Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing

Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing My approach is body inclusive, LGBTIQA+ friendly, and neuroaffirmative. Deeply personalised, compassionate care for you and your family. Message us for details.

Casey Conroy
Naturopath • Dietitian (APD) • Yoga Teacher • Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician
Currently completing Intuitive Eating Counsellor certification ✨
Deep nourishment 🌿 Earth magic 🌙 Radical inclusivity 🔥 Zero tolerance for wellness BS Casey Conroy, BVSc(Hons), BHSc(Nat), MNutrDiet, APD, CEDC
Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) | Non-Diet Nutritionist | Naturopath | Medical Herbalist | Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC) | Provisional Sports Dietitian | Yoga Teacher | Strength & Conditioning Coach

I am an experienced health practitioner blending evidence-based science with traditional wisdom. Medicare & health fund rebates available, in person and Telehealth consultations available. At Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing we operate from a Non-Diet, Body Acceptance, Health at Every Size® philosophy which values people for who they are rather than what they look like. SPECIALTY AREAS:
- Eating, Weight & Body Image: Eating Disorders, disordered eating, emotional eating, diet recovery
- Nervous system: Neurodivergent Support (ADHD, ASD, SPD), CFS, stress resilience, Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia
- Hormones: Menopause, painful & heavy periods, menstrual irregularities, low testosterone, HT support for trans folks

INTEREST AREAS:
- Fertility, Pregnancy, Breastfeeding
- Gut: Bloating, Constipation, IBS, SIBO, Reflux, Dysbiosis, Food Intolerances
- Sports & Performance Nutrition
- Acute Naturopathy (e.g. colds, flu, recent injury)
- Thyroid: Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, Grave's disease
- Cardiometabolic: High cholesterol, Hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes
- Musculoskeletal: Arthritis, fibromyalgia, sciatica

CLASSES: Yoga, AcroYoga, Strength & Conditioning - privates available! For more info visit https://www.funkyforest.com.au/how-i-can-help.html

07/11/2025

[ Not everything is disordered eating ] 🥒

Sometimes it’s just… being human.

🥗 Craving a salad after camping = normal.
☕ Liking green juice = fine.
⚖️ Weighing every gram and stressing over carbs? That’s where it starts getting messy.

It’s not the food that matters… it’s the energy behind it.
Is it flexible, curious, life-giving?
Or rigid, anxious, guilt-driven, and rule-based?

And remember, eating the cupcake doesn’t mean someone doesn’t have food concerns.
I’ve seen plenty of clients “perform” normal eating in public, then restrict or over-exercise to earn it back later.

This is why Fiona Sutherland’s .mindfuldietitian line - “if you’re seeing humans, you’re seeing disordered eating” -
isn’t about diagnosing everyone.
It’s about recognising influence.

We all swim in the soup of diet culture, patriarchy, capitalism, and healthism.
None of us are untouched.
Our job as practitioners isn’t to pathologise everyone…
it’s to stay curious.

To notice when care becomes control.
When nourishment becomes numbers.
When “balance” becomes bo***ge.

That’s nuance, integrity.
That’s good medicine. 🌿

✨ Want to bring this nuance into your own practice?
👉 Download my free practitioner guide: Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths - packed with weight-neutral care tips.
🌿 You’ll also join the waitlist for Body as Earth: A Root-Cause Approach to Disordered Eating for Naturopaths… and get supportive emails on integrating Intuitive Eating + naturopathic care.

Links as always, in bio.

06/11/2025

[ Don’t be a simp for patriarchy: The health version ✨Part 2 ]

We’ve done the breakfast.
Now let’s talk about what comes next:
strength, rest, and reclaiming your precious energy.

Lifting weights - or doing any kind of strengthening movement - isn’t about aesthetics.
It’s about building tissue that keeps you alive, steady, grounded.
Muscle helps regulate blood sugar, stress, mood, and hormones.
And yeah, you might gain weight.
You might take up more space.
That’s kind of the point.

Rest, too, is radical.
It’s the thing capitalism and patriarchy hate most…
a woman, or anyone, lying the f**k down without guilt. It legit drives some people wild.
And… you don’t owe endless output to be worthy.

If you’re neurodivergent, this part can be tricky too.
Executive dysfunction, sensory stuff, fatigue are all real barriers.
So start with tiny acts of strength or rest that meet you where you’re at.
Stretch while your tea brews.
Lie on the floor for two minutes and breathe.
Text a friend “nap accountability?”
It all counts.

This isn’t about chasing discipline.
It’s about creating safety in your body… enough safety to rest, eat, move, and connect.
That’s the real “metabolic balance”.

✨ Practitioners: if you’re ready to bring this nuance into your work, download my free guide Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths.
🌿 You’ll also join the waitlist for Body as Earth: A Root-Cause Approach to Disordered Eating for Naturopaths [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html]

💌 Or if you’re not a practitioner, jump on my regular newsletter for reflections on body liberation, herbal medicine, and messy, human healing [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/a-modern-yogis-bs-free-guide-to-wellbeing.html]

You don’t have to fix your body…
just feed it, move it, and rest it like it deserves your love.
Because it does.

06/11/2025

[ Don’t be a simp for patriarchy: the health version ] 💅

This isn’t about blame.
We’ve all been shaped by this s**t:
Capitalism telling us our worth is productivity.
Patriarchy telling us our value is prettiness or thinness.
Wellness culture swooping in to sell us both, wrapped in “balance” and a strict af meal plan.

I’ve done it too.
The fasting, the clean eating, the “good girl” wellness grind.
I thought control was healing. But it’s not. It’s just another way to disappear.

So here’s step one:
Eat the breakfast 🥰
Feed your body before your nervous system flips you the bird and starts compensating by flooding your body with stress hormones.
Cortisol’s already high in the mornings. And coffee doesn’t count.

We’ll get to the rest later.
For now, just… eat. 🥞✨

And if you’re neurodivergent or in recovery, I know “just eat breakfast” can feel impossible some days.

Start where you are.
Maybe it’s a smoothie, an Up & Go, a handful of nuts, or something you can eat while pacing.
Maybe it’s asking someone to sit with you.
You deserve to be fed, however that looks today.

✨ Practitioners: want to bring this kind of nuance into your work?
Download my free guide Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths - it’s packed with weight-neutral care tips for nats, nuts and herbies.

🌿 You’ll also join the waitlist for my upcoming course Body as Earth: A Root-Cause Approach to Disordered Eating for Naturopaths [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html]

💌 Or if you’re not a practitioner, hop on my regular newsletter for body-liberation musings, plant medicine love, and the occasional rant like this one [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/a-modern-yogis-bs-free-guide-to-wellbeing.html]

[ Metabolic health isn’t about restriction ] 💪🏾It’s about safety, strength, and nutritional adequacy.Every week I see cl...
05/11/2025

[ Metabolic health isn’t about restriction ] 💪🏾

It’s about safety, strength, and nutritional adequacy.

Every week I see clients with PCOS, insulin resistance, or climbing HbA1c who’ve been told some variation of “eat less and move more”. Just as often, I see clients with disordered eating or who are restricting “for health”.
They’ve done the keto, the fasting, the “metabolic resets.”
They’ve maybe even lost some weight… and tanked their metabolism.

Here’s what I wish every practitioner and client knew:
Real metabolic health means building metabolically active tissue - muscle - and muscle needs FOOD.

Organs like the liver and brain are always burning energy behind the scenes, but muscle is the only tissue we can actively build and maintain through nourishment, movement, and rest.

It’s living metabolic currency. And yes, it challenges our (if you’re a woman) urge to NOT take up space. To shrink / starve rather than expand.

But, more muscle = better insulin sensitivity, steadier mood, stronger bones, a calmer nervous system, and a body that feels more capable instead of depleted.

One caveat: if you’re recovering from disordered eating or burnout, your version of “strength” might be total rest... because you can’t build resilience from depletion.

This is what real metabolic health looks like to me - and yes, it includes carbs, rest days, and taking up more space.

✨ Practitioners - want to bring this into your work?
Grab my free guide Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths
and join the waitlist for Body as Earth:[https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html]

[ 5 Unpopular Opinions I Hold as a Naturopath ] 🍄 Sometimes I think the most rebellious thing you can do in natural medi...
25/10/2025

[ 5 Unpopular Opinions I Hold as a Naturopath ] 🍄

Sometimes I think the most rebellious thing you can do in natural medicine is think for yourself. (And I don’t mean in a knee-jerk contrarian, heterodox for the sake of being heterodox way).

Over the years, I’ve learned that nuance doesn’t make you wishy-washy. It makes you ethical and SAFER whilst treating your clients.

Here are a few things I stand by, even when they make people uncomfortable:

🌿 Weight loss isn’t a health goal… it’s a cultural obsession.
🍄 Psychedelics and cannabis can be powerful allies if regulated and guided by properly trained practitioners (which should include naturopaths and herbalists)
💉 Vaccination isn’t the evil beast some corners of natural health have made it out to be.
💊 Wellness culture isn’t more enlightened than Big Pharma, it just hides behind prettier packaging.
🌱 Healing isn’t a personal project, it’s a collective responsibility.

I really don’t care if you agree with me on these or not. Healthy, respectful disagreement is, well, healthy. It’s the nuanced, professional, evidenced, brave conversations that I care about. And it sucks whenever it appears that these conversations can’t be had.

You can hold curiosity AND critical thinking.
You can question systems without rejecting science.
You can be natural without being naive.

Want to bring this kind of nuance into your own practice?

👉 Download my free practitioner guide: Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths
🌿 Join the waitlist for Body as Earth: A Root-Cause Approach to Disordered Eating for Naturopaths. I send out practitioner love letters every 2ish weeks.

Even if you never buy my stuff, my intention is that you get goodness out of these offerings and we start some juicy thoughts and much needed conversations. Because our profession is massively overdue for change.

[https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html]

24/10/2025

The four phases of Metabolic Balance read like a case study in how diet culture adapts and survives.

Restriction disguised as cleansing.
Compliance repackaged as self-discipline.
Conditional freedom renamed as intuitive eating.
Dependence framed as empowerment.

As naturopaths, herbalists, and nutritionists, we need to take a good look at what we’re endorsing - and what we’re enabling.

Programs like this trade on the language of “metabolism,” “detox,” and “balance,” yet they run on the same principle as every other diet: energy deficit equals weight loss… until it doesn’t.

Balance isn’t achieved through depletion; it’s restored through nourishment, connection, and safety.

That’s the kind of balance worth teaching.

🎧 New episode: Hard Conversations in Naturopathy: Do No Harm in a Weight-Obsessed Culture [https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lg8Oslg1cPhCfZnidK5NE?si=dPRaDYStTTWytcsgKIJ2GA]
🎧 The one that got me on the "report her" list: When “Metabolic Balance” Isn’t Balance [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PEtJlSLECNglXkV1eQoZa?si=e8794416b1274819]

Or find anywhere you get podcasts.

📕 Free Practitioner Guide also at bio link or [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html]

24/10/2025

Asking for accountability isn’t a personal attack.
But it’s often called one.

This week’s episode is about integrity, critique, and what it really means to “do no harm” - even when that means calling out diet culture in our own backyard.

🎧 Ep 39. Hard Conversations in Naturopathy: Do No Harm in a Weight-Obsessed Culture [https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lg8Oslg1cPhCfZnidK5NE?si=S3nBiYI2SZSKFSeIHsdhww]

🎧 Ep 38. When “Metabolic Balance” Isn’t Balance (the one that originally got me on the “report her” list). [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PEtJlSLECNglXkV1eQoZa?si=1BgXYkzJSgyZdNbzRI2azQ]

Or find Non-Diet Naturopath anywhere you get podcasts

[ 5 Wellness Trends That F*** You Up in Perimenopause ] 💥The wellness world keeps telling peri-menopausal women to “rese...
19/10/2025

[ 5 Wellness Trends That F*** You Up in Perimenopause ] 💥

The wellness world keeps telling peri-menopausal women to “reset” their metabolism.

Ice baths, fasting, keto, constant cardio, cycle syncing... all designed for bodies that aren’t in transition (or flat out don't have uteruses!)

Perimenopause isn’t a defect.
It’s a changing of the tide. A body moving from flower to fruit to seed.
Wild. Wise. Andnconveniently alive for the systems that prefer us small and compliant.

I’m really starting to notice the little changes that tell me I’m entering early peri... shifts in sleep, temperature, hunger, cycles, mood. It feels like crossing a threshold. One worthy of reverence, not restriction. Even if it IS a little confronting at times.

Let go of the bulls**t bro hacks and the self-punishment.
Support your system with food, strength, rest, and compassion.

💌 Read the full blog at https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/5-wellness-trends-that-mess-with-perimenopause-and-what-to-do-instead

🔥 And if you’re a practitioner, grab my free guide:
Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths
to start building weight-neutral, hormone-supportive care into your practice [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html]

[ Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day ] 🤍At the start of this year, I had a miscarriage - not an early one - and i...
15/10/2025

[ Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day ] 🤍

At the start of this year, I had a miscarriage - not an early one - and it changed me in ways I still don’t fully have words for.

It’s a pain I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
It’s also a love that doesn’t have a home.

I haven’t shared the full story, and I may never. Some things are too sacred, too raw, to be held by the internet.

But I want to say this: if you’ve lost a baby, in any way or at any stage, my heart is with you today. You are not alone in this strange, quiet grief.

🤍

14/10/2025

[ Because nothing says holistic healing like replacing lunch with a chocolate protein shake ] 🥤🥴

You know the ones - the “clinically backed practitioner programs” that sell meal replacements as medicine.
Shakes, bars, branded coaching templates... and a business model that blurs care with commerce.

When supplement companies train practitioners and supply the products we sell back to clients, the conflict of interest is undeniably baked in!

That’s not holistic, that’s hustle culture masquerading as naturopathic care.

🎙️ New episode: When “Metabolic Balance” Isn’t Balance [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PEtJlSLECNglXkV1eQoZa?si=492ff3feec124dd3]
📚 Read the blog version if you want references too [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/when-metabolic-balance-isnt-balance-diet-culture-clinical-protocols-and-the-naturopathic-dilemma]
✨ Free practitioner guide + waitlist for Body as Earth [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.html]

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