The Gut Goddess Show with Kezia Hall

Ep 301: Demystifying probiotics, prebiotics & what you need for a healthy gut

In this episode, we're diving into gut health and looking kind of at a couple of basics - Probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics and synbiotics which is something that you might have seen on the internet.

I want to demystify this for you so that you know what that is, if it can help, and what is actually going to help your gut health because gut health is a foundation of hormonal health and healthy periods and healthy menopause and fertility.

Gut health is the foundation of mental health, of sleep, of glowing skin, it plays a role in body composition, energy production, your immune system and autoimmune conditions.

 

Resources

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Ep 300: Eating 101: what to eat (in a world of contradicting advice and opinions!

Welcome to episode 300!

Thank you so much for being here, whether you're new to the podcast or been listening for years, I appreciate you being here. I’m sending you so much love.

We're creating our own movement in this corner of the internet where we are becoming well women, where we are learning how to heal, thrive, energized, so that we can be radiant. That is available for you right here on the Gut Goddess Show with 300 episodes to help you.

So, let’s dive into this episode…

Today, I want to take things back to basics and look at eating. Eating 101  in a world where you are told probably five contradictory things every single day on Instagram about what you should or should not be eating so - what the heck do you eat?

As a Holistic Nutritionist and Coach, I'm going to be sharing with you the 5 different areas or structures that you want to be following and thinking about when it comes to food. You can fit in whether you're vegetarian, high-carb, low fat or plant-based.

Applying these principles will really help your hormones, your mental health, weight loss if that's necessary and desired, and also help with your gut health. 

Let's dive in!

 

Resources

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Ep 299: The beliefs that are holding you back

In this episode, we are looking at beliefs because as a Nutritionist and Coach, I've worked with loads of people over the years and I spend the majority of my time with clients looking at what actions they can take, what tweaks can we make, what habits can we shift, what foods can we add in, etc. - We create a personalised plan of action.

But taking the right kind of healing, wonderful actions that you need in order to be your most radiant, confident, energized, infused, calm, peaceful, happy self actually requires certain beliefs in order to take that action. This is a thing that people often miss.

They blame themselves because they just can't stop eating the sugar and bread or they can't seem to meditate and they just blame the fact that they're not taking the “right” actions. 

Sometimes you're not taking the right actions because you don't know what they are (and if that's the case you need to book your Well Woman Audit).

Or sometimes you know what the right action is but you are still not able to do it which is where it goes deeper and we need to review your beliefs.

 

Resources

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Ep 298: Which imbalance do you have? The top 5 root causes I see with clients

Let's talk about what could be going on in your body. I'm a big fan of understanding your root cause. That's why I do what I do as a Holistic Nutritionist and Coach.

The reason that I talk about figuring out your root cause and asking why is because I know in my own health journey (and in the countless women that I've helped) one of the biggest obstacles is for you making progress and being that well, radiant, energised version, woman of yourself is often that you don't actually understand what's going on and when you don't understand what's going on, you don't feel empowered.

You feel stuck and hopeless and think there is no point in doing anything. Not having clarity will keep you stuck. It will also keep you feeling demotivated and uninspired.

In this episode, we're going to be looking at what imbalances you have and the top five root causes I see with clients is because I want you to start thinking about what is at the root of your symptoms whether that’s low energy, anxiety, awful periods, sluggishness, skin issues, irregularities in your period, an autoimmune condition. What could be the root causes?

When you start to understand the root causes, you gain clarity. When you gain clarity, you gain motivation and feel inspired, and you feel really hopeful.

These are the feelings that help you create change and take consistent action.

 

Resources

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Ep 297: The secret to stopping ‘bad’ eating habits once and for all

What are the secrets to stopping bad eating habits once and for all? That's what we're looking at in this episode.

I don't want you to have this ‘food drama’ going on where it's good food, bad food, on a wagon, off a wagon, where you are spiraling into a pit and you're feeling really guilty about what you eat. This kind of food obsession/focus is very draining. 

If you often think things like ‘I've been so good all week and I just ruined it by eating this’ or ‘why can't I stop eating sugar or bread’ this episode is for you.

I want you to enjoy your food, I want you to find pleasure in food, maybe even comfort in food. I personally do find comfort in food sometimes and that's okay! 

I don't want your relationship with food to drain your energy. Your relationship with food can have joy and creativity if you want it to, but it also needs to be kind of neutral. - The food that you eat doesn't mean anything about who you are or have any say in your worth or your value as a person but so often that's what we tie this to. 

“I've eaten bad food therefore I'm a bad person” - This kind of thinking needs to stop otherwise you're really going to struggle to make progress.

In this episode, I'm going to be sharing four secrets to stopping these bad eating habits or to stop spiraling into that ‘on and off / good and bad’ trajectory that so many of us are on.

 

Resources

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Ep 296: Feeling old at 35, stuck in a rut & fed up - what's the root cause?

We are talking about feeling old before your time feeling stuck in a rut and fed up and what the root cause is? What is really going on to need all those really important and valid feelings? What are some of your root causes?

In this episode, I'm going to give you some clarity so that you can feel really empowered to know what is really going on and take really specific, accurate and effective action.

I have conversations with women about their health and about how frustrated and burnt out they feel, how they're at a low point or they're just not feeling like the best version of themselves and it's often the sense of vagueness and the lack of clarity around what their root causes are that keep them stuck living with the same symptoms year upon year. Most of the people I talk to have been struggling with the symptoms they have for a while.

So, what is it that is keeping you stuck? What is it that keeps you in that place of dis-ease around your body, that place of not feeling comfortable, not feeling radiant, not feeling confident. That's what we're diving into in this episode and I'm really excited to talk about it. It's going to be great!

 

Resources

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Ep 295: Why do slimming clubs (kinda) work?

Why do slimming clubs and diets work and why do people keep going back to them?

We're going to be looking at what essential needs these slimming clubs, diets and programs are meeting so that you can kind of take some of the good out of what is essentially a deeply flawed, oppressive system and apply them so that you can create success in your health, in your eating, in your relationship with food and your body.

If you didn't know, I joined my first slimming club when I was age 11. So, I've got a good amount of experience of brainwashing, of the structure of these clubs and of how they work.

Plus, I've had so many clients coming to me who have been in that cycle of joining slimming clubs on and off every few years - so let’s dive into what you need to make peace with your plate, body and how to shift unwanted body fat.

 

Resources

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Ep 294: My current GLOW UP plan & why I know it WILL work

In this episode, I'm talking about my current glow-up plan and why I know it will work. I'm going to be sharing some of the things I'm working on and the shifts that I'm trying to create.

Specifically, I'm looking to shift some of my own body composition and increase my muscle, decrease a little bit of fat and also some other areas of my current glow-up plan. 

Glow-up to me means that next version of radiance, of joy, of peace, of wellness, of being that well woman. I talk so much here about being a well woman and how the world needs us all, needs more well women in it and how that is possible for you. You can be well, radiant, confident and feeling really good - That is what I preach.

I'm going to let you in on the behind the scenes and more about this plan I've created for myself, why I'm really confident that it's going to work and the key part of this glow-up plan is and why I'm so confident that I'm going to get to where I want to be.

Resources

• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Ep 293: A new era for women's hormones. (Enough is enough!)

Today we are talking about the new era for women's hormones - for periods and for hormonal health because we are in a new era and enough is enough with all the shame with all the hiding. No more ‘let's not talk about the periods’ or ‘Oh my gosh, she dropped a tampon on the floor’ and ‘we're not talking about menopause’

We're not talking about any of this stuff as much as we should be and enough is enough.

 

Did you know that your period and having female hormones is the reason humanity has existed for thousands of generations? How has it become something that is disdained, embarrassing, humiliating and ignored?

 

That is an atrocity in my books. So, I am just putting this out as his prophetic call. There's a new era for women's hormones. We're in it now. I hope you can feel it, listening to this podcast episode because your hormones can be here to enrich your life, to enrich people’s lives around you, but mainly that your life can be great.

If you live with hormonal imbalance, it affects your whole life. I want you to live your one awesome, brilliant, beautiful, messy, imperfect, adventurous life and it's hard to do that if you're on a cycle of pain, anxiety, heaviness, loneliness, sluggishness.

It is hard because you’re stuck in this vicious cycle and it doesn't need to be this way. Your hormones when they're balanced are an asset to your humanity

As you can tell, I love talking about it so it's gonna be like a passionate rampage of call to action and call to arms so that you can have balanced hormones because I really do want that for you.

 

Resources

• Spring Workshops
• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Ep 292: Maybe you DON'T need more therapy. Maybe you need to support your brain.

Maybe you don't need more therapy. Maybe you need to support your brain.

This might be a slightly provocative title, but I have some thoughts on this as someone who has done a fair amount of therapy and values it deeply.

I am not anti-therapy, I just wonder how often we are missing the practical nourishment of our brains?

We usually always jump to therapy, which is well researched but how nourished is our brain with sleep, vitamins, fats, minerals, and the fuel it needs.

Because I can tell you it's going to be really hard for you to create all these new thoughts and all these new habits and these beliefs and identities if your brain is poorly nourished and struggling and just surviving.

In order for you to deal with whatever symptom that you're in therapy for, whether it's anxiety, depression or trauma, one of the things that you're trying to do is create more safety in your body and the easiest and simplest ways of creating more safety is making sure that your organs and your body are well nourished.

So, whether you're struggling with your mental health or not, we really need to learn to support our brains and we need to learn to support our children's brains.

When you have more resilience in your brain, you have more resilience in your hormones, in your gut, in your skin, in your sleep, in everything.

Resources

• Spring Workshops
• Book your free call with me here
• If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
• Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection