Man-made illness, mental health, nudes and body neutrality with Imogen Ivy
STATE OF MIND
01/12/21
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Hello and welcome back to STATE OF MIND, with me Grace Kingswell.
Today’s guest is someone I’ve been wanting to talk to for ages, she’s always at the top of my Instagram stories and I devour everything she puts online. Her name is Imogen Ivy and she’s a creative director, photographer and videographer from Australia, living in London.
What drew me to Imogen to begin with was her dancing, her joyful, uninhibited, dancing-in-the-middle-of-the-street in London type of dancing - the kind that lifts your soul and makes you smile ridiculously at your phone screen, whilst also simultaneously thinking “gosh I wish I could move my body like that.”
As the months passed I started to get fragments of a health battle via Imogen’s Instagram, she speaks a lot about movement as a privilege, and having had that privilege taken away form her in her past. She’s eloquent and well-versed, in the way that only one with personal experience could be, on the topics of mental health and body neutrality too.
I was really intrigued.
What follows in this episode is an utterly heartbreaking, in places, and raw account of her journey with mental health that went from being probably quite a standard issue to a medically-induced, man-made shit show.
Thank you to Imogen for sharing her incredible story with us, and providing lots of humour and important messages along the way. You can find her on instagram @imogenfkingivy
This episode is sponsored by @wearesamudra, a sustainable activewear brand based in London. Don’t forget to check out wearesamudra.com for 10% off their gorgeous collection.
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Hello and welcome back to STATE OF MIND with me, Grace Kingswell.
I have an incredible guest for you today - Robyn Puglia. Robyn is a Nutritional Therapist and IFM Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. She specialises in Autoimmune Disease, Gluten-Reactive Disorders including Coeliac Disease, Complex Cases and Unexplained Illness.
As well as a busy clinical practice, she provides technical support and education for Regenerus Labs, including Doctor’s Data, DUTCH Labs, BCA Lyme and Viral Labs and Cyrex.
Robyn is a well regarded speaker and lecturer in the UK, presenting on Autoimmune Disease, Gut Health, complex biochemistry and clinical case studies.
More recently she’s started up a Functional Medicine Mentoring Program @AFMMP along with Alex Manos and Laura Stirling, which I completed, and that’s where my girl crush on Robyn stems from!
I wanted to quiz Robyn on some really basic concepts but get her to go into depth about what’s actually happening in our bodies on a cellular level. We speak about blood sugar, sleep, alcohol, coffee and diet dogma and oh my goodness you will learn SO much from this episode - it’s one of my all times faves.
Robyn is also the queen on analogies, so don’t worry - it’s all really easy to follow.
This episode is sponsored by We Are Samudra, a gorgeous activewear brand made form recycled ocean plastic.
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Hello and welcome back to STAE OF MIND with Nutritional Therapist, Grace Kingswell.
My guest today is Anna Blackwell. Anna is an adventurer, which I feel like is one of those things you decide to be when you’re a child but that realistically you never end up being. As Anna explains in the episode, she never had grand ideas from an early age to be an adventurer, she sort of fell into it and realised that the physical endurance and mental resilience needed to put yourself through gruelling experiences was something she really enjoyed.
I was personally really intrigued to find out what she eats on long expeditions, and I was quite horrified at one of the answers, and what it’s like not seeing another human for days on end.
Whether you’re into hiking and adventure or not, this episode is an enlightening exploration into the human psyche and what it is about some of us that makes us enjoy and seek out adversity.
I also want to apologise now for one instance in this episode where, due to the zoom connection being a bit slow, I basically interrupt Anna multiple times - podcasting long distance via Zoom is hard, so I hope you can forgive me on that one!
I also mention a trek I did in New Zealand and couldn’t remember the name at the time, it’s called The Banks Peninsula and it was some of the best, and hardest, days of my life!
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