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#29
In this fabulous episode, I am joined by Elnette Parsons who was wanted to raise the game on lunchboxes we take to school and work!

She is passionate about health, how the body works, and food supporting it all.
We talk about a range of healthy cooking, from batch cooking tips to what constitutes healthy food.

Elnette deeply cares about what our young generation are eating and how having different warm lunchboxes are a game-changer in more ways than she realised until she began doing this. So much so that she decided to create a cookbook to help and encourage others to follow suit and gain all the benefits of eating real food warm food at lunch instead of sandwiches, wraps, and other processed foods.

She shares:

• The importance of healthy lunchboxes
• How to get started and make it easy 
• What you'll need 
• Batch cooking tips

#28
In this episode, I'm joined by Amy D'Ambrosio, a health coach, helping people overcome the very things she has faced for nearly 45 years of her life and that is emotional and compulsive eating. From my experience of working with people over many years, I have observed many people experience emotional eating to varying degrees. Amy talks the extreme version, calling it a disease that is isolating, embarrassing and keeps a person in hiding and the desire to do something about it has to come from within which can be a very dark difficult thing to do alone.

Amy shares:

• Her personal struggles
• The steps she uses to help her clients
• The importance of understanding triggers 
• Changing celebratory habits around food.

Episode #27

In this episode I have Margaret Bell as my guest talking all about the nuts and bolts of Intuitive Eating, which I'm aware some people may not be aware of this term, so Margaret explains all and gives us a brilliant whirlwind tour of gut health and how it relates at the same time!!
So much valuable information and clarity on leaving the diet culture behind to truly get healthy and shift excess weight at the same time with kindness and patience.   

Margaret shares:

• Some of her personal experiences struggling with weight
• How to get in tune with your body
• Impacts of stress on our health and others influencers
• What fast lane living can lead to  

And she re-iterates that realisations about how foods make you feel for yourself lead to changes that are likely to be kept for life.

About Margaret Bell
From a supposed chubby teen to a 40 year old spiraling out of control, Margaret is an Intuitive Eating coach who can honestly say she has walked the walk with emotional eating and body hate for over 25 years.
'Thunder Thighs' was her school nickname and that's when emotional eating started for her, through the death of her father in my 20's to divorce and depression in my 40's whether its restriction or binge to not believing I deserved to eat, I have been there and now I coach women and teens who are on that path that I used to be, guiding them to a life of absolute food freedom and body love.'  Margaret will touch on the subject of emotional eating in such a way which will question why we think we need to diet, is this coming from internal or external forces, or even a bit of both. Should being slim n skinny really be our aim? Or is there really another way?

Episode #26 is with Psychologist and clinical exercise Physiologist Dr Gisele Tennant. We dive into what is involved in each stage of creating sustainable change in the area of health. Her passion has been the prevention of health issues from a young age, rather than treatment.
She talks about change being rarely linear and so accepting that you're going to have some regression is important in the process.

Gisele shares:

• The stages of change
• Having smart goals and breaking these up
• How disruption is inevitable - what to do
• Tools for maintaining healthy changes  

She realised in her own life that everything is a choice and seeing everything that is happening in her life is for her to take a lesson from.

About Dr Gisele Tennant
She has a passion for improving quality of life through evidence-based physical activity and nutrition programs focused on eating more fruit and vegetables. Dr. Tennant holds multiple fitness certifications, is a published academic author, has presented at international conferences, and is a seasonal university lecturer. She firmly believes that how we respond to life is a choice. With that in mind, as a relationship strategist with A Conscious Partner, she helps others develop the emotional skills needed to navigate through the ups and downs of their relationships.

Episode #25

My guest in this episode is Hema Patel talking about how to get stuff done, make life feel like magic is happening all the time, and how to live a peaceful life even when taking yourself out of your comfort zone!

She shares:

• Simple rememberable tools for stress
• Steps you can take to make magic in your life
• How to get visible
• The importance of aligned action

Episode #24
Sally Anne Saint is today's guest and she wants to remind all mums of their greatness and what their life really has given them, whether it has been a bumpy ride or more plain sailing.

Sally talks about her personal experience of being her biggest critic and playing small as she puts it.
And when she began becoming aware of how she spoke to herself, is when she realised it was time for a change to start feeling alive and add colour to her life.

She shares: 

• How carrying our baggage 'the ball and chain' is actually harder than dealing with it
• The importance of allowing us to feel instead of living in numb
• We’re not designed to do things on our own,
• Lean into pain / uncomfortable situations

Episode #23

Dr Anne Whitehouse was a high flying scientist until she faced chronic fatigue syndrome, feeling like she didn't recognise who she was and how she felt in her workplace, which seemed designed for men to succeed, and less so for women.

On facing burnout and many months of severe illness, Anne began her search for answers - starting her journey of study into the subconscious mind.
Anne describes the subconscious mind as our operating system and it is old and has beliefs based on old conditioned beliefs bother personally and ancestrally passed to us, like women who speak out are persecuted, or like you’re not allowed to be yourself in your work environment with our true essence being squashed.   

We discuss the male energy and traits many women feel they need to adapt to fit in and get ahead in their careers, disempowering their female traits and energy. Other women respond differently with them shutting down like Anne, which can depend on many factors which she discusses.

Anne shares:

• What Female Power is & how to embrace it.
• How subconscious beliefs drive us 
• Confrontational energy in the corporate world
• Talks about frozen experiences
• Women haven’t had the opportunity to use and
  see the STRENGTH of their Female Power

About Dr Anne Whitehouse
Dr Anne Whitehouse is the #1 bestselling author ‘Pull Back Your Power’, a PhD scientist turned Female Power Alchemist, and a subconscious transformation expert.  After her own spectacular burnout in the boys’ club world of university engineering, she uncovered the hidden roots that sabotage high-achieving women and devised a game-changing solution.    She now teaches visionary women to level the energetic playing field, breakthrough success limits, income ceilings, visibility blocks, and fulfil their dreams in the world AND recreate their relationships with men, both at home and at work.

Episode #22
Lisa Billingham is an author and healer who wants to make a difference to people's lives.
This episode is all about using writing as part of the healing process and not bury feelings away.

Lisa talks honestly and candidly about her firsthand experience of how writing helped her in her darkest times when she was depressed and having suicidal thoughts.

This podcast will empower you to want to heal, be vulnerable and be courageous.

Lisa expresses that she was in full flow of a low in her life before she discovered journalling, then she delved straight in, she couldn't even read her writing she was so immersed, but it didn't matter, she just wanted to get what was going on inside her out, which she discovered was a repetitious process.
Lisa shares:

• How writing is cathartic 
• That writing can be used to celebrate achievements
• Writing also can help us feel more present in our lives
• That writing our thoughts can be a creative experience that could be published if you wanted it 

We have an insightful upbeat conversation sharing what writing and gratitude through writing has brought to our lives.

About Lisa
Lisa is a fun-loving, caring individual with a wide range of life experiences.
A self-published author, intuitive reader, wellbeing coach, crystal therapist & public speaker.
She was diagnosed with stress, anxiety and depression in 2011 and struggling to find a way through without prescription medication is where her journey began.
The personal growth work she has carried out has helped her recover from all that life has thrown at her.
Her outlook on life has done a 360-degree turn as she can now see how self-love and positivity are the keys to a happy, successful and fulfilled life.

Episode #21

Sharon Nansi is another Rockstar Mum I chose to join me on the podcast for both her kindness and focus on her priorities, changing these as she needs to. She talks frankly about changing careers and course within medicine after becoming a hospital doctor and having a young family along the way, how this was for her and how she managed to bust her nemesis.

Sharon shares:

• How she felt comfortable making life-changing choices
• How she coped with 2 very young children 
• The short term sacrifices which gave her life lessons
• How she has an enhanced perspective in life towards herself from all the challenging choices she has made

Episode #20

Michelle talks about the experience of pregnancy when expecting a child with special needs, and how much more support a woman needs. She talks from personal experience with her having a now 14-year-old daughter with Down syndrome, and what her pregnancy felt like for her, until she made the conscious effort to settle her mind, let the worry go and just really connect with her unborn child.

She wants to raise the awareness that expectant mums of a special needs child are going through an extra layer of stress and worry so that these women either seek support or look at how they are feeling instead of burying their feelings until later.

Michelle shares:

• Her personal experience of pregnancy with a downs syndrome child
• How she connected to her unborn child
• How this daughter was a gift in her life and her work
• Her passion for making the pregnancy experience feel a blessed one

About Michelle Francis-Smith
Michelle is a mother, best-selling author, mentor, teacher, doula, and Registered Massage Therapist who has been practicing massage therapy for 20 years. This graduate of the University of Toronto has served as a Massage Therapy Educator and Principal in Canada and in India.  Her passion is for treating perinatal patients with a focus on pregnancy and postpartum.  Michelle is the Co-founder of Perinatal Massage Therapy Education which provides comprehensive continuing education for massage therapists.  In March of 2020, Michelle published the Anthology “You Have So Much Potential: Inspiring Generational Healing & Transformation” a collection of stories of resilience, hope, and purpose, along with 30 Health Professionals.  Incorporating her teaching, coaching and birth preparation support skills, Michelle has created an online 10-week program for pregnant women expecting a baby with special needs called the FLOW Birth And Beyond Method, set to launch in October 2021.

Episode #19

Leyla Okhai talks to me about how as mothers and women we find it increasingly difficult to manage work-life balance and the first port of call is managing boundaries. She wants to raise women's awareness and acceptance that good is good enough and when to stop.

Leyla also speaks about mental health and our cultural and individual differences are key to be aware of and essential to help people on their recovery journey after mental health issues, especially after the last 15 months.
And we should be aiming to create optimum mental health throughout our time in work.

Furthermore, feeling accepted for who we are and our cultural identity has become even more important for work place success in the current times we’re living through.

Leyla shares:

• Consider what's important and what's in your control.
• Listening to yourself before we overdo things, work or other things
• Recognise whether you are beholden to your to-do list, what does this do to you
• Changing your perspective on the ‘we must’

Episode #18

Kim Linfoot talks about her personal experience with endometriosis, the misdiagnosis of it and her personal journey through taking part in many medical trials to then going her own way to live with this chronic condition, and she is 22 years on in her journey.

She is an upbeat happy person who wants to raise awareness of this condition and help women identify what is going on for them regarding their periods so they can manage their discomfort better or overcome it completely.

Kim shares:

• What endometriosis is.
• How what you eat really matters
• Why different foods help and or make it worse
• What mental health practices can help

Episode #17

Kully Gosal is my Rockstar mum of the month for her infectious energy of kindness, happiness and dedication to keep adding, tweaking things to help her health, mindset, and joy through her life with her family and work.

Kully Shares:

• How her morning routine has transformed how she feels about herself and energy levels
• What she's tried in her routines
• Her happiness secret
• Her contagious energy for life and helping others

Episode #16

My guest this week was Beth Mount, she talks about the importance of having a community around women to help mums thrive, applicable for all ages and stages of parenting.
We are not designed as human beings to be alone and we need support, yet more and more women feel alone and often unsupported or heard. These are basic human needs that can be forgotten or not recognised as important in the ever-increasing priority placed on being productive over our well-being and seeking a friendship group.

Beth discusses how a community helps mums feel involved and can encourage activity or actions we may not take alone, without feeling pressured. Touching on how mothers can actually be fearful of asking for help or burdening others and she encourages mothers to work through a little discomfort of getting out to meet others and investing time to be part of a community, as it pays dividends in support once you have found a circle of like-minded individuals.

She shares:

• We’re not meant to do this alone.
• How a community helps us.
• Changing perceptions on getting yourself support 
• Loneliness is harmful to our well-being and contributes to anxiety and stress.

Episode #15
Jeyanthi Nair is my guest this week discussing perimenopause, what it is and when this transition of change in women can start.
Perimenopause is the pathway of change to menopause and it is a time when women can really take heed to be more serious about what they put in their body and how they've been thinking all these years.

Jeyanth explains the valuable signs and symptoms you can look out for and what natural things you can be doing to make life easier and better for your next 40 to 50 years ahead of you.

She shares:

· Blood sugar management influence

· How being mindful and changing your mindset is a game-changer

· How adding more veg can have a knock-on effect

· Importance of having a blood test and identifying symptoms

· Another opportunity in a women’s life to take health seriously.

This is a really important and powerful conversation for women approaching their 40s to mid-40s.
The changes women experience do not have to be seen as all doom and gloom.
And the culture of pill-popping being accepted once we come of a certain age is something we can choose to live free of.
Women can choose a different outcome for themselves. 

Episode 14  

Fay Victoria Durrant - the Wellness Wonder Woman is my guest in this epic podcast on Burnout. In his episode, Fay is very frank about what lead to her personal encounter of burnout and deeply shares what it was like and how she missed the many signs her body was telling her and the things she would say to herself avoiding the harsh reality.  Fay wants to raise awareness on this topic of health for mums of all ages whether a working professional or stay-at-home mum, and that it can happen to anyone with a chronic stressful life and so they know the signs to look out for.  

She shares:

• Symptoms of burnout to look out for
  
• The range of things that can occur
  
• Listen to what your body is telling you
  
• The 4 pillars to steer clear or recover from Burnout
  

About Fay  
Fays health and Wellness journey has been a rocky road. As a young mum with a very stressful work & personal life, she developed a passion for working out hard and running, to manage the stress, this ultimately led to exercise addiction, and a lack of true self-care and balance, in turn, lead to extreme burnout, and a long learning curve to recovery.

Tenacious enough to not give up on her dreams of sharing the joy and benefits of movement, but keen to share her story to help others beat burn out, she retrained in Yoga and Pilates and exercise for older adults. And slowly, very slowly went back to work teaching a different more balanced form of fitness and wellbeing.

Episode #13

Hema Nanuwa is another Rockstar mum guest on the podcast. I picked Hema for her resilience through the adversity she has been through and the importance she placed on her health through her work on herself to coming out the other side stronger and empowered. She changed her food she put in her body and how it made her feel to exercising regularly, she challenged her ways of thinking and healed herself, her childhood and made peace with the broken relationships that were causing her pain. The journey of doing the two together helped her create the confidence she feels she never had previously.

Her newfound perspectives and minset shifts, allowed her to remain positive through the miscarriage she had, with the deep knowing if another family member was meant to happen it would happen. Hema has since had a the second baby she was hoping for.

Hema Shares:

• How important her health was to her in overcoming the issues brought by a toxic family situation
• The practices she used and still uses to keep high spirited and healthy through challenging times
• How she reframes everything to see what could be negative to empower her
• How adversity has helped her realise she can give others hope and help to overcome similar life problems.
  

Episode 12
As part of the early motherhood health series, this episode I talk about returning to exercise classes and sport after having a baby or a majot operation. Reminding listeners that your health and personal care is essential to focus on and is an important habit to create with the right focuses for your body's needs at this time. It is short and to the point listen.

I share:

• Things you need to do to return safely to exercise
• What things you need to consider in the progression of exercise
• How to build up your fitness
• Why it is so important to pay attention to the small stuff

Episode #11
Lola Akinola is my special guest this week, who is a pregnancy and postpartum exercise and education specialist.
She has had 2 c-sections herself and realised just how little recovery advice and approach to exercise was out there, leading her to specialise in this area to empower women to look after their body pre and post-birth. Calling all women who have had a c-section, recent or some time ago to know that it is never too late to rehab.

She talks openly about her personal shock of having an emergency c-section what she had to do to change it all around for her.
And she shares :

• Valuable areas to focus on for c-section recovery.
• What to start with to adjust to the scar
• Reiterating the importance of acceptance of your body
• How spot-training the tummy area will not help recovery
• What a diastasis recti is
• Importance of balanced breathing
  

About Lola Akinola
Lola is a mum of two, a primary school teacher but a women’s fitness trainer: specialising in exercise and education for pregnancy and beyond.

Lola’s fitness journey, however, began 6 months after having her first child by emergency c-section. She decided that she wanted to get into shape and lose her ‘mummy tummy’. At the time, she didn’t realise she had a large degree of separation in her abdominal muscles (diastasis recti) and. began using at home DVDs which consisted of sit-ups and crunches. A few weeks into them, Lola noticed a doming shape around her mid-section and after some research, discovered that the exercises she had been doing were too advanced at that time.

Connect With Lola
Website: https://www.thisfemalehealthandfitness.co.uk/
Facebook Page: This Female Health & Fitness
Instagram: @behindthisfemale

Connect With The Host
My name is Versha Patel. Former pregnancy, postpartum fitness and nutrition specialist for over 8 years, turned Health and Body coach. I now help women 40+ ingrain self-worth, release weight and let go of disempowering eating habits. Challenging fixed mind-sets, changing nutrition to feed the mind, hormones, body, and teaching women how to optimise exercise effectively for their best outcomes. And I get women to do this by overcoming their internal struggles with their weight and enabling hormones to help the process. Radically changing my client's health in the process and to gain a stronger, fitter body inside and out. Empowering women to step out of the shadows that live within them, and step into their power to embrace themselves, choose themselves, and love themselves, so they can continue to give to those that need them and to live a happy healthy life in a body they love and deserve.

Episode #10
Nila Chauhan is another Rockstar mum guest on the podcast, who has come a long way from where she was 20 odd years ago.
From her teens food made her feel good for a big part of her younger life, leading to a learned way of using food to cope with stress in her life for the next 20+ years, becoming morbidly obese and having 3 children through this.

She is a testament that anyone can change their health, mind and body around. Nila is an inspiring individual who juggles work-life balance just like anyone else, however, it is now her mindset, discipline and dedication to her health and goals that keep her on her toes, not to mention she has coaches that are helping keep her accountable and learning how to do the things she is doing, showing human beings are not islands and everyone needs help.

Nila shares:

• She cared about everyone else and not herself 
• Feeling she had to sacrifice herself to be the best parent
• How perfection was destroying her
• Change she realised had to come from within
• Persistence will overcome any doubt
• How goals have been her 'go to'
• How adversity has shaped her to keep going
• Her wisdom on what she wished she'd started earlier

This is an inspiring listen and lots of wisdom to help you begin or stay on your journey of the best health and best you.

About Nila
Is a nurse, a mother of 3 and is now 56, who started her journey from morbidly obese at size 24 to size 8, some 10 to 15 years ago.
She kicked obesity and has done London Marathon, Southend to London race, she is a European Karate Champion and has recently competed in Crossfit competitions, losing the weight some time ago, now getting stronger by the week!

Connect with my guest
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nila.chauhan1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prince55_nila/

Connect With The Host
My name is Versha Patel. I am a Transformation Mindset, Nutrition and Body Coach, devoted to helping women overcome obstacles to change their health, body and mindset towards themselves, for releasing excess weight, gaining a healthier, stronger, fitter body inside and out. Teaching women to live, feel and think differently as well as changing what they eat, how they move to release excess weight and keep it. Teaching women to choose themselves daily, to live an exceptionally happy healthy life in a body they love and deserve.

In this week's podcast my special guest Is Emily Hall.
She helps women get control of overeating, binge eating and emotional eating, to love themselves and their body’s.
She is a certified Hypnotherpaist, RTT trainer and coach.
I love this week’s podcast as Emily shares her own personal experiences with her body and food that help her help women overcome these issues.
Important information showing you any mum or women can make change, and Emily shares where it all begins. And she reinforces the message you can be anything or do anything beyond what you currently see for yourself when you have the right tools, guidance and support.

She shares

• We are born fearless to shout out for our needs to be met
• Non-serving habits can be unlearned
• Becoming aware is key to any change
• Challenge can be a catalyst to action and change
• The importance of the inner work
• The power of messages we give to ourselves
• Where our emotions and feelings come from
• Evidence finding to either support or spiral
• How to reframe when things are not so great

Emily even touches on her take on the Laws of attraction, how your energy ripples into everyone around you.

About Emily
Emily Hall is The Naked Lady! Not because she doesn’t like clothes but because she helps time-starved women feel great about themselves naked by helping them overcome their emotional eating for good, get to the weight they desire and stay there. All without deprivation or faddy diets.
Emily is all about the mind and teaches clients how to work with their minds so that it becomes their friend not their enemy, helping them to live their lives free from emotional pain and trauma.

Episode #7
Priya Mistry is Rockstar Mum of the month for her resilience kindness to herself and others, a journey that was more about others, however the realisation of the power of kindness to self has been part of her self discovery.

Priya began to think more about her health and body after her first child, because she wanted to see her children grow and be there for them and has been taking micro steps since.

In this episode she shares

• How kindness is a fundamental part of being a human being
• Pressures we place on ourselves to meet others
• Importance of being a good happy person
• How our children teach us
• What self-worth and self-love means

About Priya
She's a working mum of two, juggling the world of career, motherhood and home. She's been a GP for almost 8 years and has a special interest in education. The pandemic has thrown its own challenges and has especially highlighted the need for her to focus on herself as well as others around her. It’s drawn on her to focus on the simpler things in life and to take life’s strides in smaller steps.
 
Connect with Priya
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/priya.mistry.1804

Episode #6
My guest this week is Amanda Whitehead who is a Gut Health specialist and a mum of 2 girls. She has done an enormous amount of work on herself and with other women too when it comes to living symptom free of gut issues.

She shares her experience as a mother of a child diagnosed with a gut condition at the age of 5 and how this changed with environmental changes, contributing to the work she does now.

Amanda shares in this episode:

• In great depth what gut health means
• And it's relationship to mental health
• How our hormones impact our mental health
• What hormones are at play to maintain optimum overall health
• How Gut imbalance can mean to brain imbalance
• How we can look after our Gut Health
• What inflammation is and how this relates to Gut health
• Tools and practices you can use to improve Gut health.

About Amanda
She is a health and nutrition coach who has been in the industry for 26 years.
She helps overwhelmed women aged 35+ to increase energy, enhance sleep and feel sexy again. After years of suffering with irritable bowel syndrome and an underactive thyroid, with Western medicines not helping and in some cases worsening her symptoms; she studied and learnt how alternative methods of healing can work through analysing what you choose to put in your body and what thoughts you allow into your mind.

Minal Gadhia is my expert guest this week, she is a women’s physio, specialising in pelvic health, diastasis recti rehab and much more.
She is an inspiring individual who has a passion to make a difference to women’s health and the quality of their life after issues have occurred in these areas of the body.

In this episode Minal shares:

• Why the pelvic floor is part of a women’s crucial foundation.
• Risk factors to having pelvic floor dysfunction, including menopause and why
• ALL WOMEN need to be aware of and look after their pelvic floor.
• How to correctly exercise pelvic floor
• Explanation of the breath
• How your pelvic floor works with breathe 
• How stress impacts the pelvic floor 
• How to self-test and be aware of your pelvic floor
• Prolapse explained, what it is and the various types 
• Running, exercise and pelvic floor guidance

Episode #4
Meera Parmar is another Rockstar mum guest on the podcast, for her high spirit, things she is doing for herself to feel her best in her health and be the person she wants to be for her family and children. Doing things familiar as well as newer things that have been working for her that she shares here. Shining light on a real mums inspiring story and attitude to living a happy, great healthy life even when faced with life challenges.

She embraces motherhood, working full time and continuously making time for herself, to ensure she is feels fabulous. Her ethos is everything starts with yourself to have a happy life, to Meera this means looking after her whole health, mind and body so she can give effortlessly to others that need her and be available for the ones she loves and cares about. She tries her best to not let life get her down, focusing on the things that keep her going, including time out for her self.

Along the way Versha shares important health information that will help you in your health journey.

About Meera Parmar
She was extremely sporty when she was younger, competing in rounders and hockey leagues she loved swimming and playing tennis and competing in any kind of sport.
This is something she continues to do as she will often take part in football with her son and cousin's, rounders cricket etc.
In terms of food, she’s tried so many different fad diets depriving herself of certain foods only to then binge out whenever the diet had finished, completely defeating the whole purpose of the diet.
It's her belief that ultimately it's a lifestyle choice and getting the balance right for healthy body, mind and emotional well-being is key.

This combination is what she strives to achieve in life.

Episode #3
Joanna Helcke is a pregnancy and postpartum fitness expert, helping mums in looking after their body before and after birth.
In this podcast Jo shares:

• Her empathy for what mums are going through right now and her advise to all mums out there
• What has been working for her during these restricted living times. 
• It’s ok to not feel like doing exercise in your home
• Vegan is a choice
• Juggling – creating buffer activities for relaxation. 
• Where your focus should be to live well and happy
• How to live without food restriction for optimum health
• How pregnancy can be a pivotal time for mums in making real life long health changes
• What inspires Jo and her core values
• How many parents transfer their career drive into parenting – her tips
• How high standards in work can be detrimental to you on a personal level
• 70-80 Rule in most things in life to create balance
  

About Joanna Helcke
She wear many hats in life: mother of boys, pregnancy & postnatal fitness expert, award winner, public speaker, raw vegan chef & passionate lover of coffee & chocolate!

In this episode Kishori shares her deep understanding of spiritual life from an eastern monastic life, bringing and applying it in a modern world, sharing important perspectives mothers can take to help them through these current times, to establish inner resilience and health from the inside out.

She wants mothers to understand and believe they are divine, that their role has a place and to understand that society has created a narrative that under appreciates what a mother does. Talking about how so many mothers have expressed their feeling of discomfort because of the 'I'm a mother and ...' expectation placed on them by the culture we live in.

Kishori also expands on giving to others as a mother and human being starts with feeding your own inner strength, through mindful practice, mantras and meditation or whichever way you choose. It's about finding practices that tap into you accessing the higher source or the divine, knowing this and practicing life this way is freeing. She explains eloquently being of service from a place of giving with no expectation, knowing you are doing good, making a difference to this planet by raising kind children, with the recieving being Karmic and what this all means in the bigger picture.

About Kishori Jani
Kishori Jani is a mother of four, Sanskrit teacher and eastern (Vedic) wisdom coach. She was born and raised in India, in a temple setting to an American mother and Gujarati Father who were both Hindu priests. She gained a deep understanding of the Vedic scriptures and was trained in monastic life. She later obtained her degree in Biochemistry from UCLA in Los Angeles, USA and also worked there in academia for many years. This unique blend of spiritual upbringing and professional skill has enabled her to share timeless Vedic wisdom in a more applicable and relevant way.