“I had this moment where I was like I’m fixing the broken person, but what happens if we fixed ourselves as women before we were broken? What happens if we actually recognised at the point of things starting to go a little pear-shaped, that we got curious then?” Dr Nat Kringoudis It’s almost like we are taught to grow up hating on our hormones, or blaming our hormones for all of the issues that cause discomfort or displeasure. Our mother’s and grandmother’s may have inadvertently passed comments...
May 11, 2021•1 hr 15 min
Stressful situations can effect all of us in different ways. And the world is in one rather stressful situation right now. So depending on what you are faced with, where you are, what you are watching or experiencing and how you are responding to all of this will depend on your own stress response. I share my thoughts this week on ways that we can try to manage stressful situations especially as I am looking to the scenario unfolding in India. The stress response originates in the hypothalamus d...
May 05, 2021•37 min
“I’m listening for emotion as well. The things that really do effect us are the things that we’ve attached emotion to. So you know it could be a really traumatic event in someone’s life that changed them or caused an issue. But really so many small, small things that if you’re just describing them to someone they’d never really think that that would effect anything. But once you delve into the emotions of the situation and of the memory that’s really where you can gain the understanding.” What a...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 6 min
How is Danny? A question I am constantly being asked as my dear husband, who is in India for the IPL (Indian Premier League) is commentating on the world’s best cricketers showcasing their talent in an 8-week tournament. Due to extremely high COVID cases, Australia and many other countries around the world have closed their borders to India, leaving many New Zealand and Australian cricketers, officials, medics and commentators stranded there. I rang him and decided to record our conversation! In...
Apr 28, 2021•49 min
“What it’s given me, it’s given me the capacity to love unconditionally, to forgive easily – and people can have conflicted opinions about that – but I don’t hold… I don’t hate anybody, I don’t hold any grudges. And I’m very grateful to my mother for indirectly teaching me that. It’s also… my experience has given me the ability to reframe my life so I will look at things in my life that happened and I will think, how can I frame this to get into alignment with the man that I am, and the person t...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 30 min
I have been pondering the meaning behind ‘mother guilt’ for some time wonder what it could really be about deep down. I mean, why do we call it mother guilt? And is it really even valid? What should we do about it and how do we drop it so we can get on with being a mum? In this week’s self-love quicky we open up the topic and dive deep into the layers that hold us back and stop us from being the best mum’s we can be. I think for me if I’m honest mother guilt was more about me questioning myself,...
Apr 22, 2021•19 min
“There’s always going to be the mother that stands in the kitchen. And when she’s cooking the toast for the family for breakfast and one piece of toast gets burnt and she goes, ‘Oh it’s ok, I’ll have that one.’ And I’m like oh my goodness that’s me. You know that was me. And I realised at that point that I was teaching my children, my boys, that that’s where a woman sits. I was teaching my daughter that’s where she sits in the family. I was putting myself really over here… for what? It changed i...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Eat well. Exercise. Don’t get too fat. Don’t get too skinny. Take time out. Relax. Work hard. Play often. Forge a career. Get business savvy. Travel the world. Keep the house clean. Bake homemade goodies. Expand yourself. Learn something new. Be a good mother. Be a great wife. Make time for friends. Smile often. Frown less. Volunteer. Let’s face it – as discussed in this week’s Self Love Quicky it’s a big call to be Super Woman! To maintain it all and do it well can cause sheer exhaustion with s...
Apr 14, 2021•25 min
“I think you just have to listen and not pass judgement and just say, ‘I hear you’ because as somebody who has experienced these things and kept them inside for so long we think that nobody could possibly understand what we’ve been through or how we are feeling. And we don’t need necessarily somebody to solve the problems we just need somebody to know that we’ve been heard.” Natalie Miller This beautiful woman’s story is deeply resonating and powerful. From a younger life of abuse and bullying, ...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 18 min
In this week’s Self Love Quicky I answer the question of how essential oils can help your skin, which ones are best and why they are your super power? We talk about how aromatherapy works and which are the top 10 in skincare to support you to age with grace. Aromatherapy as a healing modality has been practised for thousands of years but it is only in the last century that it has become scientifically validated. Aromatherapy, put simply, is a therapy using aromas. These aromas are called essenti...
Apr 08, 2021•18 min
This week we have the conversation that needs to be had with the incredible Dr Sherrill Sellman. As much as change is happening on a global level, looking like chaos around us, it’s an impulse that is also allowing us to step into a more profound awareness and in this deep-dive conversation we find out how we can open our consciousness and become more aware. As a Board-Certified Integrative Naturopathic Doctor, mind-body psychotherapist, author, journalist, international lecturer, contributing w...
Apr 07, 2021•1 hr 6 min
As Easter, a time of rebirthing, is upon us, take some time to really think about your relationship with YOU. Use this special time to honour how you treat yourself and then notice how it affects how you treat others. Be mindful that life is not happening TO you but, for you, AS you. In this week’s Self Love Quicky we take a peek into how your relationship with yourself and how it is the most important one you will have in your life. Happy Easter lovely. “I have found that the greatest degree of...
Apr 01, 2021•12 min
“There is this incredible shift in Aromatherapy from when you and I started, that is was all ‘feel-good’, to today it’s really cutting edge science. And there’s so much neurological research that confirms, as you said when you started this section, the connection between the mind, the brain and our ability to heal. And that yes, when we breathe in the essential oil particles they go directly to the right brain, the limbic system which is in fact the emotional control centre of the brain. Everyth...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Bergamot – Citrus bergamia This week we take a look at the amazing essential oil of Bergamot. A skin tonic, nerve relaxant and digestive aid this beautiful oil is also a fantastic skin booster. Learn what essential oils it blends well with and how you can incorporate them into your daily self-care rituals for health and wellness. Bergamot is a small citrus fruit that is native to southern Italy. The fruit itself is very sour so is primarily grown for its essential oil. It is said to have been na...
Mar 24, 2021•8 min
“You don’t have to spend a lot of money but when you get a resource like Byron Katies ‘Loving What Is’ book actually do it. Don’t just read it. Don’t put it down when it says ‘Grab a pen, I want you to do this now’. You’ve got to grab a pen and do it now! Louise Hay is another one. She has ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ and that’s a brilliant book. It’s like a novel but it has some actions to take as well. So don’t just flick over things and go ‘Oh yeah I’ll go back and do that, I just want to read an...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 24 min
Essential oils are not only fabulous for your health and wellbeing, but they’re also quite amazing when used correctly in cooking and there can be much satisfaction and appreciation for these intense flavour agents. In this week’s Self Love Quicky we look at which essential oils are best for cooking and when it is best to add them to your recipe, when not to use them and which ones are generally regarded as safe. As you dive deeper into the qualities and properties of essential oils, you’ll disc...
Mar 17, 2021•12 min
Picking yourself up after a career-ending injury is one of the most challenging and daunting tasks for an athlete. This week we speak to Keyen Lage, a former football player, who sustained an injury that effectively ended his football career. However, as you will discover, he managed to turn that into a positive and started on a new epic life journey. “A lot of high performers and high achievers are “smart enough” to not use alcohol and drugs, and hey some do, and sex and those kinds of things, ...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Thank you to one of our beautiful listeners for asking the question, ‘Can essential oils help with menopause?’ because in this week’s self-love quicky we go into some of the best oils to support a woman through this transitionary time. The word menopause can strike fear in many women. We’ve generally been taught to fear it, fear “the change”. However, in more recent times, we’ve come to know, learn and accept more about this new phase of womanhood. We know it’s not something to be feared, but so...
Mar 10, 2021•16 min
What an exquisite conversation with yoga teacher and entrepreneur Lauren Verona weaving the spiritual and ascetic discipline of this ancient practice into today’s fast-paced world. We dive deep into the meaning of slowing down, creating daily disciplines and rituals all to truly master the art of being human. You are going to love this precious soul’s approach to being calm with a touch of wild! “I think they said something to me on the weekend about me. They said mum, it’s very funny that you’r...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Do you ever wonder if what you say or do really matters? Is it really that important, & does it really, actually make a difference? Have you ever questioned if what you have, or do, is enough? And do you ever find yourself wondering some days if it’s really all worth it? In this week’s Self Love Quicky I share with you a little the times that I have had these same questions & I share with you the message I read when I feel that doubt, to remind myself that maybe, just maybe it is possibl...
Mar 03, 2021•21 min
When we know better, we do better. And as we educate ourselves we do better. I’m the same. I’ve learned through the thirty years I’ve had kids and even before that. And as I learn I do better. Even the food I fed my kids I realise now it probably wasn’t the best food because I was feeding them organic flour and now I know that was Triticum aestivum that was hybrodised wheat. Even though it was organic it was probably still contaminated. I used raw sugar, I should have been using rapadura sugar. ...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Clutter is debilitating. It can be stressful, impacting and create a complete sense of overwhelm, and for some… even failure. In this week’s quicky, I am talking about some simple steps you can take to not only declutter your home and office but also declutter your life. And we know when we declutter and make space, we create an opportunity and we get to invite new energy in. There’s a whole bunch of advice out there, beginning with those sensible instructions to designate boxes either ‘charity’...
Feb 24, 2021•15 min
This week’s podcast is a beautiful deep dive into what it takes to lead yourself first. Lisa Thompson began her career after studying Psychology, Social Work and Counselling, working predominantly in crisis spaces, including youth homelessness and a hospital emergency department. She now describes herself as an expression of love, hope and inspiration, enlightening others that they too can reclaim their health and well-being by following the golden thread home to the healer within. “My advice is...
Feb 22, 2021•1 hr 4 min
This week I am celebrating 50 shows and I want to thank you especially for tuning in and making it a possibility. I am so grateful for all your love and shares and wanted to take this opportunity to also acknowledge my amazing business Twenty8 Essentials for being the main sponsor of the show. It is such a treat to align my passion for natural skincare and essential oils and my love of this podcast together and this week I answer a question I get asked all the time ~ What is Natural Skin Care? W...
Feb 17, 2021•13 min
“Ask for help. As hard as it is, and I know it’s not bred in men to ask for help. It’s seen as a sign of weakness but just seek help pretty much. You don’t necessarily have to go out and say that my life’s so bad, what am I going to do with this and that, but yeah just ask for help and just understand it’s not a weakness to ask for help.” Brendon Giebel. Another remarkable young man I have the privilege to interview this week. 29-year-old Brendon Giebel is the Founder & Lead Breakthrough Exp...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Essential oils are truly amazing, they can literally support and change lives and there are many ways in which we can use them powerfully. The ingestion of oils is perhaps one of the most controversial topics amongst users of essential oils, aromatherapy enthusiasts and practitioners and this week we address the importance of understanding how you could, but also understanding why you probably wouldn’t. It is controversial because it is a complex area of aromatherapy called aromatic medicine, an...
Feb 10, 2021•18 min
It’s not often you get to interview two young men who have been through a lot in their relatively short lives and have chosen to learn from their challenges, invested into their growth and taught themselves to let their hearts be their compass. This week we talk to an Australian Body Board Champion who endured a career-threatening serious injury and the other a Brazillian Ju Jitsu Coach who actually spent time in prison. Their openness, grace, determination and sheer love is something to behold....
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr 10 min
In this week’s Self Love Quicky I invite you to think about the words ‘self-respect’ and what it means to you. How do you know when you have it? What does someone look like to you who has self-respect? How do we build a higher level of self-worth, self-love and self-respect? Discussed in my book ‘The Art Of Self Love’ I am proud to share with you my thoughts around the importance of self-respect and how you can earn, maintain and ooze its magnificent power. Take a look around you. Think about th...
Feb 03, 2021•16 min
“My nickname for many many many years professionally from one of my managers a lifetime ago, she said to me, ‘You are marshmallow covered steel!’ I love that! I talk very much about that ability to be a brave leader, but a brave leader with heart. So I think it’s balancing the authenticity of who we are as women and being proud of that. I think as a woman, when I sit at a board table and I’m the only woman you know, on a very senior team, I am proud of what I bring to the table. Of the diversity...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Self-Love is having regard for one’s own wellbeing and happiness. In this week’s Self Love Quicky week we take a close look at how we can create more self-love and awareness so we can live the life we were destined to live. And here’s the best part, you don’t have to do this alone or without guidance and support. It is an art to love yourself, it takes commitment and practice and now I get to share with you how it is available with a weekly dose of education, inspiration and powerful insight! SE...
Jan 27, 2021•19 min
