Self Care Club

The ladies try out the app Ahead to help manage their emotional well-being. Will it make it into the club? A big thanks to Ahead for being our sponsor of the week You can download the app here - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ahead-emotions-coach/id1570430177 If you like what we do here and want to be part of the club, come follow us and be part of our growing facebook group  Facebook  https://www....

The ladies delve deeper into the zoe app and hear from the listeners on their thoughts on the nutrition programme. If you like what we do here and want to be part of the club, come follow us and be part of our growing facebook group  Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1115099072702743/?ref=share_group_link Instagram https://www.instagram.com/selfcareclubpod/ YouTube https://youtube.com/c/Se...

Self compassion is simply the process of turning compassion inwards. So why is it so hard? Lauren brings a quiz to see who is the most compassionate and Nicole gets very competitive. For the full episode please go to - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7FemPrGdXHtgIEtTjHiJKA?si=pGlpVleVQG27ZOl_FZorsA If you like what we do here and want to be part of the club, come follow us and be part of our grow...

This week Lauren and Nicole really get experimenting as they test out the Zoe app - the personalised nutrition programme from the worlds largest nutrition-science study. They have their unique blood fat, blood sugar and gut health analysed to learn how to improve their long term health. What will they learn about their own metabolisms, how food affects their bodies and their gut microbiomes? They...

The ladies return with their final thoughts on anxiety. Anna Mathur brings the Challenge of the Week and in Wellness news Goop has brought out a necklace that doubles as a vibrator and Lauren and Nicole are less than impressed! If you like what we do here and want to be part of the club, come follow us and be part of our growing facebook group • Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/11150990727...

On behalf of mental health awareness week our snippets of the month are dedicated to mental practices. This snippet is part of our 'Letting go of being right' episode. When we are fixed on ‘being right’, we instantly make someone else wrong, which invariably creates distance and activates the ‘fault-finding’ mindset. If you want to develop good relationships with others, it is never helpful to cre...

We’re proud to be supporting mental health this MentalHealthAwarenessWeek - 15 to 21 May 2023. The theme this year is anxiety - one of the most common mental health problems people face. To assist us this week we are absolutely delighted to be joined by Anna Mathur who joins us again after appearing on our show on toxic positivity. Anna is a psychotherapist who is widely celebrated for her accessi...

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On behalf of mental health awareness week our snippets of the month are dedicated to mental practices. This snippet is part of our heartfelt apologies episode. The two little words” I’m sorry” can be very powerful, but why do we find it so hard to say them? This week Lauren and Nicole navigate the tricky subject of apologies. But what is a heartfelt apology? How do you do it? And why is it importa...

Lorraine Candy is an award winning journalist, editor and bestselling author with more than three decades of experience writing about women’s lives and parenting in national newspapers and magazines. She is a mum of four and the co-host of the popular podcast Postcards from Midlife. Lorraine is the former editor in chief of Sunday Times Style, Elle and Cosmopolitan and also regularly appears on na...

Welcome to part 2 of Lauren and Nicole's trip to The Dreaming retreat. At the end of part 1 we left Lauren and Nicole deep in the forests of Wales. Lauren was on the verge of a toddler tantrum and and Nicole had become Charlotte Church's stalker. How will this escapade pan out and how will the rest of their time at the retreat go? Tune in to find out! Held within the deep cleave of the Nant Caetho...

On behalf of mental health awareness week our snippets of the month are dedicated to mental practices. This snippet is part of our active listening episode. To listen to the full show click here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/self-care-club-wellness-road-tested/id1505703522?i=1000559277254 If you like what we do here and want to be part of the club, come follow us and be part of our growing...

In the first of this special two part episode the Self Care Club ladies go away for the first time together when they were invited to stay at The Dreaming - an innovative and inspiring new wellness retreat nestled in the heart of Wales. Held within the deep cleave of the Nant Caethon Valley, The Dreaming is a place where you can deepen your connection to nature, return to child-like curiosity and...

The ladies return to chat about seamoss. The clubbers are mightily confused about what it is. Lauren is far too relaxed after the retreat and Nicole wants to talk all about adult swaddling. What’s that? Tune in to find out. Big thanks again to our expert of the week - Blaise. You can visit his website www.spiceislandproducts.co.uk or his catering website Livity Kitchen.  If you like what we do her...

Barak Obama said: “Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new” If the former president is ok with it, then why do so many of us still have an issue with asking for help? In this snippet Lauren and Nicole expl...

The ladies are trying Seamoss this week. Seamoss is a spiny sea vegetable - a type of algae or seaweed - that’s harvested for use as a health supplement and ingredient in commercial food. It claims to alleviate and heal numerous ailments and perhaps is the elixir of life we are all searching for. Tune in to find out. Big thanks to our expert of the week - Blaise. You can visit his website www.spic...

In this hilarious episode Lauren teases Nicole about her being vain and Nicole replays the evidence. They also discuss the benefits of soft hiking. If you like what we do here and want to be part of the club, come follow us and be part of our growing facebook group  Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1115099072702743/?ref=share_group_link Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/selfcareclubpo...

In this snippet the ladies discuss a very sketchy wellness trend which involves your face turning into a frog. Please don't try this at home. If you like what we do here and want to be part of the club, come follow us and be part of our growing facebook group  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1115099072702743/?ref=share_group_link Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/selfcareclubpod/ YouTu...

If you haven't heard about Earth Day then what planet have you been on?! Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. For this special episode we wanted to focus on one aspect of concern - pollution. And as always to bring it back to you and your self care. The World Health Organisation estimates around 99,000 deaths a year in Europe from indoor pol...

The ladies return to talk about if they have continued with the practice since they did it for the show a while back. In wellness news; Gwyneth has not only won her court case but launched a new Goop sex account to teach fans of Goop all about sexual pleasure. Obviously Lauren and Nicole waste no time diving in. If you like what we do here and want to be part of the club, come follow us and be par...

This snippet the ladies are warding off vampires, energy vampires: people who leave other people exhausted or "drained" of energy. Literally sucked dry! In order to protect themselves from psychic attack, Lauren & Nicole test out the bestselling Goop product - The Psychic Vampire Repellent spray which was created to ward off such people. For the full episode click here - https://podcasts.apple.com...

The ladies return to hear how the listeners feel about astrology and chat all about the misinformation given to women when it comes to egg freezing. In other news, Nicole is offended that Lauren didn't bring her back a Toblerone from the airport... despite mot actually wanting one! If you like what we do here and want to be part of the club, come follow us and be part of our growing facebook group...

In one of our most popular shows of all time, this snippet is a small part of the interview with the boundary expert Nancy Levin. She teaches us what happens when we don't set them and why they are so vital to our mental wellbeing.  For the full episode click here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/self-care-club/id1505703522?i=1000542039733 For more info on Nancy Levin's work go visit her at -...

This week it’s written in the stars as the ladies explore astrology with the help of expert guest Noura Bourni. Noura is an Astrologist & Esoteric researcher and the astrological guide for Caggie Dunlop’s Saturn Returns Podcast. She sets Lauren and Nicole a task to complete as their moons are in Scorpio. Listen in to hear how they got along.  For more info about Noura please go to: https://www.nou...

Lauren and Nicole are done with ingesting aloe... but in the wellness newsflash there is a new Tik Tok trend going round which suggests using it on your face. Is it a good idea or not? With Easter here, the recommendation of the week is all about chocolate as the ladies do an Easter egg taste test and give a rundown of this years big hitters in the world of confectionary. If you like what we do he...