If you want to awaken all of humanity…

The simplest and gentlest way to start your journey of self transformation is by focusing on your health because without a solid foundation of health, you have nothing. It is so much harder to be happy, I personally discovered, if you are not healthy. And in turn the easiest yet the most profound way to influence your health is to start with your diet and then tackle other lifestyle factors like movement, sleep, nature immersion and mindset. I call the diet (nutrition and hydration) the low hanging fruit on the health and wellness tree because you’ve got to eat at least 2 to 3 times a day- it’s not an additional thing you need to do- you’re doing it anyway. And you always have a choice as to what to buy to eat. 

Some of the other foundations of health may be harder beasts to tackle. It’s a lot easier to change your breakfast, for example, than to change your mindset. 

If you start with your diet, that’s going to give you the clarity, the bandwidth, the energy, the space and a truly phenomenal platform to enable you to then deal with other aspects of your life one by one and to radically self transform. 

In other words, if you’ve nailed the diet, you’re 90% there!! If you’ve nailed the diet, much of the background noise, fuzz, and distortions disappear so that a clarity becomes present. You can then more easily tap into your intuition and inner wisdom. 

As 2020 draws to a close and a new era dawns upon us, I invite you to take a look at those areas of yourself that you are neglecting especially around the food and other products you bring into your home. Are you choosing them consciously or are you on autopilot?

If you are at all confused with what to eat, how much to eat, when to eat, what to look for when buying food and where to shop, my comprehensive FOOD AS MEDICINE DIGITAL PACKAGE is for you. It’s the culmination of 2 decades of work consolidated into a very comprehensive pack consisting of:

• a 3 hour talk on the fundamentals of robust nutrition by myself

• a 1 hour talk on the fundamentals of robust gut health presented co-by Australia’s leading holist dietician and gut expert Marieke Rodenstein

• almost 2 hours of talks on how to kick the chemicals in your home to provide a toxic-free home sanctuary for your family

• a 60 page “How To” manual that sets you up for life that puts all of the theory and talks into practical application

• 5 online cooking classes (bone broth, organ meats, slow cooks, baked cakes, chocolate) so you can master the wholefood basics in your home.

Retailing at $150, this package is valued at over $1000 if you were to buy each product/service individually, and provides you with lifetime access to all of its contents once downloaded. 

Truly, the greatest gift that you have to give is that of your own self transformation. Make 2021 the year when that journey can deepen. 

“What do I eat at each meal?”

Knowing robust nutritional theory is one thing but putting it into practice is a whole other story. I see plenty of people who read brilliant nutritional books or watch inspiring films and come to understand and appreciate what they biologically should and shouldn’t be eating, but can’t see to break old habits because they don’t have the tools to put the theory into practice. 

This is where my 65+page How To manual that I developed over 10 years is gold and breaks down the nutritional theory with practical application including a handout specifically on meal “formulas” so you know exactly what to prepare at each meal (and where to buy the ingredients from and what your plate should look like).

When meals become formulaic, life becomes radically simple!

Having a basic formula provides the much needed structure for many people to start or deepen their health journey. But don’t stress about boredom because there is room for variation within the formula to fend off taste fatigue.

Formulas are like the training wheels to get you started until it  becomes second nature and until you can tap into your intuition and listen to what your body needs on any given day.

For example, my signature breakfast formula is pastured eggs + veggies + kraut + smoothie. Even though on some days I might depart from this entirely (e.g. have soaked rice porridge or just a smoothie or yogurt topped with activated muesli and berries) it’s comforting to have a formula to fall back on as a default. It also means you always have staple food products in your kitchen so that you never get caught out. 

At my next and last FOOD AS MEDICINE TALK on Saturday Oct 24 held via zoom webinar you will be given  access to ALL OF THE TOOLS needed to nourish your body and optimise your health including:

1. Access to my 65+ page How To Manual that sets you up for life

2. Access to all 5 of my online cooking classes (bone broth, GF baked cakes, slow cooks, organ meats, and chocolate) that empowers you to put the nutritional theory into practice at every meal

3. Access to my online healthy home / healthy swaps / essential oils workshop to kick the chemicals in your home and help you to healthy swap to all natural, super powerful, cost effective versions, one at a time. 

This is a comprehensive full day (9am- 3pm) talk that I co present with functional medicine practitioner, holistic dietician and GAPs practitioner Marieke Rodenstein where we dive deep into the fundamentals of robust nutrition and robust gut health, and dispel dietary myths that have caused an epidemic of chronic illness and degenerative disease.

Robust theory coupled with inspired action can create radical shifts. Are you ready?

Click here to purchase tickets!

Star Anise Organic Wholefoods turns 10 with some exciting news!!

Dear friends,

It is quite hard for me to believe that Star Anise Organic Wholefoods is now 10 years old. What started out as very humble beginnings – just a mama on a mission to heal herself and her little family by making nutrient dense food in her home kitchen– has grown into a flourishing company with 20 staff and a retail and online store.  

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank each one of YOU from the bottom of my heart for all your support, love and care over the years. I know some of you have been on this journey with me over 10 years (you know who you are!) and some of you are new friends. Even though I have wanted to throw in the towel a billion times over the past decade,  it was your encouragement and support that kept me going. This year has proved extra challenging in ways I can not even begin to express, and it is the power of my community – customers, staff, suppliers and followers - that forms the backbone to my passion project. Amidst the uncertainty and turbulence there is a beautiful light that shines so bright that I am often overwhelmed by its power. And that light is each of you that cumulatively form a community so powerful that we have created a movement and a ripple effect that can be felt across the globe. To all of the people out there who think that you are too small to make an impact, I am here to remind you to never stop believing in the beauty of your dreams. To question mainstream dietary and health advice and to take an alternative path is not  easy. In my 10 years I have been ridiculed, tried to be shut down (numerous times), stolen from and called a zealot and an extremist. But my mission to heal myself and my family, and to make a positive impact on the lives of others and the planet, can not be silenced. That unwavering desire, together with your support, is what drives me day after day. 

To mark our 10th anniversary, I decided that it was time to roll out some big changes and refresh our product range!

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Labels: Our labels have received a facelift! We have begun with the chicken and beef bone broths (our core products), which you will see on our shelves at the end of this week. Over the coming months, we will be upgrading the labels of all our products one by one. Sneak peak below!

Australian Certified Organic: We always use organic ingredients for all our products, and now our beef and chicken broth are officially Australian Certified Organic!

100% Australian grown, made and packed: The ingredients in our broth have changed ever so slightly to remove the imported dried herbs and to replace the imported Himalayan salt with Aussie (Victorian) Pink Lake Salt, making the product 100% Australian grown, made and packed.  This was important to me. The broths are still FODMAPs free, making them unique in the market. 

Packaging & pricing: In line with our ambition to reduce the company’s carbon footprint, we decided to discontinue the 500ml beef and chicken broths in the cardboard containers (with plastic lids). We will continue to supply our 500ml and 1L sizes of chicken and beef broth in glass jars only. The price of the 500ml chicken and beef broth in glass jars will stay the same ($14/500ml), and we are happy to announce that the 1L has reduced to $24/1L, making it more affordable to you and is priced at the equivalent of 2x 500ml cardboard containers (plus you get to keep a glass jar! 

Shelf life: The chicken and beef bone broths are now fridge stable with a 1-year shelf life. We recently trialled our fridge stable broths at Broth Bar & Larder and customers overwhelmingly loved the convenience of always having fresh broth on hand. So no need to ever freeze broth! Yay! Keep a whole stash in your fridge to consume over the year. Handy when returning from a long trip. 

What doesn’t change: The vegetable (vegan) broth and fish broth, as well as our range of soups, are currently still available in 500ml cardboard containers as well as 500ml glass jars and are available frozen only.  

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We pride ourselves on setting the standard in the Australian organic artisan wholefood industry, and for being the pioneers in broth manufacturing in Australia – being the first to make and sell broth commercially in Australia (well before paleo was even a thing or broth became trendy). With 10 years under our belt, we are committed to continuing to provide the community with the cleanest, ethically-sourced and traditionally prepared whole foods for vibrant health and longevity. I am proud to say that Star Anise Organic Wholefoods still is a local artisan business and still 100% owned by a single mama (me!) on a serious mission to inspire and empower as many people as I can to be conscious consumers and to nourish themselves with the nutrient dense traditional wholefoods that we as a species have evolved to eat.

I hope that you love the new branding and are as excited about these changes as much as I am. 

Thank you again for your love and support!

Love Soulla xx