The Healthy Midlands Podcast

Warning: This episode contains details of Tash's experience of Anorexia and her recovery. If you struggle with topics of this nature, there are lots of other episodes of the Healthy Midlands Podcast for you to enjoy. Tash's story is one of inspiring resilience, in which she makes a complete recovery.

Tash Turner is a personal trainer at The Gym in Kings Heath, and during lockdown Tash turned entrepreneur with the creation of her brand Buff Bombs.

Today Tash discusses her experiences with sport and body image, and how she used Pole Fit to turn her mindset around and recover from Anorexia in her early twenties.

Her brand Buff Bombs uses Epsom salts in their formulas to aid recovery after exercise, and can be found at www.buffbombs.com

You can find out more about Tash as a personal trainer at www.tashfit.com

I can't tell you how much fun I had with Nikki Murphy recording this episode!

Nikki is not your usual yoga teacher. Raw, real and down-to-earth - Nikki shatters any perception of a yoga teacher you might have previously imagined. That's what makes her unlikely!

Find out more about Nikki at https://unlikelyyogi.co.uk/wp/

Sports Therapist Lizzie Watters is an integral part of the team at Ebrook Osteopathy and Sports Clinic in both Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield.

Lizzie has been running in the Midlands area for the past decade, going from slow park run attendee, to coming in the top 350 entrants of the Staffordshire Half Ironman this year. Lizzie explains the dedication it takes to improve your running, along with some insight to her gait analysis services she offers from Sutton Coldfield.

Lizzie chats through some of the challenges on her training journey, and her anticipation for this year's London Marathon.

You can find out more and book appointments with Lizzie at www.ebrookosteopathy.co.uk

Welcome to this special mid-season solo-cast with your host, Emily Ward.

Emily takes this opportunity to talk about her work at Ebrook Osteopathy and Sports Clinic, and shares a very potted and slightly incorrect history of Osteopathy. She talks about the difference between Osteopaths and Sports Therapists, and why having a Podiatrist on the team has made such a difference to the work group-chat.

Find out more and book appointments in Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield by going to

www.ebrookosteopathy.co.uk

Jordan Chapman, or Chapperz as he's known to his friends, is a sports scientist and nutritionist based in the West Midlands. Today, Chapperz is demystifying the concept of superfoods. What are they? Why do we need them? And are they really as super as their name would suggest?

If you want to find out more about Jordan and get advice and inspiration for healthy living, follow him on instagram @daily_energy__

Arun Kumar works with his business parter James work at Evitae in Shenstone to help ladies in their 40s and 50s to change their lifestyle, gain confidence and smash their health and fitness goals! They're personal trainers and mindset coaches with a difference...

Arun's approach is transparent and holistic, with a massive emphasis on sustainable changes to improve ladies health. In this episode Arun talks about his approach and why Evitae is such a special place to train.

Find out more about Arun and James' work at https://www.e-vitae.co.uk/

What do cerebral palsy, virtual reality and walking backwards all have in common?

Find out in this week's episode as we chat with Ellen Joyce, an Osteopath working at Ebrook Osteopathy and Sports Clinic in Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield.

Ellen is passionate about helping children with neurological disorders, and used the opportunity of her Masters degree dissertation study to assess the current research on exercise therapy for children with Cerebral Palsy.

Ellen would also like to promote the Steptember initiative, encouraging people to get active and raise research money and awareness for cerebral palsy.

Find out more at https://www.steptember.org.au

Book Osteopathy appointments with Ellen at https://www.ebrookosteopathy.co.uk

How exciting to be joined by Natalie Robinson of Rise Aerial Yoga and Rise Hot Yoga in Lichfield! Natalie's studio is just about to be 5 years old at the start of September, and there's so much in store to celebrate...

Find out more about the feeling of freedom as you swing from an aerial yoga hammock, and explore the studio's workshop classes in everything from sound healing to mother and baby classes!

Find out more at www.riseaerialyoga.co.uk and www.risehotyoga.co.uk

Lisa Mathias has spent years learning and teaching parents how to better communicate with their babies before speech. Using songs, games and rhymes in her TinyTalk classes in Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield, Lisa aims to make early years communication easy and fun!

Lisa is so enthusiastic about baby sign language, and this really comes across in this episode! If you'd like to find out more about TinyTalk, go to https://www.tinytalk.co.uk

Or find Lisa specifically at https://www.tinytalk.co.uk/lisama

Sarah Smith is a Nutritionist, Functional Medicine practitioner and Osteopath working in Solihull. Sarah joins Emily to dispel diet myths, talk about nutrition, and venture into questionable legal territory while discussing diet-motivation groups! This episode is full of laughs, and I'm sure you'll hear just how much fun we had making it! There's so much valuable content for people looking to improve their health through food-choices, so we're so excited to share this episode with you.

You can find out more about Sarah and her practice at

https://www.widneyhouseclinic.com

https://nutritionprovocateur.com