The Gut Goddess Show with Kezia Hall Kezia Hall

Maybe you don't need more therapy. Maybe you need to support your brain.
This might be a slightly provocative title, but I have some thoughts on this as someone who has done a fair amount of therapy and values it deeply.
I am not anti-therapy, I just wonder how often we are missing the practical nourishment of our brains?
We usually always jump to therapy, which is well researched but how nourished is our brain with sleep, vitamins, fats, minerals, and the fuel it needs.
Because I can tell you it's going to be really hard for you to create all these new thoughts and all these new habits and these beliefs and identities if your brain is poorly nourished and struggling and just surviving.
In order for you to deal with whatever symptom that you're in therapy for, whether it's anxiety, depression or trauma, one of the things that you're trying to do is create more safety in your body and the easiest and simplest ways of creating more safety is making sure that your organs and your body are well nourished.
So, whether you're struggling with your mental health or not, we really need to learn to support our brains and we need to learn to support our children's brains.
When you have more resilience in your brain, you have more resilience in your hormones, in your gut, in your skin, in your sleep, in everything.

Resources
Spring Workshops
Book your free call with me here
If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

The pressure to be thin, this is finding a healthy body size for you - That's what we're looking at in this episode.
We need to do a lot of untangling around this. For most of you listening to this, you'll have grown up heavily brainwashed by dieting culture, and the idea that thin is best, most beautiful, most worthy, it's the goal.
But this is actually about being well, finding a healthy body size, being healthy and well in our bodies, and that might look different for all of us. - You can be thin and incredibly unhealthy, you can be thin and incredibly healthy, you can have a larger body and be incredibly healthy, you can have a larger body and not be healthy for you.
So, how do we untangle? How do you know, if actually you do need to shift some body fat and are thinking ‘Maybe that would help my hormones and my joints to my back and my autoimmune issue’  versus ‘I've just been brainwashed into thinking thin is best’.
It can feel really murky and messy. This is quite a bit of a vulnerable episode for me because I still feel this now. I still feel this pressure to be thin especially as a Holistic Nutritionist - being in the nutrition and wellness space, if I'm not careful I can feel these different comparisons and little threads and whispers in my brain that I should be thinner. Which is total BS.
So, we can live in this murky place. Do I need to lose weight? Do I want to lose weight? Is that just dieting mentality? Is that actually true? Will this actually help me? It can all just all feel very overwhelming and a bit messy.
So, in this episode, we're addressing decades of dieting indoctrination and how you can find a healthy body size for you.
Also, if you want to know more about this, I'm doing 3 workshops starting at the end of April to help you kick-start feeling well. To kick-start your hormone balance and your healthy belly and get help you get rid of IBS and help you sort out your body composition.
One of the workshops is going to be diving into body composition a little bit more because I actually have a lot, I have a very unique approach to body composition.
I have a lot of tools, a lot of strategies, and a lot of practical actions that can help, but I do think this is an important area that doesn't get talked about and I want to start talking about it. I want you to be free and well in your body and that might mean for some of you shifting your body fat and for some of you that might mean accepting where you are at and I want to help you with both.
You can find out all about the workshops here.
Resources
Spring Workshops
Book your free call with me here
If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Why do you have awful PMS? Why the low mood, sore boobs, insomnia? Why do you feel like crying all the time? Why do you get really anxious or depressed? What is with PMS? Is it a normal part of being a woman or is there stuff you can do about it?
Spoiler alert... There is definitely stuff you can do about it and I'm going to share the things that you can do because your periods and hormones are actually meant to be an incredible superpower. They're not meant to be this thing that limit you, hold you back, that you hate and make your life miserable.
You're not meant to be on this hormonal rollercoaster that you don't feel in control of. Your hormones are here to serve you, to add to your life and not take away.
I've worked with clients on their periods and hormones and I, myself have been on a rollercoaster with heavy, painful periods where I needed to be medicated for at least 3 days, just to make it through.
While it's normal to have fluctuating hormones, it's not normal to feel like you are being tossed around with every part of your cycle.
Resources
Book your free call with me here
If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Why does waking up feel so hard? Why are the mornings difficult and you feel sluggish with brain fog? Why do you really need that coffee or cup of tea in the morning?
This is something that a lot of people have and a lot of clients I work with come to me and tell me that this is one of the many symptoms they have.
Some people feel like they need a coffee IV trip or have to have a cup of tea, but actually, whilst it's really common to feel like this, it's not normal. - Your body should have a natural alarm clock system within itself and if that's not working and helping you to feel awake and alert in the morning, there are things going awry
In this episode, I'm going to share three different areas and three different reasons why mornings feel so hard and why you feel like you have to reach for that coffee or you can't function without the tea or Redbull or whatever it is that you reach for.
There are simple things that you can do, and if you implement them in the next two weeks, you could probably have better energy in the morning. Some of this stuff isn't hard. It's just that you have never been taught what's going on and what's going on behind this symptom.
Resources
Book your free call with me here
If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

Are continuous blood glucose monitors (CGM) useful or just another fad? Should you sign up for Zoe or some other thing that you're being advertised online?
 
If you're anything like me, with constantly being advertised to about these things - but is it right for you? In this episode, we’re talking about whether it’s useful to you and going to help you to shift your hormones, belly or moods?
I'm going to share the reasons why I like and sometimes use Blood Glucose Monitors as well as some of the reasons I don't like them plus more about my recent experiment and what I do with my clients.
 
Resources
Book your free call with me here
If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection

In this episode, we're talking about sex! Specifically low libido which comes up a lot with my clients.
Why do you have low libido and how you can increase your sex drive?
Sex is something I talk about with my clients, but I haven't talked about it here on the show until now! Sex is so good for you and orgasms are incredible for your health. The more orgasms you can have, the more intimacy, pleasure and connection you can have with another person and yourself the better.
 
Resources
Book your free call with me here
If you want to work with me, I have spaces in my new program, Bloom.
Beat the Sweet: Sugar Detox & Recipe Collection