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Bethany Suddens

@healingbethany

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Navigating chronic illness & solo motherhood🥀
From bed-ridden to rebuilding💖
Root cause healing | Holistic health📍
Finding magic in the madness🪩🧚‍♀️💫

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A well overdue update x

#chronicillness #recovery #rootcause #holistichealth #healing by @healingbethany

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This is a hard one to share… Health is everything 😭💔

These were some of my lowest moments, and I’m slowly crawling my way back day by day 💖

#chronicillness #recovery #rootcause #holistichealth #healing by @healingbethany

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This journey is not something I ever imagined I’d have to go through but I hope I’ll look back one day and be grateful for what it’s taught me about myself 💔🙏✨

#chronicillness #recovery #holistichealing #cfs #mcas by @healingbethany

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3 months ago

Through my healing journey, I’ve come to believe mitochondria are at the root of so many of the illnesses we’re facing today.

Every single process in our body requires energy - even blinking an eyelid, lifting a finger, breathing, and even falling asleep! It all requires energy, and that comes from the mitochondria. The food we eat and the air we breath is turned into usable energy (ATP). When that process breaks down, we suffer immensely and can loose the ability to heal properly.

For me, I found mitochondrial damage to be one of the key root causes of my illness. It was the root cause of my leaky gut (don’t have the energy to digest food properly), can’t fight off toxins, molds and pathogens (the mitochondria fuels the immune system) and so much more.

I’ve been on a mission to understand mitochondrial health and to learn how to heal the powerhouse cells.

Hydrogen water is showing very promising results in its ability to fight free radicals within the mitochondria.

I got my hydrogen water bottle from the amazing @hydrotechnz team, and through my research I believe they have a high quality superior product that works.

Here are the articles I referenced in my video:

Ohsawa et al., 2007, Nature Medicine: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17486089

Zhang et al., 2023, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology: https://frontiersin.org/journals/cell-and-developmental-biology/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1283820/full

Ohta, 2011, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21621588

Asada et al., 2020, Medical Gas Research:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33004708

#mitochondria #healing #hydrogenwater #molecularhydrogen #chronicillness by @healingbethany

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2 months ago

In the past this type of video would’ve annoyed me because… why can’t you just spell out the exact steps for healing?? Tell me exactly what to do and I’ll do it!

But here’s the hard truth 😢

The reason no one can tell you EXACTLY how to heal is because the reason we got sick is completely unique to us. And that’s why I’ve come to believe that the root cause of many types of chronic illness is- our unique story… the unique set of circumstances that accumulated to push us past our tipping point into chronic illness.

But the good news is that if you take time to fully understand your story, every part of why you are the person you are today, unpack each part, then you can make a roadmap to address each part and utilise all the amazing tools we have available to us today.

Full disclaimer is that I’m not fully healed yet, but I’ve had about a 10-20% improvement from my worst. And this improvement was not random, it has been extremely hard won. I’ve spent hours understanding my story and finding the right tools to help. Sometimes it feels like a puzzle and you’ve got to find the missing pieces. But I’ve had a taste of healing, I’ve gone from bed ridden most of the time to having some small semblance of a life. So that’s enough for me to say that I know full healing is 100% possible.

And I believe understanding your story is the first step.

Please feel free to comment below if you’d like me to reach out to you to chat further if you need any support understanding your story and where to start with your healing journey 💖 I’m not a practitioner or anything like that just happy to share any info in case it helps someone who’s stuck because I know how much it sucks xxx

#chronicillnes #healingjourney #mcas #cfs #cirs by @healingbethany

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2 months ago

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#chronicillness #recovery #hope #healing #holistichealth by @healingbethany

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3 months ago

This is a difficult one to share but I’ve been well overdue for a life update x by @healingbethany

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a year ago

Details here 💖💫👇

We’ve decided to bring back our 8 Week Holistic Glow Up Challenge!

We have a lifetime of knowledge teaching you how to live, train and eat holistically! Think: gut health, glutes and glowing skin ✨

This is for the girls who:

🌸Have tried eating healthy but are still always bloated, tired and feel off

🌸Know they need to improve their gut health but don’t know where to start

🌸Want to lose fat and build sexy, toned muscles

🌸Have dabbled in working out but want to learn how to train PROPERLY & get epic results

🌸Are sick of all the “influencer” protein bars, cookies and fake foods (which wreak havoc on gut health) and just want to eat REAL food and get great results

🌸Want to have people asking how you got glowing glass skin, hair like repunzel and endless amounts of energy

So many of us are realising there’s something off about the lifestyle we live and the food that lines the shelves of our supermarkets.

Why it seems like almost all women are suffering with gut health issues, painful periods, hormones out of whack, etc. and why no one seems to have any answers.

It’s time to take our power back and live in a way that supports us to thrive 💫🌸✨

This is exactly what we teach in our 8 Week Holistic Glow Up Challenge.

Comment “✨” if you’d like more info x

#holisticwellness #weightloss #hormones #health #protein #wholefoods #guthealth #glutegains by @healingbethany

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a year ago

What people think eating healthy is:

A huge plate of lettuce with 4 tiny strips of dry chicken for every meal.

What eating healthy actually is:

Eating ENOUGH to feel satiated. Focusing on getting a full range of amino acids for hormone health and muscle building. Enjoying delicious food that nature provided and making sure to get plenty of protein, fat and carbs. We weren’t meant to be starving all the time!

If you think eating healthy is boring or if you don’t enjoy your current diet there’s a good chance you’re doing it wrong.

Follow along to learn how to eat to truly nourish your body and to enjoy healthy eating 💖

#nutrition #fitness #hormones #weightloss #health #protein #nourished #thriving by @healingbethany

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2 years ago

What’s hot in 2025:

Wellness goals that support you as a whole person and help you level up mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally.

What’s not hot in 2025:

Quick fix bikini shred challenges, crash dieting, fasting to look skinny, going to the gym to “make up for” all the food you ate last night.

It’s time to let go of the old approach where health and fitness was all about aesthetic goals. Where you punish yourself or tell yourself you’re “lazy” or “lack discipline”. And bring in the new era where we focus on leveling up as a whole person.

That means working on ourselves and dealing with underlying baggage, trauma, emotional issues, toxic relationships, addictions, binge eating, underlying gut health issues that we may have been suppressing or using quick fixes to hide behind. Quick fixes only work for so long. When you honour yourself you’ll be capable of reaching new heights.

Work on the inside - inner health and wellness, and everything on the outside falls into place in better ways than you can even imagine x

#fitness #motivation #goals #levelup #mindset by @healingbethany

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2 years ago

But honestly getting the fundamentals right first can be life changing!

✨Daily walks
✨Lifting weights
✨High protein meals + whole foods diet
✨Morning sunlight
✨Daily bone broth

These basic habits will go a long way in helping you lose weight, build tone, balance hormones and have more energy.

This is what we help women with every day. Some of our recent wins have been helping one busy mama with a 12kg weight loss, another with a 10kg weight loss, one mama got on top of years of gut health issues and looks better than before she had kids, and another fixed her long term troubled relationship with food.

If you want help to lose weight and improve your health, please feel free to reach out to us 💖✨

#nutrition #fitness #healthylifestyle #weightlosstips #wholefoods #guthealth #circadianrhythm by @healingbethany

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2 years ago

Save for later👇💖🥣

Steal this collagen-rich bone broth recipe - so thick, jiggly and gelatinous you can cut it with a knife!

This is packed full of collagen, gelatin and amazing amino acids that are great for hair, skin, nails and most of all, gut health. My daily cup of broth is an essential for glowing from the inside out! 😍✨

RECIPE👇

✨For the base: 1 tray of beef bones/soup bones

✨Then select one option:
-1 tray of EITHER chicken frames, feet, necks (or a mixture)
-1 tray of pig bones or trotters
-or you can just use an additional tray of beef bones

If this is confusing just think of it like this: you need 2 trays of bones and you can either double up on beef bones or mix beef with chicken or pork bones. Feet, necks and other grizzly bits make the best broth because they contain plenty of collagen.

✨Add your bones to a large pot

✨Cover the bones with filtered water

✨Add a splash of apple cider vinegar (this is essential to help pull the nutrients from the bones)

✨Cover with a lid and get to boiling point

✨Once the water is boiling, turn the pan down to a slow boil

✨Let it boil on low for 12-24 hours (or faster in a slow cooker)

✨Once complete, strain through a strainer and take out the bones. Put in a large container and let it cool/set in the fridge. A layer of fat will form on the top which you will want to remove!

Once it’s done it’ll last for about a week in the fridge and you can heat it up daily or freeze it!

Will you give this a try? 😍✨🥣

#bonebroth #bonebrothrecipes #nutrition #wellness #guthealth #collagen by @healingbethany

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