Episode 119: Healing yourself through nutrition with Louise Carr (Re-release)

Meet Louise Carr who healed her own midlife trauma through retraining as a nutrition consultant. She has a fascinating story to tell about how to improve our health through nutrition, but also how health issues can be changed by eliminating trauma from our lives. All driven by her own experience. Listen in for so much value about how to accept our issues, deal with them and thrive beyond them.

We talk about:

How Louise retrained in nutrition in midlife to cope with her own health issues
Not accepting the doctor’s narrative that health issues were age-related (at 46!)
How learning about nutrition can transform our lives
The importance of supporting our adrenal glands with nutrition
Replenishing our bodies and minds with downtime and self-care
Mixing with other age groups when retraining in midlife
How one big change can lead to many others – the domino effect
Learning to trust your gut
Coping with overwhelm and depression
Recognizing the true sources of one’s stress
Realizing when one’s relationship is no longer viable
The power of food and nutrition in transforming our lives
The damaging effect stress has on our health
How walking away from the wrong relationship can be very good for our health
Breaking free of abusive behavior
How IBS is a tell for trauma in our lives
How midlife is the perfect time to re-evaluate how we nurture ourselves
How inflammation and fighting our menopausal experience will make our experience of menopause worse
The empowering effect of stepping out of the victim mindset
Not accepting what we’re told if our gut tells us otherwise
The importance of a holistic approach to health especially in midlife
Dealing with PTSD as a midlife woman
Re-engaging with your body after trauma
How trauma effects short term memory – it may not be menopause!
Stress and hormonal health
Is it a mood swing or a food swing?
Keeping blood sugar levels stable
Weight-gain around the middle in midlife and its connection to stress and metabolism
Cortisol driving weight to the center of our bodies in midlife
Mineral dense foods
Calories don’t count – nutrition does
Learning to value ourselves more especially with food