Welcome to Healthy Reads. This is where I share what I’ve learned in years of coaching about eating well and feeling better: nutrition, stress and burnout, sleep, hormones and menopause, healthy habits and simple ways to relax. Every article is based on science and written for real life, so you get clear steps you can start using today. No fads, no guilt and no extremes. Pick a topic below, or simply start reading.
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How Much Protein Do You Need After 50? What It Looks Like on a Real Plate
After 50, your muscles need a clearer message from your plate. Here’s what enough protein looks like at each meal, with eggs, lentils, yoghurt and sardines, and no counting.
Comfort Eating in Autumn: Why You Reach for Food When It Gets Dark, and What Helps
When the evenings get dark, the cupboard starts calling. Here’s what’s really going on in your body, and five gentle things you can try tonight.
The Afternoon Energy Dip: Why You Crash Mid-Afternoon in Autumn, and How to Get Your Energy Back
That three o’clock slump usually starts earlier in the day. Here’s why autumn makes it worse, and what to put on your plate for steady afternoons.
Why Group Coaching Works: Seven Benefits of Changing Your Eating Habits Together
Changing the way you eat on your own is hard. Here are seven reasons why doing it together works, while still leaving with a plan that fits your own body.
Bio-individuality in Practice: Why Your Friend’s Diet Might Not Work for You
The way of eating that works wonders for your friend can leave you tired, hungry or bloated. Here’s why, and a simple two-week experiment to find out what your own body needs.
Eating with the Seasons: A Simple Autumn Guide (and a Warming Soup)
Squash, leeks, apples and walnuts: a simple guide to eating with the autumn season, with an easy week of meals and a warming lentil and squash soup.
18 FAQs on Nutrition in Perimenopause and Menopause
“I eat exactly the same, but my body isn’t responding the same way.” Here are the questions I hear most about food in perimenopause and menopause, with practical answers.
Back to what I love: Holistic Nutrition Health Coaching
After a break to come back to myself and move to Southwest France, I’m returning to holistic nutrition health coaching, and here’s why.
How to Reset After the Holidays: A Gentle Guide for Mind, Body and Soul
Bloated, sluggish and not quite yourself after the holidays? You don’t need a detox or a strict plan. Here is a gentle way to find your rhythm again, for body, mind and heart.
Autogenic Training: A Pathway to Tranquillity and a Calmer Mindset
Autogenic training works on your thoughts as much as your muscles. Here’s how a calmer body changes the way you think, and how intention phrases can support the changes you want.
Manifest Your Goals: The Power of Visualisation
Visualisation is more than daydreaming. Here is how to picture your goal clearly, feel it, and let that picture guide what you do next.
Mastering the Mindset Shift: Three Tools to Change How You See Your Life
When you feel stuck in the same loop, your mindset is the place to start. Three tools I come back to again and again: visualisation, gratitude and autogenic training.
Mindset Mastery: Your Key to a Joyful, Fulfilling Life
Your mindset decides a great deal about how your days feel. Here is how to move from autopilot and overwhelm towards lightness, with three practices and a short meditation.
Holistic Health: A Closer Look at the First Pillar of Joy and Fulfilment
Health is far more than the absence of illness. A closer look at the first pillar of the Joy and Fulfilment Trifecta: body, mind, emotions and spirit, and how to care for all four.
Fostering Self-Kindness: Six Everyday Ways to Embrace Your Inner Worth
Being kind to yourself is something you practise in small moments, on ordinary days. Here are six simple ways to begin, and how to fit them into a real week.
From Self-Criticism to Self-Love: How to Quieten Negative Self-Talk
You would never speak to a friend the way you sometimes speak to yourself. Here is how to notice your inner critic, question it and answer it kindly.
18 FAQs on Self-Compassion: How to Be a Friend to Yourself
What is self-compassion, really? Will it make you lazy? How do you practise it on a bad day? Eighteen honest questions, answered simply, to help you become a better friend to yourself.
Managing Stress at Work: Practical Ways to Stay Calm and Focused
Too many emails, too many meetings, shoulders up by your ears? Here are simple, kind ways to stay steady at work, and to turn pressure into good work without wearing yourself out.
