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 11. Wildly Accessible Food & Medicine: Foraging Edible Weeds & Bush Foods with Pat Collins
Foraging for edible weeds is an accessible and inclusive healthcare skill. Pat Collins is a highly experienced herbalist, natural health practitioner and bush craftswoman with a passion for sharing her foraging know-how and instilling in people a deep appreciation of edible and medicinal weeds: nature's gifts.
In this episode:
- How being able to support her children’s health by making at home remedies motivated Pat into studying herbal medicine formally
- Why familiarity with the abundance of edible foods around us - and how to harvest and use them - is so valuable, especially at this time in history
- Why Pat published her book The Wondrous World of Weeds (it wasn’t because writing books pays well!)
- “Once upon a time we were all wise women” – the need to take back our power by reclaiming our knowledge of foraging
- The many uses of Chickweed (Stellaria media) and Paddy’s Lucerne (Sida rhombifolia)
- Weeds grow where the soil is right for them, and will tell you what is wrong with your soil
- Herbs in the time of COVID-19: Some of Pat’s favourite weed allies and ways to use them, to support immune and respiratory health, and to calm our nerves when “it all gets too much”
- Which native Australian bush foods are in season right now, how can to use it – think, lemon myrtle cheesecake and bunya nut curry (!)
- Pat’s views on MLM essential oil companies doTerra and Young Living, concerns about the safety of ingesting essential oils, and more affordable, practitioner grade alternatives to these brands
- The beauty of using whole herbs
- Menopause: How Pat views this powerful life stage, helpful plant allies, organ systems to take extra special care of, and how St John’s Wort helped Pat through her surprisingly tumultuous peri-menopausal years
- “If we as a culture respected our elders, we’d have far fewer problems with menopause”
- The call for wise, old women
Links:
- Pat's Website & Facebook
- High quality, affordable alternatives to MLM essential oil companies: New Directions, Sydney Essential Oil Company, Essential Therapeutics
- Funky Forest Apothecary
- Casey's blogs: