Best Selling Nutritionist: 6 Things You Must Do To Make Health Feel Easier - Sarah Ann Macklin

About this episode

Sarah Ann Macklin discusses her journey from a successful modeling career to advocating for a healthier relationship with nutrition and mental health.

This week Alberto sat down with Sarah Ann Macklin, nutritionist, best selling author of Health Shouldn’t Be This Hard, founder of the not for profit organisation Be Well Collective, host of Live Well Be Well, and one of the leading voices connecting nutrition, mental health, self compassion, and the mind body relationship. Sarah shares how she started modelling at 16, built a successful international career, and appeared to have everything society tells us should make us happy: success, beauty, social status, financial reward, and external validation. But behind the polished image, her body was sending warning signs she kept ignoring. Anxiety, exhaustion, illness, stomach problems, burnout, and eventually a hospitalisation became the turning point that forced her to rebuild her relationship with health from the inside out. In this conversation, Sarah explains why health has become so unnecessarily complicated, why the wellness industry often sells fear instead of real wellbeing, why diets rarely work long term, why the “perfect” body does not always mean a healthy body, and why self compassion may be one of the most important foundations for long term physical and mental health…

People in this episode

Host: Alberto Zandi

Guest: Sarah Ann Macklin

Topics covered

• nutrition
• mental health
• self compassion
• wellness industry
• dieting
• health

Keywords

• nutrition
• mental health
• self compassion
• wellness
• diet
• burnout
• health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Be Well Collective

Books & works: Health Shouldn’t Be This Hard, Live Well Be Well

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