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A podcast hosted by Nutritional Therapist, Grace Kingswell, that interviews personalities in the health, wellness, arts and fitness industries talking health, food, state of mind, sustainability and everything in between. What does State of Mind mean to you?
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Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
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.
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
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!
Wednesday Oct 16, 2019
Wednesday Oct 16, 2019
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.
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
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.
Today I’m talking to Georgie Spurling and we’re going deep into dealing with grief, loss, break ups, fitness and lifestyle.
Georgie's journey to health began way back when she had a heart condition as a youngster and was told she’ never really be able to exercise. She completely disregarded her doctors and trained to be a PT and went hard for a few years dancing, exercising and going to multiple HIIT workouts.
Unsurprisingly she struck burnout and chronic fatigue and, having been bedridden for 3 months, she began slowly to rebuild her strength but it a completely different way to how she’d gone about things before.
More recently, Georgie has had a pretty tough time of it and life has definitely dealt her a rough hand. We talk about how she’s coped with the grief of losing one of her best fiends in a terrible accident, and suffering a breakup all in the space of a week.
She’s a total inspiration and I hope you get a lot from this episode.
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Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Hello and welcome back to STATE OF MIND, I’m Grace Kingswell - Nutritional Therapist and Lifestyle medicine advocate and boy do I have some incredible guests for you today!
A couple of months ago my Mum and I went on a girls holiday to Greystones in Ireland. The goal to was to do lots of walking, see some beautiful scenery and just generally get into nature… but also (on my part) to swim at Sunrise with The Happy Pear.
I’ve been following David and Stephen Flynn (aka The Happy Pear), for quite some time on Instagram and have always just been completely obsessed with their ethos, outlook on life, quirkiness and positivity. Having been a passionate swimmer for quite some time I was so excited to swim with a community that loved the cold water and the sea as much as I do.
I became pretty chummy with Dave and Steve and we kept in touch over the last few months via Instagram, and, when my husband and I went back to Greystones last month for his birthday, I was lucky enough to record a podcast with the boys.
Now if you follow Dave and Steve on insta you’ll know that these two have hectic lives, and given that Nick and I were only in Ireland for a few days it seemed unlikely that we were going to be able to squeeze the recording in. However, typical to their welcoming and unbelievably friendly nature, Steve and Dave invited Nick and I along with them on their road trip around Dublin where they were speaking in schools about climate change and eating more vegetables.
That day we woke up at 4.30am, squeezed in the car all together and hit to road. Our first stop was a sunrise swim at a beach in Dublin, followed by breakfast on the side of the road and a coffee in a local cafe. Then we drove to the first of two schools that the lads were speaking at and watched as they delivered an incredibly engaging talk on why we all need to be eating more fruit and veg.
Then it was off to the second school on the other side of town, then to a radio interview, and then, after lunch in the park, we found 30 minutes in which to sit down, get behind the mics and put the world to rights.
I was really keen not to just get Dave and Steve to retell their story of how they started The Happy Pear, since I know that you’ve all probably heard it before and they’d probably had enough of telling it for that day! So, I aimed, as ever to ask pertinent questions on topics such as the climate crisis, the future of humanity, creating positive change, metal attitudes and happiness.
I think the most profound thing I say all episode is: “you’re the happy pear. You’re really happy.” Yeh, well done Grace!
One of my favourite parts of the episode is the comparison they make between illness and wellness: There is only an “I” in illness, but a ‘we’ in wellness.
I absolutely adore Dave and Steve and am so grateful to them for coming on the podcast! I do just want to say before we kick off that this is definitely not the usually quality of audio that you can expect from STATE OF MIND. We recorded it out in the open in a park, plus they boys kept snatching the microphone from one another, which was pretty funny to watch!
I’m sure you can tell from the banter that we had a great time recording this. If you enjoy it PLEASE please do share the podcast with your friends and family and on social media! And of course, there’s that all important rating and review on the apple podcasts app.
Thank you so much again for your continued support of STATE OF MIND!
Wednesday Nov 06, 2019
Wednesday Nov 06, 2019
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.
Today I’m talking to Alison Mountford, the founder of Ends + Stems - a recipe delivery service that aims to reduce your food waste. The reason I was so excited to talk to Alison is because she’s all about community, and, having been on this podcast journey for some time now I’ve realised that regaining our sense of community is the number one way that we all start thinking with a more sustainable mindset.
Of course, the statistics on food waste are shocking - 24 million slices of bread a day are wasted in the UK alone, but we go much deeper than that in this podcast episode and start to discuss fundamental human behaviours surrounding waste, our careless throw away attitudes and the whys and hows of this food waste issue.
Alison and her team have developed a clever calculator that will tell you at the end of each week how many kilograms of greenhouse gasses you’ve saved by following her meal plans - I think this is amazing as it gives you a truly tangible way to make a difference. But it gets even better, then Alison worked with a specialist to figure out how many slices of pizza would equate to kilograms of greenhouse gasses so that at the end of each week she can accurately tell you how many slices of pizza you’ve saved from land fill.
There is so much knowledge and insight in this episode and I really hope you enjoy it!
Thursday Nov 28, 2019
Thursday Nov 28, 2019
Hello and welcome back to STATE OF MIND. I’m Grace Kingswell and I’m a Nutritional Therapist, breathwork coach and cold water swimmer and THIS is my podcast series all about health, wellness, lifestyle, sustainability, biohacking, nutritional biochemistry (nerdy word soz) and much, much more.
This episode is coming to you LIVE from The Fore in King's Cross, London, where I hosted a panel discussion with Functional Medicine practitioner Debbie Lewis and Breath Work coach and Wim Hof instructor, Richie Bostock.
It is all too common these days to hand over the responsibility for our health to someone else and in this episode we discuss that along with some tips and tricks for regaining the control.
This marks the end of season 3! Bring on the next!!
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@thebreathguy
@debbielewismed
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Tony Riddle, or the Natural Lifestylist as he goes by on Instagram, is a man on a mission to re-wild your feet and lifestyle and connect us humans back to our true essence, to empower us to take control of our environments and to get back into nature in a BIG way. At the tail end of last year he ran from Land's End to John O'Groats barefoot, as you do, in a bid to raise awareness for environmental charities - and he certainly achieved that goal. It was also an exercise in showing us all just what the human body is capable of and, probably more so actually, what the mind is capable of.
We talk a lot in this episode about the way in which Tony raises his children, the fact that he doesn’t send them to a conventional school, and we of course talk about his epic run, our mutual love for cold water and a few other insightful anecdotes along the way.
Find me @gracekingswell and online www.gracekingswell.com and Tony @thenaturallifestylist
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Cait Mizzi CNP is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner and she works functionally, which is a term you may have heard me throw around a lot on this podcast before. Essentially, she works with an evidence-based, yet natural approach to obtaining and maintaining good health. Instead of focusing on a singular system or body part, or even a single approach or cure, Cait will evaluate your complete health history, current lifestyle, emotional state and dietary habits to get to the root cause of your health concerns. As you’ll hear from this episode, Cait is an incredibly knowledgeable practitioner and we do go quite in depth on a number of topics like veganism and the ketogenic diet.
One thing we do talk a lot about in this episode is vegan diets and the Game Changers film, and if you watched that film and immediately reevaluated the way you eat then I urge you to listen through to the end of this episode because it’s incredibly important.
As ever, if you enjoy this episode I would be beyond grateful if you could help me to spread the word about state of mind by sharing the episode to your instagram stories and writing me a rave review on the apple podcasts app.
@caitmizzi
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Monday Jan 27, 2020
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Today I’m talking to the wonderful Ariane from Ftoxins, a polite abbreviation for something we should all be doing - putting our middle fingers up at the sources of toxicity in our lives.
One of these main sources is in our cosmetic products, and that’s what Ariane and her sister Delphine focus on with their blog and Instagram page, but they are also incredibly knowledgeable about the dangers surrounding EMFs (as emitted by our electronic devices), air quality, supplements and materials we commonly use in our kitchens like aluminium and plastic.
The girls provide safer swaps for their followers which is, I think, why they are so successful at what they do. They aren’t just explaining what the chemicals in your kitchen cleanser do they’re giving you a healthier alternative that’s priced similarly and easy to use.
I absolutely love the concept behind Ftoxins and in this episode we talk a lot about cosmetics, moisturisers, what you should and can use on your skin safely and why it’s so important not to rub petroleum all over your body!! Yes, most moisturisers are made from petroleum which comes form petrol.
As ever if you enjoy this episode then you can support me and my little podcast by sharing it to your instagram stories and also by leaving a rave review on the apple podcasts app! Thank you in advance…