Low Tox Life

Are you in a toxic family or do you know someone who is? Not a light topic this week, folks. Dr Sherrie Campbell. What a brave woman and practitioner taking this personal experience of hers out to the world to offer a road map to help others in similar situations. She is a licensed psychologist in the US, inspiring author, and nationally recognized expert who's featured regularly on TV and radio t...

This week my show guest is farmer, Charlie Arnott who took his family farm reigns in 1997 in Boorowa, where they'd been farming for 50 years. After a series of epiphanies through education, steered them towards regenerative agriculture using biodynamic principles. In today's show we talk about Charlie's farming journey, his decision to move away from trying to get nature to do what HE wanted, and...

The gut continues to be a hot topic, thus one I welcome putting on a show about when I find the kind of guest that can take things to the next level of our understanding of our inner garden. So, this week my guest is Dr Jason Hawrelak. We go deep into the microbiota, the latest gut research, gut brain connection, IBS, fodmap restriction and how to bring back the fibre minus the symptoms, constipat...

  I'm delighted to bring you a story today of possibility. Kim Pearce and Kath Davis are the wonderful women behind The Possibility Project and clothing line Slumwear 108. These two women met by chance on the school drop off on the dawn of the new school year. They connected immediately and the next thing you knew, they were off to India together. It's often easy to think “What change c...

Once a curious mind always a curious mind. Today's show is with retired Professor Alfred Poulos has far from ‘retired' continuing to research and write book after book. While Professor Poulos' medical and scientific research has been wide and varied, it has chiefly focused on the role fats play in health and disease. He specialised in genetics and fat metabolism, Professor Poulos published o...

In this week's very long show, I've actually stuck two interviews together for a bumper issue on HOME design/renovation. I have two experts in their fields here to discuss designing, building and renovating considerations for a healthier you and planet so if this is you now or in the next couple of years, please have a listen, these talented women are a wealth of knowledge. Architects Amelia Lee (...

Is there anything the humble mushroom cannot do? From repair damaged nerves, to fighting cancer proliferation, to improving focus or sleep… the resource is promising and building steadily. Add to that the incredible protein source they provide and their ability to grow from salvaged coffee grounds, and you have the makings for an excellent deep dive into the magic of mushrooms on today's sh...

Every now and then you come across a book that is a ‘Goosebump book'. Best-Selling author and cutting-edge psychologist Dr Joan Rosenberg delivers one such book with her latest “90 seconds to a life you love: How to master your difficult feelings to cultivate confidence, resilience and authenticity. I wanted to make today's show not so much a step by step through the chapters, because...

This week on the show I speak with author Kate Kendall, author of “Life in Flow” out now with Murdoch books. Kate shares myths about yoga and what it means to be a yogi (I learnt something new and it makes perfect sense!), how moving meditation can support us, what 90 seconds of feeling the feelings can do for us to bring us greater strength and joy and more. I‘ve known Kate sinc...

Have you ever thought about where your jewellery came from? Maybe from one of the big name classics, maybe from the local hand made jeweller at the markets. Have you ever thought about whether THEY know where their materials come from? Unfortunately “shiny and sparkly” are words that don't come to mind when I chat to today's guest, Marc Choy, the only ethical, fairtrade gold jeweller i...

In this week's show, I chat to Joseph Burgo, PhD about Shame - Shame itself and Shame, his new book which challenges us to use Shame as a springboard rather than be taken down by it. Resilience has a lot to do with that and Jo talks a lot about that too - how it's cultivated and what early childhood has to do with it. Jo has been practising psychotherapy for more than 35 years and held licenses as...

Well I think I've met my match when it comes to someone who can't shut up a bout a topic they're passionate about - Dr Jolene Brighten is here to join me this week and we got chatting for half an hour before even hitting record! If you haven't come across her work here's the wrap: Before earning her Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine at the National University of Natural Medicine, she graduated wi...

Does your child have trouble focusing? Can they concentrate easily for the appropriate time for their age or is it always a struggle? In this week's show, I invite the wonderful integrative paediatrician Dr Leila Masson back onto the show (and if you didn't catch show #7 right back at the beginning, our show on hidden deficiencies has been a game changers for people - adults AND children all aroun...

This week's show I've invited the wonderful Brenda Janschek, health coach onto the show with me - in the near 3 years of the show, we've never discussed children's health together, despite working with thousands of parents through our Thrive course on that very subject, since 2014. So today, we look at what has helped our children thrive from cooking in the kitchen to family meal times and ho...

This week's show I've invited the wonderful integrative physician based in New York, Dr Vincent Pedre on to talk all things gut - Dr Pedre is a Board-Certified Internist (internal medicine Dr) and Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner in private practice in New York City since 2004. His philosophy and practices are a blend of both Western and Eastern medical trad...

So the second and last ‘mash up week' of the summer series is a topic I see so many women struggle with in our community and even though we can be the most chilled out person (like me!) stress can be body stress from chronic illness also (like me with CIRS) so it can have a double meaning and root stress, yet a similar physiological cascade down stream. I loved both of th...

Welcome to 2019 and I hope you've had a beautiful year so far. This week and next, I've put together a couple of past podcast mash ups on two topics that come up again and again in our community as being pain-points / stuck-points… HELP points! No1 is of course: Sleep. So this week we have Dr Fiona Kerr, Dr Ron Ehrlich and Alex Fergus PT all sharing wisdom from different angl...

As we're not doing shows on the 24th or 31st, I just HAD to include this golden conversation with inspiring author and general “help you live your best life and never in a phoney way” legend, Jonathan Fields. Whether you know him from his podcast “The Good Life Project” or his book “How to live a good life” or whether you've never heard of him, today i...

So just a light topic today then, hey? I am thrilled to invite triple board certified physician, Zach Bush onto the show today for a conversation that made me throw out my questions as soon as we tucked in. When you do the math on the autism prediction of 1 in 3 children having an autism diagnosis by 2030 and EVERYONE having a cancer diagnosis in their life time by that same time, it is...

In my show this week we go deep into some of the labels you'll find on your clothes, bed linen and textiles in general.  What does fair trade, made in XYZ country, made with organic cotton, GOTS certified and Ecotek all mean when it's on the label? What are we NOT seeing on the label that is used in the farming and production process? How do we develop a healthier relationship with what we ch...

This week on the show the wonderful two times New York Times best seller Meik Wiking joins me once again. It was one of the most popular podcasts of last year on the Danish art of “hygge” which means cosiness so I'm excited to bring you another conversation with Meik. This time we go a bit deeper into happiness research, what the single biggest factors are for a soc...

This week it's me chatting to you direct. No guest. I'm sharing the 3 most asked about topics from the book tour AND the 5 top recommendations I've made across the country in today's show if you're feeling a little lost or overwhelmed as to where to start or how to prioritise and not feel like you're never doing enough - that ain't allowed on my watch! Perfect for those newly e...

Maggie Dent is a well known voice of reason and comfort when it comes to raising all children, and especially boys. With 4 boys of her own all grown up now, and being a teacher in a boy's senior school she knows a thing or two about what makes boys tick, what helps us raise good, resilient men and how to nurture the feelings of boys, allowing them to express themselves, holding space for...

I'm so thrilled to have discovered Katarina Wallentin, when she sent us her book - Clara the Climate Changer. She has worked in many hidden parts of the globe with international organizations such as United Nations, Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders. Her aim has always been to explore, experience and change the world we live in to something greater for now and the future....

It's a brilliant science nerd alert this week for you on the show as I bring you Jonathan R Latham, PhD who is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Maste...