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

18/06/2026

I’m so tired of this s**t.

Another person has reached out after being harmed by a practitioner-prescribed weight loss program, and I’m pi**ed.

This person had previously been diagnosed with an eating disorder. They disclosed that.

And they were still sold a restrictive weight loss program that cost thousands of dollars.

And then, very predictably, it made things worse.

More restrict-binge cycling. More gut symptoms. More fatigue and blood sugar mayhem. More anxiety around food. More “I’m failing” bulls**t.

How are we still doing this? I know people are trying to help. I know practitioners need to feed their families. I know many are supporting clients with blood sugar, hormones, mobility, metabolic health, all the things.

But fu***ng hell.

If someone tells you they’ve had an eating disorder, that can't be a tiny note in the intake form that we “keep in mind” while punching on with a "gentler version" of the same weight loss plan.

That should be a HUGE pause button.

Weight loss interventions are not neutral. Restriction is not neutral. Food rules are not neutral.

And “they asked for weight loss” is not informed consent if we haven’t explored dieting history, binge-restrict cycles, food fear, body image etc. Even if the meal plan is pretty and personalised.

“But I’m helping their metabolic health” is not enough.

“People get good results on this program” is not enough.

“They asked for weight loss” is not enough.

This is why screening matters.

If you prescribe weight loss meal plans, fasting, detoxes, appetite suppression, “resets”, food rules or anything designed to shrink someone’s body, you need to know how to assess risk.

Even if you never buy anything from me, please keep learning this stuff.

Grab my free guides. Watch the videos. Ask better questions. Slow down before prescribing restriction.

I want naturopaths, nutritionists and herbalists to be part of the solution here... not another place in wellness where people go and get harmed.

DECIDE is open now if you want proper training in this.

Applications close Friday July 10.
We start Wed July 15.

Link in bio or DM me “DECIDE”.

16/06/2026

Free training is tomorrow!

How to Avoid Unintentionally Reinforcing Disordered Eating in Natural Health Practice

This is for the naturopaths, nutritionists, herbalists and natural health praccies who’ve had those clinic moments where something feels a bit not-quite-right.

The client has come in for gut stuff, hormones, fatigue, anxiety, perimenopause, fertility, “inflammation”, weight loss… whatever it is.

And yes, the symptoms are real.

But underneath that, there’s also food fear.

Carb avoidance.

Fasting... with massive fasting windows, I'm not talking about 12:12 here 😋

Restriction.

Body distress.

Guilt.

Rigidity.

A long dieting history.

And you’re sitting there thinking... "Right. I don’t think this is just about magnesium.”

But then what?

Because you don’t want to overstep.
You don’t want to shame them.
You don’t want to scare them off.
And you definitely don’t want to accidentally reinforce the pattern that’s keeping them stuck.

That’s the grey area we’ll be unpacking tomorrow.

We’ll look at:

✦ why red flag screening isn’t enough
✦ adequacy before protocols
✦ what to do when “health goals” get murky
✦ how to avoid reinforcing restriction
✦ when to stabilise, support or refer

Wedneaday 17 June, 12pm AEST.
Replay available if you register.

Link in bio, or you can comment or DM me the word "training" 🖤





Natural health practitioners are usually trying soooo bloody hard to help. That’s what makes this work tricky.The thing ...
14/06/2026

Natural health practitioners are usually trying soooo bloody hard to help. That’s what makes this work tricky.

The thing is, harm doesn’t always look like telling someone to “just lose weight”.

Sometimes it looks like escalating a gut protocol when the client is barely eating.

Sometimes it looks like praising “discipline” when what we’re actually seeing is rigidity, fear and a f**ktonne of restriction.

Sometimes it looks like responding to body image distress with yet another plan to change the body.

And the hard part is… so much of this can look very “wellness” on the surface.

Clean eating. Fasting. Elimination diets. Carb fear. Supplement stacks. Root-cause chasing. Health optimisation. Body transformation goals.

None of these things automatically mean disordered eating. But they are places where we need better clinical reasoning.

Because if we miss the pattern, we can accidentally reinforce the exact thing keeping someone stuck.

This Wednesday I’m running a free practitioner training:

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

We’ll look at why red flag screening isn’t enough, how to think about adequacy before protocols, what to do when things feel murky, and how to stay scope-safe as a nat, nut or herbie without disappearing completely or overstepping.

Wed June 17, 12pm AEST.
Replay available.

Register via link in bio or comment / DM me WEBINAR🖤





11/06/2026

You can’t out-supplement a starved body.

And I’m not just talking about someone who looks visibly unwell or has a diagnosed eating disorder.

I’m talking about the client doing all the “right” wellness things while under-fuelling.

The magnesium, medicinal mushrooms, adaptogens, probiotics, iron, zinc, liver support and nervous system stacks might all sound very reasonable on paper, but if that person is skipping breakfast, fearing carbs, going long stretches without food or trying to run on coffee until 2pm, we need to pause.

Because this is where natural health can get a bit stuck.

If we keep escalating protocols without asking about adequacy, we can accidentally reinforce the restriction that’s contributing to the symptoms in the first place.

Sometimes the next step isn’t another supplement.

Sometimes it’s breakfast.

Sometimes it’s eating more regularly.

Sometimes it’s helping someone feel safe enough to nourish themselves.

And sometimes the “root cause” isn’t candida, cortisol, histamines or hormones.

Sometimes it’s flat out restriction.

This is exactly the kind of grey area I’m unpacking in my free practitioner training next week:

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

June 17, 12pm AEST.

Link in bio 🖤





09/06/2026

One of the biggest myths in healthcare is that eating disorders are obvious.

Most practitioners don't miss disordered eating because they don't care. They miss it because it often doesn't look the way we were taught it would.

It might look like:

🌿 Chronic dieting

🌿 IBS and a growing list of food restrictions

🌿 PCOS and fear of carbs

🌿 "Healthy eating" that has become increasingly rigid

🌿 A client who says, "I hate how I look"

🌿 Someone who is praised for being disciplined and compliant

Meanwhile they're exhausted, thinking about food all day, terrified of weight gain, and pretty much at war with their body.

Not every client with IBS has disordered eating. That's not what I'm saying.

Not every client with PCOS has disordered eating.

Not every client pursuing health goals has disordered eating. Of course not.

But if we don't know how to recognise it when it IS there, we can accidentally reinforce the very thing that's keeping them stuck.

And that's where I think many natural health practitioners feel uncertain.

Not recognising the red flags...

What to do next.

Next Wednesday I'm running a free live training:

How to Avoid Unintentionally Reinforcing Disordered Eating in Natural Health Practice

We'll cover:

✔ Why red flag screening alone isn't enough

✔ How to assess adequacy before escalating protocols

✔ Common scope grey areas in natural health practice

✔ A practical stabilise–support–refer framework

📅 Wednesday 17 June
🕛 12:00pm AEST
💻 Live on Zoom

Comment WEBINAR and I'll send you the details, or grab your spot via the link in my bio.

What presentation do you think practitioners miss most often?

👇


07/06/2026

If I could recommend one book to almost every practitioner working around food, bodies or health, it would probably be Sick Enough by Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani.

I refer to this book all the time because it challenges the idea that you’ll always be able to SEE when someone is medically at risk.

You won’t.

People don’t need to look emaciated.
They don’t need to be underweight. They don’t need a formal diagnosis. They don’t need to “look sick enough” for things to be serious.

And this matters in natural health, because restriction can hide under all sorts of very normal-looking presentations: gut issues, fatigue, hormones, fertility, anxiety, clean eating, exercise changes, weight-loss goals.

This is why red flag screening alone isn’t enough.

If you’re a practitioner and this stuff feels a bit murky, I’m running a free training on June 17:

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

Link in bio 🖤





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 🖤



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.




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 😅



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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