NOURISH Mind + Body Nutrition

10/01/2024

This is all so much more important than our weight and the way we look. Looking forward to the day that these are priorities for more and more of us 💝

27/12/2023

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Why do we start a new year, with promises to improve?
Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure?
I say, the end of a year, should be filled with congratulation, for all we survived.
And I say a new year should start with promises to be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear, as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.

And if we are to promise more, let’s pledge to rest, before our bodies force us.
Let’s pledge to stop, and drink in life as it happens.
Let’s pledge to strip away a layer of perfection to reveal the flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are inside.

Why start another year, gifted to us on this earth, with demands on our already over-strained humanity.
When we could be learning to accept, that we were always supposed to be imperfect.
And that is where the beauty lives, actually.
And if we can only find that beauty, we would also find peace.

I wish you peace in 2024.
Everything else is all just a part of it.
Let it be so.

Donna Ashworth

Art by the wonderful Catrin Welz-Stein

My latest book ‘Wild Hope’:
https://amzn.eu/d/eDGFsCs

#2024

18/10/2023

Your friendly reminder that being human can be messy, imperfect, and painful and that even (and especially!) in these difficult times, you are worthy of treating yourself with gentleness, kindness, compassion, and empathy.

Share this post to let others know that eating disorder recovery can be full of highs and lows, but it IS possible, and that self-compassion through both the ups AND the downs goes a long way 💚

05/10/2023

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
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Andrea Kowch - In the Distance, 2015.

07/09/2023

Do you remember a time when it was just cereal and milk for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch and meat and 3 veg (or pasta) for dinner, with fruit, yoghurt and toast for snacks? This was pretty much how my family ate growing up in the 70s, 80s and 90s and we were healthy, energetic kids.

The good news is that you can eat these basic foods and eat as well as you need to. Eating well does not need to involve special ingredients, expensive “superfoods” or cutting out staples like bread and pasta.

The following relatively simple concepts are one brilliant way to avoid getting confused about what or how to eat, and you can apply them to just about any style of eating.

1. Eat food because you’re hungry
2. Eat enough of what your body needs for both nourishment and pleasure
3. Eat food that you enjoy the taste of

(We acknowledge that it is a privilege to be able to eat this way and not everyone has access to, or can afford to eat this way)

You don’t need to make food choices based on calories, carbs or the latest food trend – and you don’t need to completely avoid sugar, eat “clean” or go “Keto”. That said, if you really enjoy any of these eating trends and you feel they serve you well both mentally and physically, then of course that’s fine too.

So let’s unpack this…

Link to full blog in profile or https://lovewhatyoueat.com.au/how-on-earth-did-eating-well-get-so-complicated/

Zoe
Kerrie

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How on earth did eating well get so complicated

03/09/2023

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“They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t be beautiful. Be angry, be intelligent, be witty, be klutzy, be interesting, be funny, be adventurous, be crazy, be talented - there are an eternity of other things to be other than beautiful. And what is beautiful anyway but a set of letters strung together to make a word? Be your own definition of amazing, always. That is so much more important than anything beautiful, ever.”
Nikita Gill

Marie Bashkirtseff - The Umbrella, 1883.

22/07/2023

For all the boy parents out there! And there is also a book by the same title for girls 👌🏻

10/04/2023

A must watch 👌🏻💝

09/02/2023

Eating is not as simple as one meal, and nutrients in/nutrients out. When did we start believing our bodies are so basic?? We are COMPLEX. Food and eating and metabolism is VERY COMPLEX. Let’s start eating and thinking this way by recognising it’s what we eat over a day, a week, a month that counts. It’s the way things interact in OUR BODIES (no one else’s). And it’s the way foods make us FEEL - physically and emotionally. Stop and listen to what your body tells you - YOU have all the answers you will ever need right there 💝

It’s not uncommon for people to see hot cross buns as unhealthy or “not the healthiest choice”.

Let’s challenge this idea. Hot cross buns are made from flour and often contain dried fruit and spices such as cinnamon. These ingredients provide the vital nutrients including carbohydrate, sugars and various phytochemicals. if you add butter (yummy!), then you also have a good source of vitamin A and fat which is important for many reasons, including absorbing some nutrients from the bun.

You could argue that a sprouted sourdough grainy bread has more nutrition - and it does per 100g, inducing more fibre - but we don’t eat hot cross buns every day of the year and we don’t only get our nutrition from one food or one meal.

For example, if you enjoyed hot cross buns for breakfast, a cheese and salad sandwich for lunch and some mix of meat/fish, veggies and rice/potato/pasta for dinner, maybe throw in some fruit/nuts as a snack (and a muesli bar), then you’re got excellent nutrition across the day.

Zoe
Kerrie

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Hot cross buns are NOT unhealthy

18/12/2022

For sugar addicts: chances are, you’re not truly addicted to sugar. You actually need sugar. It’s providing for you what the rest of your life is not: Pleasure, excitement, sweetness.