12 Facts I Wish I Was Taught As A Kid

I wish I was taught these 12 facts as a kid. 

I daydream at how different the world would be if we were all taught these truths at a young age. 

I also daydream about posters being made and plastered in classrooms around the world. 

Food for thought?

52 Weeks of Healthy Swaps – how are you travelling with your swaps???

In case you didn’t know, I am posting a series on Instagram and FB called 52 Weeks of healthy swaps where I write about 1 simply and easy healthy swap that you can be inspired to do each week (or at your pace) to live a less toxic and more nourishing and conscious life. While the focus is on dietary changes, the posts cover topics from all of the 8 pillars of health as health indeed is multifactorial. 

Small changes add up over the course of a year to make a big impact. It’s all the little things that we do each and every day that might seem insignificant but actually have a profound effect. The point of this series is to show that leading a healthier life is not about deprivation, but is actually about healthy swaps. Deprivation leads to resentment, whereas healthy swaps leads to a healthier, more vibrant, rich and delicious life– in all areas of your life! 

Some of the changes are so subtle that your family might not even know that you’ve made them but the effect on their health will be profound e.g. swapping margarine to butter, canola oil to olive oil, grain fed meat to grass fed meat, or farmed fish to wild fish. 

You can check them out on IG and FB by searching the hast tag #52weeksofhealthyswaps

I would love to know how you are enjoying this series? Do you find it helpful? 

If you are wanting to dive deeper and spend an entire day (9am- 3pm) with me and my co-host holistic dietician Marieke Rodenstein talking all about the fundamentals of robust nutrition and robust gut health, I invite you to register for my next Food as Medicine talk held by zoom webinar 1 August. For $150, participants will also receive a soft copy of my comprehensive How To manual (over 60 pages) that sets you up for life, including access to all 5 of my online cooking classes (valued at $79 each) so you can put the nutritional theory you’ll learn into practice! 

If you think you’ve got the food side covered and are now ready to really clean up and streamline your personal care products (including make up), cleaning products, and wellness cabinet (to become pharmacy free and chemical free), then I invite you to book  to my next free zoom webinar on The Essentials held 23 June 10am-12pm. I run these monthly, bit if none of the monthly dates/times suit you, and you prefer to watch a pre-recorded 50 minuter version whenever it suits you, simply fill out the contact form of this page and we will be in contact and send you the video link. 

Health isn’t an end goal or a destination. It’s a life long journey of swapping, pivoting, learning, and changing. It’s a journey of growth and evolving into a better, more vibrant, version of ourselves, day by day. So when you look back you see just how far you’ve come and how delicious the journey was. And that is a beautiful thing!

Love Soulla xx

Are you ready to kick the chemicals in your home and be more independent in your health care?

Nourishing your body with a nutrient dense diet and other lifestyle factors (like sleep, sunshine and movement) is only one side of the health coin. The other side is kicking the toxins and these include not just dietary toxins (refined sugar, refined starches and industrial seed oils) but also environmental toxins. Did you know that our greatest exposure to environmental toxins is in our home?!? And this is where we are spending the vast majority of our time. 

Where exactly are these toxins found in our home? In many of the products that we are using each and every day! Conventional personal care products and household cleaning products contain a slew of endocrine disrupting, allergenic, carcinogenic and/or neurotoxic ingredients including PEGs, foaming agents, synthetic fragrances, colours phthalates and aluminium.

Simply because these products are allowed to be sold and are ubiquitously used DOES NOT MAKE THEM SAFE! AND sadly we are paying with our health!

Fortunately there do exist NATURAL ALTERNATIVES that are safe (non toxic), super powerful and cost effective. And the good news is that they are available online, get delivered to your door, and are available all over the world. These products are made by Young Living - the undisputed world leaders in the essential oils movement with 25 years of industry leadership. 

YL make the world’s largest range of the most pure and potent oils which quickly become your first port of call wellness cabinet for day to day issues. This is so empowering as a mum. 

Secondly, they also make the world’s most comprehensive range of personal care products and cleaning products including a range for babies, kids, men, pets and a supplements range. As a one stop shop, you can conveniently streamline your purchasing to just 👏🏻one 👏🏻place 👏🏻. Yay! Finally! A game changer for me, my health coaching clients and time poor busy mums who really don’t have time to race around to all different shops and websites.

If you’re keen to learn more about how to start or deepen your wellness journey, kick the chemicals in your home, and become more independent in your health care in order to be pharmacy-free and chemical-free as mature intended, and to be able to do it AT YOUR OWN PACE - here are some options for you:

1. If you want to have a phone chat- Complete the contact form on this page of my website and either myself or someone in my team will contact you to have a free honest chat to you over the phone to understand your needs and get you started.  

2. If you want to attend my next free live zoom webinar on 23 June 10am- 12pm where you can ask questions in real time– book here.  

3. If you want to watch a free 50 minute pre-recorded workshop at your convenience  whenever it suits you-  Complete the contact form on this page of my website and someone in my team will contact you within 24 hours to give you the password to the workshop. 

It’s super important that you don’t sign yourself up on the YL website as you’ll be put in some random team and you won’t get the benefit of all of MY team’s comprehensive online member resources and personalised support. 

I’m deeply honoured to be able to educate, inspire and empower you to lead a more conscious and nourishing, and let’s toxic, life! Together, through our conscious choices, we can shape the world we want to leave for the next generation.