Ever wondered what is the point of going to therapy? If it actually even works? What to expect if you do go? How therapy can improve gut health? And how on earth to find the right therapist?! 

Well, today I’m joined by PACFA-registered counsellour and psychotherapist Anastasia Auld, who passionately and articulately answers these questions. Anastasia offers thoughtful insight into how therapy can change your relationship with yourself and those around you, how to navigate fears around attending therapy and how to trust your instincts in the process of finding the right therapist.

If you’d like to find out more about today’s guest, Anastastia Auld, you can visit: https://aatherapy.com.au/

Do you want to learn more about the mind-gut connection? The Gut Girl Podcast has created a fun and practical resource where you can learn more, available for free download at http://www.gutgirlpodcast.com.au/resources

Wait so if I just lay down, with tiny needles stuck in me, my stomach will feel better? Surely it can’t be that easy?!

Clearly acupuncture has been around for a long time, but the benefits of acupuncture for stress and gut pain are new to me.

Today I was lucky enough to speak with Dr Mathew Young who articulately answers all my questions about how acupuncture works, why it works and what it can help with, including gut issues of course!

If you’d like to find out more about today’s guest, Dr Mathew Young, you can visit: https://drmattyoung.com.au/

A patient on life support…all life saving options exhausted…a fecal transplant is trialed….he wakes up! The power of the gut microbiome is like magic, but it is real.

Today gastroenterologist Dr Froomes talks us through how he first discovered the gut microbiome, how it impacts other parts of our body, and why he has devoted his life to it.

Dr Paul Froomes has collaborated with the Gut Girl Podcast on a number of new pdf gut health resources - available for free download here: https://www.gutgirlpodcast.com.au/resources   

If you’d like to find out more about today’s guest, Dr Paul Froomes, you can visit: https://themicrobiomeclinic.com.au/pages/dr-froomes

Perhaps you’re noticing the way your mind impacts your body (particularly your gut!) and you’re wanting to get some more help with your state of mind.

In Australia, it can be really confusing to know where to start when it comes to trying to improve your mental health - do you get a mental health diagnosis? Do you take medication or try psychotherapy? If medication (such as an SSRI) helps, does that mean you had a chemical imbalance in your brain? What if medication doesn’t work, what does that mean about your brain?

Dr Paul Denborough is here to shed light on these kinds of questions today. He is a psychiatrist with over 20 years of clinical experience and is co-founder of the exciting new mental health awareness campaign titled the ‘Not Broken Project’ with the University of Adelaide.

To learn more about the Not Broken Project you can visit:

https://thesocialprescription.com.au/announcing-our-podcast/

Do you want to learn more about the mind-gut connection? The Gut Girl Podcast has created a fun and practical resource where you can learn more - available for free download at http://www.gutgirlpodcast.com.au/resources

Have you ever wanted to really understand meditation? From someone who actually gets it? Christian O’Toole is a very experienced and skilled meditation teacher, and it was a joy to interview him today. He is here to answer most (if not all) of the questions you’ve probably had about meditation, like what’s the point? How do I start? What’s important to keep in mind when I am meditating? What should I avoid? And amongst all this, both Christian and I share a bit about our journey to meditation too. 

If you’d like to purchase Christian O’Toole’s book discussed on today’s episode, you can do so here: https://christian-otoole-bookstore.myshopify.com/

If you’d like to contact Christian to organise your own individual meditation classes, he can be reached by email at [email protected] 

Want to learn more about the mind-gut connection? The Gut Girl Podcast has created a fun and practical resource, in collaboration with gastroenterologist Dr Paul Froomes, where you can learn more. This is available for free download here: http://www.gutgirlpodcast.com.au/resources

Today we welcome back special guest Ash Bott, who is a clinical nutritionist specialising in gut and hormonal health. Ash is here today to help us understand what on earth actually happens in our body when we notice that ‘butterflies in the tummy’ feeling? In other words, what goes on physically in our gut when we feel stress? 

Want to learn more about the mind-gut connection? The Gut Girl Podcast, in collaboration with Dr Paul Froomes, has created a fun, visual and simple educational resource that further explains the mind-gut connection. Available for free download here: http://www.gutgirlpodcast.com.au/resources

If you’d like to find out more about today’s guest, Ash Bott, you can visit: https://www.girlgut.com.au/

I had so many questions for Paul, we had to do a Part 2!

Today we dive further into understanding how our modern Western lives impact our gut health. We touch on the way that our food and our stress levels can create what’s called ‘gut dysbiosis’, leading to tummy symptoms and even other health conditions you wouldn’t expect!  No need to panic though, there's plenty we can do to overcome gut dysbiosis and prevent it happening to us again in the future.

Dr Paul Froomes is collaborating with the Gut Girl Podcast on an exciting new gut health resource detailing the mind gut connection and, once this is live, it will be available for download here: https://www.gutgirlpodcast.com.au/resources   

If you’d like to find out more about today’s guest, Dr Paul Froomes, you can visit: https://themicrobiomeclinic.com.au/pages/dr-froomes

Spoiler…our everyday Western diets are messing with our gut health, but why!? How?! In today’s episode Dr Paul Froomes breaks this down for us, makes it make sense and offers some helpful advice as to our next steps in taking better care of our gut health. 

Dr Paul Froomes will be collaborating with the Gut Girl Podcast on some exciting new gut health resources and, once they are live, they will be available for download here: https://www.gutgirlpodcast.com.au/resources 

If you’d like to find out more about today’s guest, Dr Paul Froomes, you can visit: https://themicrobiomeclinic.com.au/pages/dr-froomes

Welcome to the first episode of the Gut Girl Podcast!

In today’s episode I am so excited to be interviewing Ash Bott from Girl Gut Nutrition. Ash is a clinical nutritionist specialising in gut and hormonal health, and she is here to help us start to understand what the *&%! is the gut microbiome?!

Drawing on beautiful imagery and analogies, Ash opens our minds to the wild world of the gut microbiome, what it is and how it links to the state of our gut health as well as our broader whole body health.  

If you’d like to learn more about the gut microbiome, you can find Ash’s simple, practical and evidence based resource collab with the Gut Girl Podcast here: http://www.gutgirlpodcast.com.au/resources

If you’d like to find out more about today’s guest, Ash Bott, you can visit her website here: https://www.girlgut.com.au/

Welcome to the Gut Girl Podcast!

You can find out more about the podcast and download our free, practical and fun gut health resources at www.gutgirlpodcast.com.au