Non-Diet Naturopath
The Non-Diet Naturopath is where wellness culture gets dismantled - one adrenal cocktail and trauma-blind detox plan at a time.
Hosted by Casey Conroy - naturopath, eating disorder clinician, non-diet dietitian, yoga teacher, and nature-informed practitioner with little patience for performative healing. This podcast explores the messy intersections of food, bodies, disordered eating, neurodivergence, trauma, herbal medicine, and wellness industry BS.
This podcast is for you if you:
- Are a practitioner who’s tired of root cause rhetoric that ignores trauma and complexity
- Love plants and healing but side-eye wellness influencers selling detox kits and mindset cures
- Want to be more fat-affirming, neuro-affirming, and scope-aware in your practice
- Believe nuance is sacred and rebellion should be relational, not just performative
- Still love yoga, but not yoga culture™
This podcast doesn’t just call out toxic wellness - it offers a grounded, inclusive alternative rooted in relational care, evidence, ethics, and real connection to land and body.
Expect rants, resources, and real talk - plus insight into Casey’s upcoming course Disordered Eating for Naturopaths, launching mid-2026.
Non-Diet Naturopath
Ep 2. Cleanse, Detox, Hurt: The Allure of Unhealthily Strict Diets to the Ascetic Yogi Psyche
Why juice cleansing is so popular in yoga culture, how detoxification actually works, and what you can do to support your body's detoxification processes without starving yourself.
· What is juice cleansing? How it’s marketed vs. what’s actually going on
· Why it’s so popular in yoga culture
· How tapas and saucha may underlie and amplify the tendency towards spiritually-endorsed disordered eating and body dysmorphia
· Ayurveda and juice cleansing
· Disordered eating and eating disorders in Yogaland
· My personal experiences with harsh yoga practices, fasting and orthorexia
· The physiology of detoxification and how juice cleanses impede this
· Why those initial “detox symptoms” and later, that feeling of “energised bliss” occur on a juice cleanse (it’s not what you think)
· What you can do to safely support detoxification (if you wish to do so)
· The next level of cray: water fasting in yoga circles
LINKS:
Support the pod! Bonus episodes and exclusive goodies for subscribers:
https://www.patreon.com/nondietyogi
My articles on Ayurveda, TCM and Intuitive Eating:
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/ayurveda-tcm-intuitive-eating-or-dietary-dogma
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/beyond-pitta-kapha-vata-ayurveda-tcm-intuitive-eating
The physiology of detoxification, how juice cleanses impede this, and what you can do to support detoxification:
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/detoxification-so-not-about-juice-fasts-colonics
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/your-bodys-lifelong-detoxification-kit
The stress response of restrictive eating:
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/the-honeymoon-period
Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing - online non-diet nutrition consulting services and in-person yoga classes
Grab your copy of my e-book The Modern Yogi's BS-Free Guide to Wellbeing
Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing Facebook page
Instagram:
@nondietyogi
@funky.forest.health