The Natural Narrative

Send us Fan Mail In this deeply personal episode, Leone, the founder of Mind Medicine & Brave Bites and the voice behind Harvesting Health , opens up about her journey through disordered eating and the path to recovery. With honesty and vulnerability, Leone shares how her relationship with food was shaped by perfectionism, pressure, and pain—and how she eventually found the courage to confront...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 21: In this insightful episode, Leone sits down with Alex Masters, the founder of Balanced Lane , a vibrant community space dedicated to empowering women through Pilates and Yoga. Alex shares the journey of how she discovered her passion for creating a supportive and inclusive environment for women to prioritize their health and well-being. The conversation delves into how...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 20 - In this episode, Leone from Harvesting Health and Shelley Jacks from Magnus Health dive into the powerful technique of graded exposure therapy and how it can help individuals with PTSD and OCD face their fears. They discuss how this approach, broken down into manageable steps, allows sufferers to gradually confront and reduce the impact of their anxieties. Tune in to...

Send us Fan Mail  In this episode of The Natural Narrative , Leone and Anyeska from Wellbeing with Anyeska,   dive deep into the power of intuition and introspection. They explore how modern society, with its rigid norms and expectations, has caused many to lose touch with their inner wisdom. The conversation touches on the impact of peer pressure, the medicalization of body symptoms, and how all...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Leone is chatting with Tracey May Horton, a Business and Life Coach. Tracey works with couples, individuals and groups to help them achieve personal goals as well as providing valuable insight for those people who aspire to growing successful businesses. She has recently released three books to help people challenge their thinking and become a more resilient versio...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Leone chats with a past naturopathic student, Jayde Currie who left the busy Gold Coast to live in rural Morar, Scotland. Jayde chats about the limitations of her rural life, but also highlights the benefits of community, seasonal produce and foraging for local herbal remedies that she creates healing balms and lotions from. A vast difference from the busy and impe...

Send us Fan Mail As we usher in 2025, many of us reflect on the past 12 months - celebrating successes, learning from challenges, and thinking about how we can grow and prosper in the year ahead. Whilst most of the focus tends to be on physical health with many joining the gym, cutting out sugar, and eating wholefoods - it's also a perfect time to consider giving your mind a much-needed detox...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Leone of Harvesting Health chats about the six naturopathic principles and how they are applied to improve YOUR health outcomes. Roxy shares some examples of young people she has helped simply using nutrition and lifestyle tips which brings us back to the most basic of naturopathic formula - creating the correct environment for the body to be able to heal itself R...

Send us Fan Mail You'll never believe this but the first step to embracing better health is to ‘unlearn’ everything you think you know. Most of the urban myths around health protocols are generated by people who want to line their own pockets. Achieving better health doesn’t have to be about difficult protocols and diets, in fact these don’t promote good health, they actively promote fear of...

Send us Fan Mail So your baby or child has sleep issues. Why? Prenatal stress Gut microbiome Nutrition during pregnancy and after Your Birth experience   Several human studies have investigated the association between the external maternal environment and offspring neurodevelopment. These have identified ongoing physical and mental effects in later life.  This is called epigenetics. External stimu...

Send us Fan Mail Are you a busy professional or mumma experiencing fatigue and close to burnout? I don't blame you for wanting to invest in your health, but let's look at the research and the science behind these urban myths Are you wondering - Why you are anaemic? Why you can't absorb iron and hold it? Do you think heavy and painful periods are normal? Are you considering - Intermi...

Send us Fan Mail Exercise - How much is too much. We have been told to exercise more and eat less as women but is this simply a societal crock of sh*t? Leone from Harvesting Health chats to Renee Smith, a personal trainer with a holistic outlook to exercise and diet. Leone recounts her own experience with disordered eating and excessive exercise with Renee contributing with her own experience and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Leone from Harvesting Health talks with her friend and colleague Jan Sky, a neuropsychotherapist, practicing hypnotherapy, counselling and coaching to help people overcome learned roadblocks and be able to achieve their aspirations and goals, both personally and professionally. How does our environment impact our meaning making and our choices? Both Leone and Jan d...

Send us Fan Mail "The pathogen is nothing, the terrain is everything". (Louis Pasteur). What is the terrain? Several body systems provide the ultimate terrain; the gut, the mind, the immune system are some. "The person who takes medicine must recover twice - first from the disease and then from the medicine" (William Osler MD, Regius Fellow at Oxford University). How does medic...

Send us Fan Mail Leone chats to an old friend, Anneliese Sherline about Art Therapy and how this is helping children and adults alike to express and share their emotional burden. Research highlights the advantages of using creative therapies in healing emotional scars Leone met Anneliese at least ten years ago and they both share a hunger for understanding alternative therapies that can support pe...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Leone highlights her thoughts and agreeance with Dr Jeff Rediger, author, physician, psychiatrist and theologian. Dr Jeff Rediger's book, Cured: The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing explores both scientific, evidence-based research and anecdotal experience to acknowledge the body's ability to heal itself. Leone herself very much believes &quo...

Send us Fan Mail Disordered Eating Sits In A Place Between Normal Eating And A Diagnosed Eating Disorder. In a world of Google misinformation it is difficult to understand what foods are nutritious and how we should eat them Leone explores and explains the differences, the symptomatic behaviours of several eating disorders, and disordered eating. Reflecting on her own journey of overcoming Anorexi...

Send us Fan Mail "Breathe is the first thing we do when we enter into the world and the last thing we do as we transition beyond" In this episode, Leone from Harvesting Health chats with Karen Mudie a breathwork facilitator on the Gold Coast about the importance of the breath and specific breathing exercises that promote positive mental and physical health. Evidence-based research suppor...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Leone from Harvesting Health, explores two specific concepts that allow us to 'unlearn learned helplessness' and create opportunities from perceived obstacles. She shares the knowledge of Viktor Frankl (a neurologist, psychotherapist and holocaust survivor) and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (a Hungarian-American psychologist) and the experience of meaning-makin...

Send us Fan Mail Lynda Hundt from CalmXiety joins us today to chat a little about how EFT tapping has helped her manage her anxiety and lead a productive life since her experience in Manhattan during 9/11. She now supports other women experiencing anxiety and stress by holding regular EFT Tapping Circles at a beautiful retreat on the Gold Coast. Lynda's website information  eyeonbeauty.com.au...

Send us Fan Mail Leone explores the association between Adverse Childhood Experiences ACEs and physical health conditions in adulthood. She cites and discusses Vincent Feliiti's ACEs studies in 1998 and 2002 alongside her own recent Literature Review examining the little know facts of this connection. Using her own life and health history as an example, Leone inspires us to "bring back t...

Send us Fan Mail Thankyou for joining me, Leone at The Natural Narrative. This episode is our introduction to the vision behind The Natural Narrative, what you can expect from our podcast and a little background around Leone and why she is a heart-centred passionate natural health practitioner.  You can find us at - https://harvestinghealth.com.au/ facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LeoneDeborahW...