Are you looking to deepen your connection with your partner or foster a loving environment for your children? If there is a guest who can set you on the right path, it is Lael Stone.

In this always enlightening conversation with Lael, we delve into the intricacies of the 5 Love Languages, a concept introduced by Dr. Gary Chapman that has transformed how we understand and express love. Whether you're familiar with the love languages or hearing about them for the first time, Lael's insights will provide you with practical tools to enhance your relationships with your partner, children, and family.

If you haven’t already listened to episode 3 with Lael on raising resilient and compassionate children, we highly recommend you do (it is our most popular episode for a reason!). Lael is an educator, TEDx speaker, author, mother, and parenting counsellor who has been working with families for over 20 years. Her work as a birth educator, post-natal trauma counselor, and parenting educator has seen her work with thousands of families consulting about newborns all the way to the teen years. And probably most importantly - she is a wife and mother of three big kids - who are teenagers and young adults and she is currently putting all her research into practice with them!

You can connect with Lael on Instagram and Facebook as well as her new offering Motheration

In this podcast we cover:

• The concept of the 5 Love Languages and why they have resonated so widely
• How can we identify our own and our partner’s love languages, and how this may improve our relationship
• Navigating difficulties when we desire or express love in a different way to our partner
• How we can apply this to our children to deepen connection in our family
• Maintaining a family dynamic where everyone feels heard and understood
• and so much more!

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Presented by Luka McCabe and Kate Holm

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We know iron is important, but did you know that your needs change dramatically throughout different stages of life? From supporting pregnancy to your child's growth and development, iron plays a pivotal role - but how do we make sure we are getting enough, and how do we know if we are deficient?

Today on the podcast Renee, our beautiful dietician steps in for Luka to chat with Kate and explore the vital role of iron throughout various stages of life. From preconception to pregnancy, postpartum, breastfeeding, infancy, and childhood, iron plays a crucial part in our health and development. Renee shares her expertise on how to ensure you and your family are getting the right amounts of this essential nutrient at every life stage - and makes it easy too!

In this podcast we discuss

• The difference between haem and non-haem iron and where to find them
• How we can improve our absorption of iron as well as things that may impair it
• Some common signs of iron deficiency for both kids and adults
• The importance of iron during preconception, pregnancy and postpartum
• How pregnant women can balance getting enough iron while managing pregnancy-related digestive issues like nausea or constipation
• Postpartum conditions that may be affected by low iron and the importance of testing
• The huge iron requirement when starting solids and how this can be achieved
• ... and so much more!

You can read more about iron for starting solids in our blog post HERE or connect with our team of nutritionists & naturopaths for individualised guidance about diet and supplementation HERE.

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Visit www.boobtofood.com for blogs and resources, to book an appointment with one of our amazing practitioners and more.

Presented by Luka McCabe and Kate Holm

To get in touch please email podcast@boobtofood.com

If you're looking for some inspiration - this is the episode for you. Our guest today proves that you can overcome anything, and is an absolute force - an amputee mama normalising ‘different’ to inspire other women to feel seen, heard and less alone. She's our kind of girl.

This week on the podcast we are thrilled to welcome the incredible Jessica Quinn. Jess is an all round inspirational woman - she is an advocate for disability awareness, body acceptance, and diversity, an author, a model, content creator, business woman - and most recently a mother to her baby girl Marla. Her journey to motherhood, while navigating the unique challenges of living with a disability as well as endometriosis and chronic pain is so inspiring and she shares so openly with grace and wisdom. We loved this chat and adore Jess.

In this podcast we discuss

• Jess' story about how she came to lose her leg and some of the unique challenges being an amputee presents as a mum
• Living with a disability and the choice to share so openly about her experience
• Her decision to become a mum and how her diagnosis of endometriosis affected this
• Body acceptance and how motherhood has changed her perspective
• Health anxiety and reflecting on her experience as a child now that she is a mother
• ... and so much more!

You can connect with Jess via instagram

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Follow us on instagram @boobtofood to stay up to date with all the podcast news, recipes and other content that we bring to help make meal times and family life easier.

Visit www.boobtofood.com for blogs and resources, to book an appointment with one of our amazing practitioners and more.

Presented by Luka McCabe and Kate Holm

To get in touch please email podcast@boobtofood.com