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Katherine Horstmann Nutrition

I'm a registered Nutritionist Therapist specialising in helping Mums overwhelmed with anxiety, depression and low mood.

01/10/2024

This is my first post in 13 months and it’s a difficult one.

This was my beautiful Husband on my graduation day when I retrained as a nutritionist at 42. He was my biggest cheerleader and helped me squeeze my studies into a busy life with our 3 boys, always stepping up as ‘Super Daddy’ to make space for my studying and college trips.

So when he was killed in a fatal accident last year, my world went dark and I haven’t worked a day since. I am trying to re find my voice and pick myself back up off the floor for this life long and unpredictable journey.

My specialism is helping women with natural solutions to poor mental health but purely as an act of self preservation and survival, I have needed to focus on my own.

I have consulted mediums, chiropractors, nutritionists, post traumatic grief therapists, counsellors, massage therapists, reiki and crystal healing practitioners.

I have hibernated, done daytime naps, watched the fire, journaled, meditated, listened to water, soft music and wind chimes. Let my tears fall in the beautiful fields around me.

I have done it all and yet, it still hasn’t felt enough.

Only upon his death, did I realise the extent of my Husband’s incredible legacy and it got me contemplating my own. This matters so much more to me now (but let’s not call that a silver lining).

Avocados may still play a part but my calling to do more heart based work is stronger than ever. It’s a language that has always come naturally to me.

His death meant the death of a version of myself and yet it also birthed a new version.
I am a different person now and I need to do things differently.

Becoming a young widow is an experience that touches every single part of your emotional, spiritual and physical existence. I know I want to support that community now. To help widows to re build and try to feel peace again.

Even in the darkness, may we all find the glitter amongst our grief.

If you (or someone you know) has lost your life partner, please join me at to follow my journey through loss, healing and the rebellious pursuit of peace 🪩

30/08/2023

You may have noticed an unusually long silence from me.

On 16th August, my world as I know it, changed forever, and not in a good way.

My beautiful, kind, vivacious, cheeky and loving Husband, Alex, was in a fatal accident.

Helping you, my clients, means the world to me and I hope that one day I will find the strength to do that again but for now, I’m taking a break. The irony is not lost on me that my specialism is helping women with their mental health and never has there been a greater need to do that for myself.

As well as needing to support myself, I also have 3 young boys to shower with all the love and strength I can possibly muster as I witness their heartbreak at not having Daddy by their side.

But for now, I will allow myself the grace to fall apart and accept any messages of love and support.

Sending you all love and asking you to tell your loved ones, how much you love them and always kiss them goodnight because tomorrow is never guaranteed 💔💔

11/08/2023

Gaming!

Helpful childcare or an addictive curse?

A lot of my teen clients find that if it's not their parents complaining about their gaming, it's their necks...or their eyes!

Here are my 5 top tips to look after our little gamers eyes (and your own if you do a computer job):-

1) Use the 20-20-20 rule. Every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds. This helps relax the muscles of the eyes and re lubricate them with fluid (eye drops can be helpful here - I like ).
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2) Blue light blocking glasses like are helpful to block the blue light from screens (or you can have a filter applied to your glasses).
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3) Blue light impacts melatonin which impacts our sleep so it helps to keep gaming 2 hours away from bedtime.
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4) Keep up hydration for tear fluid production to lubricate the eyes (I've told my boys Prime doesn't count).
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5) Ensure a good intake of omega 3 fats for good eye health (extra virgin olive oil, avocado, nuts, seeds, small oily fish etc).
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How do you find handling your kids gaming?

07/08/2023

Going on holiday? 🏝️

Here are my favourite ways to use up the fruit and veg in your fridge so you cut down on food waste.

1) Home made juices (celery, cucumber, carrot, apple etc) 🥤

2) Oven roasted veggies (to mix with quinoa or buckwheat) 🍆

3) Veggie crudités (serve with hummus, mint yoghurt or peanut butter) 🥕

Happy holidays!

26/07/2023

Out ⭐️ of ⭐️ office ⭐️ on ⭐️

I’m taking a breather this week to re fill my cup so I can help my clients re fill theirs.

I hope you get a break this Summer ☀️

20/07/2023

Looks like my Mum popped in last night! 😆

I am a huge advocate of nonsense.

Be silly (like my Mum) whenever you can and have fun with food as it really helps!

My citrus dodging children have already eaten a few of these today because they now seem much more a-ppealing 🍊

17/07/2023

I received the most precious gift from a friend at School pick up today.

The most incredible smelling sweet peas and curly kale from a friend’s garden ❤️

Half is going in tomorrows juice and half will be cooked in lemon and garlic with tonight’s dinner (the vitamin C in lemon helps make the iron from the kale even more accessible).

Worth a try if you’re not in the kale fan club 🥬

12/07/2023

My lovely bike comes in mighty handy.

Today it’s carrying 5kg of medjoul dates for making my weekly batch of energy balls.

All 3 boys love them so I buy in bulk!

Would love to hear your favourite date recipes.

See comments for my energy ball recipe. Caution - they give you energy 😊

10/07/2023

WHO’s cancer research agency are finally set to declare aspartame, a potential carcinogen.

Aspartame is a common ingredient found in fizzy drinks, particularly diet ones which are marketed as ‘sugar free’ making us think we’ve made the better choice.

Whilst the Coca Cola website still states its entirely safe, a cohort study with 10,000 subjects (link in comments) found sweeteners (especially aspartame) were associated with an increased cancer risk.

I recommend checking your children’s canteen menus and contacting the School and Catering teams to have them swapped.

In the meantime, and .drinks are nice clean alternatives.

Quick summary - avoid ‘diet’ drinks with a barge pole.

06/07/2023

In this house, epsom salts are ordered in 25kg bags (too heavy for me to lift up the stairs in actual fact!). But buying in bulk works out much more friendly on the purse (and even incorporates a bit of weight lifting) 🏋️‍♀️

They contain a form of magnesium (sulphate) which is absorbed very well via our skin (our first line of defence).

Magnesium quite rightly deserves the title of ’natures tranquiliser’ for the following reasons:-

- Soothes achey, stiff, tired or cramping muscles.
- Helps promote sleep and stress reduction
- Soothes the nervous and digestive system
- Helps with the elimination of toxins from the body.

Throw a good 5 cup fulls into your bath a few times a week to reap the full benefits. What goes in your bath? 🛀

28/06/2023

We are not just what we eat but also, what makes up our environment, including what we breathe in at home.

The list of ingredients in your regular supermarket room spray is pretty hard to decipher but they are pretty sobering and at best, most cause hormone disruption (use the app to check).

My advice is to approach buying products for your home like you would your food.

Avoid products with ingredients your Granny wouldn’t recognise 👵

In this mornings meditation and mindfulness club, I’m making room sprays with a group of children.

They contain just 3 ingredients - witch hazel, distilled water (contains no bacteria) and an essential oil of their choice (I use or ).

You can also use diffusers to freshen your room with a few drops of essential oil. Lavender
is a nice option for relaxation and lemon for a mood lift 🍋

DM me if you're interested in attending my workshop on making your own low cost, clean and sustainable products.

26/06/2023

☀️ Dancing has always been in my mental health first aid kit ⛑️

This weekend, I led a lovely group of around 40 in what I call ‘bango’ at a summer solstice event (a sort of non improvised belly dancing / tango / salsa mash up).

I LOVE to dance so sharing it with others made me very happy..and the sun was very much shining too.

I wanted to share this amazing extract I read on the day (author unknown).

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“Dancing is more than just moving body parts.
It is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts. There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. Dance is the hidden language of the soul. The job of feet is walking, but their hobby is dancing. Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath.
Kick off your shoes and dance. Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual. Those who cannot dance put the blame on the floor. Any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all. The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. You dance love and you dance joy. And you dance dreams. Always dance like nobody is watching. The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. Dance first, think later - it’s the natural order.

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I’m Katherine, a Nutritional Therapist and I specialise in helping Mums who are overwhelmed with anxiety, depression or low mood to remember what good feels like.

I believe strongly that nutrition and lifestyle are essential to our mental wellbeing - let me help remind you that there is hope in the dark.