Ep:22 Annabel Bateman - Thyroid health coach & essential oils advocate

The Full Life Podcast with Melanie Lynam

This week I speak with Annabel Bateman from Annabelbateman.com. Annabel is a food blogger, Hashimoto’s patient, mother of 3 boys, foodie, mediator, author, essential oils advocate and thyroid health coach. She’s got lots of good stuff to share with us such as her top 5 tips for wellness, and how to get started on improving your health when you feel like you are so far away from where you want to be. If you are interested in improving your thyroid health then this is the person to listen to. But even if you just want to improve your health in general Annabel has some great insights for us.

Her story of living with Hashimotos Disease, not satisfied with only taking a pill for the rest of her life. Now knows there are a lot of other things she can do in addition to medication.

From family law to author, blogger and health coach specialising in thyroid health.

Looked for natural ways of supporting her health but didn’t always like what they told her so she didn’t always do what they told her to do.

Annabel is mindful that we are all in different places of our health journeys and we have to be ready to make changes or else it won’t be sustained.

Seemed like too hard. Liked food too much and didn’t understand the benefit.

It took her 10 years of dabbling before she realised how important it was and then took it far more seriously.

Focus on the things you can have, don’t focus on what you can’t have. Make yummy food.

It’s easier to eat grain free and dairy free now than it was 10 years ago and there are a lot recipe books available to help.

Top 5 wellness tips:

1. Look at your diet. Food is medicine. We are what we eat. Eat food that is nutrient rich.
2. Reduce stress. Look at ways that we can reduce stress on a day to day basis. Essential oils.
3. Sleep. Good quality sleep. Relaxing ritual before sleep.
4. Connect. Hang around with people who are healthy and well. Our emotional health is really important.
5. Reduce toxins.

Top 3 essential oil tips:

1. Use them. Everyday.
2. Spread them around your home where you are going to use them (oil stations). Eg. Calming oil in bathroom for after a shower, oils in laundry, bedrooms etc.
3. Gradually replace things around your home over time ie. surface sprays and cleaning products.

For someone who feels so far away from where they want to be with their health, what would the first few steps for them be?

Understand why you might want to make some changes. Gain understanding through books and podcasts. Once you understand why that will help you to do that. Working on the mindset so that you’re ready to change. We want things to be a lifestyle and sustainable.

For someone who feels like they’re doing pretty good with their health how can they take things further?

Be open to trying different things and learning about new practices.

“It’s never about perfection it’s just always about improvement.”

Tips for a woman who looks after everybody else and feels like she may not have enough time to take care of herself.

It’s okay to look after yourself. Know that you are valuable and it actually is important to look after yourself.

Attach a new habit to a habit that you already have (“habit stacking”).

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