149.9K
Downloads
402
Episodes
Create a flatter belly, balanced hormones & a happier brain with my unique approach of food, feelings & function.
Episodes
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
In this episode, we are going to be talking about some of the daily things that I do and that I get clients to do in order to help support their gut health, their digestion, to help prevent bloating, crazy toilet habits and all of that sort of stuff.
These are some quick and dirty digestion hacks and they're going to be 4 things that I do regularly and I feel like they can make a really big difference.
I really hope that this podcast really equips you to take action so that step by step you can create that healthy life that you want to live and that you CAN live.
So, after listening today, I encourage you to think about one thing (and it can be tiny) that you can implement.
These are four really actionable things but I also want to say that I have done a lot of deep work when it comes to my health and my clients and these 4 things wouldn't fundamentally shift the issues with IBS and things that I had. (The diarrhea, the depression, the anxiety, I had gut infections, I had parasites, I had heavy metal toxicity, I had lots of different thing so I needed to do much deeper work than these 4 things.
So, I want to put a caveat on this. If you've had horrendous digestive issues and we are talking about really bad bowels, really bad IBS, you feel like it's a big problem, then you probably need deeper work than this.
If you would like to book a call with me, we can chat about it further and I can give you some info and give you an outline of what your program might be in terms of working together.
But these things are really great things to do. The above doesn’t dismiss these factors at all.
If you are really struggling wherever you are at, whether you've got mild digestive issues, horrendous digestive issues or to that, even if you are actually looking on focusing on encouraging, encouraging, increasing your energy, all these things are a great idea as well.
Whatever your health goal is… If you're looking to balance your hormones, lose weight, improve your mental wellbeing etc, these 4 things can really help.
And why is that? Is because your gut health is foundational and fundamental for the rest of your body. It affects your immune system, your endocrine or your hormonal system, your skin, your mind.
So, it's really important. If you are thinking ‘No, Kezia, I don't really feel like I have that many digestive issues’ - These things WILL benefit your life.
If you support your gut health, you support the rest of your health
Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?
Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.
Resources Mentioned
- Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
- Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
- Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
- Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here
Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
A quick thought for the day and a reminder to you.
What I've learnt after 6/7 years of working with clients and what I've realised is this, is that we have way more power and we can have way more impact than we can ever realise, and we currently realise, or ever been told.
Often, when it comes to our health, what we're taught growing up, what I was taught growing up is that you give your power and authority for your body and health to somebody else who's better trained and there is some wisdom in that but what we know now and what I know from just working with clients and from seeing their transformation but also what we can see in the data is that when you look at nutritional science, when you look at
- lifestyle changes
- whole person approaches and functional medicine
- someone's whole life
- the regular choices, the day-to-day things
- what you eat on a day-to-day basis
- how well you sleep
- how you deal with stress management
- community relationships
- the environment in which you live in
- toxin exposure (and there's even research coming in about EMFs and all those kinds of things)
Those things have a massive impact and those are all things that we have a choice over.
If you're listening to this before the 21st of December, you can get access to my Eat and Be Merry Recipe ebook.
This is full of all of my favourite, most delicious, festive recipes. From stolen bites to gingerbread muffins, to Christmas cake, to brownies to, or basically all the snack and treat recipes that you need so that you can enjoy Christmas, feel festive, have some treats, but also not be bloated, sluggish, tired, and fatigued and enter the new year feeling more like a winter whale, then a fabulous goddess.
I've put it all in the Eat and Be Merry Recipe ebook.
It's only £11. You can buy it now if you go to keziahall.com/bemerry. It's basically your survival guide to the holiday season.
Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?
Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.
Resources Mentioned
- Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
- Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
- Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
- Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here
Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Let's talk about digestion. What I'm going to be looking at is giving you a good overview of what digestion is and also like the secrets to good digestion.
So what are the basics to having really optimal and also why that's even important.
Because it's a fundamental part of the practice that I do with clients because it makes a really big difference if their digestion is off.
Now, the first thing to note about digestion is this isn't only applicable to you if you have digestive issues. So, maybe you are listening to this if you have IBS or you look really bloated at the end of the day and you would kind of, you know, you might be thinking that you need to work on your digestion.
But even if, for example, you have an autoimmune issue, actually, then what we really need to work on is digestion.
Maybe you have skin issues, maybe it's acne, psoriasis, eczema, random rashes, or skin infections. Again, we need to really look at digestion and digestive function.
Whatever kind of issue you're facing, digestion is a really, really important part of our wellbeing as human beings, because the point of digestion is to take and extract nutrients and certain kind of compounds in order to use them in the body.
You need to support your digestion and it could be causing you problems even if you don't have digestive symptoms. So with all my clients, we'll always support the digestive process, even if the main reason they're coming to me is because they have really bad eczema, for example.
Then we'll still look at optimizing digestion. So, I just want to make that really, really clear from the get go. But what I really wanna look at in this episode is just getting super specific about ways that you can really optimize your digestion and looking at some of the basic functions of this thing called digestion that we need to make sure is working well and the practical things you can do.
I've got six different points to go through and so by the end of this podcast, you should have a really clear idea of what might be going wrong with your digestion, if you suspect that, and also ways that you can really support it.
If you're listening to this before the 21st of December, you can get access to my Eat and Be Merry Recipe ebook.
This is full of all of my favorite, most delicious, festive recipes. From stolen bites to gingerbread muffins, to Christmas cake, to brownies to, or basically all the snack and treat recipes that you need so that you can enjoy Christmas, feel festive, have some treats, but also not be bloated, sluggish, tired, and fatigued and enter the new year feeling more like a winter whale, then a fabulous goddess.
I've put it all in the Eat and Be Merry Recipe ebook.
It's only £11. You can buy it now if you go to keziahall.com/bemerry. It's basically your survival guide to the holiday season.
Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?
Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.
Resources Mentioned
- Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
- Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
- Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
- Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here
Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
I wanna share some thoughts for anybody that has made a human being in their body and And I just wanna remind you of a couple of things because as a holistic nutritionist, I see lots of patterns, work with lots of people, and I just have a couple of reflections offerings to give to you for you to reflect on specifically if you have ever made a human being in your body and been pregnant.
Pregnancy and the act of creating a human being who has never existed before in your body and consuming, growing, hosting, birthing, and then potentially sustaining if you are able to or choose to. Breastfeed is a massively depleting process and the more children you have, the more compounding depletions you can create and culturally, I see this all the time with my clients, is that having children, whilst it's something they maybe chose and brings them joy and is of really positive things in lots of ways, is actually a massive trigger and sometimes mediating factor for their health issues.
Creating, making, birthing and sustaining children is a massive, massive use of energy but we have this ‘bounce back’ culture, which is total BS and I think most of us don't realise how big a deal creating a new human body who has never existed before.
As much as we love our babies, they do act like parasites. They need calcium, they'll take it from your bones, they will take all your reserves physically in terms of your vitamins, nutrients, reserves. Then emotionally, whatever reserves you have left, they will take and then when they arrive, there's no recovery, it's sleep deprivation, it's feeding issues, etc. As they get older, then the challenges shift, but it's still challenging.
Now, this isn't to complain. Like I went into motherhood eyes as wide open as they could be. I knew it was gonna be one of the most challenging testing periods of my entire life, and it definitely has been.
But the thing we forget is sometimes, and this often means we go around wondering why we feel unwell, why we're tired, why our thyroid's gone, why we're bloated, why our gut health is awful, why we're depressed, why we're anxious and we fail to acknowledge the massive output that we have and often continually give to our children.
And if you have ever had children, it's really important wherever you're at now (I work on this with clients like seven years after they've had kids) is that you have periods of time where you intentionally replenish, where you nourish, where you replete those nutrients that have gone where you replete that sleep deprivation where you add back in and for each child that you have had.
So if you had four kids, how much chunks of time have you deliberately, intentionally had where you have replenished your sleep, replenished your nutrients, amino acids, vitamins and minerals, where you have gone in and done any work within your mind that might have come up with a traumatic birth or whatever. All that stuff that can come up. (Your psychology)
Have you done that intentional healing, replenishing time? Most people haven't and then it compounds and as they go on, they get sicker, more tired, more anxious, more depressed, their thyroid goes, the belly goes until they reach crisis point.
So, I just want to encourage you. First of all, making human is a massive deal. It's incredible. Hopefully it's something you chose to do, but we've gotta give ourselves some compassion of how depleting that is.
The next thing is, have you intentionally had long periods of time? I would argue as long as it took to grow, said humans.
So thinking about nine to 10 months of intentional impact on your whole system, your gut, your hormones, your detoxing, your nutrients, your vitamins, your minerals, your psychology, your sleep.
Have you done that? And you might immediately think, ‘Kezia, what planet are you on? I'm looking after a tiny child.’ Like doing this stuff is just a luxury and I would argue that: No, that's not a luxury. That is brainwashing that we have had as mothers, that we are to be Martyrs, left on the altar for our children.
And culturally, we're not given permission and sometimes we also just don't know how. So, that's what I help a lot of people with but I just want to encourage you to look after yourself, acknowledge the massive, massive contribution and creation that you have done.
So, I challenge you: Have you replenished? Have you replenished from having kids?
If you're listening to this before the 21st of December, you can get access to my Eat and Be Merry Recipe ebook.
This is full of all of my favorite, most delicious, festive recipes. From stolen bites to gingerbread muffins, to Christmas cake, to brownies to, or basically all the snack and treat recipes that you need so that you can enjoy Christmas, feel festive, have some treats, but also not be bloated, sluggish, tired, and fatigued and enter the new year feeling more like a winter whale, then a fabulous goddess.
I've put it all in the Eat and Be Merry Recipe ebook.
It's only £11. You can buy it now if you go to keziahall.com/bemerry. It's basically your survival guide to the holiday season.
Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?
Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.
Resources Mentioned
- Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
- Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
- Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
- Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here
Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Hello and welcome to The Gut Goddess Show. I have an incredible episode for you today that is going to inspire and equip you to be as well as healthy, as energised as you can be.
This episode is going to help your gut microbiome, your relationship with food and help you balance your hormones and improve your energy, all while inspiring you, motivating you, and also letting you know you're not in this alone. I'm right here with you. I've got you.
So, before I dive into the five principles and foundations about how to eat and how to eat like a gut goddess, how to eat in a different way, I bet you can look at your bookshelf or your recipe shelf and look at all the different ways you've been told to eat, all the different diets, all the different formulas, all the different kinds of methods to eat but actually what I'm going to be doing today is sharing something a bit different. It's probably not stuff that you've heard before.
It's probably not an approach you have heard a lot about and what I'm going to be talking about is how to eat in a way that really heals your body.
I really approach food from a couple of different angles. I love eating and I love eating food. I think it's fun. I think it's a great way of building community and relationships. It's a great way to celebrate. It's a great way to comfort. It's a great way to have fun. Food is fun. I love eating food. I'm not going to be one of these people that just eats protein shakes for the rest of my life because I love a good bowl of meatballs or tomato soup or whatever it is.
So food is fun. It's a great way to build community love and connection, but it can also be really healing and I do believe it's part of our kind of spiritual act here in the world. It can be a way to really nourish and heal ourselves and our minds and our lives.
Eating is really one of those key foundations that can propel us into our dream health and our dream life and all the things that we've created on this earth to do or it's something that can take away from what we want. It can make our life. Eating in a way that's not helpful, can actually diminish our dreams, can mean we're less able, to have the energy to do all the things that we want to do.
So, that is how I approach food. I approach it with joy, with love, with celebration. I approach it with the knowledge that it's healing, that it's actually something I can do every day to heal and build myself up towards the dreams that I want to live.
If you're listening to this before the 21st of December, you can get access to my Eat and Be Merry Recipe ebook.
This is full of all of my favorite, most delicious, festive recipes. From stolen bites to gingerbread muffins, to Christmas cake, to brownies to, or basically all the snack and treat recipes that you need so that you can enjoy Christmas, feel festive, have some treats, but also not be bloated, sluggish, tired, and fatigued and enter the new year feeling more like a winter whale, then a fabulous goddess.
I've put it all in the Eat and Be Merry Recipe ebook.
It's only £11. You can buy it now if you go to keziahall.com/bemerry. It's basically your survival guide to the holiday season.
Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?
Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.
Resources Mentioned
- Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
- Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
- Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
- Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here
Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
The reason that we need you well is because we need you WELL. The world needs you shining bright, glowing, thriving, and being healthy.
We need you to feel resilient with energy and with balanced hormones. This isn't about being perfect or about being thin.
This is about you being well so that you can show up in your life, in your unique way and create beautiful things. Do beautiful things, help serve and be who you are so that you can shine a light on everybody around you.
You being well means you shine bright. You being well means you are no longer in victim and survival mode. You shift into thriving and you role model that for the next generation.
You are an example of that to other people around you. We need you to be well because it nourishes and feeds and helps everybody else.
Head to iTunes and subscribe to The Gut Goddess Show or head to keziahall.com/blog to stream it live from there.
Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?
Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.
Resources Mentioned
- Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
- Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
- Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
- Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here
Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
This week in the podcast, we are looking at the 10 things that I wish I had been told about my health and my body.
Things that I wish I had been told when I was growing up, or even just a decade ago as a young adult and I'm sharing them with you because something my clients say to me all the time is, why did no one tell me this? Why didn't I know this?
I have clients that are retired, and they're like, I didn't know this. I didn't know this about my hormones. I didn't know this about my body. I didn't know this about the food that I eat.
So, I want to save you that thought, and go through all the different things that I think we should all know about our bodies, about our health, and I think this is going to be a really inspiring episode for you.
It might also be a bit of a kick up the butt, but that I'm okay with that. We need a bit of both. We sometimes need a bit of encouragement in the right direction and some inspiration all at the same time.
Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?
Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.
Resources Mentioned
- Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
- Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
- Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
- Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here
Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
If you have ever felt like your body and your health has been hard and difficult to work on, I just want to let you know that if you have a female body, then the female body being healthy and good, and well actually hasn't been something that has been valued, prioritised, or promoted in our Western culture for a really, really long time.
So, we inadvertently get trained and unconsciously told and have done since we were little, that how we feel doesn't matter, that our bodies as females aren't our own and that actually the safest thing to do is to potentially disconnect from our physicality because it's dangerous and it's not ours to own anyway. So there's nothing we can do about it.
If you then add into that the medical bias and the lack of data that we've had, the lack of investment in research into medical treatments and all of that stuff for specifically females, if you add into that the assumption that women are just small men medically speaking, you can then begin to build a picture and understand and then have so much compassion for yourself and for your body.
So many of the people that I work with find their relationship with their body and their health really hard, and then they can quickly jump to blaming themselves for that or their lack of self control or willpower or like some personal failing.
I just wanna gently remind you and offer you this other option of thought that is the system has actually been rigged against you for a really, really long time.
Systems, structures, thought patterns, paradigms have actually created an environment that probably has made it really hard for you in a female body to be well, to have a healthy relationship with your body, to be connected to your physicality, to know and understand.
Take your periods, for example, growing up, that was such a shameful thing. You used to hide that you wouldn't tell anyone about it, and therefore, what we shame we don't learn about.
So many women don't really even know about their own biology, their own cycle. Just using that as an example because it's been so gross and shameful and something to hide when actually it's something that the entire human race depends on. (But that's a whole other topic)
So, I hope this thought has been helpful. I hope that this gives you some permission to just be a bit more compassionate to yourself.
You've been doing the best job you can. You've been doing the best job with the tools that you've been given, and the reason that things have been hard is not necessarily a personal failing. It probably isn't. You've gotta look at the bigger context of everything that's been in our world and the structures that we have influencing us.
So, I hope that gives you hope, and I just encourage you to just be a bit kinder to yourself today.
And a really great way to counteract this is to actually really learn to celebrate yourself and the areas of progress that you make instead of thinking about everything you haven't done. Really think about what you have done and celebrate that.
Please make sure you leave a review on iTunes. If you haven't done so already, that would mean so much and mean this podcast gets to be in front of even more people's ears.
And if you wanna join me in the shift retreat and create that shift in your hormones and in your belly, and in your energy, and in your relationship with food in your body, the shift that you've been craving for a long time, but unable to do on your own, come and join us in the Shift Retreat.
There's six month payment plans available, and I would love to be with you in person. It's in North Barrack, so based in Scotland, March, 2023, and I would love to see you there. Head to keziahall.com/shift.
Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?
Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.
Resources Mentioned
- Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
- Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
- Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
- Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here
Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Sign up at keziahall.com/friday
Special offer for the in-person Retreat will run Friday 25th Nov - Monday 28th November. The ONLY way to access it is via the waitlist.
xxx
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
So, you need to do this one thing if you want to see some lasting shifts in your body composition, in weight loss, or in any other area of your health.
If you want to see some big, easy, sustainable, and lasting shifts in your body composition or in your gut health or in your skin or in your hormonal health, this is something that you need to adopt and it will change everything for you.
It'll actually make the whole process feel easier and just stop you being stuck in this vicious cycle of on, off, on, off, and will actually help you to just see some sustainable results.
And I'm going to be sharing with you a little bit more about some of the key takeaways of my own recent weight loss process. I had twins last year and gained a lot of weight with them as you would, and have been gently, very gently working on my own body composition and weight loss.
And I want to share with you some of the bigger picture, the higher level strategies that I've been applying that have made that possible in the business of life.
Even the other day, I was thinking, ‘oh my goodness. Yeah, I'm totally at the weight I want to be now. Oh, that happened, awesome' and it didn't feel like a big deal. I'm going to share with you how you can apply those same things to make it easier and simpler for you, which sounds pretty good, right?
Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?
Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.
Resources Mentioned
- Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
- Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
- Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
- Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here
Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.