Today's episode is all about keeping it real and connecting to people just like yourself out there doing life and navigating all the ups and downs, shifting in and out of different roles in your life and still working towards putting yourself first and embracing daily self-care.

Today we have the pleasure of chatting with Gemma Hartnell. Gemma is some one who is like you, on a self-care journey and facing daily challenges when navigating all the different roles she has, as a mum, a partner, a part-time office administrator, and cleaner for new home builds.

After going through a divorce she found herself at rock bottom. This became the starting point of her reinvention. With the guidance of a coach and mentor, she's been rebuilding her confidence, reconnecting with her true self, and stepping boldly into a new chapter of purpose and possibility.

Her story is one of quiet strength and transforamation. Through forming a strong commitment to self-care, Gemma chats to us today about how putting yourself first is essential and what the impact it has had on her journey.

No matter the season, knowing what works best for your body to boost and strengthen your immunity can make all the difference.

Today we talk about all the things you can have in your immunity first aid kit, as well as what we also do personally. This includes how you can use your thoughts, words and over all mindset to combat early stages and signs of low immunity. 

We take a holistic approach in what it means to keep your immunity strong while highlighting the importance or exercise, detoxing and understanding what works best for your body.

Join us as we write a list of the most important practices we can have close by to keep our immunity strong and work with the bodies innate intelligence. 

How often do you get scared about something and instead of letting fear decide who you get to be, you seize the moment and over come the illusion of fear.

There are many benefits that we receive when we create a practice of over coming the fears we face in everyday life. As Martin Luther King so brilliantly spoke, “It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.”

We are naturally drawn to things that brighten our light and because shinning our light can be scary we don’t realise sometimes how important it is to over come this fear, to reach our greatest potential in life and within our self care practices. 

What things can be scary for you? Is it speaking up? Being honest about how you feel with others or even yourself? Is it going to a meditation group or breath work class? Is it putting yourself first in general? Putting yourself first can be scary because it means letting go of controlling everything cos lets be honest, there's always something to be done. How can you step away, let go, and be more fearless in your self care practices and every day life?

Have you heard of Family Constellations? What is it all about?

Todays guest speaker is Frida Kabo.

Frida is a business coach and flow facilitator for healers and intuitive business owners. With a masters in Business Administration and a background in online business, coaching, and energy work she supports them in creating a businesses that works for them with more flow, abundance and impact.

Family Constellations is a way to help free yourself from the repetitive patterns, behaviours and emotions that are limiting your life in some way that you have unconsciously taken on from your family system.

Frida gives an indepth insight into how this method can look at an issue in your life and seeing what sits behind it. 

Maybe you have wondered why you keep repeating a certain pattern or feel stuck in an area of your life. This powerful thearpy can help give you more insight to how you can start to free yourself by having a deeper undestanding and see things from a new perspective.

Join us for a educational and inspiring conversation with Frida and if you are wanting to connect with her and find out more you contact her here:

https://www.fridakabo.com/

Today we felt like doing something different.

We wanted to ask you some questions and actually get you to write down your answers and to see what comes up for you. In all areas of feeling stuck. Those times when you feel like you are in a rut, the same results keep happening, or maybe you have lost inspiration around your goals.

We are also going to participate and answer the same questions and share our answers with you.

We are all on a self care journey no matter how much knowledge you have. Today we hope to be relatable and neutral so you can see everyone is always working on something. 

One of the most important things to consider when we are talking about self care is your ability to communicate. How serious do you take the way you communicate with others around you including yourself?

Have you come across situations that haven't worked out in your favour and thought, maybe I sounded different to how I heard myself? 

How we communicate determines so many of our results, understandings, mis understandings, and can make all the difference when you are trying to look after yourself in new ways. Communicating to the people around you is so vital to achieving your goals. While at the same time, being honest with yourself is just as important to see reality for what it is. 

Sometimes keeping things to yourself and not sharing with others can also be important, depending on the goal that needs to be achieved. However when you are needing the support of others those difficult conversations came become the make or break towards achieving what you set out to do.

Today we talk about how crucial it is to always evolve and work on your communication skills, why, and also how listening is just as important when it comes to communicating to actually receive the information you need to formulate the best conversation possible.

Self Care is all about investing into you. This takes so many forms and has so many benefits. 

Whether you do this in your health by eating what nourishes your body, or investing some money into educating yourself, or as simple as listening to a podcast to gain more insight and awareness, the options are endless. 

How have you invested into yourself this month, this week, and today?

It makes life more fulfilling and enables us to be the best versions of ourselves. As we always like to highlight, keep it simple and make sure you are investing into yourself in some way each week to continue the growth and evolution you deserve! 

Today we felt it was important to speak on the awareness of EMF, known as Electric Magnetic Fields.

Electric and magnetic fields are invisible lines of force present in the natural environment and wherever electricity flows. They are produced by voltage or electric charge. The higher the voltage, the greater the electric field.

A lamp cord that is plugged in produces an electric field even if the lamp is not on.

The electromagnetic spectrum covers a wide range of frequencies. Electrical current associated with power lines and household appliances is characterised by extremely low frequencies. Magnetic fields, on the other hand, are not easily blocked and can pass through most objects.

We currently live in a soup of EMF's and it has increased over the past few years. We are now transitioning into a 5G world and it's hard to even understand what this means. When the world moved from 3G to 4G, it wasn't as big of a shift as to when it moved from 4G to 5G. Now that we are moving into 5G and witnessing huge 5G towers everywhere, it's important to expand our awareness as we can not see this field which is why we feel it's important to speak about it and also do your own research to educate yourself to know, the strength of a magnetic field decreases rapidly with increased distance from its source. From this understanding we can create safer environments to coexist with it. Especially because it's not going anywhere and we are surrounded by it every single day. 

Join us as we chat about many ways to create a healthier and safer lifestyle with Electric Magnetic Fields and how to maintain that balance.

We also talk about a wonderful company call Life Energy Solutions that create great tools to have in your home, on your phone or on your body to harmonically balance these fields. 

Life Energy Solutions: https://lifeenergysolutions.com/?ref=250

What would the world look like if you were able to show up as the most authentic version of you? What does the process look like for to be able to drown out expectation, influence and insecurity, and tune into your true intuitive sense of self and present that to the world in any situation, environment or circumstance?

This is definitely not an easy task and can take a lifetime to grasp depending on what you have experienced growing up, what support you may or may not have had, and the level of growth and personal development you are exposed to.

In todays episode we discuss the importance of why being the most authentic version of you is so important, and what are some simple practices you can adopt along the way to feel more connected to who you truly are. No matter what energies, people or situations you may be exposed to.

Join us as we continue to expand our awareness into these areas of self care that are intuitively so vital to how we experience life and the world around us. 

Have you ever wondered what Homeopathy is all about? Maybe you have tried it but not totally understanding how it works, is it 100% safe and what it can be used for.

Today we have a new guest speaker Alice Kleinsman who chats to us all about Homeopathy and her journey as a practitioner.

Alice completed a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry, maths, and psychology before she trained as a teacher. She has taught in many different places in the world, and values how the different perspectives each culture she has been a part of contribute to a world of colour and richness.

With such diverse knowledge in the health & wellness industry, Alice really helps listeners to understand the history of Homeopathy, whats involved with making a remedy and a deeper insight into how it works and why it is such a safe therapy to use on all ages. 

Alice has had many amazing first hand experiences of this process in her own life – caring for herself and others. It is also an amazing tool to have when you have a young family, as you can build up your own resources easily and very affordably.

We came away with so much more understanding, even though we both use homeopathy for ourselves and our families. There are some great takeaways to help you get started and Alice is always available via her website below for more questions if you have them.

Connect with Alice: https://www.bewellnaturally.co.nz/about-me

What is the world around you telling you?

Do you think you are sepaerate from situations or circumstance? Do you feel you, your thoughts, vibration and actions have a part to play in the outcomes all around you?

Today we talk around the powerful subject of seeing the world as we are. The world being a reflection of us and how to use the reflection as a way to reflect back, the most important life lessons or opportunities our experiences are trying to teach us.

Join us as we explore the idea of taking responsibility for all that we see.

Do you consider yourself to be forgetful? Is this something that you feel is an area that you would like to have some useful tools to have on hand to remember all the little (or big) things that this busy life seems to demand?

On today's episode we discuss the common trait of forgetfulness. It may be when you are starting a new self-care practice and then somehow get to the end of the day you realise that you have forgetten to do what you said you would, or remembering all the parts of the moving wheel each day that can just feel overwhelming. 

We totally get it and can relate, so we wanted to bring a closer awareness to why we forget, and offer you some tools and resources to help you be more organised with some simple effective ways to overcome forgetfulness.

Like anything it takes some commitment to make some changes but we know that small simple things can really help the bigger picture.

One of the resources we mention is Asana. A free app you can download to braindump and organise your day, week and month. https://asana.com/

What is your relationship with age?

In today's episode we visit the mindset and perspective that we tend to have with age, and we challenge you to ask yourself, does your age hold you back? Do you feel old before you've even reached half your life span? Do you limit yourself just because other people in your age bracket may not do something you have a true passion for?

We can easily let age define us and also create unhealthy expectations around who we should be or what we should have achieved by a certain time. Not to mention limit our self care because we are older and feel it's our "responsibility" to look after everybody else in our family first

Age can be a trap and a wheel of excuses if we let it, or it can be something to be proud of, to download wisdom from and to break the norms of reality with.

Age is literally a number and what really matters is how old you are on the inside. Your biological age. If we prioritise our health and self care it really doesn't matter what age we are, but more so the quality of life that we are allowing ourselves to live and attain. 

Watch The Blue Zone on Netflix or go to website https://www.bluezones.com/documentary/

What is Hemp? How does it work? and why does it have so many incredible benefits when taken properly?

In today's episode we are privileged to speak with the amazing Tarryn Thompson about all things Hemp.

She has a wealth of knowledge as a Health Coach and has been in the wellness industry for over two decades. She started an incredible company called Kure, incorporating Hemp and one oil which does it all and is supporting many people with a variety of health conditions.

Join us as we dive deep into the world of Hemp and grow your own understanding of how this plant is changing the game in the natural health industry.

To connect with Tarryn Thompson please visit her webiste: https://trykure.org

In today's episode we talk about the challenges around ongoing health coditions and injuries. It can be really hard when you can't get answers or find a way forward that can effect mindset and overall ability to cope.

We discuss then importance of finding ways to support yourself to help your body on the healing journey. We believe there is always a way forward and having the support networks and self-care practices in place are essential for your ability to heal and regain some balance within.

The journey isn't always a quick fix, it may take time and to try different modalities or practitioners, but when we hold a mindset of possibility and what can I do right now, who can I reach out to and what can I learn about this situation, it opens up more awareness to your body and can assist with a deeper understanding of what can be available.

We encourage listener to keep going, to embrace the journey and find a way forward no matter what. Knowing there is support around and there are answers available.

In todays episode we dive right into Self Doubt. The ways in which we doubt our divine power, instincts or abilities, and we break down how can use self doubt to actually benefit your journey. 

Self doubt is something that can be very challenging, over whelming and can really slow us down and sometimes come in between us achieving our greatest potential. 

So today we want to inspire you, to expect doubt and dance with it to really see it as a tool. When it starts to pop up you can be the one in control of your response and conversation with it. Not it over you. 

Today we have another guest speaker and it's a conversation you won't want to miss. So pull up a chair as this conversation has a lot of self-care information.

Kohei iguchi is a qualified Naturopath, Medical Herbalist and a natural skin health expert.

With 10 years of clinical practice he loves spreading the word about holistic health and finds joy educating people about natural alternatives, helping clients along their individual wellness path. Kohei recently rebranded with his main focus now on skin health and assisting clients to have more understanding and get relief from what can be a very emotional and frustrating time. From suffering with eczema himself, he begun a life changing journey that opened opportunities to study extensively in natural health, and soon realised the importance to help others get some relief from chronic conditions.

He explains what naturopathy, how it can help and gives some great advice for anyone that may be wanting to look at more natural ways to help with skin conditions.

Tune in for some great ways you can start to listen to your body, get a new understanding of how natural health practitioners can help and for anyone wanting to connect with Kohei here are his links. He is happy to have a chat to see if he is a fit for what it is you need.

Water Well Clinic: www.waterwellclinic.co.nz

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waterwellclinic/

In today's episode we are delving abit deeper into the importance of detoxing and looking at the different choices we have to help reduce the toxic load on the body.

With today's busy lives it is easy to miss how some of your choices can be effecting your health, how your enviroment, food, household cleaners can be building up and impacting how you feel so embracing options around detoxing can be more important than you realise.

With so many options it can be overwhelming so we wanted to break it down so that you can see it doesn't have to be complicated or hard, there is a wide range of things you can do from reducing toxins in your house to taking supplements to support your system. There are some great programs around that also can support you step by step to make it easy to stick with it.

Katrina recently did a 14 day herbal detox through Brett Elliot. You can take a look to see if a fit for you at www.brettelliot.com

Today we talk about all things involving sugar, the affects it has on the body, and why it's so important to be aware of how the food companies so cleverly hide sugar.
Our body needs sugar to survive, but it's the quality over the quantity that's important, and educating yourself so you can identify it when you see it.

List of Sugar names: https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/hidden-in-plain-sight/

We have grown up seeing sugar as a treat and a prize to be won as children. It's time to reprogram how we see sugar and also help the next generation who are bombarded at every super market checkout, and every celebration, that there are safer ways to consume what should be classified as a drug.

In today's episode we wanted to explore and discuss the importance of self support. Why this is so important when it comes to your health and self-care.

Building your self-worth and understanding how you can best support yourself in times of need is an important tool to build to help you maintain some form of self-care in your life.

How are you looking after yourself? How are you dealing with the challenges that show up and not let that take a toll on your health? Not allowing life to define who you are but having the capacity to rely on yourself when needed.

This can be such a game changer to maintaining balance and staying with the ongoing journey of health and stopping the yoyo self-care. Learning to adapt and know what works for you in moments of need can just be the difference of you getting through or hitting rock bottom.

We believe that apart from a community of support, knowing we have some resources within us to help ourselves is something we can all strive for.