The Natural Narrative
We are simply normal people enduring abnormal circumstances—and this can diminish your lustre and your health. I’m Leone Wilson, award-winning natural healthcare practitioner and founder of Harvesting Health & Mind Medicine. On The Natural Narrative, I share real-life stories, evidence-based insights, and practical strategies to help you navigate your health. I also invite like-minded guests to share their experiences so you can gain invaluable takeaways to regain your health, recover your lustre, and shine bright. The Natural Narrative is where natural wellness meets real-world experience and evidence-based insights.
The Weight of Control: Where Pain Meets Possibility
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What if the thing you've been praised for - your discipline, your willpower, your "healthy lifestyle" - was actually hurting you?
Eating disorders aren't really about food. They're about control, loss, identity and survival. And sometimes they hide in plain sight - behind clean eating, overtraining, perfectionism, and being the good girl who copes.
In this episode of The Natural Narrative, I'm sharing my lived experience of anorexia, bulimia, and the long road through disordered eating - not from a clinical lens, but from inside...
When Control Becomes Survival: The Truth About Eating Disorders
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Eating disorders aren’t about food — they’re a way of creating control in an uncontrollable world, and in this conversation with Anjali Woodford, we explore the trauma-rooted patterns behind them and what true healing requires.
In this episode of The Natural Narrative, Leone sits down with clinician and educator Anjali Woodford to explore the deeper realities of eating disorders — far beyond food, weight, or appearance.
Together, they unpack how eating disorders often emerge as a way to find control in environments that feel unpredicta...
Personalised Nutrition & Metabolic Balance with Cherry Wills
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I’m Leone Wilson, and in this episode of The Natural Narrative, I chat with Cherry Wills, CEO of Metabolic Balance ANZ, about how personalised, blood-value–driven nutrition can transform health and restore balance.
I’m Leone Wilson, and The Natural Narrative shares real stories and evidence-based insights to help you reclaim your health and shine bright.
We are simply normal people enduring abnormal circumstances—and this can diminish your lustre and your health. I’m Leone Wils...
Smart Girls - Turning The Tables on Tradition
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I’m Leone Wilson, and in this episode of The Natural Narrative, I chat with Anjali Woodford about rewriting your story, defying cultural expectations, and embracing authenticity to reclaim your health and shine bright.
We are simply normal people enduring abnormal circumstances—and this can diminish your lustre and your health. I’m Leone Wilson, award-winning natural healthcare practitioner and founder of Harvesting Health & Mind Medicine. On The Natural Narrative, I share real-life stories, evidence-based insights, and practical strategies to help...
With A Closed Heart Nothing Changes
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This is our first podcast episode with Anjali Woodford (with many more to follow)
🎙️ The Natural Narrative — Episode with Anjali Woodford
In this episode of The Natural Narrative, Leone sits down with Anjali Woodford, founder of the Gold Coast Women’s Health Networking Group — a vibrant community built to connect, uplift, and empower women from all walks of life.
Anjali shares her vision of bringing education, awareness, and unity to the broader community, helping to bridge t...
The Body Keeps The Score: When Pushing Too Hard Creates Disease
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In this deeply personal episode, Leone shares the story of what happened when her partner David pushed himself past the point of exhaustion and how his illness became a wake-up call.
She talks about the cost of ignoring your body, the myths we tell ourselves about rest, and what it really means to live in balance.
If you've ever felt like you were running on empty but kept telling yourself to "push through" this episode is for you
KEY TAKEAWAYS-
The body...
Humans Being: The Art of Rest and Soulful Living
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In this deeply nourishing episode of The Natural Narrative, host Leone Wilson of Harvesting Health welcomes special guest Anyeska from Wellbeing with Anyeska for a heartful conversation on the power of rest, presence, and simply being. Together, they explore the idea that relaxation is not just a luxury—but a sacred practice designed to settle the soul.
In a world that often praises productivity over peace, Leone and Anyeska challenge the notion that we are merely "humans doing" or "humans thinking." Instead, they invite us ba...
Love, Loss & the Healing Middle Ground
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In this episode, Leone shares the deeply personal story of supporting her partner David through his journey with glioblastoma. Navigating between conventional pharmaceuticals and the healing potential of natural herbs, Leone found a middle path—one that embraced both science and tradition. This conversation explores the power of integrative medicine, the challenges of bridging two often-opposing worlds, and how true healing can lie in the space where they meet.
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The Long Goodbye - Holding On While Letting Go
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Caring for someone facing the end of life is one of the most profound human experiences — filled with love, pain, tenderness, and resilience. "Holding On While Letting Go" this podcast episode is dedicated to the often-unspoken journey of being a caregiver for someone with a terminal illness.
ThroughLeone's heartfelt personal story, this podcast episode explores the emotional, physical, and spiritual challenges of caregiving. How does it look to comfort, to advocate, to hold space — while slowly preparing to say goodbye.
Caring for the caregiver is just as important as carin...
"Holding Mothers Gently: Navigating Matrescence and Burnout"
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Episode 25: In this heartfelt episode of The Natural Narrative, host Leone Wilson is joined by Dr. Rhiarne Pronk, Psychologist, to explore the profound transition of matrescence — the becoming of a mother — and the quiet, often unseen experience of burnout. Together, they offer gentle insights, compassionate reflections, and supportive pathways for mothers to honor their journey, nurture themselves, and find renewal amidst the challenges.
The Motherhood Village link Motherhood Village Ltd
Dr Oscar Serrallach link Dr Oscar Serrallach
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Episode 24: “Rethinking Hormones: Unpacking the Medicalisation of Women’s Health”
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In this eye-opening episode of The Natural Narrative, Leone sits down with women’s health advocate and practitioner Melisa Byrne to explore the often-overlooked consequences of the medicalisation of women's hormones. Together, they dive into the increasing trend of prescribing hormone therapies—particularly oestrogen supplementation—to women who are already naturally menstruating.
Leone shares compelling observations from her own practice, including two clients who experienced significant fibroid growth following unnecessary oestrogen treatments. Melisa and Leone unpack how these prescriptions, often given without fully understanding the individual's hormonal baseline, may do more harm t...
The Allergic March - a condition of dis-ease.
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In this episode, Leone chats with Jess Harvey, an experienced osteopath, about the concept of the Allergic March—a progressive pattern of allergic conditions that often begins in infancy and evolves through childhood. Together, they explore how this phenomenon represents a state of dis-ease and a hyperactive immune response, rather than isolated symptoms.
Jess sheds light on how the body’s immune system becomes dysregulated, leading to conditions like eczema, food allergies, hay fever, and asthma. They also touch on the root causes of this heig...
From Pain to Purpose: Leone’s Journey to Healing from an Eating Disorder and Helping Others
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In this deeply personal episode, Leone, the founder of Mind Medicine & Brave Bites and the voice behind Harvesting Health, opens up about her journey through disordered eating and the path to recovery. With honesty and vulnerability, Leone shares how her relationship with food was shaped by perfectionism, pressure, and pain—and how she eventually found the courage to confront the beliefs that were keeping her stuck.
Now in a place of healing, Leone embraces the role of a "wounded healer," using her lived experience to support others navigating similar struggles. Through he...
Bringing Balance Back For Better Physical & Mental Health
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Episode 21: In this insightful episode, Leone sits down with Alex Masters, the founder of Balanced Lane, a vibrant community space dedicated to empowering women through Pilates and Yoga. Alex shares the journey of how she discovered her passion for creating a supportive and inclusive environment for women to prioritize their health and well-being.
The conversation delves into how the isolation of the Covid-19 lockdowns served as a catalyst for Alex’s vision. Recognizing the challenges women faced during this time—emotionally, physically, and mentally—she set out to create a space that f...
Facing Your Fears - The Little Known Benefits of Exposure Therapy
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Episode 20 - In this episode, Leone from Harvesting Health and Shelley Jacks from Magnus Health dive into the powerful technique of graded exposure therapy and how it can help individuals with PTSD and OCD face their fears. They discuss how this approach, broken down into manageable steps, allows sufferers to gradually confront and reduce the impact of their anxieties. Tune in to learn simple, practical ideas that you can incorporate into your daily life to help you or someone you know cope with these challenging conditions. Whether you're dealing with PTSD, OCD, or...
Intuition & Introspection: The Lost Art of Checking In With Yourself
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In this episode of The Natural Narrative, Leone and Anyeska from Wellbeing with Anyeska, dive deep into the power of intuition and introspection. They explore how modern society, with its rigid norms and expectations, has caused many to lose touch with their inner wisdom. The conversation touches on the impact of peer pressure, the medicalization of body symptoms, and how all of this has shifted our focus away from listening to ourselves. Tune in for an insightful discussion on reclaiming your intuitive self and reconnecting with your inner voice in a world that of...
From Broken-ness Comes Resilience
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In this episode Leone is chatting with Tracey May Horton, a Business and Life Coach. Tracey works with couples, individuals and groups to help them achieve personal goals as well as providing valuable insight for those people who aspire to growing successful businesses. She has recently released three books to help people challenge their thinking and become a more resilient version of themselves; by becoming more satisfied with your life this will segue to becoming more successful with what you choose to explore in that life, including business.
Both Tracey and...
"Healing Scotland: Nature’s Path to Wellness"
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In this episode Leone chats with a past naturopathic student, Jayde Currie who left the busy Gold Coast to live in rural Morar, Scotland.
Jayde chats about the limitations of her rural life, but also highlights the benefits of community, seasonal produce and foraging for local herbal remedies that she creates healing balms and lotions from.
A vast difference from the busy and impersonal Gold Coast, Morar has allowed Jayde to connect with her community, being the only naturopath for at least 100 miles!
Jayde has also been invited...
A Mental Health Detox in the New Year - A Fresh Start for Your Mind
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As we usher in 2025, many of us reflect on the past 12 months - celebrating successes, learning from challenges, and thinking about how we can grow and prosper in the year ahead.
Whilst most of the focus tends to be on physical health with many joining the gym, cutting out sugar, and eating wholefoods - it's also a perfect time to consider giving your mind a much-needed detox. A mental health detox helps to clear the clutter, reset the mind and support overall wellbeing.
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Naturopathic Care: Empowering You To Be The Driver of Your Health, Rather Than Just a Passenger
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In this episode, Leone of Harvesting Health chats about the six naturopathic principles and how they are applied to improve YOUR health outcomes.
Roxy shares some examples of young people she has helped simply using nutrition and lifestyle tips which brings us back to the most basic of naturopathic formula - creating the correct environment for the body to be able to heal itself
Roxy has recently joined the Integrative Team at Harvesting Health and we felt it was a lovely way to introduce her to you all via...
Simple Tips to Reducing Stress & Building Better Health over the Festive Season
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You'll never believe this but the first step to embracing better health is to ‘unlearn’ everything you think you know. Most of the urban myths around health protocols are generated by people who want to line their own pockets.
Achieving better health doesn’t have to be about difficult protocols and diets, in fact these don’t promote good health, they actively promote fear of not doing them . This fear can hold us back and in this episode Leone teaches you how to let go of the fear using easy and quick in...
Why Is Your Child Having Trouble Sleeping? What Can You Do?
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So your baby or child has sleep issues. Why?
Prenatal stress
Gut microbiome
Nutrition during pregnancy and after
Your Birth experience
Several human studies have investigated the association between the external maternal environment and offspring neurodevelopment. These have identified ongoing physical and mental effects in later life. This is called epigenetics.
External stimuli (outside stressors) often act synergistically, meaning they have a cumulative effect on epigenetics and subsequent health or behaviour. This can be mother’s emotional stress as well...
Busting Some Trending Urban Myths
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Are you a busy professional or mumma experiencing fatigue and close to burnout?
I don't blame you for wanting to invest in your health, but let's look at the research and the science behind these urban myths
Are you wondering -
Why you are anaemic?
Why you can't absorb iron and hold it?
Do you think heavy and painful periods are normal?
Are you considering -
Intermittent Fasting
A Detox?
A Parasite Cleanse?
A Heavy Metal Detox?
This...
Exercise - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
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Exercise - How much is too much.
We have been told to exercise more and eat less as women but is this simply a societal crock of sh*t?
Leone from Harvesting Health chats to Renee Smith, a personal trainer with a holistic outlook to exercise and diet. Leone recounts her own experience with disordered eating and excessive exercise with Renee contributing with her own experience and her knowledge around "how much exercise is enough" and how we should be viewing exercise to obtain the best results.
You...
Are Childhood Roadblocks Stopping You From Reaching Your Destination?
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In this episode Leone from Harvesting Health talks with her friend and colleague Jan Sky, a neuropsychotherapist, practicing hypnotherapy, counselling and coaching to help people overcome learned roadblocks and be able to achieve their aspirations and goals, both personally and professionally.
How does our environment impact our meaning making and our choices?
Both Leone and Jan deliver holisitic healthcare, combining their understanding of the mind-body health model.
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The Pathogen is Nothing, The Terrain is Everything!
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"The pathogen is nothing, the terrain is everything". (Louis Pasteur).
What is the terrain? Several body systems provide the ultimate terrain; the gut, the mind, the immune system are some.
"The person who takes medicine must recover twice - first from the disease and then from the medicine" (William Osler MD, Regius Fellow at Oxford University).
How does medicine affect the terrain?
"It is best to cure the soul before curing the body as health and happiness ultimately depend on the state of the soul". (Socrates)
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Art Therapy: Where You Can Create Your Happy Place
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Leone chats to an old friend, Anneliese Sherline about Art Therapy and how this is helping children and adults alike to express and share their emotional burden. Research highlights the advantages of using creative therapies in healing emotional scars
Leone met Anneliese at least ten years ago and they both share a hunger for understanding alternative therapies that can support people's physical and emotional health.
Anneliese can be found at Sanctuary Art Therapy on the Gold Coast of Queensland
Website: https://sanctuaryarttherapy.com.au/
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Spontaneous Healing: The Unexpected Comeback!
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In this episode, Leone highlights her thoughts and agreeance with Dr Jeff Rediger, author, physician, psychiatrist and theologian. Dr Jeff Rediger's book, Cured: The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing explores both scientific, evidence-based research and anecdotal experience to acknowledge the body's ability to heal itself.
Leone herself very much believes "if we can get sick, we can get well" and now no longer medicates for her previous diagnosis of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Her clinic, Harvesting Health treats clients using a mind-body-spirit approach and this reflects Dr Rediger's experience as well.
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Disordered Eating or An Eating Disorder?
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Disordered Eating Sits In A Place Between Normal Eating And A Diagnosed Eating Disorder. In a world of Google misinformation it is difficult to understand what foods are nutritious and how we should eat them
Leone explores and explains the differences, the symptomatic behaviours of several eating disorders, and disordered eating. Reflecting on her own journey of overcoming Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa she explains how she then developed disordered eating and exercising patterns of behaviour.
Leone then highlights some infamous urban myths surrounding food.
Y...
Breathing As A Tool For Health & Wellbeing
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"Breathe is the first thing we do when we enter into the world and the last thing we do as we transition beyond"
In this episode, Leone from Harvesting Health chats with Karen Mudie a breathwork facilitator on the Gold Coast about the importance of the breath and specific breathing exercises that promote positive mental and physical health.
Evidence-based research supports the benefits of conscious breathing on emotional wellbeing and body systems including cardiovascular and respiratory health, as well as reducing inflammation and oxidative stress that contribute to chronic...
Creating Opportunities from Obstacles - Unlearning Learned Helplessness
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In this episode Leone from Harvesting Health, explores two specific concepts that allow us to 'unlearn learned helplessness' and create opportunities from perceived obstacles.
She shares the knowledge of Viktor Frankl (a neurologist, psychotherapist and holocaust survivor) and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (a Hungarian-American psychologist) and the experience of meaning-making and creating FLOW to achieve happiness. She candidly discusses how that looked for her in relation to her lived experience of losing her son, Matthew to SIDS and how that loss eventually ignited the power within her. The power is within you also...
After 9/11 Attack in New York - Lynda's Experience in Overcoming PTSD
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Lynda Hundt from CalmXiety joins us today to chat a little about how EFT tapping has helped her manage her anxiety and lead a productive life since her experience in Manhattan during 9/11. She now supports other women experiencing anxiety and stress by holding regular EFT Tapping Circles at a beautiful retreat on the Gold Coast.
Lynda's website information
eyeonbeauty.com.au
The Tapping Solution app
https://www.thetappingsolution.com/blog/tapping-solution-app/
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Episode 2: Turning Gold into Lead and Back Again
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Leone explores the association between Adverse Childhood Experiences ACEs and physical health conditions in adulthood. She cites and discusses Vincent Feliiti's ACEs studies in 1998 and 2002 alongside her own recent Literature Review examining the little know facts of this connection. Using her own life and health history as an example, Leone inspires us to "bring back the Gold".
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Hello & Welcome, An Introduction
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Thankyou for joining me, Leone at The Natural Narrative. This episode is our introduction to the vision behind The Natural Narrative, what you can expect from our podcast and a little background around Leone and why she is a heart-centred passionate natural health practitioner.
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