The Wellness Edit

When initially sharing her personal story of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), anxiety and mental health, Lottie Drynan realised there were many other women living with chronic illness and battling with bloating and body image. Since then she’s become a huge name in the gut health world, building a 250,000 person strong community via The Tummy Diaries and You’ve Gut This platforms, including a private Facebook support group with monthly events, and self-publishing the wellness Journal ‘My Tummy Diary’.

Lottie discusses her journey, from the initial symptoms that interfered with her first job, to the research she did on the gut, FODMAP diets, and the brain-gut connection. With her first baby due any day, Lottie talks about how she gradually found coping mechanisms and how sharing them created a safe space for others to open up about their gut health and not feel so alone. She also explains how her love of fashion led to #mybloatedwardrobe going viral.

If you’ve ever suffered from gut problems and loss of body confidence, this is the episode for you. Lottie’s evolving, holistic, 360-degree approach to wellness will inspire women to better understand their body, find balance and ‘thrive, not just survive’.

Please note this episode was recorded before the birth of Lottie’s baby, Pennie.

Resources

The Wellness Edit/ Holland & Barrett

Follow us here https://www.instagram.com/hollandandbarrett/?hl=en

https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/the-health-hub/podcast/

Dr Gemma Newman

https://www.instagram.com/plantpowerdoctor/?hl=en

https://gemmanewman.com/

Lottie Drynan

@lottiedrynan

@youvegutthis

https://youvegutthis.co.uk/

https://thetummydiaries.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/youvegutthis

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Jaspreet is an award-winning spoken word poet, author, commentator and educator. Her work is all about having difficult conversations and her debut book ‘Brown Girl Like Me’ looks at the issues and stigmas South Asian women face on mental health, feminism, menstruation and beauty standards.

With the goal of changing the narrative, Jaspreet joins Dr Gemma to unpack the issues around gender differences, menstruation and how period poverty affects women across the world. She also dives into her journey as a poet and what wellness means to her.

Ultimately, Jaspreet’s message is to take time to get to know your body and express yourself to support your mental wellbeing. Pulling no punches, this empowering podcast should equip women everywhere to handle difficult conversations better and do just that.

Resources

The Wellness Edit/ Holland & Barrett

Follow us here https://www.instagram.com/hollandandbarrett/?hl=en

https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/the-health-hub/podcast/

Dr Gemma Newman

https://www.instagram.com/plantpowerdoctor/?hl=en

https://gemmanewman.com/

Jaspreet Kaur

https://www.behindthenetra.com/

@behindthenetra

Book info https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jaspreet-kaur/brown-girl-like-me/9781529056310

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Kat Farmer, AKA @doesmybumlook40, is loved on social media for her honest but upbeat posts, whether that’s laughing at herself in an unflattering outfit in a high street changing room, or getting raw and emotional sharing the challenges of parenting a teenager with autism. Now, with her new book Get Changed: Finding The New You Through Fashion already a Sunday Times bestseller, she talks to Gemma about how what we wear is linked with our sense of personal identity and how so many of us lose track of who we are - especially as we get older and find our time and energy taken up with work and family. She shares some practical tips about finding your fashion tribe, talks about her own experiences of menopause and getting older (and why you should wear what you want at any age) and her guilt at not realising her daughter was coeliac. This is a hugely positive listen for anyone who wears clothes. Ultimately, Kat’s message is that at the end of the day, we all deserve to like the person we see looking back at us in the mirror - and she wants to help get us there.

Resources

The Wellness Edit/ Holland & Barrett

Follow us here https://www.instagram.com/hollandandbarrett/?hl=en

https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/the-health-hub/podcast/

Dr Gemma Newman

https://www.instagram.com/plantpowerdoctor/?hl=en

https://gemmanewman.com/

Find Kat on Instagram

@doesmybumlook40

https://katfarmer.komi.io/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Changed-Finding-through-fashion/dp/1784727784/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kat+farmer+get+changed&qid=1619601775&s=books&sr=1-1

H&B menopause range:

https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/vitamins-supplements/condition/women-s-health/menopause/

CQA - FREE Women's Health & Menopause wellness consultation from the comfort of your home

https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/info/video-chat/

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Whether it’s caused by anxiety over the pandemic, or our always-on lifestyles and inability to stop the scroll, we’re in the midst of a sleep crisis. In this episode, leading sleep physiologist Stephanie Romiszewski explains that so much of what we are being told to do to improve our sleep is actually making it worse. But, if we think about our sleep differently, there are simple changes we can make to our behaviour to help us sleep better. In this advice-packed podcast, she talks to Gemma about her tools for sleep, including why getting up at the same time every day is so important and why we shouldn’t go to bed unless we’re tired.

Stephanie Romiszewski is one of the UK’s leading sleep experts, whose clear, claim advice comes from her experience working with her clients at the Sleepy Head Clinic. This is a must-listen (and potentially life-changing) episode for anyone who ever struggles with their sleep, or lives with someone who does.

Resources

The Wellness Edit/ Holland & Barrett

Follow us here https://www.instagram.com/hollandandbarrett/?hl=en

https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/the-health-hub/podcast/

Dr Gemma Newman

https://www.instagram.com/plantpowerdoctor/?hl=en

https://gemmanewman.com/

Resources:

www.sleepyheadclinic.co.uk

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Mariella Frostrup has been a distinctive voice in broadcasting for many years. In this episode she joins with health journalist Alice Smellie to talk about their book, Cracking the Menopause While Keeping Yourself Together, which brings their take on menopause - why we all need to know more about it, and what people who are going through perimenopause or menopause can do to understand it better and alleviate their symptoms. The conversation gets feisty as Mariella and Alice express their frustration at the general lack of knowledge about the menopause - which affects half the population - and the popular perception that menopause means ‘the end’ for women; in fact it’s the start of an exciting new life stage.

This episode is both a personal campaign from Mariella and Alice to break the stigma around menopause, and an invaluable resource - it’s packed with information and advice both from themselves and the many experts they have spoken to. As Mariella might put it, don’t think that if you’re not menopausal, this episode isn’t for you - listening to it will empower anyone who is interested in health and wellness.

Resources

The Wellness Edit/ Holland & Barrett

Follow us here https://www.instagram.com/hollandandbarrett/?hl=en

https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/the-health-hub/podcast/

Dr Gemma Newman

https://www.instagram.com/plantpowerdoctor/?hl=en

https://gemmanewman.com/

Cracking the Menopause While Keeping Yourself Together by Mariella Frostrup and Alice Smelllie, £20, Bluebird

https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/

Louise Newsome

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