Non-Diet Naturopath
The Non-Diet Naturopath is where wellness culture gets dismantled - one adrenal cocktail and trauma-blind detox plan at a time.
Hosted by Casey Conroy - naturopath, eating disorder clinician, non-diet dietitian, yoga teacher, and nature-informed practitioner with little patience for performative healing. This podcast explores the messy intersections of food, bodies, disordered eating, neurodivergence, trauma, herbal medicine, and wellness industry BS.
This podcast is for you if you:
- Are a practitioner who’s tired of root cause rhetoric that ignores trauma and complexity
- Love plants and healing but side-eye wellness influencers selling detox kits and mindset cures
- Want to be more fat-affirming, neuro-affirming, and scope-aware in your practice
- Believe nuance is sacred and rebellion should be relational, not just performative
- Still love yoga, but not yoga culture™
This podcast doesn’t just call out toxic wellness - it offers a grounded, inclusive alternative rooted in relational care, evidence, ethics, and real connection to land and body.
Expect rants, resources, and real talk - plus insight into Casey’s upcoming course Disordered Eating for Naturopaths, launching mid-2026.
Non-Diet Naturopath
Ep 39. Hard Conversations in Naturopathy: Do No Harm in a Weight-Obsessed Culture
When “wellness” programs promise balance but deliver restriction, naturopathy loses its way.
In this episode, I unpack how weight-loss prescriptions quietly betray the naturopathic oath of First, do no harm - and why speaking up about it isn’t an attack, it’s seeking accountability.
We’ll talk about the difference between professional critique and personal criticism, why discomfort doesn’t equal disrespect, and how avoiding hard conversations only protects the systems that keep clients harmed and practitioners silenced.
This one’s for the practitioners who care deeply about doing better: about integrity, reflection, and truly trauma-informed, evidence-based naturopathy.
If you’re a naturopath, herbalist, or nutritionist ready to do better - to make your care truly trauma-informed, body-inclusive, and ethical - this is for you.
✨ Download the free guide for practitioners and join the Body as Earth waitlist!
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Why weight-loss programs like Metabolic Balance and shake-based “clinical” protocols contradict the naturopathic oath
- The difference between critiquing systems vs. attacking practitioners - and why professional critique isn’t the same as personal attack
- How weight-centric programs disguise restriction as “balance”, "healing", or even "non-diet"
- The scientific evidence on long-term weight regain and metabolic adaptation
- Why Intuitive Eating and trauma-informed care cannot ethically coexist with weight-centred practice
- What to do instead - how to practise from a truly non-diet, body-trust, trauma-aware framework
- How to have courageous, respectful professional conversations about harm, ethics, and scope
✨ Prefer to read?
This episode is part of my series and blog at https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/do-no-harm-why-weight-loss-prescriptions-betray-the-naturopathic-oath
👉 Free resource:
Download the practitioner guide Working with Clients with Disordered Eating for Naturopaths and join the waitlist for Body as Earth: A Root-Cause Approach to Disordered Eating for Naturopaths.
LINKS:
Casey's website: https://www.funkyforest.com.au
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