Allergy Proof®

I am officially back for season 3 with a new look and a new direction! This week’s guest is Anthea aka @antheapilates, who has been a long-time Yours Only customer. She suffers from fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and depression, and used to have major dermatitis flare-ups, but Yours Only sorted that out. 

Fibromyalgia affects around 2% of the Australian population. (Well, the diagnosed). It’s a disorder characterised by widespread musculoskeletal pain with the main symptoms being bone pain, fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues. Symptoms sometimes begin after a physical trauma, surgery, infection, or significant psychological stress. But, it’s soooo much more than that. It's a bit tricky because fibromyalgia overlaps with other functional somatic syndromes, such as irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, and depression, meaning it's missed quite often. 

Anthea chats about her experience from working a 9-5 (which was actually a 24hour a day) job, being a full-time uni student, plus the rest, to now working a couple of hours a day as a Pilates instructor. Her body was trying to tell her to slow down, and  lockdown has been a blessing for her as now she’s flipped her life around and is managing her fibro like a champ. 

If you think you have fibro, book an appointment with a health care specialist before self-diagnosing.

For some informative links on fibromyalgia:

https://fmaware.net/fibromyalgia-symptoms/ 

https://fibroandpain.org/ 

https://www.nps.org.au/australian-prescriber/articles/treatment-of-fibromyalgia  

See you on Instagram at @yoursonlyco. Ash x

Allergy Proof® is having a bit of an update. When I first launched Yours Only® in 2020, I was living a pretty crazy life, running two businesses, being social, just doing a lot, whilst living with a lot of symptoms. Fast forward a year, and I have finally found out why I've felt so sick for all of these years. Instead of focusing on a busy life dealing with symptoms, I am now trying to live a calm life on a nice healing journey. 

This podcast will now focus on the Yours Only community to share their stories, and help others with symptoms with new potential pathways. Stay tuned for all new episodes going live in a few weeks. 

Ash x

Anxiety. We're all familiar with it, but did you know psychologists are too from a personal perspective? This weeks chat with Jess Allen is a pretty powerful one. She suffered from crippling anxiety as a kid, which she still manages to some degree today. As a psychologist, on the outside you would assume she has her sh*t together, but she's still navigating life just as much as us. 

She was also a contributor to the Simply Dramatic e-mag, where she touches on what values are, how to discover yours, and how to live a healthier and happier life. 

Jess' Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jess.psychology/  
Simple Dramatic e-mag: https://yoursonly.co/product/simply-dramatic/   

Hello! This week's podcast guest is sexologist and fertility counsellor, Aleeya Hachem who is passionate about normalising the conversation around sex, pleasure and fertility. She was also a contributor to the Simply Dramatic e-mag where she shared her wisdom on normalising sex and pleasure. 

I feel like this space is getting some real airtime atm, as people are talking more and more about self-care as more than exercising and eating well. She talks about what self-care really is and how to improve your quality of life through new life strategies. 

Aleeya’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/great.sexpectations/ 
Simple Dramatic e-mag: https://yoursonly.co/product/simply-dramatic/  

Hello! My god, it feels so good to do podcast episodes at the end of the week. In this week's episode I chat to the amazing Accredited & Practicing Dietitian Chloe McLeod, about winter eating. 

As you know we released the Yours Only e-mag, Simply Dramatic last week, and the first section talks all about winter eating, so I, of course, bought on my Dietitian Chloe to talk about all of her wisdom on the foods we should be consuming to support our immune system. I interviewed her for the podcast in August last year, which spoke all about food chemicals like salicylates and amines. It would be worth listening back to that, even though the audio on that one isn’t the best. 

Simply Dramatic e-mag: https://yoursonly.co/product/simply-dramatic/ 
Chloe's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chloe_mcleod_dietitian/ 
Chloe's team: https://www.instagram.com/health_performance_collective/ 

Hello! I am back from our mid-season break, and my gosh I have been a busy human. I moved house, got a proper diagnosis for all of my health concerns, hired two new team members, went into stage four lockdown, and produced an amazing 74 page e-mag for Yours Only.

This week you'll hear about all of the above, and hopefully you'll be convinced to check out Simply Dramatic.

e-mag: https://yoursonly.co/product/simply-dramatic/ 
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashlitempler/ 
Yours Only Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yoursonlyco/ 

Feel free to DM me to chat. x

This week I spoke to content creator and writer, Adriana Perri, AKA Le Blonde Fox. She’s been in the blogging game since I could remember / 2014 and if you follow her on Instagram you will know that she loves to entertain her followers with her random thoughts, antics and dance moves. She finished her Master of Media Communication last year during peak covid, whilst teaching social media tertiary classes, until her life flipped upside down. She went from living a healthy and happy life, to being in hospital, needing assistance to even get up to walk to go to the bathroom. It's a wild story, and I hope it inspires you to make the most of every day. 

Firstly I would like to say this isn't my best work - I have very nasally voice and I am still recovering from a septoplasty I got last week to fix my deviated septum. I'm still a bit all over the shop, but I am dedicated! ha. 

As someone who has ALWAYS been the busiest bee of all, mindfulness is something I assumed I practiced, but I never really did. I’ve always got something on my mind, whether it be what’s due at work the next day, or if I wrote back to that text, but since I’ve been on my new health journey I have really been trying to step back and rethink how I approach my day. I feel a lot less stressed, and like I can really focus on getting my work done. And this is how I do it. Enjoy. x

Hello! I mentioned last week about how I think I have mould illness, which has most likely caused my recent SIBO diagnosis. As I am not a specialist in this space, and SIBO is so bloody confusing, I thought I would get on the amazing Brooke Schiller to tell you about it.  She is a degree-qualified naturopath and clinical nutritionist, with a passion for digestive wellness. She currently works in Hälsa Health in Surry Hills, and Nimbus & Co in Bondi and her motivator is that she gets to guide people to better health. As a heads up, she is not my naturopath, and her treatment plan for SIBO is different to mine, so if you are wanting some advice on how to treat your SIBO, it's best to find a practitioner that will tailor their approach for you. I hope this episode helps you better understand SIBO, and maybe even give you some answers if you've been in a similar boat to me. Enjoy.

Full show notes at: https://yoursonly.co/brooke-schiller/ 

Hello! It’s been a while since I’ve done a personal ep as I’ve been trying to work out what is going on with my body. After years and years of working out where my symptoms are stemmed from, we’ve landed at mould illness. I’ve lived in a few hours with mould issues so it all makes sense. Ahhh. If you go back and listen to the episode “I’m back and have a diagnosis” it will give you a wrap up of my journey so far. 

I still have a long way to go, and I need to get a proper diagnosis, but I wanted to share my journey with you.