The Small Steps to Wellness Show

The gut brain connection is getting more and more attention, and deservedly so.

In this episode I sit down to talk to Nikkie Windsor on the importance of a healthy gut on not just our mental health, but our health overall, and I hear her story of living with Crohn's disease.

Nikkie Windsor is a Certified Nutritionist, Health Coach, Yoga Breathing Coach, gut health expert and fermentation specialist.

Inspired by her personal journey of living with Crohn’s disease and IBS for over 35 years, Nikkie helps people prioritise their gut health and provides hope for people who feel trapped by chronic disease and those living with bowel disorders.

Within 12 months, Nikkie went from lying in a hospital bed to living in the jungle of Costa Rica where she spent over a decade rediscovering traditional and sustainable living practices and understanding the role that diet, lifestyle and mindset have on her well-being.

Nikkie founded Jungle Goddess Gut Health UK in 2014 selling fermented products and health foods while supporting people with digestive issues and food intolerances.

Since returning to the UK and graduating Nikkie offers personalised coaching programs and continues to share and teach the skills learned in the jungle at talks, demonstrations, and workshops.

Her next workshop is an online gut health and fermenting workshop happening on the 23rd of November 2022 and you can sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fermented-foods-and-gut-health-workshop-online-tickets-444614051597

To get in touch with Nikkie, visit her website www.thejunglegoddess.com or find her on social media under @guthealthuk .

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| gut health | gut issues | crohns disease | food intolerances | fermented foods | probiotics | prebiotics

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In this episode of the show I am talking to Lucy Higgins about the perfect mother myth, the pressure we feel as mums, where it's coming from, and also some of the tools we can use to help ourselves on the motherhood journey.

Lucy Higgins is a Mum to two boys living in Hertfordshire. She is an International Coaching Federation accredited Coach who helps parents to achieve their personal and professional potential without sacrificing their wellbeing. Driven by her core value of fairness and empathy, she is passionate about ending the mental health stigma and achieving gender equality.

Prior to retraining as a Coach in 2018, she spent 20 years in Corporate Communications - she now works with corporates and with individuals running group and 1-1 career, leadership and wellbeing coaching programmes.

Her Instagram is called Big Talk for Mums (for Mums who hate small talk) because she believes we should be more vulnerable and supportive in the Mum community if we want to challenge patriarchal motherhood and create equal opportunities for women in the next generation.

You can find Lucy here:

www.bigtalkformums.co.uk

www.instagram.com/bigtalkformums



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| matrescence | the perfect mother | parenting | mothering | motherhood | raising children | bringing up children|

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In this episode I am joined by Vicky, Amy and Debbie talking about the challenges of eating healthily in today's world.

What's the deal with artificial sweeteners?
Carrageenan, what on earth does that mean?
Organic vs non organic food?
We have allergies, how do I manage that?

We share our struggles, but also solutions!

More from Amy:

@amylouise_eyh @enlighten_your_health

In our house we love:
Kallo Dark Chocolate Rice Cakes

Homemade doughnuts
https://healthylivingjames.co.uk/gluten-free-cinnamon-baked-doughnuts/

Violife dairy free cheese seems to be the only cheese alternative I can find that suits my sensitive tummy.

Homemade fluffy pancakes
https://healthylivingjames.co.uk/fluffy-free-from-pancakes/

More from Vicky:

@vickyvixvictoria

In our house we love:
Freee organic super grain hoops

Montezumas Giant dark chocolate buttons

Moo free chocolate

Karma Organic Cola

Tahini brownies -
https://deliciouslyella.com/recipes/tahini-brownies/

More from Debbie:

@bestnutrition63

What we love:
Artificial sweetener free tonics - Fevertree range (essential for hubby as aspartame triggers his gout)

Porridge with raspberry chia jam (nice as coming into Autumn).

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/raspberry-chia-jam is a nice recipe.

My advice: Check labels to avoid artificial sweeteners: aspartame, acesulfame K, sucralose. In my view small amounts of sugar are better than using artificial sweeteners. Choose products with the fewest ingredients. Long lists of chemicals indicate high degrees of processing and far removed from the natural form of food.

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| food labels | artificial sweeteners | kids food | healthy kids | healthy children | healthy families | food intolerances | carrageenan | organic food|

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It's menopause awareness month and I'm looking at what nutrients we should cover to help prevent bone loss as this is a problem for a lot of women as they enter this next big phase in their lives.

This is a shorter episode with an introduction to some key nutrients, and I am not going into a lot of different foods, but for further help on the topic, please reach out to me on Instagram @smallstepstowellness and we can continue the conversation.

If you want more information on some of the supplements I use, please reach out to me.


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| eat for bone health | osteoporosis | bone loss | menopause | perimenopause | postmenopause | womenshealth

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In this episode I sit down to talk to physiotherapist Becky Aston - a pelvic health Physiotherapist - about menopause symptoms and how she supports women through challenging times of life for their body, including peri and post menopause.

Becky has over 20 years experience of working with men and women with pelvic health issues. She worked in the NHS for 15 years before starting her private practice in Berkhamsted, where she works alongside 2 other fabulous women's health physios.

In addition to helping women during menopause, the clinic also treats women of all ages with issues affecting the pelvic area. From stress urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, overactive bladder syndrome, painful bladder syndrome (cystitis), endometriosis, to treating women during pregnancy with back and pelvic issues as well as helping women recover post birth with abdominal and pelvic floor issues.

To get in touch with Becky, or to find a physiotherapist that can help with pelvic floor and menopause symptoms, see below links:

https://squeezyapp.com/directory/

https://thepogp.co.uk/patients/physiotherapists/

https://www.beckyastonphysiotherapy.co.uk

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physiotherapy | menopause | perimenopause | postmenopause | womenshealth | pelvic floor | menopause symptoms | post birth 

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October is World Menopause Awareness Months and I therefore want to share this conversation that I had with Keris Marsden on the topic a while back.

Keris is a clinical nutritionist specialising in peri-menopause and menopause. We discuss what symptoms of peri-menopause are, what treatment options are out there and what we can do to nourish ourselves whilst navigating this new stage of our lives.

In addition to being a clinical nutritionist, Keris is also a Personal Trainer, Yoga Teacher and founder of Fitter Food. She has co-authored two successful recipe books and lectures in nutrition. She currently runs a private practice consulting with individuals to help them optimise their long-term health with an integrated approach that incorporates nutrition, physical activity, supplements and mental health support. Her specialist skills include evidence-based treatment for perimenopause/menopause, fertility, PCOS, digestive issues, fatigue, Type 2 diabetes and cancer.

You can find Keris here:

https://www.facebook.com/FitterFood

https://www.instagram.com/fitterfood/


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menopause | perimenopause | womenshealth | hrt | hormone replacement therapy | food as medicine |


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Wendy Windle is not just any coach, she is the love your bloody self coach. In this episode we sit down to talk about exactly this challenge: how can women break out of the good girl box that so many of us find ourselves in, and learn to just bloody love ourselves?

Wendy is on a mission to help spirited, but stuck women to release the hidden fears that are holding them back, break out of the good girl box, and create a life true to themselves.
Wendy teaches her clients effective practices to eliminate stress and anxiety, and create sustainable self-care systems that propel them forwards.

She splits her time between her homes in London and Mexico and is happiest when she's covered in cats, and eating chips.

You can find Wendy here: wendywindle.com

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In this episode I sit down to talk to my coach, Lindsay Carricarte-Jones about living in alignment and her journey to get to where she is today.

Lindsay is a new thought spiritual practitioner and master spiritual psychology coach, quantum healer, and host of the Detoxxxing from the Matrix podcast, which I can highly recommend.

If you're familiar with Human Design, you'll be interested to know that she is a Mental Projector, and an all-around consciousness explorer. Lindsay is devoted to bringing the truth to the world, helping sensitive humans heal and unlock soulful gifts through trauma healing and the Recovery of Self, Soul, and Spirit.

She helps projectors and highly sensitive souls who know they have a purpose to recover themselves from program of co-dependency, addiction, people pleasing, self-doubt and sabotage.

Through her group programs and 1:1 coaching she offers subconscious reprogramming, trauma healing, and emotional alchemy to take you from living in overwhelm, doubt, bitterness and burnout, to alignment, magnetism and sovereignty.
Together with her clients she restores the true identi
ty of badass divine creator as they peel back the layers of who we’ve been programmed to be.

This is an episode you do not want to miss!

You can find Lindsay here:

www.Instagram.com/iamlindscarricarte

https://www.facebook.com/LindsCarricarte

Gifts & Resources
https://linktr.ee/iamlindscarricarte

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human design | mental projector | human design projector | alignment | life coach

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In this episode I sit down to talk to Sarah Hunt, a hardworking PA to a MD during the day, but also a single mum to two young girls aged 6 and 8. The eldest has special needs, in form of a chromosome disorder.

Sarah is originally from Australia, but has been in the UK coming up 18 years, after initially coming over on a 1 year career break!

She has worked hard on herself in the last few years to keep a good balance of health and fitness and self care but also going out with friends and enjoying herself and living life to the full!

I want to find out how Sarah fits it all in (she has even started a side-line business!), and why she finds it so important to take time out for herself.

As the saying goes, you can't pour from an empty cup, and Sarah has truly taken that to heart in order to be the mummy she wants to be for her girls.

I hope you will be as inspired as I was after listening to our conversation.


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SEN | extra needs | single mum | single parent |staying healthy | aussie

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We all keep hearing how bad sugar is for us, but what about artificial sweeteners? No calories are surely a good thing, right?

In this episode I sit down to talk to nutritional therapist Amie Lunt to try to find out more about artificial sweeteners and why she as a clinician and a mother is doing everything she can to avoid them, both for herself and her children.

Amie is a qualified Nutritional Therapist, Breastfeeding Peer Supporter and an advocate for infant health and nutrition. She volunteers for a local breastfeeding charity supporting new mums with their breastfeeding journeys and is extremely passionate about infant feeding and childhood nourishment. Above all, she is a mummy to five-year old Isla and 20-month old Lola and is simply trying to navigate the roller-coaster journey that motherhood is.

She is most widely known for her work as The Mummy Nutritionist, helping families with starting solids and sharing information on how to increase the nutrient density of our little ones’ diets.

You will find her on Instagram @amie.nutrition where she shares all of her knowledge and experience of breastfeeding, introducing foods and infant nutrition, as well as advice for the health of mums and mums-to-be, or at her website amienutrition.co.uk where you will find more about herself, her journey and details of how to contact her.

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artificial sweeteners | aspartame | sucralose | sugar | kids drinks | nutrition | healthy kids

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