The Small Steps to Wellness Show

My guest host Miriam Stener is back and we're talking menstrual cycles.  Did you talk to your parents about menstrual cycles when you first got your period? Or was it something you almost discovered and learnt about on your own, perhaps with your friends? How do you talk to your children about it?  We talk about working with our periods, as opposed to working against it, and that it is ok to take...

Jenny Sumner and I are having a long overdue chat on this episode of the podcast, and it's all about women, transitions, finding ourselves and being ok with all the changes.  Jenny is an Identity and Mindset Coach and a Holistic Therapist. Working predominantly with women, Jenny's passion lies in supporting women amidst transition, which, let's face it, is most of our lives. By supporting women to...

My good friend Miriam is back on the show as a future semi-regular guest!  We did not plan this episode at all before hitting record, and as always with me, those are the best podcast recordings.  We're talking: Human design Raising children Feeding your children nutritious meals What success is Negative self talk Peri menopause and much much more!  No filter on, so our language isn't always child...

Hannah Flores had quite the traumatic child birth, and this episode she sits down with me to talk about it, what she's learnt from it, but also how to move forward.  20 minutes in to the conversation, my recording equipment failed, and the second part of our talk happened 2 months later, probably covering a completely different topic than what we set out to do during the first talk! Hannah is curr...

After a very long Christmas break, The Small Steps to Wellness Show is back with a fantastic guest.  Andrew Logan - a top leader within Network Narketing, a fantastic coach and successful podcast host - is my guest on this episode, and we dive into the notion that money can't buy happiness.  After graduating from University as a Physiotherapist in 2004, Andrew was following the traditional path –...

In the 58th episode of The Small Steps to Wellness Show, I'm talking to Bobbie. I'd heard some stories about what Bobbie has gone through, but honestly, none of it came close to hearing it all from the source itself.  I know that this episode can be triggering for some, especially if you have gone through, or know someone who has gone through cancer. Please be aware that this is Bobbie's experienc...

Good things come to those who wait.  And this conversation is one of those good things, if I may say so myself.  Dan Thompson and I sit down to talk about mindfulness and how it too has its place in the topic of health.  We dive straight in, and if I told you that we'd only just met five minutes before we hit record, I bet you wouldn't believe me. This conversation was like talking to an old frien...

Dr. Hans-Thomas Richter is a seasoned practitioner and researcher in the field of Traditional Chinese Medicine and nutritional science, with a robust career transition from biomedical research to natural medicine. He owns and operates NatureWorks Therapeutics and the wellness resource, Omega3Health.us. In this episode, I sit down to talk to Hans-Thomas about the challenges he believes we are facin...

This episode is a little bit different to my usual episodes, but just as important nonetheless.  I'm talking to Nicky Maxwell, Community and Events Manager at DENS,- Dacorum emergency night shelter - about their annual fundraiser, The Sleepout.  At its prestigious new venue of Lockers Park School in Hemel Hempstead, the event will kick off with a fun-filled evening of team games and live entertain...

Bex's daughter Sienna ws diagnosed with West syndrome at 3 months old after having experienced multipe seizures. This syndrome has caused her to have severe, uncontrollable epilepsy, global developmental delays, partial sightedness, as well as being non-verbal or mobile, with rods in her spine, a VNS implant and a gastrostomy fitted.   All care is needed to be provided 24/7 for Sienna, and her pro...

It's Down Syndrome awareness month this October, and I'm sat down with Vicky Garnett-Ash, who tells her story of giving birth to her third child and her life since.  Unbeknownst to her, Layla was to be born with three holes in her heart and Down Syndrome, and what was supposed to be a relaxing home birth, turned into an ambulance to several hospitals straight after birth, followed by surgeries, IC...

Lindsay Carricarte-Jones is back talking all things human design, living in alignment, daring to step away from the everyday hustle, trusting that things will fall into place, and the gifts and challenges of being a human design projector.  I would recommend a tiny introduction to human design before listening to this podcast. However, if you have a little bit of knowledge, I trust that this episo...

In this episode I sit down with Ally Atkins to hear her story of how she took matters into her own hands when it came to her health several years ago, and how she educated herself and was able to come off her long term medication. She's since become a PT and a health coach, who helps women create a stronger body for longevity. Music to my ears, in other words.  We cover a lot of ground in this epi...

Louise Digby is a BANT-registered nutritional therapist and weight loss expert. She's also the founder of The Nourish Method.  Louise is on a mission to help women discover and fix what's really keeping them from sluggish metabolism, imbalanced hormones, mindset challenges, and more. In this episode of The Small Steps to Wellness Show we talk about the hidden factors that impact our weight, includ...

Episode 49 is a short one, with a few musings from me about listening to our own gut feelings, intuition, whatever you might call it, and whether we actually take our own advice, or keep on supressing ourselves until something goes wrong.  I would love to have a conversation with you on this topic, so please head over to Instagram, search for @smallstepstowellness and let's chat. | listening to gu...

Andy Brown - an award-winning adviser and coach for people-based businesses - has written a fantastic book called "The Emotional Overdraft". In this episode of The Small Steps to Wellness Show, he sits down with me to discuss how business success and success in life in general is a balancing act, but how we so often forsake one for the other.  Whether you're a business owner or not, this book and...

Nutritional therapist student and mum of 2, Lisa James, sits down and talks to members of the round table, Amy Durston, Debbie Best and me, about the issues we are facing trying to raise our children to make healthy food choices for themselves in a world where they are inundated with sugar, ultraprocessed foods and carb heavy school meals.  A proper good rant, with some suggestions interspersed to...

The round table is back discussing the power of holistic health and focusing on all the pillars of health.  We need to: Eat well Move well Sleep well Hydrate well Relax well Breathe well You could be having the best diet on the planet, but if your stress levels are sky high, you will still be in a continuous state of fight or flight, which over time leaves your body depleated and sets you up for c...

In this episode I sit down to talk to Steph Lloyd, Licentiate in Homeopathy, LSCH (Hons) RSHom; a bio-energetic practitioner with Asyra/Qest4 and a coach. We touch upon seasonal sensitivities, her background in homeopathy and how holistic ways of supporting the body, mind and soul can complement western medicine. Homeopathy is a field I know very little about, so this was an enlightening conversat...

In this first episode of 2024 I'm sat down with Gio Silanesu, an Australian, now living in Sardinia, talking about his life experiences and how he has ended up where he is, and why he does the work he does. If you're a regular listener, you will know how much I value coaches and how it is my opinion that we can all benefit from hiring one. Gio is no exception, and I know that after listening to th...

In this episode, that we recorded just before Christmas, I'm sat down with Ria Oliver, a maternal mental health and couples coach, talking about motherhood and how childhood traumas can resurface once we have our own families. Ria helps transform the lives of women struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma or overwhelm, because she believes that helping women to feel emotionally strong, confiden...

In this episode, Nutritional Therapist Ben Winthrop and I sit down to talk about the impact our diet and lifestyle can have on the world, especially on New World Monkeys. Ben recently published an ebook about the issues facing the Amazon Rainforest and what we as individuals can do to support the area, and I thought the topic sounded so interesting that I invited him on to the pod to talk to me. T...

Stress and burnout are to be taken seriously, but so often we just brush it aside with "it's just stress". Until we completely hit the wall and have no choice but to take time out and regroup. My guest this week is Jen Wilson, a wellness coach who truly knows what it's like to be in the middle of complete burnout. In this inspiring episode, she shares her story and how she's using her trauma to no...

Viki Garbett and I sit down and talk Christmas. How can we take the stress out of it, how can we maintain good habits, and perhaps keep some sort of balance over Christmas? I also hear about how Viki has started a new tradition with her girls. Every Thursday after school they cook together. This has really inspired me to get more inclusive in the kitchen and pass on some of my knowledge to my kids...

It takes a village to support a mum. You can say that again. In this episode I'm sitting down with Anna Bracher to have a conversation around raising children and the different situations we are in. Anna is a Brit in Norway and I am a Norwegian in Britain, and we exchange experiences and discuss the pros and cons of how the two countries view families and how we raise our children differently. We...