This episode focuses on the role exercise plays in your overall health, especially walking in nature.

The next time you’re under pressure and need a nature-fix, listen to your body. Take time to immerse yourself in nature and then come back to what you’re doing.

During the walk, focus on the senses of smell, sight and sound.

What does the air smell like?

What do you see? What colours are predominant?

What do you hear? Notice the sounds as they come and go.

And of course focus on your breath flowing in and out. Allowing your belly to be soft and absorbing the magic of nature.

Christine Ford is a counsellor, hypnotherapist and creator of Sensual Seed Oracle Card Deck.

Christine created the Sensual Seed Oracle Card Deck to help her heal from a personal crisis that brought her to her knees. Looking back, this event took her life in a new direction and she began to connect with her authentic Feminine Power.

After studying a Diploma in Professional Counselling, Christine felt deeply motivated to find out how she could help her clients with a tool more powerful than traditional ‘talk therapy’. 

That is when she started researching and experiencing hypnotherapy and became convinced that this powerful tool was the perfect accompaniment to her practice.

Christine has continued exploring the world of metaphysics and healing to find the answers that she was looking for but could not find in traditional wisdom.

In the process, she came across and used many oracle card decks.  She felt comforted by how powerful they were but was disappointed to not find any centred around self-care and sensuality.

That’s when Christine knew she had to create one!

In this conversation, Christine shares ways that women can connect with the Divine Feminine, schedule more white space, lean into the yin energy and embrace the juicy flow of life through dance.

Website: https://www.sensualseed.com

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

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sensualseed 

DANCE CIRCLES

Qoya: https://www.qoya.love/about-qoya-classes

Breeza Love: https://breezalove.com

5Rhythms Eltham: https://www.5rhythms.com/classes/FreeFalling-285350

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ABOUT THE GUT-MIND COLLECTIVE

The Gut-Mind Collective helps busy women develop sustainable, nourishing health habits so you feel calmer and more energetic. 

We share guided meditations, gut-mind health hacks and interviews to inspire you to put yourself first and lead a purposefully healthy life.

Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you can catch our future episodes: https://thegutmindcollective.com/podcast 

Connect with us online: https://thegutmindcollective.com

And join a Collective of like-minded women who value COURAGE, CONNECTION, NOURISHMENT & NATURE in our free Facebook community, Nourish & Connect: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nourishandconnect 

Today’s episode focuses on why you need to lean into sensations when big feelings arise and how this is the vessel for healing.

The more present you become, the calmer and more contented you will become. Your health will then improve, you’ll get a better quality of sleep and your patience will be increased. What more could you want?

If you want to dive deep into awareness of your feelings, I invite you to tune into the Wheel of Awareness Meditation, which you can find here.

This will help you practice acceptance of thoughts/feelings/emotions/sensations each time you experience an obstacle in your path.

I also encourage you to journal any observations that arise when focusing on this meditation technique.

And feel free to head over to our Facebook community, Nourish and Connect, and share any aha moments that arise for you.

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ABOUT THE GUT-MIND COLLECTIVE

The Gut-Mind Collective helps busy women develop sustainable, nourishing health habits so you feel calmer and more energetic. 

We share guided meditations, gut-mind health hacks and interviews to inspire you to put yourself first and lead a purposefully healthy life.

Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you can catch our future episodes: https://thegutmindcollective.com/podcast/

Connect with us online: https://thegutmindcollective.com

And join a Collective of like-minded women who value COURAGE, CONNECTION, NOURISHMENT & NATURE in our free Facebook community, Nourish & Connect: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nourishandconnect/

Fay Chan works with women to help increase their emotional clarity through EFT Tapping. She is passionate about helping women transform emotional stresses, overwhelm and anxiety to find calm, clarity and confidence.

In this episode of the podcast, we dive deep into:

• How Fay transitioned from coaching people with budgeting to EFT Tapping

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CONNECT WITH FAY:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/livingwellwithfay

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ABOUT THE GUT-MIND COLLECTIVE

The Gut-Mind Collective helps busy women develop sustainable, nourishing health habits so you feel calmer and more energetic. 

We share guided meditations, gut-mind health hacks and interviews to inspire you to put yourself first and lead a purposefully healthy life.

Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you can catch our future episodes: https://thegutmindcollective.com/podcast/

Connect with us online: https://thegutmindcollective.com

And join a Collective of like-minded women who value COURAGE, CONNECTION, NOURISHMENT & NATURE in our free Facebook community, Nourish & Connect: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nourishandconnect/

This exercise comes from the Buddhist practice of mudita, which means “appreciative joy.” It can be understood as simply “showing up” for happiness with a caring presence.

As you train the mind to rejoice in happiness, you gain many benefits. You feel more fulfilled by joy, recognize happiness more easily in your life, and train the mind to treat happiness as an important experience.

Enjoy this meditation.

With love xx

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ABOUT THE GUT-MIND COLLECTIVE

The Gut-Mind Collective helps busy women develop sustainable, nourishing health habits so you feel calmer and more energetic. 

We share guided meditations, gut-mind health hacks and interviews to inspire you to put yourself first and lead a purposefully healthy life.

Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you can catch our future episodes: https://thegutmindcollective.com/podcast/

Connect with us online: https://thegutmindcollective.com

And join a Collective of like-minded women who value COURAGE, CONNECTION, NOURISHMENT & NATURE in our free Facebook community, Nourish & Connect: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nourishandconnect/

Eimear McNelis of Red Dirt Road is a Journalist, Photographer and Marketing Specialist.

For over twenty years Eimear worked in media, corporate and freelance roles for medium to large scale companies in the UK, Ireland and Australia.

Nowadays, Eimear uses her skills as a journalist to help brands and individuals in the horticultural, alternative health and wellbeing and philanthropy sectors create impactful stories, so they can create a valuable and meaningful community.

In this episode, Eimear shares the process she went through over the last 13 years since being diagnosed with Coeliac disease, and how she awakened a passion for gardening.

We dive deep into the topics of no-dig gardening, intuitive gardening, the dopamine effect from sharing a harvest and how Yinnar Community Garden is Eimear's version of a Blue Zone.

"Gardening has made me aware of how important eating and growing locally is to your health and body, how gardening is a spiritual endeavour - meditation and grounding, being aware of climate change and our impact on waste and a way of keeping physically fit. When you nurture the earth, it’s really taking care of you in a complete way as a return." Eimear McNelis

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CONNECT WITH EIMEAR McNELIS

On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/red.dirt.road.life/

Or the blog: https://www.reddirtroad.life/

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES:

• Charles Dowding is an authority on No-Dig Gardening and you can find his work here: https://charlesdowding.co.uk

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ABOUT THE GUT-MIND COLLECTIVE

The Gut-Mind Collective helps busy women develop sustainable, nourishing health habits so you feel calmer and more energetic.

We share guided meditations, gut-mind health hacks and interviews to inspire you to put yourself first and lead a purposefully healthy life.

Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you can catch our future episodes: https://thegutmindcollective.com/podcast/

Connect with us online: https://thegutmindcollective.com

And join a Collective of like-minded women who value COURAGE, CONNECTION, NOURISHMENT & NATURE in our free Facebook community, Nourish & Connect: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nourishandconnect/

In this episode we share a lesson on self-care. And why tuning to your body’s rhythm, and understanding what it needs in any given moment, is so important for whole-body wellness.

When you cram your life with things...

• inputs, 

... there’s no room to take a metaphorical breath.

And if you’re under extended periods of pressure, the stress hormone cortisol peaks and can disrupt your immune system. 

This may result in a minor ailment like a common cold or flu, muscular tension, headaches, emotional responses such as anxiety or overwhelm. Or your immune system could become compromised.

Understanding your body’s rhythm and going with the flow, the ‘yin’ energy, rather than pushing yourself when you feel tired, or being in ‘yang’ energy, is one way to tilt into a more natural pace of life.

Self-care is an activity that nurtures and refuels you at a deep level. So what refuels you?

At The Gut-Mind Collective, we group self-care into five categories which offer unique spaces for care and attention:

• Physical body

How can you tune into your body’s wisdom and offer yourself the gift of self-care?

Read the full blog post 'The Gift of Self-Care' here: https://thegutmindcollective.com/the-gift-of-self-care/ 

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ABOUT THE GUT-MIND COLLECTIVE

The Gut-Mind Collective helps busy women develop sustainable, nourishing health habits so you feel calmer and more energetic. 

We share guided meditations, gut-mind health hacks and interviews to inspire you to put yourself first and lead a purposefully healthy life.

Be sure to subscribe so you can catch our future episodes: https://thegutmindcollective.com/podcast/

Connect with us online: https://thegutmindcollective.com

And join a Collective of like-minded women who value COURAGE, CONNECTION, NOURISHMENT & NATURE in our free Facebook community, Nourish & Connect: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nourishandconnect/

Ashley Berry is an Intuitive Card Reader and Coach that helps people who want to develop a deeper connection with their minds, bodies and spirits and create lives that are aligned with their passions, purpose and wellbeing.

Ashley believes that cultivating connections to our intuitive capacities and allowing our inner wisdom to serve as a primary guiding force in our lives is the most powerful way we can support our wellbeing.

In both her card readings and work as a coach, she encourages people to tune more deeply into their body and their subtle senses.

Intuition, self-care, boundaries and nurturing wellbeing are topics we explore in this episode of the podcast.

Connect with Ashley on Instagram or via her website.

The Gut-Mind Collective helps busy women develop sustainable, nourishing health habits so you feel calmer and more energetic. 

We share guided meditations, gut-mind health hacks and interviews to inspire you to put yourself first and lead a purposefully healthy life.

Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you can catch our future episodes.

Or tune into our podcast using your favourite podplayer: https://thegutmindcollective.com/podcast/

Connect with us online: https://thegutmindcollective.com

And join a Collective of like-minded women who value COURAGE, CONNECTION, NOURISHMENT & NATURE in our free Facebook community, Nourish & Connect: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nourishandconnect/

At The Gut-Mind Collective, we believe that ‘breathe’ can be an acrostic poem that stands for:

• Boundaries

And in this episode of the podcast we’ll show you how awareness of your breath helps you engage with life more mindfully.

The Gut-Mind Collective helps busy women develop sustainable, nourishing health habits so you feel calmer and more energetic. 

We share guided meditations, gut-mind health hacks & interviews to inspire you to put yourself first & lead a purposefully healthy life.

Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you can catch our future episodes.

Or tune into our podcast using your favourite podplayer: https://thegutmindcollective.com/podcast/

Connect with us online: https://thegutmindcollective.com

And join a Collective of like-minded women who value COURAGE, CONNECTION, NOURISHMENT & NATURE in our free Facebook community, Nourish & Connect: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nourishandconnect/

As an ICU nurse, Christine Boucher saw the consequences of not taking care of your health. This is why she’s passionate about taking action and be proactive with health and wellbeing as opposed to reactive and hospitalisation. 

We dive deep into the notion of quick fixes to health problems versus the need for a complete whole-body approach, which is what we teach in the BREATHE Wellness Program.

The Gut-Mind Collective helps busy women develop sustainable, nourishing health habits so you feel calmer and more energetic. 

We share guided meditations, gut-mind health hacks & interviews to inspire you to put yourself first & lead a purposefully healthy life.

Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you can catch our future episodes.

Or tune into our podcast using your favourite podplayer: https://thegutmindcollective.com/podcast/

Connect with us online: https://thegutmindcollective.com

And join a Collective of like-minded women who value COURAGE, CONNECTION, NOURISHMENT & NATURE in our free Facebook community, Nourish & Connect: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nourishandconnect/