Joyful Balance Podcast

It was Stress Awareness Month in April so we’re bringing you a belated episode all about stress, what it is, what it means for your body and mind and how to tackle it and cope with stress a little bit better. This week, we cover: Real and perceived stresses and how they’re one and the same thing The stress response and the physiological impacts of stress Your built-in relaxation system: the parasy...

We know the January Blues are a real thing, and that this month can be a bit of a struggle. We’re no stranger to this, both personally and professionally. If you’ve ever wondered what depression is, what it can look like in people, and what causes it (from a neuroscience perspective), this is the episode for you. Whilst it’s impossible to put all of the information and science out there in this ep...

Happy New Year! We’re back with an episode all about a controversial subject: New Year's Resolutions, health habits and how to work towards your health goals. Here’s a clue: we’re not all that into New Year’s Resolutions! Intrigued? We’ll tell you all about why they can often fail, and we’ll tell you how to set yourself up for success when it comes to habit change. Some topics we cover: Our Christ...

We’re back to you after yet another (unplanned but much needed) hiatus. We’ve been busy trying to get all our ducks in a row to come back to you more regularly with episodes. We’ve missed you and the podcast! Now is a perfect time to be back in your ears and minds in the lead up to what feels like the biggest celebrations that we’ve had in a while: Christmas and how to eat well during this time pe...

After a little break, we’re happy to come back with a stellar podcast episode: the issues we have with Diet Culture. We cover a huge amount of topics within this umbrella term: diets, the culture of dieting and wacky diets being introduced to help with weight loss. We discuss a little bit about weight loss and about the nutritional considerations when it comes to eating more optimally for your goa...

Welcome back to the Joyful Balance Podcast with your two delightful co-hosts, Meera Malhotra (Nutritional Therapist) and Denise Iordache (Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist). Today we’re tackling a topic that hits home for most of us: emotional eating. At some point, we all fall victim to stress eating, eating more comfort foods in times of low mood, or being unable to stick to our health goals...

Welcome back to the Joyful Balance Podcast with your two delightful co-hosts, Meera Malhotra (Nutritional Therapist) and Denise Iordache (Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist). After a bit of an unplanned break, we’ve returned for the second episode of the third season, and this one is different! We’ve scoured the pages of Reddit for all kinds of nutrition content to help figure out what our audie...

Welcome to the Joyful Balance Podcast with your two delightful co-hosts, Meera Malhotra (Nutritional Therapist) and Denise Iordache (Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist). This is the first episode of our new season where we take you on a journey of how your mind, brain and body are interconnected. SUPPORT JOYFUL BALANCE PODCAST: Feel free to share your support with us, by donating a cup of coffee...

Welcome to the Joyful Balance Podcast! Denise and Meera are here to take you on a journey of understanding your mind, your brain and your body and how all three things are very much interlinked. This is the final episode of Season 2! The theme running through this season has been about personal change for us both, learning to action the advice we give you! Today we’re rounding up on how we have be...

Welcome back to the Joyful Balance Podcast! This week we’re talking about a topic not often thought about very deeply - Resilience. A hugely underrated skill, Meera and Denise cover the benefits of resilience on a neuroscience and psychological level, and how you can develop resilience like any other skill - with practice. SUPPORT JOYFUL BALANCE PODCAST: Feel free to share your support with us, by...

Welcome back to the Joyful Balance Podcast! We cover all things related to mental health, brain health and physical wellbeing and all of these are closely interlinked. As part of this season’s theme where we put the spotlight on our own health and hold ourselves accountable, we’re spending this week’s episode looking at what we do on a daily basis to look after our health and wellbeing. Like you,...

We’re absolutely thrilled to have a colleague and friend of Meera’s, fellow nutritionist and functional medicine practitioner, Anastasia Smith. Anastasia specialises in Whole Mind Health - supporting clients experiencing the full spectrum of psychiatric conditions and also works with clients experiencing neurological pathologies such as Alzheimer’s. SUPPORT JOYFUL BALANCE PODCAST: Feel free to sha...

This week we’re covering a much-loved topic for both of us: sleep! Sleep is so important for your mental and physical wellbeing that we cannot tell you enough how much a good night’s sleep is priceless for your health. SUPPORT JOYFUL BALANCE PODCAST: Feel free to share your support with us, by donating a cup of coffee It’s really common to have trouble with your sleep, and stress can massively imp...

We’re joined by another fantastic guest today - Consultant Nurse, Mindfulness Teacher and Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, Slee Parish! Slee heads up True Thoughts therapy and alongside her incredible NHS 40+ year career as a Consultant Nurse, she’s also a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist (and Denise’s supervisor during her training!) and a Mindfulness teacher. Slee focuses on problematic...

On this week’s episode, we’re talking all about mood and what neurotransmitters (brain chemicals that are little emails between your brain cells) and hormones (signalling chemicals in your body and brain that tell your cells to take certain actions) and how they affect your mood. SUPPORT JOYFUL BALANCE PODCAST: Feel free to share your support with us, by donating a cup of coffee Meera takes you on...

On this week’s episode, we’re delighted to have Dr Nisa Aslam, an Urgent Care GP and medical practitioner for LiveSmart, a digital health company. Nisa has a strong interest and practice in preventative medicine and lifestyle changes to improve health. With over 10 years of medical experience to draw on, we couldn’t think of a better guest to talk to us all about what wellness for a healthy and ha...

Welcome back to the Joyful Balance Podcast with your two delightful co-hosts, Meera Malhotra (Nutritional Therapist) and Denise Iordache (Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist). This is the first episode of our new season where we take you on a journey of how your mind, brain and body are interconnected. SUPPORT JOYFUL BALANCE PODCAST: Feel free to share your support with us, by donating a cup of c...

Season 1 Wrap Up with your favourite hosts - Meera & Denise. We are so grateful to have you listen to our podcast and we thought you will enjoy a special offer, just for you! We hope you love this episode and we look forward to bringing you Season 2 soon! SUPPORT JOYFUL BALANCE PODCAST: Feel free to share your support with us, by donating a cup of coffee Feel free to leave us a comment too!: Y...

For our bonus episode this first season, Meera’s back with tons of information all about neurotransmitters and hormones and their effect on your appetite! If you like what hear, feel free to show us some support, in the form of a coffee donation. We thank you very much! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/helloFE If you thought you knew why you ate, you might want to listen to this episode! There’s plent...

Welcome back to the Joyful Balance Podcast! This week we’re talking about... Talking. Specifically, how we talk to ourselves and how that self-talk can set you up for success or failure. On today’s podcast you can hear us talk about: What we’ve been up to and how we’ve been Why self-talk is important for our self-belief and how what we say to ourselves becomes reality How negative self-talk affect...

We’re back for another episode! This week, we cover lots of information on nutrition for better brain health. SUPPORT JOYFUL BALANCE PODCAST: Feel free to share your support with us, by donating a cup of coffee Firstly, Meera sets the scene on brain health and functions that are really affected by nutrition and why. Then our conversation moves into more specific subjects, such as: Denise and Meera...

On this week’s episode, we’re delving into the link between emotions and food and how they both are very related to each other. This really is our bread and butter, particularly for Denise who takes the lead this week. We share our own personal experiences with this topic so you know you’re in good company! SUPPORT JOYFUL BALANCE PODCAST: Feel free to share your support with us, by donating a cup...

This week, we hear from Meera, our resident brain expert all about the brain! We also talk about how therapy can be of help. Topics we cover: What exactly is neuroscience? How the brain is divided up Deeper structures of the brain Interesting brain facts Prefrontal cortex development Neuroplasticity and why that’s so important for building new skills and habits Cortical homunculus *this is the one...

We’re doing something a little different today with being honoured to have our very first guest, Andreea. She is a certified NASM Physical Trainer, PN1 Nutrition Coach and Mindfulness Practitioner with a strong interest in counselling and coaching her clients. Now, she’s also a mum to two beautiful 10-month old twins, while running her coaching business called Livit. You can find her at www.livit....

Join us on the Joyful Balance Podcast as Denise takes us on her journey to Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy - what it is, what it isn’t, how it works and about how she came to train as a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist! We hope you like this episode. SUPPORT JOYFUL BALANCE PODCAST: Feel free to share your support with us, by donating a cup of coffee We cover: What is Cognitive Behavioural H...