Free yourself from the battlefield of the mind

Orthorexia is an unhealthy obsession with "clean" or "pure" eating that can spiral into anxiety, isolation, and malnutrition. What begins as a desire for health can become a rigid, all-consuming pattern that disrupts life and well-being. We unpack: • What orthorexia is—and what it isn't • Key warning signs and symptoms to watch for • How the clean eating movement and wellness culture can quietly f...

If you have bulimia, anorexia, you emotionally eat or have any type of misaligned relationship with food (which most of us do) this Episode brings a whole new perspective on why you eat, or don't eat and how to heal it. Knowledge is a very good starting point for any healing and the perspective Marcia brings is breaking new ground in healing food issues. She also offers some very solid practical a...

In this Episode we open the conversation about our relationship with food and our eating habits, why this matters, and how it affects our health and well-being. The obvious eating disorders are overeating, bulimia and anorexia. However, many of us, even if we are healthy eaters, have a misaligned relationship with food and very often we don't even know this until we become incredibly self-aware. T...

If you have a range of symptoms, may have had them for a long time and you cannot get a diagnosis or get to the bottom of them then take a listen to this Episode. Antoinette had a wide range of symptoms spanning a four-year period, these symptoms were getting worse and worse. Many health practitioners and a wide array of tests later she still had no clarity as to why she was so sick. Finally, thou...

Why is it that we resist or even sabotage doing what we know is the right thing for our health, well-being and personal growth ? For example, we have a burning desire to eat healthily but then find ourselves reaching for the third cookie or slice of pizza rather than the vegetables.   In this Episode we discuss this conflict between what we want to do (or know we should do) and what we feel like d...

When we get a diagnosis like cancer we are potentially faced with our mortality which evokes a lot of fear, and this is natural. The thing is though that when we act from this place of fear, we not only compromise our immune system (see Episode 11), but we inadvertently focus on the very thing that we want to eradicate (the disease).   We want to beat the cancer or destroy the illness.   This is n...

In this Episode we talk through the REAL effect of alcohol on our physical and mental health. There is a huge a knowledge deficit about the hard facts regarding alcohol and also a lot of misinformation. We take you through scientifically researched information that the average drinker probably doesn't know.   We cover the following :                 The hard-hitting facts and statistics about the...

A trigger is an emotional response not equal to the event.   It is too big a reaction in relation to the external event. This is because it is a response to an unhealed emotional wound and our reaction is literally below our awareness.   Triggers make us human, and they happen to us at work, in relationships, and in interactions with complete strangers.   They   are not bad as they   give us an op...

To improve and grow, change is required. Effective change involves thought and emotion. Whether you are learning to ride a bike, lead in a new direction, embarking on self-healing or getting in better physical shape or proposing a project to renovate the house, this will be valuable information. There are several change models out there but this one deals with the emotional aspects of change. It's...

The information in this Episode could be a turning point in your health if :         You have ongoing pain and /or fatigue that remains undiagnosed.         Pain that you just cannot shift after 3-6 months.         Chronic fatigue.         Fibromyalgia.         Migraines.         Autoimmune disease.         Any mind-body syndrome. Our guest, Simone Steyn, is creating a new frontier in the educatio...

Could your trust in the healthcare system be quietly putting your health at risk? In this episode, we uncover iatrogenic disease —harm caused by medical treatment—and why it's on the rise. From adverse drug reactions to hospital-acquired infections, the stats are sobering—especially for older adults. But there's good news: prevention is powerful. We explore how lifestyle changes, like strength tra...

People talk about healing and recovery but don't talk much about relapse. Most of us go off track. But what is important is that we recognise the signs so as not to go all the way back to relapse. Melissa Gissy Witherspoon (author of I am Sober – now what? ) says that we relapse at several different levels before we get back to ill health, addiction, putting that weight back on, toxic thinking or...

Most people's life span far outstrips their health span, but it does not have to be this way. Ageing is a natural process yes, but how we age is deeply influenced by the choices we make.   We can expect to decline as we age, but we don't have to lose our mobility, flexibility, strength, balance, memory and joy to the extent that we can no longer derive any pleasure from life.   Healthy, functional...

At age 24 a severe health crisis stopped Ryan in his tracks. He was puzzled. Not only was he young but he was living a very clean, active and healthy lifestyle. Despite focusing on becoming even more healthy,   consulting Doctors and taking medication, Ryans' chest and lung issues got worse to the point of needing a lumbar puncture. One day he sat down and decided that in order to heal he needed t...

Being all in means committing to yourself and to your healing – no matter what! It means making your healing your number one priority regardless of what else is going on in your life.     It means - Choose healing, prioritizing it !   Choose to heal and commit to that – make healing a project that you dedicate yourself to, not something that you dip you toe into occasionally. Make it your work!!!!...

Healing is about uncovering the hidden blocks that hinder us from moving toward what we want. Healing is to change a pattern that is unwanted into a pattern that is wanted.  This usually entails changing it for the better into the opposite pattern.  But change isn't as straightforward as Point A to Point B. It is very common that when people begin to heal something, they pendulum swing to the oppo...

John Stevenson is a UK based Transformational Coach. "True health" he says, "is not simply the absence of illness, but a vibrant state of harmony between body, mind, and spirit".   He provides his clients with insights, tools and techniques that help them unlock their body's natural ability to heal and thrive.     John draws both from his own experiences of overcoming personal and health challenge...

We have more control over our bodies and our lives than we realise. This requires us being able to exercise our minds in the right way. To harness the superpower of the mind we need to move away from freak out which is how we are naturally wired. If you are sick, the mind can really help you heal, or it can create more harm. In this Episode we talk through how to engage the mind to work with the b...

You cannot create health until you can be honest about your current reality. In fact, we can't create anything until we are 100% real (with compassionate awareness )  about exactly where we are at and what is TRULY going on RIGHT now ! This means we cannot bypass, deny or avoid the painful truth of our situation – ALL of our situation. Acceptance requires the courage to permit the negative to info...

Cancer is on the rise globally.  In this Episode we : Take a brief look at  what cancer is and why it runs riot in some people and not others. Why it is on the increase - Cancer is a complex disease influenced by a mixture of factors. We attempt to answer this question from our perspective by discussing: The role of chronic (long term) emotional and psychological stress  Upset, fear, worry, anxiet...

The answer is neither a simple yes or no. It is futile to reduce the cause of cancer or any other illness to a single origin. BUT while we cannot say that any personality type causes cancer, certain personality features definitely increase the risk because they are more likely to generate psychological stress. PNI and other research has shown that emotional experiences can be translated into poten...

Allergies are a broad topic, so we focus in this Episode on skin type allergies, BUT this information applies to ALL allergies. The basic underlying tenents are the same. What we offer in this Episode is a road map, not a definitive answer.   A map that guides and gives you a place to start from. Allergies are hypersensitivity reactions   - to any number of things – something your body sees as an...

When we get sick our bodies are giving us feedback, a message that something is out of kilter and needs to change. This could be the food we eat, the lifetsyle we lead, a toxic relationship or any number of things and actually its never just one thing. Healing is multifaceted. Also, often the feedback from the body is an indication that something is playing out unconsciously. If it is unconcious,...

Illness not only has a history, but it tells a history. It is a culmination of a lifelong history of struggle for self . Mind and spirit can survive grievous physical   injury, but repeatedly we see that the physical body begins to succumb when psychic integrity and freedom are jeopardised . In the final analysis, disease is a boundary question. When we look at the research that predicts who is li...

Healing is multifaceted and different for everybody. That is why it is so important to be able to access and use our intuition in order to play a role in our own healing. Also, if we do not access our intuition to guide us on our healing path, we are at the mercy of other people telling us what to do. In this Episode Loretta and I discuss : -         How to know the difference between intuition an...