Sound Bite 2: Community and Creating Happiness
STATE OF MIND
06/05/19
•10m
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Hello and welcome to STATE OF MIND. I’m Grace Kingswell, I’m a Nutritional Therapist and Lifestyle Medicine Advocate and this is my series all about health, mental wellbeing, state of mind, the environment, creating sustainable practices and finding true connection with yourself, those around you and with nature.
In this sound bite I'm reflecting on the idea of community and how our lack of it is changing the way we experience health and wellness. Specifically, I look at the parallels between our disparate lives and our wellbeing, seen most clearly in our experience of mental health.
I go through the 4 ways that I stay happy on a daily basis and talk about why your happiness and balance needs to come from within first and foremost. It's only when we're balanced and can actually get to a place where little things don't stress us out, that we can really begin to live a lifestyle of consistency.
I delve into my morning routine as well and discuss the new community that I've just founded, Slow Sundays (on Insta @slowsundays_) to help people connect through movement and wild swimming here in London.
Find me @gracekingswell
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Hello and welcome to STATE OF MIND. I’m Grace Kingswell, I’m a Nutritional Therapist and Lifestyle Medicine Advocate and this is my series all about health, mental wellbeing, state of mind, the environment, creating sustainable practices and finding true connection with yourself, those around you and with nature.
I am so unbelievably excited for you to all hear this episode with Dr Adam Gill and the insight he shares into human behaviour, communities, the health and wellness industry and so much more.
Adam sheds some serious light onto questions such as why are we all so obsessed with health, why do we care what each other are eating, how can we use behaviour change and ethnography to positively impact environmental change and our culture of action reward that lead us all to the chocolate bar when we feel like we 'deserve' it.
Adam is an ethnographer and the founder of Wilding, a creative ad agency using ethnography and behaviour change to improve health. He has a PhD in community participation theory and has worked in the NHS and the health and wellness sector to help clients understand more, and action insights to improve services for patients. He has recently founded the creative advertising health and wellness agency, Wilding, which is determined to challenge unhealthy behaviours and to produce relevant and meaningful creative advertising campaigns for clients.
He’s all about disruption, what’s on the peripheries and doing things just a little bit differently.I think this episode will answer some of your health industry hang ups, as it certainly answered mine!
Adam can we found online at wearewilding.com and on social @wilding_health
For more from me I'm @gracekingswell or gracekingswell.com
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Lea Sednaoui: The Blood Type Diet
June 12, 2019
•40m
Hello and welcome to STATE OF MIND. I’m Grace Kingswell, I’m a Nutritional Therapist and Lifestyle Medicine Advocate and this is my series all about health, mental wellbeing, state of mind, the environment, creating sustainable practices and finding true connection with yourself, those around you and with nature.
In this weeks episode I'm talking to Lea Sednaoui (@chewchoose), chef and follower of the Blood Type Diet. Lea was struggling with her health when she turned 30, she was sluggish, overweight, sleeping badly, eating excessive amounts of animal protein and she turned it all around to be the vibrant and energetic person she is now. The Blood Type diet is, duh, different for each blood type and you stick to foods that are beneficial for your type as dictated by founder and geneticist, Dr D'Adamo.
We also talk about our modern fascination with eating the same foods over and over again (hello overnight oats with nut butter), our Western sense of entitlement surrounding food, and how we're all missing a trick by not including anything more varied - not just for our health but also our tastebuds!
Lea's food is an incredible fusion of Lebanese and French cuisine and she's passionate about slow cooking, slow living and really embracing our culinary heritage.
For all the BTS you can find me, @gracekingswell or gracekingswell.com for all things Nutrition related.
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