Joyful Balance Podcast

We’re back for another episode! This week, we cover lots of information on nutrition for better brain health.

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Firstly, Meera sets the scene on brain health and functions that are really affected by nutrition and why. Then our conversation moves into more specific subjects, such as:

• Denise and Meera rave about Blue Zones

• Meera talks about the Mediterranean Diet and why it's so good for brain health

• How your gut and brain are BFFs and your ‘gut feeling’

• The vagus nerve, heart rate variability and vagal tone

• Gut microbiome, psychobiotics and the brain

• Holistic lifestyle practices for brain health

• Relationship between stress and gut health

• Meera’s top 3 takeaways

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On this week’s episode, we’re delving into the link between emotions and food and how they both are very related to each other.

This really is our bread and butter, particularly for Denise who takes the lead this week. We share our own personal experiences with this topic so you know you’re in good company!

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Top tips for tapping into your dopamine reward system: eat protein, take cold showers, get regular exercise, listen to your favourite music (or podcast, such as ours), spend time out in the sunshine.

In this episode, we cover:

- Why do we eat?

- Eating when we’re not hungry

- A quick segue into the dopamine reward system and food

- The vicious cycle of eating treats and low mood

- The associations we make between emotions and food

- Alternative rewards to food

- The importance of a micropause in decision making

- Meera and Denise’s own personal experiences with emotions and food

- Why we should be our own detective

- Why you need food and why we don’t recommend strict restriction

- The importance of setting yourself up for success and how to do it.

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Disclaimer: this episode is a whistle stop tour geared around understanding the connection between food and emotions. It is meant as guidance and it may not be necessarily appropriate for people who have been clinically diagnosed with eating disorders or other mental health conditions. If in any doubt, speak to your doctor or therapist about the connections you make between food and emotions.

This week, we hear from Meera, our resident brain expert all about the brain! We also talk about how therapy can be of help. Topics we cover:

• What exactly is neuroscience?

• How the brain is divided up

• Deeper structures of the brain

• Interesting brain facts

• Prefrontal cortex development

• Neuroplasticity and why that’s so important for building new skills and habits

• Cortical homunculus *this is the one to search for and see the image

• Mr Tan and Phineas Gage

• The Reptilian Brain

• The limbic system

• A brief view of how therapy helps you.

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We hope you enjoy the episode, and if you do, please follow us on any/all of the channels.

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We’re doing something a little different today with being honoured to have our very first guest, Andreea. She is a certified NASM Physical Trainer, PN1 Nutrition Coach and Mindfulness Practitioner with a strong interest in counselling and coaching her clients. Now, she’s also a mum to two beautiful 10-month old twins, while running her coaching business called Livit. You can find her at www.livit.fit

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Andreea has worked with clients all over the world, helping people lose weight, gain muscle, and improve their fitness levels. Andreea knows how challenging it can be to find time to work out, how to get back to exercise after a break (eg. to have children).

On this episode, we cover with Andreea:

• How she finds the time and motivation to exercise with two small children

• What would Andreea say to people who don’t like or are intimidated by starting to exercise

• Who is Andreea’s ideal client

• What are realistic fitness goals and how Andreea thinks about goal-setting

• Thinking about how you feel vs how you look when it comes to goal-setting

• How Andreea makes sure she’s eating well for her brain and body

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Join us on the Joyful Balance Podcast as Denise takes us on her journey to Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy - what it is, what it isn’t, how it works and about how she came to train as a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist!

We hope you like this episode.

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We cover:

• What is Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) and how it works

• How can hypnotherapy help change habits and behaviour?

• How does Denise start working with a client and what happens in a CBH session?

• How does Denise use hypnotherapy with different types of clients (eg. phobias)?

• What led Denise into CBH?

• Denise’s personal journey with CBH

• The importance of doing work outside sessions

• How much control you have over your own mind, reactions and recovery

• CBH in the comfort of your own home

• How can you set yourself up for success with CBH

• How to put yourself back in the driving seat of your own health and wellbeing

• Denise’s biggest learnings with CBH

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Join us on the Joyful Balance Podcast as Meera lays all her cards on the table in an interview about what drove her to leave her corporate life behind and restart her career as a nutritionist.

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Here’s some of the topics we cover:

• What attracted Meera to neuroscience

• Meera’s subsequent journey through mental health recovery

• How and why Meera qualified as a Nutritionist

• What does it mean to eat healthily for your brain?

• Meera’s top 3 learnings through recovery

• Meera’s obsession with almond butter

• How Meera approaches working with a new client

• Do we only use a small percentage of our brain?

• Who is Meera outside of neuroscience and nutrition?

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Welcome to the Joyful Balance Podcast with your two delightful co-hosts, Meera Malhotra (Nutritional Therapist) and Denise Iordache (Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist).

We’re here to help take you on a journey through your brain, your mind and your body and how all of these are interconnected. In this episode, we cover what the Joyful Balance Podcast is all about, who we are, what you can expect from the podcast.

Bear with us, it’s our first one! We’re learning as we go and we’ll take you along with us.

Topics we cover:

- A brief introduction from Meera and Denise and how we got into our careers.

- How people react when we tell them what we do for a job.

- The mission of the Joyful Balance Podcast.

- Practice vs. progress.

- The importance of a balanced lifestyle.

- What’s in it for you from the Joyful Balance Podcast.

- How we came to be.

We hope you enjoy the episode, and if you do, please follow us on any/all of the channels. Feel free to leave us a comment too!

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Email: [email protected]