“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!

How to best get through the current global crisis

I firmly believe that whatever crisis we are faced with - personally or globally- the most important thing we can do is to take care of ourselves. When we take care of ourselves first and foremost, we are consequently taking care of everything else. When we show ourselves the respect and dignity we deserve - through how we look after ourselves- we are incidentally respecting each other and the planet so we are less of a burden and more of an asset. It is our core responsibility as humans.

If all everyone in the world did was to nourish themselves with nutrient dense biologically congruent food, use non toxic personal care products and household cleaning products, turn to natural medicines to support the body’s wisely intelligent immune system, get out into sunshine and nature, laugh play and connect with loved ones, remain curious and open minded, be positive, and have an open loving heart, we would have a radically different health care system and environmental landscape. More importantly we would raise our individual and global consciousness to a level never experienced before. And that is a beautiful and enthralling notion.

How do we get through the current global crisis? By taking care of ourselves. This gives us the physical, mental and emotional strength and resilience to navigate any storm with ease and grace.

Any crisis is invitation to:

1. Focus on what is within your control - and that is first and foremost looking after yourself, your home and your dependents. Appreciate just how much power and influence you have over your health - physically, emotionally and spiritually.

2. Embrace simplicity, especially nourishing meals and conscious consumption.

3. Shed what no longer serves you- toxins in all their guises including negative thoughts. This will create the space for healthy swaps that are nourishing and fulfilling.

4. Replace fear with love. When it all gets too much remember to just breathe and just smother the whole thing with compassion and love

We are indeed at the threshold of a massive paradigm shift in global consciousness. It is a magnificent  invitation to transform. And all we need to do is to take care of ourselves

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I will leave you with a quote from Hopi Indigenous, a Native American tribe: 

“This moment humanity is going through can now be seen as a portal and as a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or go through the portal is up to you.

If you repent of the problem and consume the news 24 hours a day, with little energy, nervous all the time, with pessimism, you will fall into the hole. But if you take this opportunity to look at yourself, rethink life and death, take care of yourself and others, you will cross the portal. Take care of your homes, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual House.

When you are taking care of yourselves, you are taking care of everything else. Do not lose the spiritual dimension of this crisis; have the eagle aspect from above and see the whole; see more broadly.

There is a social demand in this crisis, but there is also a spiritual demand — the two go hand in hand. Without the social dimension, we fall into fanaticism. But without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and lack of meaning. You were prepared to go through this crisis. Take your toolbox and use all the tools available to you.

Learn about resistance of the indigenous and African peoples; we have always been, and continue to be, exterminated. But we still haven’t stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire, and having fun. Don’t feel guilty about being happy during this difficult time.

You do not help at all being sad and without energy. You help if good things emanate from the Universe now. It is through joy that one resists. Also, when the storm passes, each of you will be very important in the reconstruction of this new world.

You need to be well and strong. And for that, there is no other way than to maintain a beautiful, happy, and bright vibration. This has nothing to do with alienation.

This is a resistance strategy. In shamanism, there is a rite of passage called the quest for vision. You spend a few days alone in the forest, without water, without food, without protection. When you cross this portal, you get a new vision of the world, because you have faced your fears, your difficulties.

This is what is asked of you:

Allow yourself to take advantage of this time to perform your vision-seeking rituals. What world do you want to build for you? For now, this is what you can do — serenity in the storm. Calm down, pray every day. Establish a routine to meet the sacred every day.

Good things emanate; what you emanate now is the most important thing. And sing, dance, resist through art, joy, faith, and love.”

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?