Non-Diet Naturopath

Ep 40. Beyond the Binary: Re-Enchanting Practice Without Losing Our Critical Edge with Miriam Latif

Casey sits down with herbalist, writer, and mentor Miriam Latif (Understory) for a heart-opening conversation about uncertainty, nuance, and practicing in the messy middle spaces of wellness.They unpack the collapse of certainty, the harm of binaries, how capitalism shows up in diet and purity culture, and what it means to hold both clinical rigour and enchantment.What You’ll Hear About: Holding uncertainty without collapsing into doubt The grief and liberation of “has everything I learnt been a lie?” How colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy shape purity culture, diet culture, and wellness narratives The tension practitioners feel living between clinical spaces and enchanted, earth-based ways of knowing The radical power of nuance in a culture hungry for "controversial hot takes"This episode is a balm for practitioners who straddle worlds: evidence-based and intuitive, clinical and animist, scientific and soulful... and are ready to feel at home in their complexity.👉 Free resource:Download the practitioner guide Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths and join the waitlist for Body as Earth: Foundations in Disordered Eating Awareness for Naturopaths, Herbalists & Holistic Nutritionists (opening mid-2026). LINKS:Miriam's Instagram: @___understoryCasey's website: https://www.funkyforest.com.auCasey's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/funky.forest.healthCasey's Instagram: @funky.forest.healthNon-Diet Naturopath Instagram: @nondietnaturopathGrab your FREE practitioner guide + jump on the waitlist for Disordered Eating for NaturopathsGrab your copy of my free e-book The Modern Yogi's BS-Free Guide to Wellbeing and sign up for my regular monthly newsletter!Support the show

Ep 39. Hard Conversations in Naturopathy: Do No Harm in a Weight-Obsessed Culture

When “wellness” programs promise balance but deliver restriction, naturopathy loses its way.In this episode, I unpack how weight-loss prescriptions quietly betray the naturopathic oath of First, do no harm - and why speaking up about it isn’t an attack, it’s seeking accountability.We’ll talk about the difference between professional critique and personal criticism, why discomfort doesn’t equal disrespect, and how avoiding hard conversations only protects the systems that keep clients harmed and practitioners silenced.This one’s for the practitioners who care deeply about doing better: about integrity, reflection, and truly trauma-informed, evidence-based naturopathy.If you’re a naturopath, herbalist, or nutritionist ready to do better - to make your care truly trauma-informed, body-inclusive, and ethical - this is for you.✨ Download the free guide for practitioners and join the Body as Earth waitlist!What You’ll Learn in This Episode:Why weight-loss programs like Metabolic Balance and shake-based “clinical” protocols contradict the naturopathic oathThe difference between critiquing systems vs. attacking practitioners - and why professional critique isn’t the same as personal attackHow weight-centric programs disguise restriction as “balance”, "healing", or even "non-diet"The scientific evidence on long-term weight regain and metabolic adaptationWhy Intuitive Eating and trauma-informed care cannot ethically coexist with weight-centred practiceWhat to do instead - how to practise from a truly non-diet, body-trust, trauma-aware frameworkHow to have courageous, respectful professional conversations about harm, ethics, and scope✨ Prefer to read? This episode is part of my series and blog at https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/do-no-harm-why-weight-loss-prescriptions-betray-the-naturopathic-oath👉 Free resource: Download the 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.LINKS:Casey's website: https://www.funkyforest.com.auCasey's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/funky.forest.healthCasey's Instagram: @funky.forest.healthNon-Diet Naturopath Instagram: @nondietnaturopathGrab your FREE practitioner guide + jump on the waitlist for Disordered Eating for NaturopathsGrab your copy of my free e-book The Modern Yogi's BS-Free Guide to Wellbeing and sign up for my regular monthly newsletter!Support the showSupport the show

Ep 38. When “Metabolic Balance” Isn’t Balance: Diet Culture, Clinical Protocols, and the Naturopathic Dilemma

I’m unpacking how “personalised” protocols like Metabolic Balance slip diet culture into naturopathic care. We’ll unpack the things clients say that can signal disordered eating beneath the surface, the ways practitioners can cause harm (even unintentionally), the pitfalls of elimination diets, and why supplement fixes can’t heal restriction.✨ Download the free guide for practitioners and join the Body as Earth waitlist!What you’ll learn in this episode:Two ways disordered eating shows up in naturopathic care: the client brings it into the consult room, or the practitioner endorses it (ouch).Why Metabolic Balance and other “clinical” weight loss programs cause more harm than healing.The fine line between elimination diets and harm - especially for neurodivergent clients.How supplement-heavy approaches can mask restriction.What truly non-diet, trauma-informed naturopathic care looks like.Resources and Links: ✨ Download my free practitioner guide: Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths🌿 Join the waitlist for my 2026 course: Body as Earth: A Root-Cause Approach to Disordered Eating for Naturopaths (you’ll be added automatically when you download the guide!)📖 Prefer to read, or want all the research references? Find the article for this episode over on my blog!That other article I referred to in this episode: Detoxification: so NOT about juice fasts & colonicsLINKS:Casey's website: https://www.funkyforest.com.auCasey's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/funky.forest.healthCasey's Instagram: @funky.forest.healthNon-Diet Naturopath Instagram: @nondietnaturopath  Grab your FREE practitioner guide + jump on the waitlist for Disordered Eating for NaturopathsGrab your copy of my free e-book The Modern Yogi's BS-Free Guide to Wellbeing and sign up for my regular monthly newsletter!Support the show

Ep 37. 5 Red Flags for Disordered Eating in Clinic

In this episode I’m unpacking five key red flags that may indicate a client is experiencing disordered eating.As naturopaths, herbalists, and holistic health practitioners, we’re often the first point of contact for people struggling with food and body concerns. But diet culture and wellness culture can make it tricky to know what’s a genuine health issue and what’s a red flag for disordered eating.Today I’ll walk you through five signs that should make you pause, get curious, and consider whether your client needs more support. In my upcoming course Body as Earth: A Root-Cause Approach to Disordered Eating for Naturopaths, I’ll go into these in much more detail - but they’re a solid starting point for anyone wanting to practice safely and responsibly.What you’ll learn in this episode:Why recognising red flags is crucial for safe naturopathic practiceFive common signs that may indicate disordered eating (and what not to ignore)The importance of working collaboratively with other health professionalsHow to avoid minimising or pathologising clients’ concernsWhy critical thinking and weight-neutral frameworks are essential in this spaceResources and Links: ✨ Download my free practitioner guide: Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths 🌿 Join the waitlist for my 2026 course: Body as Earth: A Root-Cause Approach to Disordered Eating for Naturopaths (you’ll be added automatically when you download the guide!)📖 Prefer to read, or want all the research references? Find the article for this episode over on my blog!That article I wrote whose title I embarrassingly couldn't remember in the episode: Rethinking Wellness RebellionLINKS:Casey's website: https://www.funkyforest.com.auCasey's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/funky.forest.healthCasey's Instagram: @funky.forest.healthNon-Diet Naturopath Instagram: @nondietnaturopath  https://www.instagram.com/nondietnaturopath/Grab your FREE practitioner guide + jump on the waitlist for Disordered Eating for NaturopathsGrab your copy of my free e-book The Modern Yogi's BS-Free Guide to Wellbeing!https://www.funkyforest.com.au/a-modern-yogis-bs-free-guide-to-wellbeing.htmlSupport the show

Ep 36. The Cacao Cacophony: Full Episode Release

Re-released in full: my unfiltered story of breathwork gone bad, and what it says about the culture of wellness. A lot of folks told me this one really hit home, so I’m bringing it out into the world in full. Now, I adore cacao. I drink it often, and I respect its nourishing, heart-opening qualities. But this is the story of a breathwork retreat that unravelled from "healing" into the utterly unhinged - sensory overload, unsafe practices, a roomful of people desperate to feel something, and facilitators hell-bent on claiming the mantle of "spiritual guru."Since first telling this story, I’ve learned more about breathwork traditions and the practices these facilitators were trying to emulate. But delivered without skill or safety, it left people overwhelmed and at risk. And I’ve since heard from so many others with similar experiences... which is why I’m re-releasing it here.For me, this retreat was just one messy branch of a wider wellness culture that ties worthiness to suffering, restriction, or chasing intensity. The same culture that so often overlaps with disordered eating.✨ If you’re a naturopath or natural health practitioner who wants to spot these overlaps in your own clients, grab my free guide: Disordered Eating for Naturopaths. LINKS:Casey's website: https://www.funkyforest.com.auCasey's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/funky.forest.healthCasey's Instagram: @funky.forest.healthNon-Diet Naturopath Instagram: @nondietnaturopath  https://www.instagram.com/nondietnaturopath/Grab your FREE practitioner guide + jump on the waitlist for Disordered Eating for NaturopathsGrab your copy of my free e-book The Modern Yogi's BS-Free Guide to Wellbeing!https://www.funkyforest.com.au/a-modern-yogis-bs-free-guide-to-wellbeing.htmlSupport the show