Today’s guest is the delicious Melissa Hemsley, former private chef turned food columnist, best-selling cookbook author, real food activist, sustainability champion, mental health advocate AND mamma, who is passionate about spreading the power of feel-good food. Food is Melissa’s passion. This conversation was recorded to celebrate the launch of her SIXTH cookbook, Real Healthy; Unprocess Your Diet with Easy, Everyday Recipes, but we also ended up talking about lots of lovely - and easy - ways to unprocess lots of other parts of our lives too. I hope you will find this chat deeply comforting a ..read more

Today’s guest is Nahid de Belgeonne, known as “the nervous system whisperer”, a Somatic Movement coach and breath and yoga teacher with a passion for sharing the healing benefits of movement. Nahid’s new book, Soothe: The Book Your Nervous System Has Been Longing For, is "a freeing and revolutionary approach to bodily tranquility," that can help us breathe, move and care for our overworked nervous systems better. And in this conversation Nahid shares a ton of practices to help us incorporate soothing movement into our day. In this episode we discuss: The Importance of rest and recovery (and ..read more

In this episode Toni is joined by 'brain ninja', Kim Ingleby, one of the UK's leading mind and body experts. Kim is an award-winning coach, writer and TED talker, and has trained with some of the world’s leaders in health, well-being and performance. Kim is another big retreat buddy, and we love talking to her and watching her on stage because she has so much wisdom to share when it comes to how we can look after our minds and bodies. And as you’ll hear from this episode, Kim has personal experience of overcoming serious mental and physical challenges, so she really understands the importance ..read more

Dr. Navaz Habib is the founder of Health Upgraded, a functional medicine and health optimization clinic in Toronto, Canada, working with everyone from athletes and entrepreneurs to busy mums and people struggling with their weight. He helps people identify the root causes of health imbalances and addresses them naturally, through basic but powerful practices available to us all including breath. Movement and rest, Dr. Habib’s book Activate Your Vagus Nerve is a simple-to-follow guide to help you identify and address a major missing piece in dealing with chronic health concerns including anxiet ..read more

Simon Alexander Ong is an award-winning personal development entrepreneur and coach, and the author of Energize: Make the Most of Every Moment. His work has been featured on Sky News and the BBC as well as Forbes, The HuffPost and The Guardian, and he’s always so generous to Shelf Help with his time and advice on living an optimised, but more importantly - happy - life. In this episode we discuss: The 'domino' effect of movement when it comes to creating healthy habits. Why we need to work on our work-REST balance. The power of future-self visualisation. Why planning your day the night before ..read more

Today’s guest is Kate Rowe-Ham, a Women's Health Coach with a special interest in menopause fitness and nutrition. Kate is the founder of the Owning Your Menopause platform and the author of Owning Your Menopause: Fitter, calmer, Stronger in 30 Days. Kate wants to educate women on the benefits of movement and diet, so they can see how these go hand in hand in playing a fundamental role in managing many of the symptoms associated with menopause. I first met Kate at The Big Retreat well-being festival in Wales (where we’ll both be delivering workshops and sessions again later this month) and c ..read more

Our guest for this episode is Toni's lovely friend, a personal trainer and fitness instructor, Claudia Evans. Claudia is a former professional dancer who now teaches fitness and movement full-time, including Spin, Barre and LaGree as well as running her own Body to the Beat dance fitness class. Just over 10 years ago Claudia’s mental health took a dive when she retired from dancing and basically stopped moving. And two years ago, at the age of 43, she underwent an elective hysterectomy after years of suffering with erratic and painful cycles. Both of these situations meant long sedentary and q ..read more

Today’s guest is our friend and self-care queen Suzy Reading. Suzy is a psychologist, health coach and yoga teacher and author of several books on the subject of self-care, including; Rest to Reset, Sit to Get Fit and Self-care for Tough Times. The mum of two specialises in wellbeing: head, heart and body, helping people manage their emotions, energetic bank balances and the inevitable stresses of life. And nourishing movement is a vital part of her self-care toolkit. In this episode we discuss: The significance of movement in managing stress and emotions. How movement isn't just about formal ..read more

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For the first episode of this series, Toni is joined by Anna Mathur, a mum of three, a psychotherapist, author and speaker. Anna has a passion for taking therapy out of the therapy room and is widely celebrated for her accessible mental health advice and the lightbulb moments she shares through her popular instagram account @annamathur, her best selling books, her podcast The Therapy Edit (hurtling towards 2m downloads) and the resources available in the Anna Mathur Toolkit. Anna’s fourth book Raising a Happier Mother is all about How to Find Balance, Feel Good and See Your Children Flourish a ..read more