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 13. Fitness & Womxn’s Blood Rites: Tracking Menses, Not Macros and Embracing Menopause with Rachelle Ballard-Clayton
There is a lack of representation of women aged 40+ in fitness. Rachelle Ballard-Clayton is shifting that pattern by basing her approach to training womxn on their shifting internal landscape and cyclical patterns.
In this episode:
- A little pre-interview solo ramble on systemic racism and unrecognised privilege in yoga/wellness/spirituality worlds
- Training womxn and running a fitness business, without body transformations or weight loss challenges (!)
- The importance of strength training – as opposed to just cardio and yoga - for womxn, especially those over 30 years of age
- Movement and the menstrual cycle: adapting your training to the hormonal fluctuations of one’s menstrual cycle - or mood cycle for peri-menopausal womxn
- What movement might look like for a midlife womxn
- Why we might find ourselves at this stage of life feeling less likely to move, more burnt out than ever and what we can do about that
- Throwing all expectations of what we should be doing out the window
- Understanding what our bodies are doing by tracking cycles
- How to work with and not against your body
- Why some weight gain around menopause is normal and protective
- “Focus on what you can do, and understand YOU better”
PLUS, some post interview-thoughts on:
- Rites of Passage in womxn’s lives, also known as the blood mysteries – menarche, childbirth, menopause
- The phenomenal benefits womxn get from strength training
- Better indicators of fitness than six pack or how lean you are
- “Does weight training make you bulky?”
- #YogaEveryDamnDay – with no other form of movement - is non-sensical
- What yoga is missing that strength training can provide
- What my own personal movement practice looks like
Rachelle’s Bio: Rachelle Ballard-Clayton owns MEE Active a Womxn’s health and movement coaching practice on the Gold Coast, Australia and delivers her programs worldwide. She creates a safe space for midlife womxn to step off the sidelines & connect deeply with their mind & body.
Resources mentioned:
Wild Power by Alexandra Pope
The Optimised Woman by Miranda Grey
The work of Jane Hardwicke-Collings
Casey's articles on why strength training is especially helpful for breastfeeding women: https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/breastfeeding-and-barbells
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/youre-a-yogi-why-the-eff-are-you-powerlifting
Will Lifting Weights Make Me Bulky?
https://www.girlsgonestrong.com/blog/articles/heavy-bulky/