If you prescribe weight loss, talk about metabolic health, prescribe elimination diets, support clients on GLP-1s, or use practitioner-only weight-loss programs, you need disordered eating literacy. In this episode Casey unpacks five things natural health practitioners need to know about disordered eating when weight loss is part of their clinical work. We talk about why you can’t assess health by body size, why “they asked for weight loss” is not the same as informed consent, why a shrinking...
Jun 23
45 min
Casey returns to The Non-Diet Naturopath after a six-month pause with a personal, hopeful, slightly goblin-energy update on life, grief, single parenting, and the long, messy road to finally launching DECIDE - her disordered eating training for natural health practitioners. In this episode, she shares why disordered eating is not a niche issue, how it shows up every day in gut, hormone, fertility, metabolic and “wellness” work, and why restrictive protocols can cause real harm when practition...
May 28
25 min
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...
Nov 14, 2025
1 hr 9 min
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...
Oct 23, 2025
53 min
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 ...
Oct 9, 2025
1 hr 33 min
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 ...
Sep 25, 2025
46 min
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,...
Sep 16, 2025
38 min
I’ve lived at every stage of the eating spectrum - from normal eating, to disordered eating, to recovery and intuitive eating. In this episode, I unpack what each stage looks like in practice, and why recognising the messy middle matters so much in naturopathy and holistic care. For practitioners and anyone curious about the overlap between wellness culture and disordered eating. We explore: The eating spectrum - from intuitive eating to clinical eating disorders, and why most clients sit in ...
Aug 30, 2025
48 min
After a few years off the mic, I’m back - with dirt under my nails, a herbal medicine apothecary by my side, and a renewed fire in my belly. In this episode I share why I’ve renamed the podcast The Non-Diet Naturopath formerly Non-Diet Yogi), what’s changed (spoiler: a lot), and what remains the same (like my intolerance for wellness horse shit). I talk about leaving behind yoga spaces steeped in clean eating and labour extraction, the fallout I faced for standing by public health, and why na...
Aug 5, 2025
30 min
Intuitive Eating is an incredible approach for people seeking to heal their relationships with food and their bodies. But it's not without its challenges. In this episode I speak with the wonderful Jenna Hollenstein, who brings years of experience as a non-diet dietitian and meditation teacher to the table to help us understand how to tolerate the discomfort that so often arises in one's journey into intuitive eating. We talk about: What do meditation and Buddhism have to offer those...
Dec 22, 2022
1 hr 6 min
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