Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing

Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing My approach is body inclusive, LGBTIQA+ friendly, and neuroaffirmative. Deeply personalised, compassionate care for you and your family. Message us for details.

Casey Conroy
Naturopath • Dietitian (APD) • Yoga Teacher • Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician
Currently completing Intuitive Eating Counsellor certification ✨
Deep nourishment 🌿 Earth magic 🌙 Radical inclusivity 🔥 Zero tolerance for wellness BS Casey Conroy, BVSc(Hons), BHSc(Nat), MNutrDiet, APD, CEDC
Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) | Non-Diet Nutritionist | Naturopath | Medical Herbalist | Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC) | Provisional Sports Dietitian | Yoga Teacher | Strength & Conditioning Coach

I am an experienced health practitioner blending evidence-based science with traditional wisdom. Medicare & health fund rebates available, in person and Telehealth consultations available. At Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing we operate from a Non-Diet, Body Acceptance, Health at Every Size® philosophy which values people for who they are rather than what they look like. SPECIALTY AREAS:
- Eating, Weight & Body Image: Eating Disorders, disordered eating, emotional eating, diet recovery
- Nervous system: Neurodivergent Support (ADHD, ASD, SPD), CFS, stress resilience, Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia
- Hormones: Menopause, painful & heavy periods, menstrual irregularities, low testosterone, HT support for trans folks

INTEREST AREAS:
- Fertility, Pregnancy, Breastfeeding
- Gut: Bloating, Constipation, IBS, SIBO, Reflux, Dysbiosis, Food Intolerances
- Sports & Performance Nutrition
- Acute Naturopathy (e.g. colds, flu, recent injury)
- Thyroid: Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, Grave's disease
- Cardiometabolic: High cholesterol, Hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes
- Musculoskeletal: Arthritis, fibromyalgia, sciatica

CLASSES: Yoga, AcroYoga, Strength & Conditioning - privates available! For more info visit https://www.funkyforest.com.au/how-i-can-help.html

[ 5 Unpopular Opinions I Hold as a Naturopath ] 🍄 Sometimes I think the most rebellious thing you can do in natural medi...
25/10/2025

[ 5 Unpopular Opinions I Hold as a Naturopath ] 🍄

Sometimes I think the most rebellious thing you can do in natural medicine is think for yourself. (And I don’t mean in a knee-jerk contrarian, heterodox for the sake of being heterodox way).

Over the years, I’ve learned that nuance doesn’t make you wishy-washy. It makes you ethical and SAFER whilst treating your clients.

Here are a few things I stand by, even when they make people uncomfortable:

🌿 Weight loss isn’t a health goal… it’s a cultural obsession.
🍄 Psychedelics and cannabis can be powerful allies if regulated and guided by properly trained practitioners (which should include naturopaths and herbalists)
💉 Vaccination isn’t the evil beast some corners of natural health have made it out to be.
💊 Wellness culture isn’t more enlightened than Big Pharma, it just hides behind prettier packaging.
🌱 Healing isn’t a personal project, it’s a collective responsibility.

I really don’t care if you agree with me on these or not. Healthy, respectful disagreement is, well, healthy. It’s the nuanced, professional, evidenced, brave conversations that I care about. And it sucks whenever it appears that these conversations can’t be had.

You can hold curiosity AND critical thinking.
You can question systems without rejecting science.
You can be natural without being naive.

Want to bring this kind of nuance into your own practice?

👉 Download my free practitioner guide: Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths
🌿 Join the waitlist for Body as Earth: A Root-Cause Approach to Disordered Eating for Naturopaths. I send out practitioner love letters every 2ish weeks.

Even if you never buy my stuff, my intention is that you get goodness out of these offerings and we start some juicy thoughts and much needed conversations. Because our profession is massively overdue for change.

[https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html]

24/10/2025

The four phases of Metabolic Balance read like a case study in how diet culture adapts and survives.

Restriction disguised as cleansing.
Compliance repackaged as self-discipline.
Conditional freedom renamed as intuitive eating.
Dependence framed as empowerment.

As naturopaths, herbalists, and nutritionists, we need to take a good look at what we’re endorsing - and what we’re enabling.

Programs like this trade on the language of “metabolism,” “detox,” and “balance,” yet they run on the same principle as every other diet: energy deficit equals weight loss… until it doesn’t.

Balance isn’t achieved through depletion; it’s restored through nourishment, connection, and safety.

That’s the kind of balance worth teaching.

🎧 New episode: Hard Conversations in Naturopathy: Do No Harm in a Weight-Obsessed Culture [https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lg8Oslg1cPhCfZnidK5NE?si=dPRaDYStTTWytcsgKIJ2GA]
🎧 The one that got me on the "report her" list: When “Metabolic Balance” Isn’t Balance [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PEtJlSLECNglXkV1eQoZa?si=e8794416b1274819]

Or find anywhere you get podcasts.

📕 Free Practitioner Guide also at bio link or [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html]

24/10/2025

Asking for accountability isn’t a personal attack.
But it’s often called one.

This week’s episode is about integrity, critique, and what it really means to “do no harm” - even when that means calling out diet culture in our own backyard.

🎧 Ep 39. Hard Conversations in Naturopathy: Do No Harm in a Weight-Obsessed Culture [https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lg8Oslg1cPhCfZnidK5NE?si=S3nBiYI2SZSKFSeIHsdhww]

🎧 Ep 38. When “Metabolic Balance” Isn’t Balance (the one that originally got me on the “report her” list). [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PEtJlSLECNglXkV1eQoZa?si=1BgXYkzJSgyZdNbzRI2azQ]

Or find Non-Diet Naturopath anywhere you get podcasts

[ 5 Wellness Trends That F*** You Up in Perimenopause ] 💥The wellness world keeps telling peri-menopausal women to “rese...
19/10/2025

[ 5 Wellness Trends That F*** You Up in Perimenopause ] 💥

The wellness world keeps telling peri-menopausal women to “reset” their metabolism.

Ice baths, fasting, keto, constant cardio, cycle syncing... all designed for bodies that aren’t in transition (or flat out don't have uteruses!)

Perimenopause isn’t a defect.
It’s a changing of the tide. A body moving from flower to fruit to seed.
Wild. Wise. Andnconveniently alive for the systems that prefer us small and compliant.

I’m really starting to notice the little changes that tell me I’m entering early peri... shifts in sleep, temperature, hunger, cycles, mood. It feels like crossing a threshold. One worthy of reverence, not restriction. Even if it IS a little confronting at times.

Let go of the bu****it bro hacks and the self-punishment.
Support your system with food, strength, rest, and compassion.

💌 Read the full blog at https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/5-wellness-trends-that-mess-with-perimenopause-and-what-to-do-instead

🔥 And if you’re a practitioner, grab my free guide:
Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths
to start building weight-neutral, hormone-supportive care into your practice [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html]

[ Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day ] 🤍At the start of this year, I had a miscarriage - not an early one - and i...
15/10/2025

[ Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day ] 🤍

At the start of this year, I had a miscarriage - not an early one - and it changed me in ways I still don’t fully have words for.

It’s a pain I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
It’s also a love that doesn’t have a home.

I haven’t shared the full story, and I may never. Some things are too sacred, too raw, to be held by the internet.

But I want to say this: if you’ve lost a baby, in any way or at any stage, my heart is with you today. You are not alone in this strange, quiet grief.

🤍

14/10/2025

[ Because nothing says holistic healing like replacing lunch with a chocolate protein shake ] 🥤🥴

You know the ones - the “clinically backed practitioner programs” that sell meal replacements as medicine.
Shakes, bars, branded coaching templates... and a business model that blurs care with commerce.

When supplement companies train practitioners and supply the products we sell back to clients, the conflict of interest is undeniably baked in!

That’s not holistic, that’s hustle culture masquerading as naturopathic care.

🎙️ New episode: When “Metabolic Balance” Isn’t Balance [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PEtJlSLECNglXkV1eQoZa?si=492ff3feec124dd3]
📚 Read the blog version if you want references too [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/when-metabolic-balance-isnt-balance-diet-culture-clinical-protocols-and-the-naturopathic-dilemma]
✨ Free practitioner guide + waitlist for Body as Earth [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html]

[ When “Metabolic Balance” becomes metabolic suppression ] 🌊🔥I’m unpacking how restrictive protocols get rebranded as bi...
12/10/2025

[ When “Metabolic Balance” becomes metabolic suppression ] 🌊🔥

I’m unpacking how restrictive protocols get rebranded as biochemistry... and what that means for client care.

🎧 Listen [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PEtJlSLECNglXkV1eQoZa?si=f3fab5eb10bf4713]
📚 Read [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/when-metabolic-balance-isnt-balance-diet-culture-clinical-protocols-and-the-naturopathic-dilemma]
📕 Free Practitioner Guide [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html]

[ Metabolic Balance & the Naturopathic Dilemma] 🌿Ok… this is the one I’ve promised for a while. Disordered eating doesn’...
11/10/2025

[ Metabolic Balance & the Naturopathic Dilemma] 🌿

Ok… this is the one I’ve promised for a while. Disordered eating doesn’t always look like an eating disorder, and it shows up in naturopathic clinics far more often than we think.

In this new blog + podcast episode, I unpack the two main ways it happens:

1️⃣ Clients come seeking affirmation for their existing restrictions.
2️⃣ Practitioners accidentally - yet sometimes DIRECTLY - reinforce it.

This isn't about blame - it’s about awareness, scope, and plain ol' doing better.
Because when we confuse restriction with healing, we cause harm. And that's just not what naturopathy is about.

🎧 Listen: The Non-Diet Naturopath – “When ‘Metabolic Balance’ Isn’t Balance.” - anywhere you find podcasts or [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PEtJlSLECNglXkV1eQoZa?si=073ddf3a5be74e0e]
🌿 Read the full blog [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/when-metabolic-balance-isnt-balance-diet-culture-clinical-protocols-and-the-naturopathic-dilemma]

✨ Want to bring this into your practice?
Download my free practitioner guide: Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths - and join the waitlist for Body as Earth: A Root-Cause Approach to Disordered Eating for Naturopaths [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html].

10/10/2025

[ Why does Metabolic Balance appeal to so many naturopaths? ] 👩🏻‍⚕️

Because it promises something the industry rarely provides: a ready-made system, guaranteed “results,” and financial stability.

But at what cost?

When clients hand over $1700 for a program that triggers restriction, bingeing, or body distrust - they don’t just lose faith in Metabolic Balance.

They lose faith in naturopathy.

This week on The Non-Diet Naturopath, I’m unpacking the uncomfortable truth about Metabolic Balance, practitioner harm (even when unintentional), and how we can do better.

🎧 Listen to Episode 37: When “Metabolic Balance” Isn’t Balance wherever you get your podcasts or [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PEtJlSLECNglXkV1eQoZa?si=add7887eb4294313]

🌿 Or read the full blog [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/when-metabolic-balance-isnt-balance-diet-culture-clinical-protocols-and-the-naturopathic-dilemma]

✨ Want to bring this into your own practice?
Download my free practitioner guide: Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths - and join the waitlist for my course Body as Earth [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html].

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