Ep 19. Welcome back! Personal reflections on a challenging year

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03/16/22 • 44 min

In this episode I share why this podcast went quiet in the past year. I discuss divorce, compassion & critical thinking, and working as a holistic health practitioner in communities burdened by COVID misinformation. It contains a lot of personal details and reflections. If that's not your thing, no worries - scroll on.

SHOW NOTES:
02:30 On being a "muscles and bones" yoga teacher instead of a philosophising one
05:40 Prajna and critical analysis as ways of inner knowing
11:33 The place of compassion in reducing COVID transmission
16:13 Moving through separation and divorce
18:40 Career changes to make ends meet
21:20 Working as a holistic health practitioner in communities burdened by COVID conspiracy theory and medical misinformation
26:14 Vaccines and naturopathic medicine principles
31:32 The value of combining compassion with analytical reasoning
42:37 How this podcast will evolve

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RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Dr. Dan Wilson, PhD: A compassionate case for COVID vaccination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-KdEgh4Ps8
Max Cohen, ND: Are vaccines consistent with naturopathic medicine?
https://ndsforvaccines.com/reconciling-the-irreconcilable-are-vaccines-consistent-with-naturopathic-medicine/
Pennycook, Gordon. (2019). Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking. Journal of Personality. 88. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jopy.12476

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Ep 18. Healing from Hypothalamic Amenorrhoea with Phoebe Jobson

Restrictive eating is a major pain, especially when it causes you to lose your period. Hypothalamic Amenorrhoea (HA) leads to infertility but also a bunch of other lesser known issues. Anti-diet naturopath Phoebe Jobson and I talk all things HA - a condition close to both our hearts as we each have experienced and recovered from this condition.
In this episode:

What is HA? Plus some signs, symptoms, and accompanying issues (short and long term)
All about the food piece – how much, how often, and whether calorie counting to ensure minimum intakes helps or hinders (hint: it depends!)
Why potatoes are not the devil (and carbs may actually be your secret weapon)
Guidelines on exercise in HA recovery
Why rest rocks
The importance of seeing a psychologist / psychotherapist / counsellor as part of your team
Tips on dealing with diet mentality and diet culture
Busting some common HA myths
Partial vs full recovery
The problem with skipping the nutritional rehabilitation part of healing from HA and jumping straight to herbs, fertility medications and/or injectables
Body appreciation

Links:
Phoebe's Website, Instagram & Facebook

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Ep 20. Bonus Sample: Yogi, Naturopath, Vaxxed

Working amongst wellness and yoga circles, and living in a permaculture eco village that draws many alternative lifestyle-seeking fringe dwellers, I'm embedded within multiple vaccine hesitant communities. Navigating both my personal stance and my role as a holistic health practitioner within this intersection has been a growth-inducing and revelatory process.

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SHOW NOTES for the full episode:

Fear and loathing: the reasons why people are vaccine hesitant
My original vaccine hesitancy and how I came to my current stance on COVID
What “doing your research” means to me
Love, light, and care for community: figments of the hippy imaginarium?
On dealing with the social anxiety of being attacked for my viewpoints
Science denial or poor accessibility? Other reasons why people don't get vaccinated
The perception of holistic health practitioners as anti-vaxx