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

20/11/2025

I’m not anti-weight loss…
I AM anti-harm.

A lot of people come to me wanting weight loss: for fertility, mobility, comfort, GP recommendations, personal confidence, or simply to feel more at home in their body.

I don’t shut that down. I get reeeeally curious about it.

But I also don’t jump into calorie deficits, fasting windows, carb-cutting, or anything that risks malnutrition, stress, or disordered eating.

My job is safety first.
🔸 Are they already undereating?
🔸 Has a GLP-1 flatlined their appetite?
🔸 Is cortisol high and sleep trashed?
🔸 Is there a DE/ED history?
🔸 Are they actually malnourished despite appearance or weight?

If the red flags are there… weight loss is not the safest thing to chase.

And when it is seemingly safe?
We talk honestly.
I can’t guarantee they’ll lose X kilos.
I can’t promise their body will do what they want it to do.
My focus is health gain - that’s the approach recommended by the RACGP, NEDC, and Size Inclusive Health Australia.

If weight changes, ok.
If it doesn’t, we’ve still improved their health.

Most people appreciate this transparency. They want honesty, safety, attunement, and someone who isn’t going to push them into malnutrition to chase a number.

And for the 2% of people who truly want a strict deficit (I screen my clients so this % isn’t particularly high for me) I walk them through informed consent: the risks of weight-centric VS weight-neutral approaches.

If weight loss is STILL their #1 priority and they just want to see those numbers go down, I refer out with zero shame.

Choice and consent matter.

✨ If you’re a practitioner wanting to navigate this with nuance - without ideology or harm - DM GUIDE and I’ll send you my free resource.

It’s packed with tools to help you:
🌿 screen for ED/DE safely
🌿 identify malnutrition even in larger bodies
🌿 support clients on GLP-1s without underfeeding
🌿 avoid iatrogenic harm
🌿 stay aligned with Australian guidelines
🌿 build a weight-inclusive practice that’s actually nuanced

DM GUIDE and I’ll send it straight to you 💛



🎵 Soundtrack by a very loud frog 🐸

18/11/2025

Wellness is overflowing with binaries right now.
Hot takes. Shock-value contrarianism. “Just do the opposite.”
As if rebellion = simply reacting in the other direction.
But that’s not “sovereignty”! 🤡
It’s not discernment.
It’s def not critical thinking.

Naomi Klein writes about this “mirror world” effect, where each side defines itself only by opposing the other. Wellness has absorbed that same dynamic:
natural vs medical, intuition vs evidence, purity vs toxicity…
as if those are the only two lanes available.

And the algorithm rewards it.
Quick dopamine. Punchy extremes. Faux certainty.
Honestly it’s pretty fu**ed.

But real healing (and real integrity) lives in the messy middle.
In the compost. The contradictions.
The place where you pause long enough to ask:
“Is this actually mine? Or am I just reacting?”

This is something Miriam Latif and I talked about deeply in our latest conversation: the pressure to turn complexity into clickbait, and how nuance is becoming radical in a culture addicted to certainty.

Because nuance IS the new rebellion.
And my perhaps overly radical thought 😂 is that it’s the only way forward.

✨ Listen to the full episode: Beyond the Binaries with Miriam Latif. Anywhere you get podcasts. Link also in bio.

**kwellness

This one is deeply personal.Growing up mixed-race in a mostly white town, I learned early that food, body and belonging ...
17/11/2025

This one is deeply personal.

Growing up mixed-race in a mostly white town, I learned early that food, body and belonging weren’t separate things: they were all shaped by the same colonial gaze.

Food shame wasn’t “kids being kids.”
It was racialised conditioning.
It was my mum’s poverty and scarcity being framed as “strange,” “smelly,” or “less than.”
It was the belief that the only “right” way to eat, look, or exist was the white way.

Colonialism has always had a talent for extracting what it finds exotic (spices, dishes, herbs, labour, whole cuisines…) and for discarding the people who created them.

It devours the flavour, then rejects the bodies.
This is food shame as colonial violence.
Many of us carry it in our bones.

My mum’s story of surviving on very little in Malaysia, and my story of growing up mixed in small-town North Queensland, collided in my body in ways I’m still untangling today.

Scarcity became thrift…
Thrift became discipline…
Discipline became disordered eating.

All of it rooted in a system that said our food, our faces, our accents, our families were “wrong.”

Healing, for me, came from naming the system, rather than blaming my body.
From reclaiming the foods my mum raised me on.
And (eventually) refusing to shrink.
And from community and belonging, not from assimilation (tried it, didn’t work).

If any of this hits something inside you, the full article is on my blog. And just yesterday it was published by .net.au 🙏🏽

Your story matters.
Your mum’s story matters.
Your food belongs.
You belong.

🌏 Colonialism, Food, Body & Belonging
[Link in bio / comments]

**kwellness

14/11/2025

Practitioners, can we talk about that moment?

The “oh god…
Have I been doing harm?”
“Has everything I learned been a lie?”
“Did I waste $85,000 on a degree that doesn’t fit anymore?”

Pretty much every natural health clinician I respect has hit this point.

And here’s the reframe Miriam dropped in our conversation:

Uncertainty isn’t a personal flaw.
We were trained by our culture for certainty, for protocols, for “knowing.”
We were not trained to sit in the fertile tension of “I’m not sure anymore.”

But that tension is where transformation and integrity happen.

✨ Conflict is generative.
✨ Uncertainty is medicine.
✨ Curious practitioners are safe practitioners.

If you’re in that place, here’s a suggestion: don’t run from it.
“Stay with the trouble.”
Let it compost you into something wiser, more relational, more human.

This conversation with Miriam cracked me open in all the right ways - and if you’re a practitioner navigating your own contradiction, this episode is for you.

🎧 Listen to the full interview with Miriam on The Non-Diet Naturopath - link in bio. It’s one of the most important and affirming conversations I’ve ever recorded.

And if you’re a naturopath, herbalist, nutritionist (or any holistic practitioner) wanting to deepen your skillset in supporting clients with disordered eating… without weight stigma and without abandoning your magic:

🌿 Download my free guide: Working With Clients With Disordered Eating for Naturopaths
… and you’ll also join the waitlist for Body as Earth, my earth-centred practitioner training (launching mid-2026).

**kwellness

“If you’re seeing humans, you’re seeing disordered eating.”- Fiona Sutherland .mindfuldietitian And if you’re not seeing...
12/11/2025

“If you’re seeing humans, you’re seeing disordered eating.”
- Fiona Sutherland .mindfuldietitian

And if you’re not seeing it… you might be missing it.

Eating disorders aren’t rare or extreme.
They’re a reflection of the culture we live in.. one that tells women and femmes to shrink,
labels control as discipline,
and wraps restriction in the language of ‘balance’ and ‘wellness.’ 😬

Every week, I see clients referred for PCOS, insulin resistance, diabetes, endo, peri-menopause, fatigue…
and REALLY often, underneath it all is under-fuelling, guilt, and disconnection from body and appetite.

This isn’t about diagnosing everyone.
It’s about remembering: we’re all swimming in the same cultural soup.
When we learn to see that, we can practise from a place of curiosity, compassion, and context,
instead of control.

Awareness isn’t bias.
It’s just good medicine.

✨ Want to bring this nuance into your practice?
👉 Download my free practitioner guide: Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths - full of weight-neutral care tools.
🌿 You’ll also join the waitlist for Body as Earth: Foundations in Disordered Eating Awareness for Nats, Nuts & Herbies, a trauma-informed, earth-centred, anti-oppressive approach to food, body, and care. [https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-for-naturopaths.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]

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