Plant-based diets have grown significantly in popularity over the past decade. People adhere to them for multiple reasons because they offer many different benefits, including for health, economics, animal welfare and the environment. This program explores what plant-based diets are, their benefits, nutritional adequacy, and sustainability.

Host: Kaysie Vokurka, Nutritionist & Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner
Guest: Dr Winston Craig, Adjunct Professor

This program explores tools for recovering from unhealthy relationships. Key strategies such as being assertive, setting boundaries and seeing oneself in a healthy way are discussed. The influence of spiritual perspectives in relationship recovery is also addressed.

Host: Kaysie Vokurka, Nutritionist & Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner
Guest: Jenifer Skues, Health Psychologist

Controlling relationships can have a dramatic impact on our overall health. They can increase our risk of chronic diseases through activating the body’s stress response system. This program explores how this works along with ways to manage stress responses from traumatic relationships and experiences.

Host: Kaysie Vokurka, Nutritionist & Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner
Guest: Jenifer Skues, Health Psychologist

Power dynamics in relationships can significantly affect our emotions, wellbeing and quality of life. Power or control in relationships is often misused. This program describes the types of negative power plays we often experience in relationships and the root causes behind them.

Host: Kaysie Vokurka, Nutritionist & Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner
Guest: Jenifer Skues, Health Psychologist

Relationships develop throughout our lives. Various factors influence whether or not we will develop healthy or unhealthy relationship patterns. This episode explains how relationship patterns are imprinted in early life experiences and how they develop over time into healthy or unhealthy dynamics.

Host: Kaysie Vokurka, Nutritionist & Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner
Guest: Jenifer Skues, Health Psychologist

Almost half of Australian adults have some sleep related problems. Many modern habits have a role to play with this issue. Yet, there are many practical things that can be done every day to improve sleep quality. This episode explores a variety of practical principles and tips for achieving rejuvenating sleep.

Host: Kaysie Vokurka, Nutritionist & Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner
Guest: Dr Eddie Ramirez, M.D.

A good night’s sleep makes a huge difference in people’s lives. Yet many people struggle to achieve this in today’s modern world. Healthy sleep is often challenged in the form of disruptions to our sleep cycle. This program discusses the roles of melatonin, light exposure and a regular routine for healthy sleep.

Host: Kaysie Vokurka, Nutritionist & Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner
Guest: Dr Eddie Ramirez, M.D.

Communication is vital for healthy connection in relationships. It’s important for nurturing friendship and understanding and it’s also essential for navigating more challenging relationship dynamics. This episode discusses how to communicate to set healthy boundaries in relationships, which help to protect ourselves and others.

Host: Kaysie Vokurka, Nutritionist & Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner
Guest: Jenifer Skues, Health Psychologist

We can use the personal power we have in relationships in various ways. The way we exercise power can either build healthy relationship dynamics or unhealthy ones. This program explores the ways we use power in our relationships along with how we use power to protect ourselves in relationship dynamics.

Host: Kaysie Vokurka, Nutritionist & Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner
Guest: Jenifer Skues, Health Psychologist

Relationships are part of our lives throughout life. They grow and develop through time and what our relationships were in the past can influence how they are in the present and the future. This episode focuses on the connection between relationships and time and how understanding this can help us enhance the quality of our relationships.

Host: Kaysie Vokurka, Nutritionist & Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner
Guest: Jenifer Skues, Health Psychologist