Recipe for Wellness Podcast

Chatting to my good friend Helena Ryan on managing stress & building resilience when stress is unavoidable. Helena is a nutrition & lifestyle coach with a host of energy therapy qualifications under her belt also. Over the years, as a Mum to 3 kids & full time carer to a child with special needs, Helena has seen first hand the benefits of minding her nutrition and stress management on herself and all the family. We are running our Mind Matters evening on stress management together in Midleton covering breathing, tapping, meditation, nutrition for stress

So lovely to chat to Wendy Riordan of Nourish & Flow an amazing women's festival in Laois Aug 23-25 around the theme of perimenopause & menopause. The line up for the weekend sounds absolutely incredible! Such a beautiful opportunity for women to come together, learn, connect, relax. There will be expert speakers as well as therapies, the Nature spa, sauna, ice baths, cacao ceremony, drumming circle, you name it, its all going on!

Amazing chats with Marilla Healy of Marilla Healy Nutrition, Nutritional therapist & oncology nurse with over 20 years experience. Marilla sees clients for all aspects of health, she is passionate about gut health but mainly she sees clients around cancer, be that clients interested in a preventative approach, clients currently going through treatment, or post treatment. Marilla's extensive experience on the medical side gives her such great insight, empathy & compassion on the more holistic side, in her nutrition work.

Really enjoyed chatting to Dr Steve Collins on all things wellness & polyphenols. Steve is pioneering regenerative agriculture with his Aronia berry plantation at Derry Duff farm in West Cork, where he produces an amazing range of polyphenol rich products which are so important to human metabolic health & longevity. Steve's products make it so easy to include more polyphenols in our daily diet for massive benefit.

Such a lovely chat with Patricia Macropoulos of Access Labs. Trish is a medical scientist providing an award winning accredited blood testing service in Midleton. Providing a direct service to the public & other healthcare professionals, Trish is an all round beautiful person. In her lab she offers 3000+ different types of tests & she is an absolute fund of info on all aspects of health. Big areas of testing would be fertility, hormones, perimenopause, inflammation, hair health, to name a few and she has special offers coming up for AMH and also Vit D. Get curious about your health and give Trish a shout to get to know more abut your body.

Great chatting to Maria McNeill on all things water and the Kangen water system. Maria & Gerry McNeill are distributors for Enagic a Japanese company in operation 50 years, producing Kangen water systems. They started distributing & using Kangen water themselves in 2017 and it has been life changing. I myself got the system last year and have really seen the benefits for myself and all the family. Our body is made up of 60% water and we want to be really properly hydrated, especially at a cellular level for optimal health. Maria holds a webinar every Tues evening for anyone looking for more information.

Great chatting to Ronan O'Brien of the Breathwave Ireland community. Ronan is a breathwork facilitator, who has created an amazing space to assist & support a persons journey back to their natural source of health & connection. He has many strings to his bow qualified as an oxygen advantage coach as well as counselling & psychotherapeutic skills, strength & conditioning & sports injury & massage therapy. He holds retreats & workshops with next ones coming up in Limerick June 9 & Body of Breath event in August

Chatting to the lovely Belen Vasquez of Belen Optimum Health on her work with mums & babies, the gut-brain link, how our food & microbiome impacts behaviour & mood & her upcoming colic course. Belen discusses interesting case studies & how she integrates her Nutritional & Cranio Sacral therapies together to provide an amazing service by boosting nutrition & calming the nervous system simultaneously