The Gut Goddess Show with Kezia Hall

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

Ep 291: Pressure to be thin vs finding a healthy body size for you

The pressure to be thin, this is finding a healthy body size for you - That's what we're looking at in this episode.

We need to do a lot of untangling around this. For most of you listening to this, you'll have grown up heavily brainwashed by dieting culture, and the idea that thin is best, most beautiful, most worthy, it's the goal.

But this is actually about being well, finding a healthy body size, being healthy and well in our bodies, and that might look different for all of us. - You can be thin and incredibly unhealthy, you can be thin and incredibly healthy, you can have a larger body and be incredibly healthy, you can have a larger body and not be healthy for you.

So, how do we untangle? How do you know, if actually you do need to shift some body fat and are thinking ‘Maybe that would help my hormones and my joints to my back and my autoimmune issue’  versus ‘I've just been brainwashed into thinking thin is best’.

It can feel really murky and messy. This is quite a bit of a vulnerable episode for me because I still feel this now. I still feel this pressure to be thin especially as a Holistic Nutritionist - being in the nutrition and wellness space, if I'm not careful I can feel these different comparisons and little threads and whispers in my brain that I should be thinner. Which is total BS.

So, we can live in this murky place. Do I need to lose weight? Do I want to lose weight? Is that just dieting mentality? Is that actually true? Will this actually help me? It can all just all feel very overwhelming and a bit messy.

So, in this episode, we're addressing decades of dieting indoctrination and how you can find a healthy body size for you.

Also, if you want to know more about this, I'm doing 3 workshops starting at the end of April to help you kick-start feeling well. To kick-start your hormone balance and your healthy belly and get help you get rid of IBS and help you sort out your body composition.

One of the workshops is going to be diving into body composition a little bit more because I actually have a lot, I have a very unique approach to body composition.

I have a lot of tools, a lot of strategies, and a lot of practical actions that can help, but I do think this is an important area that doesn't get talked about and I want to start talking about it. I want you to be free and well in your body and that might mean for some of you shifting your body fat and for some of you that might mean accepting where you are at and I want to help you with both.

You can find out all about the workshops here.

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 290: Why do you have awful PMS?

Why do you have awful PMS? Why the low mood, sore boobs, insomnia? Why do you feel like crying all the time? Why do you get really anxious or depressed? What is with PMS? Is it a normal part of being a woman or is there stuff you can do about it?

Spoiler alert... There is definitely stuff you can do about it and I'm going to share the things that you can do because your periods and hormones are actually meant to be an incredible superpower. They're not meant to be this thing that limit you, hold you back, that you hate and make your life miserable.

You're not meant to be on this hormonal rollercoaster that you don't feel in control of. Your hormones are here to serve you, to add to your life and not take away.

I've worked with clients on their periods and hormones and I, myself have been on a rollercoaster with heavy, painful periods where I needed to be medicated for at least 3 days, just to make it through.

While it's normal to have fluctuating hormones, it's not normal to feel like you are being tossed around with every part of your cycle.

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 289: The real reason you feel tired and sluggish in the morning. (Why you can’t function without caffeine!)

Why does waking up feel so hard? Why are the mornings difficult and you feel sluggish with brain fog? Why do you really need that coffee or cup of tea in the morning?

This is something that a lot of people have and a lot of clients I work with come to me and tell me that this is one of the many symptoms they have.

Some people feel like they need a coffee IV trip or have to have a cup of tea, but actually, whilst it's really common to feel like this, it's not normal. - Your body should have a natural alarm clock system within itself and if that's not working and helping you to feel awake and alert in the morning, there are things going awry

In this episode, I'm going to share three different areas and three different reasons why mornings feel so hard and why you feel like you have to reach for that coffee or you can't function without the tea or Redbull or whatever it is that you reach for.

There are simple things that you can do, and if you implement them in the next two weeks, you could probably have better energy in the morning. Some of this stuff isn't hard. It's just that you have never been taught what's going on and what's going on behind this symptom.

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 288: Are CGM (Continuous Blood Glucose Monitors) useful or just another fad? (AKA should you sign up for Zoe?)

Are continuous blood glucose monitors (CGM) useful or just another fad? Should you sign up for Zoe or some other thing that you're being advertised online?

 

If you're anything like me, with constantly being advertised to about these things - but is it right for you? In this episode, we’re talking about whether it’s useful to you and going to help you to shift your hormones, belly or moods?

I'm going to share the reasons why I like and sometimes use Blood Glucose Monitors as well as some of the reasons I don't like them plus more about my recent experiment and what I do with my clients.

 

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 287: Why the low libido? How to raise your sex drive

In this episode, we're talking about sex! Specifically low libido which comes up a lot with my clients.

Why do you have low libido and how you can increase your sex drive?

Sex is something I talk about with my clients, but I haven't talked about it here on the show until now! Sex is so good for you and orgasms are incredible for your health. The more orgasms you can have, the more intimacy, pleasure and connection you can have with another person and yourself the better.

 

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