Clare McKenna is a great woman for wellness.
Hosting Newstalk’s Alive & Kicking health and wellness show, Clare seems truly at home.
In this month’s VIP Magazine, we caught up with her to pick up a few wellness tips to incorporate into our lives.
Clare has admitted that her wellness journey has just begun.
“That was the journey my Newstalk show brought me on. So even though I was renowned for being into health and wellness, once I started presenting the show, I suppose I had a couple of hours every week to really reflect on my own health and wellbeing,” she tells us.
“And I remember at one stage, really questioning how healthy I was, because in truth, I had overwhelmed myself with all the fads and trends that I’d followed. The internet and social media had ramped up the noise beyond diet and exercise, I didn’t know who to be listening to.”
She goes on to say: “Really, I should have been listening to myself and so I did. About a year into the show, I decided to embark on a challenge that I would speak about on the radio and write about in one of the newspapers to really discover what health and wellness is. And even when I started out, I was still quite focused on how I looked, and I thought to look a certain way, to have a certain body, that’s what health looked like.
“But over that period, I changed my entire mindset, and I moved away from all of that diet culture, and I looked at things like my emotions with food, my relationship with my food and body, I looked at the psychology of motivation. I started to include joy and really focused on what worked for me.”
Well, it’s safe to say we’re inspired.
To read our full interview with Clare, pick up the April issue of VIP Magazine, on shelves nationwide now.