Up For A Chat

Holistic Farming and Permaculture – A Dream come true

This week, Cyndi is alone, Kim is away and Carren is busy with getting all the tickets for the New Zealand hiking trip ready.  Cyndi decides to talk about her farm, the vision she has, manifesting, vitalism and the importance of providing the right resources for our bodies to heal and to be well.
https://changinghabits.com.au/product/manifesting-matisse-e-book/
Vitamin D, Deep Sleep and Gut Bacteria with Dr Stasha Gominak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74F22bjBmqE
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UC 254: Running Amok – (murderous rage)

Running Amok – (murderous rage): Carren, Kim and Cyndi discuss the recent event in Las Vegas.  As girl friends talking about it for the first time they are confused and perplexed about why someone would hurt so many innocent people.  New evidence comes to light from two prominent US psychiatrists and the Up For A Chatters discuss the theme of their articles.  The nature of the subject creates a somber mood, but the insights are worth listening in for.
For further reading:http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/mass-shootings-new-manifestation-ancient-phenomenon-and-their-link-psychiatric-dr
andhttp://kellybroganmd.com/the-violence-inducing-effects-of-psychiatric-medication/?utm_source=Kelly+Brogan+MD+Newsletter&utm_campaign=546222e8ca-Violence+Repost&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0f977a8c5-546222e8ca-122643949
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UC 253: Dealing with Chronic Fatigue – with Marnie Perkinson

One of Kim’s closest friends was over visiting from NZ and Kim instantly saw an opportunity to interview the gorgeous Marnie Perkinson- especially as she is a runner, nutritionist and lover of all things natural. Her story will resonate with many UFAC listeners as her story is around being a top runner dealing with chronic fatigue and her search to find answers that modern medicine simply could not give her. Marnie is an avid researcher, has set up her own website and blog and is a phenomenal television presenter and educator. Here’s a little more on her background.
Marnie Perkinson had been dealing with Post Viral Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for almost a decade. Having been a National Aerobics medalist, NZ representative Mountain Runner, and 2hr41min Marathoner with Olympic aspirations, she quickly realised that when you don’t have energy, life becomes a struggle and the positive, ‘anything’s possible’ person she once knew herself to be, became almost unrecognisable.
On the upside, this set her on a journey where – utilising her Post Graduate Nutrition Degree – she set out to learn as much as possible about her condition. Unfortunately, traditional Nutritional Science and Western Medicine offered little useful advice in this area at the time, so Marnie also sorts out ‘alternative’ health fields, in order to get to the bottom of this lack of perkiness and energy.
Through this process, she gained insightful information from:
Naturopaths, Craniosacral Practitioners, Sleep Specialists, Life Coaches, Psychologists, Chronic Fatigue Medical Specialists, Chiropractors, Massage Therapists, Osteopaths, Biomedical Nutritionists, Herbalists, Integrative Medical Practitioners, Yoga and Meditation Gurus.
She also become an accredited Fitgenes practitioner, and believes that Epigenetics – the study of how we can modify the way our genes are expressed – will provide incredibly useful information to tailor advice in the future. It then becomes less about the hand you were dealt (your inherited genes), but whether you are allowing these genes to negatively affect you, through the food you eat, your living situation, who you interact with, your sleep patterns, how you exercise etc.
Marnie also strongly backs the ‘movement’ that gut health is the key to our physical and mental wellbeing. This theory is not new of course, with Hippocrates – the father of modern medicine – proclaiming that “All health begins in the gut”. The only difference today is there is growing scientific evidence to back this theory.
She believes that learning how to reduce the chemical insult to our immune systems, from our food, water, skincare, cleaners and medicines (the list goes on), will also go a long way in helping to feel our healthiest and most vibrant selves.
You can follow Marnie on her website and social media at www.perky.nz
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UC 252: Creating Change with Beck Warke

Beck Warke from Omahanutrition drops in to talk about her incredible ride from Police officer to Primary School Nutrition presenter.  Beck won an interview with the Up For a Chatters because of her incredible video she sent after completing the The Functional Nutrition Course and what she has achieved.  She is inspirational, eloquent, dynamic and someone who is going to change the nutrition world in schools.
Don’t miss this one.  www.omahanutrition.com.au  Facebook/omahanutrition  Instagram/omahamum  And here is the winning video https://youtu.be/Z8lEGS5csk4.
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UC 251: Flashback Chat – Habits of Happy People Part 3

Flashback Chat, we have had many requests to replay some of our Most Popular podcasts from the past.
This week is the final part of a 3 part series where the Up For A Chat girls discuss the habits of happy people. This week Cyndi, Kim and Carren discuss 1. Know your facts and don’t jump to conclusions 2. Keep things in perspective 3. Take responsibility and deal with any issues and problems in life 4. Speak respectively and be kind to your self 5. Make goals write them down 6. It’s none of your business what people think of you 7. Don’t let strangers effect your mood 8. Be grateful and participate in life. Kim, Cyndi and Carren also have a wonderful goal for 2016 they look forward to sharing it with you in this podcast.
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UC 250: Flashback Chat – Habits of Happy People Part 2

Flashback Chat, we have had many requests to replay some of our Most Popular podcasts from the past.
This week is the continuation of a 3 part series on the habits of happy people. The challenge to do one of the habits each day continues. This week Kim, Carren and Cyndi discuss the following habits. 1. Speak kindly of others, look for the good in people. 2. Forgiveness is a noble habit 3. Keep Learning 4. Start and don’t quit 5. Love what you do 6. Enjoy good company and change the relationship you have with self 7. Change negative thoughts around to positive. Once again Kim matches these habits with essential oils that will help you through the daily habit changes.
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UC 249: Flashback Chat – Habits Of Happy People Part 1

Flashback Chat, we have had many requests to replay some of our Most Popular podcasts from the past.
This is the first part of a three part series on the habits of happy people. Cyndi found an article on the web called the 22 habits of unhappy people and decided to reverse the habits for a more positive spin on the article. Carren, Cyndi and Kim talk about these happy habits and how to achieve them, in fact they set a challenge for all listening in to focus on one of these habits each day. This week the habits include; 1. Stop complaining 2. Create experiences 3. laugh at 5pm 4. Stay in the present 5. Don’t wait to be happy 6. Enjoy hobbies 7. Eat healthy. Kim attaches an essential oil to enhance each of these habits. Listen in and start your happy habits today.
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UC 248: Up for a Chat Q & A 2

When Nutrition and Health Just Isn’t Enough.  The Up For A Chatters tackle another question from their listeners, this is someone who is upset that her body has let her down.  She believed that the basic primal instinct of having a child has failed her, due to an 11 week miscarriage.  It’s hard to have faith in food and health when you think that at a time in your life when you are at your best health wise, your best is just not good enough.  Listen in while each of the Chatters talk about the spiritual, mental and physical manifestations of health.
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UC 247: Up for a Chat Q&A

Q and A time all about acne, dandruff and fertility…  The Up For A Chatters get many questions so today is the answer to one.  Hey gals! I love your podcasts! I would love it if you could cover things related to stopping birth control. I am currently suffering from horrible acne and dandruff since stopping OCP and if I wasn’t hoping to start a family i would be sooo tempted to go on it just to clear my skin again. I eat super well and drink plenty of water and use natural or homemade skin care products. I am sure there are plenty of other girls facing these same issues and i believe a podcast addressing these issues would be very beneficial.
Thank you:)
We have two pdfs that you can access below.Contraception and Conception DevicesTwenty8 Essentials – Eight Ways
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UC 246: The Wisdom of Age with Sandy Morrison

Sandy Morrison a woman in her 60’s and mother inlaw to Kim joins the Up For A Chat girls for an hour that melted the hearts of all listening. Sandy’s wisdom has all the girls silenced and listening intently to her graciousness and words of wisdom. Her voice creates a peace and quiet that has never been heard in the history of Up For A Chat. Listen in and feel the emotion that is so palpable in the room when Sandy describes her life through the beginning of feminism, love, loss of a child, politics and faith. She is truly counted as one of the wise elders of her generation.
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UC 245: Another MS miracle with Bob Cafaro

Cyndi is at Dr Terry Wahls Protocol Seminar in Cedar Rapids Iowa USA, she is inspired by the many stories of recovery she is hearing not only in the seminar room but through the breaks.  Bob Cafaro is a Cellist for the Philharmonic Orchestra, over an 8 month period he loses his peripheral sight and the use of his hands, a devastating place to be as a professional cellist.   Listen in as his realization of the diagnosis of MS sets in and his determination that it will not define him, but make him stronger.  An inspirational podcast for all.
www.bobcafaro.com
FB & Instagram thebobcafaro
His book: When the Music Stopped
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UC 244: The Healthy Shift Worker with Audra Starkey

Shift work is hard on the body and mind. But just like statistically there is a chance of heart disease, cancer and mental disorders with shift work, we can change our behaviours, foods and self care in order to breeze through the rigors shift work puts on our body. This is a must for all shift workers. Audra Starkey has been a shift worker for most of her life, she has studied the art of keeping well, by researching and interviewing people who have survived 5 decades plus of shift work. www.thehealthyshiftworker.com
Audra Starkey is a Shift Work Veteran, Accredited Trainer and Clinical Nutritionist living in Brisbane. With over 18 years’ experience working shift work including 3 years as a Trainer for one of Australia’s largest employers of shift workers – Qantas, Audra knows first-hand how hard it is to work irregular rosters and shift rotations – and remain healthy too!
Her passion for health and nutrition in a shift working environment stemmed largely from her own personal struggles, which led her to establish a blog called The Healthy Shift Worker – a website designed specifically to assist those struggling to stay healthy despite working 24/7.
Audra now works with individuals who may be struggling to improve their own health despite working 24/7, along with delivering Healthy Shift Worker style training programs to shift working organisations both here in Australia, and around the world, with the aim to improve wellness culture within the workplace.
Contacthttp://www.healthyshiftworker.com https://www.facebook.com/healthyshiftworker
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