It's the final episode of the first series of So Talking Health - and have we got a great episode for you!

Carrie Brooks is a life coach who has helped everyone - from CEOs to people starting businesses and she's passionate about helping everyone achieve their potential in life.

What was so great about speaking with Carrie is how her enthusiasm for what she does comes across. So, it was also great to hear about how time away from work for herself is just as important as the job she does.

If you want to find out more about Carrie and her work you can visit her website at www.carriebrooks.co.uk 

You can also find Carrie on Twitter as @carrieLCbrooks Instagram as @carriebrooks22

Enjoy! x

In this episode we talk with Pilates and yoga teacher, Feldenkrais practitioner and herbalist Kat Hesse.

Kat’s interests are as broad as her expertise and in our wide ranging and freewheeling conversation Kat took us on her journey from teacher and journalist to therapist.

In all her work Kat is focussed on helping people improve their health, well-being and fitness. But the reasons people seek Kat’s help are as varied as the individual focus she gives to all the support she offers for all the conditions people seek help with from lymphoedema to osteoporosis to diabetes.

As with many therapists Kat’s curiosity has influenced her studies and teaching as well as her own personal health journey - Kat is a cancer survivor. Her interest in helping people with insomnia comes from her own struggles with sleep as a result of her treatment.

To find out more about Kat and the work she does you can visit her Facebook page or website.

Dr Claire Nolan is an archaeologist whose work focuses on the areas of public archaeology, cultural heritage and landscape studies.

She has a special interest in the relationship between people, places and the past and her work explores prehistoric archaeology and its relevance to modern society

But Dr Claire is probably also unique in that she’s a psychotherapist who has worked in community mental health and combines her two disciplines to explore the social value of our historic environments and how heritage assets can influence our lives.

Dr Claire discusses her PhD work where her research looked at the therapeutic value of the prehistoric landscapes of Avebury, Stonehenge and the Vale of Pewsey, UK in the present day.

Currently she works as a public archaeology and cultural heritage studies researcher and as a commercial archeologist in Southern Ontario, Canada. To find out more about Dr Claire Nolan and her work you can find read about her latest work here or follow her on Twitter @drclairenolan

Here at So Talking Health we’re absolutely delighted to share with you our interview with the remarkable and fascinating Dr Kate Tomas.

And fascinating is a word you’ll hear us use quite a lot in this interview because we absolutely loved our conversation with Dr Tomas.

Dr Kate Tomas is a women’s spiritual empowerment mentor - and her mission is to work with women and non-binary people helping them to find meaning and purpose - and joy - in life.

She is a psychic, mentor and teacher with a PhD in philosophical theology from the University of Oxford. Her work focuses on female empowerment and helping people - and she’s worked with a huge range of people from A-list celebrities to global corporations to ordinary people helping them find deeper meaning and purpose to improve their lives and wellbeing.

In our conversation we talk with Dr Tomas about the work she does, how she helps people and her own spiritual journey through life.

To find our more about Dr Tomas you can visit her gorgeous website. Currently she works with small groups of people on her Spiritual Life Upgrade - a 12-month programme offering mentoring, masterclasses and group sessions.

Or you can join her Facebook page where she shares information and tips on spiritual empowerment.

Enjoy! x

In this episode So Talking Health takes a more relaxed turn.

We speak with Eve Menezes Cunningham author of the fabulous book - 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing. The book features bite-sized daily exercises and techniques to guide you through a year of self-care - and treat yourself and others with kindness and compassion.

But there is so much more to Eve and her work - her interests and qualifications combine yoga, mindfulness, psychosynthesis, coaching, NLP, EFT and crystals to offer a holistic approach to inspire and help people live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives.

In our conversation we talk with Eve about why self-care is so important, how to find strategies for self-care to suit you - and Eve tells us how her journey seeking out help for herself led to her working as a therapist.

To find out more about Eve, her work and how to get in touch you can visit her website which is packed with information and ideas to help you feel better every day!

In this episode of So Talking Health we talk with the fantastic Joe Hoare - a man on a mission to bring laughter yoga to the masses.

In this wide ranging interview Joe shares with us how his own health issues led him to discover laughter yoga, the science behind why it's good for us and he even got the two of us trying out an exercise.

To find out more about Joe you can visit his website where there's loads of information about laughter yoga and the courses Joe offers.

Enjoy! x

In this episode we chat to Caroline Hardingham-Mentzer and Dr Alex Mentzer.

Caroline is a writer and nutritionist and married to Dr Alex Mentzer a specialist in infectious diseases who works for the NHS. They live in Oxford with their children.

They both share a passion for bringing together natural and modern medicine for better health.

As Alex says in our interview - his work as a doctor keeps people alive while Caroline’s work as a nutritionist keeps people healthy.

We had a wide ranging and fascinating discussion with Caroline and Alex about how they can - and have - each learned from their seemingly disparate disciplines, why diet is crucial to good health and Alex shared a little of his personal thoughts on how challenging and rewarding his work as a doctor has been over the last year.

Caroline also shares a fantastic - and super simple recipe for Onion Syrup which can be found on her website.

You can find loads more recipes on her website - Health in Synergy - where you can also read all about her work alongside information, resources and inspiration on food and health.

And Caroline is also on twitter @HealthInSynergy

Enjoy! x

Here at So Talking Health we’re SO excited to be bringing you the first episode of our podcast.

And it’s a great interview to start - in this episode we chat to Emily Thornton aka - Solar Sister Tarot.

Our conversation covers how Emily first got started with Tarot, how adapting her business during lockdown has seen it thrive - and we even cover the art of reading tarot as well as delving into its history.

To find out more about Emily and her work you can visit her website and find her on social media - https://www.solarsistertarot.com/

Insta: @solarsistertarot

Twitter: @solarsistarot

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/solarsistertarot/

We're super excited about bringing So Talking Health to you - but before we share our first episode here's your chance to meet your hosts Catherine Lund and Kathie Bishop.

In this introductory episode we'll share what good health means to us, why talking about our health and wellbeing is so important and what you can expect from our first series.

It's time to talk about what good health means to you. Welcome to So Talking Health - in this eight part series herbalists and wellbeing advocates Catherine Lund and Kathie Bishop explore new and fun ways - from nutrition to crystals - to live a healthier and more fulfilling life.