Turning pain into power with Hayley Ray
STATE OF MIND
10/09/19
•32m
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Hello and welcome back to STATE OF MIND, the podcast series that’s all about empowering you to take control of your own health. I'm Grace Kingswell and I'm a Nutritional Therapist with a huge focus on lifestyle medicine and healing from chronic conditions.
This week’s guest is my dear friend Hayley Ray. Hayley is a women’s health, nutrition and wellbeing coach who helps women turn pain into power...The reason for this is that since age 11 Hayley has dealt with the most crippling period pain but for 10 years her doctors refused to believe her and left her to deal with this crippling condition, later discovered to be endometriosis, completely on her own.
She tells the story of how, 10 years down the line, she finally went in for some keyhole surgery to diagnose the endometriosis and the doctors found an undetected cyst on her left ovary.
Hayley took the situation into her own hands and has worked hard on lifestyle changes that have enabled her to manage her Endometriosis and PCOS.
She now coaches women 1-2-1, speaks publicly at events and generally just shares the wealth of knowledge she’s built up in how to deal with a chronic condition and turn it into a positive situation.
I had such a lovely chat with Hayley, and I hope you enjoy it to. So, on with the episode!
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Why we've got #SelfCare all wrong with psychotherapist Emmy Brunner
October 2, 2019
•40m
Hello and welcome back 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.
Today I’m talking to Emmy Brunner. Emmy is a clinical psychotherapist with more than 15 years of experience focusing on women’s mental health and is the founder of the Recover Clinic in London, the UK’s #1 private treatment centre focused on trauma, eating disorders and body dysmorphia. Throughout her career, she has come to believe that the majority of mental health challenges are linked to unresolved trauma in one’s life. Emmy has discovered remarkable patterns in the ways women are conditioned to respond to trauma and life-challenges. She’s devoted her life to sharing her learnings with sufferers and has created an approach to the treatment of mental illness that aims to help individuals strive for holistic balance. Her unique approach focuses on the person behind the illness, not just the physical symptoms.
In this episode we’re talking about the concept of self care, as Emmy’s view on it is not what your typical millennial might classify as hashtag self care, i.e., getting a manicure, having a bath or buying yourself a new house plant.
We dive deep into Emmy’s definition of self care, trauma and also touch on food psychology and anxiety.
I learnt so much from Emmy in this episode and I hope you do too.
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I've got beef with compostable plastics: Here's why...
October 16, 2019
•21m
In this soundbite I'm talking about something I'm pretty damn passionate about: the problem with compostable plastics. I've been researching this topic for a while and there is nothing I love to wax lyrical about more, except maybe the merits of cold water therapy and sunlight =)
Confused whether your compostable coffee cup can go in your green waste? Feeling good about yourself when you sip from a 'green cup,' not sure whether all bio plastics are recyclable, compostable or degradable?
What even is the difference between degradable and biodegradable, and what are the conditions that warrant something actually being able to label itself as biodegradable?
Let's discuss.
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