The Compassionate Road

The United Nations report on Industrial Livestock Production and Global Health Risks shows that industrial livestock production plays an important part in the emergence of highly pathogenic influenza and other diseases. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shared that 75% of emerging diseases start in animal populations. How we raise our animals has and will continue to spread pathogens within animal AND human communities...

I believe this pandemic needs to be a time we reconsider if we want to keep such high risks of further outbreaks. I discuss in this short podcast reasons why. 

Now more than ever, we need to make sure we do not fall into the anxious thoughts of the mind. Being informed and doing what we can is important, but spiralling into panic is not. With millions of us isolating at home, with the biggest lesson that the future is really unknown, when better to find the connection to the divine, to meditate - but also to find humour and connection! Jac from The Broad Place, helps teach all of these things. The Broad Place is a school for creativity, consciousness and clarity to help us find our highest grade self through applied ancient knowledge and meditation for your modern life. While we recorded this before corona hit hard, the lessons are more relevant than ever. 

As a Naturopath and yoga teacher, I know keeping a calm nervous system is important to remain healthy and also to make critical decisions in times of unknown BIG changes and challenges. These are some of my thoughts with a small guided meditation to keep us coming back to present awareness throughout this time. 

Farmed salmon is now one of the most popular fish eaten, yet many consumers are not aware that it is even farmed, and at the greater cost of farming this fish. I speak with Don Staniford, an award-winning campaigner, author and Director of Scottish Salmon Watch. He has travelled to salmon farms around the world and has media coverage globally about issues ranging from escapes, environmental pollution, deaths of wildlife, diseases, health issues of added chemicals and welfare... and these are just to name a few. If you eat salmon, these are issues you want to be educated about...

In Episode 17, Erin Lovell Verinder, herbalist, nutritionist, energetic healer and I chat all about how we can access plants in our lives for healing and reconnecting to nature. Erin has walked the plant path for almost 20 years, working with natural medicine to promote health in her clinic, yet she shares how even with no prior knowledge we can access herbs in our lives as well as the impact of technology on our wellbeing, and the importance of small changes we can make to find more calm in our lives. 

Sami Bloom is a clinical nutritionist, certified in plant-based nutrition, wellness coach, yoga teacher, writer, presenter & the creative mind behind Health & Bloom. Her own health complications prompted her to make positive life changes, revitalising her health & leading to a drastic career change from corporate to Nutritional Medicine and plant-based nutrition. She shares her journey, with lots of tips to stay healthy and present on the podcast. 

In Episode 15, I speak with respected yoga teachers, Ana Forrest and Jose Calarco. Together they weave native traditional ceremony with asana, song and nutrition, as offerings world wide for pathways to healing. We speak about their journeys, how we can make choices to stay above our demons, their committed views on how what we eat can heal the world and ourselves, their spirit pledge to Mend The Hoop of the People, what Walking in Beauty means. If you have read Ana's book, Fierce Medicine or practised yoga with them, you will know they are raw and refreshingly real that speaks right to our heart to motivate real action. 

Nat Kelley is a well-known and loved actress from shows & films such as Fast and The Furious, Dynasty and Beauty and The Baker. Nat is radiating with passion to share her renewed deep connection to our home, our one and only planet, and to motivate action to tread mindfully, gently and live more sustainably. Going through this journey of discovery herself, she approaches and shares about this transformation from a place of love, humility and honest vulnerability that we all can relate to and be inspired by. We chat about moving towards a plant-based diet and why this is so important to her, what helped heal her and her thoughts on true beauty. 

In Episode 13, I speak with Dr Leila Masson who is an integrative paediatrician who combines allopathic medicine with a nutritional and environmental approach to children’s health issues. Leila is the author of Children’s Health A-Z, has worked around the globe, helping thousands of families. As well as treating children, she lectures internationally about the interactive approach to autism spectrum disorders, ADHD and other behavioural issues, allergies, recurrent infections, and autoimmune diseases. In the episode we discuss the importance of gut, nutritional and environmental health, tips to help your child thrive and also talk about how to raise a child in a healthy manner on a plant-based diet. 

In episode 12, I speak to James Aspey, who became known globally when he went silent for a year to raise awareness for the voiceless, the billions of animals who suffer and are killed every year for our taste - in food and clothing. 

Since he has dedicated his life to continue this plight and his speeches have been seen millions of times, and he has the incredible ability to speak the sometimes uncomfortable truth - and get people to hear what he is saying, when often they would instead turn away. We speak about his journey, his why's and how's of living vegan - his passion is contagious but it is backed up by important facts we all need to know and consider.