In this episode of the Self Love Podcast, Kim sits down with nutritionist and founder of Wellbelly Health Clinic, Elyse Comerford, for a deeply inspiring conversation on holistic health, gut healing, motherhood, and self-love. Elyse shares her powerful journey of becoming a single mother while completing her nutrition studies and building a thriving wellness business grounded in a client centered, root cause approach to healing. Together, they explore the impact of sunlight, circadian rhythms, nutrition, screen time, and modern lifestyle habits on children’s and adult health, while offering practical and accessible ways to reconnect with nature and support wellbeing. The conversation also dives into self-trust, authentic living, and Elyse’s philosophy of self-love as honouring your inner knowing and taking aligned action. Filled with wisdom, honesty, and grounded health insights, this episode is a reminder that healing often begins with simplicity, connection, and returning to what feels true.

About Elyse
Elyse Comerford is a Clinical Nutritionist, business owner, wife, mother, and founder of Well Belly Health, known for her grounded and honest approach to wellness. After overcoming her own complex health challenges, she became passionate about helping others understand the deeper connection between the gut, nervous system, metabolism, and overall wellbeing.

Alongside her work, Elyse is deeply family-oriented and passionate about creating a simple, connected life centred around health, presence, and living in alignment with what truly matters. Through her clinic, programs, and online education, she is helping people move away from fear-based health culture and toward a more sustainable, resilient approach to healing and living well.

Her definition of Self Love is: My definition of self love would be listening. It is listening to what it is you are needing or what is trying to be expressed and following it. I think the biggest act of self-love is actually feeling a need or a desire, hearing it and then doing it.

Her favourite quote is from: David White poem titled “All the True Vows”

All the true vows
are secret vows
the ones we speak out loud
are the ones we break.

There is only one life
you can call your own
and a thousand others
you can call by any name you want.

Hold to the truth you make
every day with your own body,
don’t turn your face away.

Hold to your own truth
at the center of the image
you were born with.

Those who do not understand
their destiny will never understand
the friends they have made
nor the work they have chosen

nor the one life that waits
beyond all the others.

By the lake in the wood
in the shadows
you can
whisper that truth
to the quiet reflection
you see in the water.

Whatever you hear from
the water, remember,

it wants you to carry
the sound of its truth on your lips.

Remember,
in this place
no one can hear you

and out of the silence
you can make a promise
it will kill you to break,

that way you’ll find
what is real and what is not.

I know what I am saying.
Time almost forsook me
and I looked again.

Seeing my reflection
I broke a promise
and spoke
for the first time
after all these years

in my own voice,
before it was too late
to turn my face again.

Links to follow:
Website: www.wellbellyhealth.com.au
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elysenutritionist
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elysehealth

Quotes:
My journey to get there is a lifelong one.
Our clinic is different in the approach that we take. It is truly root cause and really looking at the person and what is going on.
I call it client centred, not protocol centred, in the way that we work.
We are living very different lifestyles to what we were designed for.
There is a lot of stress, a lot of sensory input and overload.
We need lots of sunshine, we need to be in a relaxed brainwave states for majority of our day.
The light drives our energy production more than food does.
Getting out in the sunshine is just a basic human need.
I don’t ever try and convince anyone.
People want to believe whatever they want to believe.
You can prove something not to be true, but not so easy to prove something to be absolutely 100%.
Think of how humans were meant to live. We are meant to function with the natural light.
We just need to go back and think of having some real food at each meal.
No protocol can ever be designed to be perfect for everyone.
The people who live the longest, healthiest, happiest lives are not restrictive around what they eat.
Do the best with what you can.
Perfection is not a way to grow, and courage comes through taking action.
I had a really strong belief that I am destined for something good, and I just need to keep moving towards it.
I have a choice of the direction of my life.
My intention in my business is that I want to help the most people for the least amount of money.
I want to break that stigma that you have to spend a lot of money in order to work on your health.
Honouring that yearning is the biggest act of self love.

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