Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing

Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing Naturopath | Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) | Certified Eating Disorder Clinician
Weight-neutral care for gut, hormone, chronic illness & mental health.

I also mentor natural health practitioners in disordered eating-adjacent clinical practice. 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. My approach is body inclusive, LGBTIQA+ friendly, and neuroaffirmative. Deeply personalised, compassionate care for you and your family. 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! Message us for details. For more info visit https://www.funkyforest.com.au/how-i-can-help.html

05/06/2026

One of the biggest gaps in practitioner training isn't recognising disordered eating.

It's knowing what to do next!

Many practitioners learn the red flags.

But what happens when a client doesn't neatly fit eating disorder criteria, yet something still feels dodge?

What happens when every nutrition recommendation becomes another food rule?

Or when weight loss seems to be driving every health decision they make?

Or when someone comes in wanting support for IBS, hormones, fatigue or gut symptoms, but adequacy seems to be the missing piece?

These are the situations I see praccies grappling with every day.

They're also the reason I created my upcoming free practitioner training:

🌿 How to Avoid Unintentionally Reinforcing Disordered Eating in Natural Health Practice

We'll explore:

• why red flag screening alone isn't enough

• adequacy before escalating protocols

• common scope grey areas

• a practical stabilise-support-refer framework

📅 Wednesday 17 June
🕛 12pm AEST

Link in bio 🖤


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This feedback made me pretty emotional.When I created DECIDE, I wasn't hoping practitioners would walk away knowing more...
01/06/2026

This feedback made me pretty emotional.

When I created DECIDE, I wasn't hoping practitioners would walk away knowing more facts about eating disorders.

I was hoping they'd start feeling more confident in the messy af moments.

More confident trusting what they're noticing in clinic... asking the questions they've been nervous to ask.... and slowing down when everyone else seems to be chasing the next red hot protocol, supplement, functional test, or food rule.

One of the things I hear from natural health praccies all the time is that they can sense something isn't quite adding up, but they're not always sure what they're looking at or how to approach it without causing harm.

That's the exact gap I hoped DECIDE would help fill.

Not by creating eating disorder specialists, or by teaching people to treat things outside their scope.

But by helping practitioners recognise disordered eating earlier, understand risk more clearly, ask better questions, and feel more confident navigating the messy grey areas.

Reading Hannah's feedback made my feet lift off the ground a little bit 🥹🖤

Because this is the shift I was hoping for.

❄️ DECIDE Cohort 2 starts July 15.

If you've been quietly lurking and wondering whether this training might be useful for you, send me a DM with the word DECIDE and I'll send through the details.


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A little harvest from the garden 🥚🥬🌿Something I've been thinking about for years (but more lately) is how much pressure ...
30/05/2026

A little harvest from the garden 🥚🥬🌿

Something I've been thinking about for years (but more lately) is how much pressure there is online to pick a side when it comes to health.

Conventional medicine or natural health.

Science or tradition.

Mainstream or alternative.

Fu***ng YAWN. 😴

And the older I get, the less interested I become in those binaries. They kinda bore the s**t out of me now.

I grow vegetables, have chooks, make sourdough, prescribe herbs, and spend an embarrasing amount of time thinking about food, bodies and health. I also refer to specialists, collaborate with GPs, work alongside psychologists and dietitians, and spend a lot of time reading research.

None of those things feel contradictory to me.

If anything, I reckon health gets more interesting when we stop treating it like two sides cage fighting.

One of the things I love most about working in this space is that it constantly reminds me how INCREDIBLY complicated people are. Bodies are complicated. Health is complicated. The further I get into practice, the less convinced I am that there are simple answers to most of the big questions.

I think that's part of why wellness culture does my head in. It often promises certainty in places where certainty doesn't actually exist.

I'm much more interested in curiosity than certainty. And far more interested in nuance than ideology.

Even if ideology does sometimes make you feel like you’ve finally found your people and should probably fight everyone else. Belonging is a basic human need, after all 😅


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28/05/2026

I genuinely wish more natural health practitioners were taught how to have hard conversations with actual humans.

Not just another supplement stack, pathology range, or elimination diet that’s suddenly taking over the industry.

Because clinic gets messy. People are ambivalent, defensive, scared, contradictory, and often holding multiple parts of themselves at once. Part of someone can really want change, while another part is absolutely s**t scared of what that change might mean.

And if we don’t know how to stay relational in that kind of discomfort, we can panic a bit (or A LOT). We might push too hard, pull away too fast, over-explain, rush to fix, or avoid saying the thing altogether.

But some of the most meaningful clinical work I’ve done has happened inside those messy conversations. The ones where you say, “I’m a bit worried about what you’re describing,” and then stay present enough to actually hear what comes next.

People don’t change because we force them into insight. They change when they feel safe enough to get curious.

And that is a mad skill.

This is one of the reasons I love teaching the relational side of disordered eating work inside DECIDE. Because yes, we need clinical reasoning and risk awareness. But we also need to know how to sit with complicated humans without making them feel judged, shamed, or managed

Clinic is about humans 🖤


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Disordered eating doesn’t always walk into clinic announcing: “I have an eating disorder.”Sometimes it sounds like:“I’m ...
26/05/2026

Disordered eating doesn’t always walk into clinic announcing: “I have an eating disorder.”

Sometimes it sounds like:

“I’m just trying to heal my gut.”
“I’m being disciplined.”
“I’ve cut out inflammatory foods.”
“I just want to lose a bit of weight.”
“I’m doing everything right but my body still isn’t working.”

And this is where it gets really bloody tricky in natural health.

Because a lot of disordered eating can look very “wellness” at first glance. It can hide inside gut protocols, "hormone balancing", fasting, clean eating, food fears, supplement stacks, elimination diets, “health optimisation” and trying to get the body back under control.

And to be clear, I’m not saying every elimination diet is disordered eating (of c). Or that every gut symptom is under-fuelling. Or that all naturopaths, nutritionists and herbalists suddenly need to become eating disorder therapists 😅

But I AM saying we need better clinical reasoning.

Sometimes the most important question isn’t “what’s the root cause?”

Sometimes it’s,“is this person actually eating enough, often enough, with enough safety and flexibility for their body to function?”

(Which to be fair, IS root cause medicine.)

Because if we miss that bit, we can accidentally reinforce the exact thing keeping someone stuck 😮‍💨

This is exactly why I created DECIDE.

❄️ Cohort 2 starts mid-July.

If this made you go:

“…oh s**t. I’m seeing this in clinic.”

DM me DECIDE 🖤


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21/05/2026

Something I keep hearing lately is:

“I want help with my health… I just don’t want to get triggered again.”

Gut issues. Hormones. Perimenopause. Fatigue. IBS. Chronic digestive stuff. Autoimmune things.

And alongside that, these same clients have a history of dieting. Food fear. Body image struggles. Chronic restriction. Eating disorders.

People still want support. They still want herbs, nutrition, symptom relief, and someone who understands natural health.

They just don’t want to leave feeling scared of food again 😮‍💨

And I think this says something really important... there is SO much demand for natural health practitioners who understand disordered eating.

Because this isn’t niche anymore. It’s clinic.
It’s everywhere.

Especially right now, with GLP-1s everywhere, shrinking bodies being celebrated again, and weight loss pressure getting repackaged as “health optimisation.”

We need more practitioners who can hold both:

🌿 natural health
AND
🖤 disordered eating awareness

without making people choose between the two.

If this is an area you’ve been wanting to feel more confident in as a practitioner… this is exactly why I created DECIDE 🖤

Applications for the July cohort are open now.


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16/05/2026

This might sound surprising coming from someone who works in disordered eating. But sometimes the clients I worry about most aren’t the ones with diagnosed eating disorders.

Sometimes it’s the woman who’s been dieting for 50. Bloody. Years.

The woman eating beautiful wholefoods… just not enough of them.

The woman in her 60s, 70s, 80s still feeling like her body is a problem to solve.

The person saying:

“I know I shouldn’t care at my age… but I just want to lose weight.”

That one gets me.

Because ffs... when do women get a fu***ng break? 😮‍💨


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I think one of the hardest things about disordered eating work is accepting that people don’t always change when we want...
12/05/2026

I think one of the hardest things about disordered eating work is accepting that people don’t always change when we want them to.

You bring something up gently. You’re soooo thoughtful. Collaborative. You try not to shame. You choose your words super carefully.

And still…

They get defensive.
They still want weight loss.
They shut down.
They disappear for a while.
Or nothing seems to change.

And if you’re an empathetic practitioner (esp one with a bit of a perfectionist / people pleasing streak 😅) it can feel really bloody hard not to make that mean:

“I’ve failed. I suck.”

But this work is messy.

A lot of the time, part of someone wants recovery… while another part is absolutely terrified of what recovery means.

That’s not manipulation. It’s ambivalence.

Sometimes the work is simply:

gently naming concern
reducing shame
staying collaborative
and leaving the door open 🚪

Because people often remember the practitioner who cared enough to say something… without making them feel broken.

And sometimes? The seed you plant today matters months (or years) later 🌱

If you’ve ever walked out of a consult thinking:

“well… f**k. that felt messy.”

You’re probably doing real disordered eating work 😮‍💨🖤

✨ Want more practical tips for spotting DE patterns earlier in clinic?

👉🏽 DM or comment GUIDE to get my free practitioner guide:
7 Red Flags of Disordered Eating You May Be Missing in Clinic 🚩





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