressful?

Because stress is a part of life so we need to know how to protect our health and bodies - because it WILL come up.

Which is why I want to share with you my 4 part roadmap to handling stress.

As a mother who birthed 3 kids in 2 years, business owner, marketing manager for a charity and all the other roles - I have to be intentional about handling the stress in my life. 

So, buckle up, take notes and get ready to learn this 4 part pathway to a more resilient, calmer and balanced life!

Resources 

• Book your free call with me here
• Listen to Signs & Symptoms of Stress – When you Don’t Feel Stressed! (Episode 84)
• Listen to How To Stay Healthy (& Feel Good) During Stressful Times (Episode 132)

I joined my first dieting club at age 11. I learn to weigh my bread and oats, track my calories and 

weigh myself daily. 

So I have had to do A LOT of work to create a healthy relationship with my body. 

One built of respect, love and balance.

If you have ever hated or punished your body or felt like it was failing you - listen to this podcast! You will learn a simple exercise that will shift your relationship with your body as soon as you do it and the two areas to focus on.

• Book your free call with me here

• Listen to Episode 187 about The THIRD Option The Dieting Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know About

• Listen to Episode 58 about How I became an intuitive eater (and ditched binge eating)

In this episode, I am going to be giving you a really big dose of clarity, a gentle kick up the butt now that we are halfway through the year.

I love reflecting on the six months that have gone past and the six months ahead, so I want to encourage you to take some time to think about what you want for the next six months as we dive into this episode.

So, what is the most important thing that you need to know and do in order to sort out your hormones, to create a happier and flatter belly, to improve your mood, to have more glowing radiant skin, to have more energy and to become that really well healthy radiant kick ass woman that feels like your life and your body and your health is a springboard for the rest of your life that you're not limited by?

Your body and health propel you towards the life you want to live. Whatever it is that you want to do, your body is the platform and springboard for all of those things.

Whether that's your career, parenting, in social justice, house renovations, traveling the world, retraining, starting a new career; all these things require you to be well. 

We are in the age of information, so you can Google a symptom, how to get rid of it, how to deal with it, why you have it, what supplements might help, etc and you can get tons of information. 

But we are not lacking in information, we actually have an abundance to the point of often where that feels overwhelming. What you need is clarity and structure in order to see massive progress and make massive results.

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

I just have something I want to update you on and announce what is happening in March that I don't want you to miss out on. If you've been listening to the podcast for a long time, you need to get one of these booked in. I have created something called The Well Woman Audit, which is a free holistic health assessment, where we sit for half an hour on Zoom and we go through the holistic process and method that I have to assess what is going on with your health.

Why do you feel so awful, tired, bloated and comfortable, fed up? What do your symptoms mean? And what's going to help them to go away?

So, if you know, you need some support, but everything just feels really overwhelming and you're really struggling, book in for your Well Woman Audit.

I talk all the time on this podcast about getting some personalised support and this is a really great way of getting started, where you can just understand more of what's going on in your body and what you might need, what lab tests you might need, what you need to focus on and we're really going on. When you understand what is going on then you can actually do something about it. These are completely free and I've got eight spaces available in March.

If you have been wondering why you feel so rubbish, this is for you. I would love to chat to you, space is limited.

Go to keziahall.com/audit to book your free welcome and audit in.