Own Your Health

January gets a terrible reputation! The “Monday” of the year, full of January blues and Blue Monday dread. But what if January isn’t the problem… what if it’s the most important month for your health? In this episode of Own Your Health, Katie Brindle reframes January as a powerful, essential reset — a grounding month designed for rest, reflection, and real self-care. Drawing on seasonal health, Chinese medicine, and natural energy cycles, Katie explains why winter is meant to be inward-focused, why December exhausts us, and how January gives us a second chance to restore balance.
If you’ve ever felt pressure to “fix yourself” in January, Katie shares a radically different, and far kinder, approach to health, wellbeing, and alignment.
Chapters:
0:00 – Why January Gets Such a Bad Reputation
1:30 – The “January Blues” and Blue Monday Myth
3:10 – Why December Drains Us (And January Pays the Price)
5:40 – Solstice, the Calendar Problem & Seasonal Misalignment
8:35 – The End of the Lunar Year & Letting Go
10:45 – Decluttering Your Space to Clear Energy
13:40 – Emotional Patterns, Self-Reflection & Inner Work
16:55 – Lessons From Extreme Winter in Swedish Lapland
20:30 – Why Rest, Darkness & Stillness Heal the Body
23:15 – Preparing for Spring & the New Energy Cycle
25:40 – How to Rebrand January for Your Health
27:45 – Making Peace With Winter
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In this episode of Own Your Health, Katie Brindle is joined by her close friend Katie Nicholl (Vanity Fair’s royal correspondent and BBC contributor) for a conversation about stress, symptoms, and the wake-up call that changed everything. Katie shares how what looked like burnout, palpitations, and perimenopause stress turned out to be cholangiocarcinoma (a rare primary liver cancer), despite “normal” blood tests, and why pushing for a scan likely saved her life. They unpack the post-treatment reality: life doesn’t magically get easier after a diagnosis, so self-care has to become non-negotiable.
Chapters 
00:00 — Meet the guest: royal correspondent, author, high-stress career
00:33 — Building self-care habits that don’t collapse in January
01:05 — How they met: gua sha, “liver” themes… and what no one knew yet
02:08 — The moment: “It’s probably stress”… but the truth was liver cancer
05:18 — The scary part: normal bloods, no tumour markers —why scans mattered
06:14 — Diagnosis to surgery fast: MRI confirmed it, 11-hour operation, chemo
08:00 — After the all-clear: life stays hard, so the system has to change
09:25 — Stop the self-care guilt: how to restart without beating yourself up
10:02 — The “diary-first” rule: schedule self-care before everything else
12:32 — The non-negotiables: nature, internal vs external exercise, organ strength
15:12 — Forest bathing + “tree hugging”: why nature became her anchor
18:03 — Joy as medicine: shedding what wasn’t serving her, gratitude as a practice
22:31 — Reinvention: rage, resentment, marriage ending, rebuilding a new life
25:16 — What she’s adding now: foot baths, daily breathwork, simple routines
30:47 — Guided practice: Healing Sounds for organs (follow along)
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Own Your Health is about taking responsibility for your body before it breaks down.

In this episode, Katie Brindle explores the concept of a “home health holiday” – a preventative approach to midlife wellbeing that focuses on regeneration rather than reaction.

After personally trialling cutting-edge regenerative therapies including hyperbaric oxygen, ozone therapy, LED light therapy and hydrogen therapy, Katie shares what genuinely made a difference to her energy, sleep, inflammation, weight, skin and overall sense of vitality – and crucially, how you can replicate many of the benefits at home, for free or at low cost.

This episode is especially relevant if you’re:

- Feeling tired, worn down or “not quite yourself”

- Curious about regenerative medicine and modern wellness

- Navigating midlife health and want to age well, not just cope

- Interested in preventative health rather than crisis-driven care

Katie also explains why January is biologically the best time of year to rest, restore and invest in your health – and why waiting for symptoms to appear is the biggest mistake most people make.

This is not about quick fixes or detox trends. It’s about giving back to your body, before it asks for help.

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📺 Watch on YouTube & Spotify 

Chapters:

01:08 – Why January Is the Best Month to Heal

02:25 – Midlife Wake-Up Calls We Can’t Ignore

03:38 – Prevention vs Cure: The Chinese Medicine Principle

04:35 – Investing in Your Body Instead of Trips

06:00 – Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Explained

07:19 – The ‘Low Battery’ Midlife Body Analogy

08:47 – Ozone Therapy: The Biggest Shift I Felt

13:33 – The Results After One Month

14:13 – What You Can Do at Home: Hydrogen therapy, LED light panels & accessible tools

15:23 – Breathing Like an Oxygen Chamber (For Free)

16:12 – 3,000 Plants in Your Room

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Flu season is here — and so are the questions.

In this Own Your Health Q&A episode, Katie Brindle answers your most urgent winter health concerns, from how to strengthen immunity naturally, to what actually helps restless legs at night, and how to cope emotionally with empty nest syndrome and life transitions.

Katie shares practical, holistic advice rooted in Chinese medicine, seasonal eating, circulation, sleep support, and emotional wellbeing. You’ll learn the biggest immunity mistakes people make in winter, simple daily habits that protect your health, natural remedies that may stop illness before it takes hold, and gentle tools to help when life feels lost or uncertain.

Whether you’re battling coughs and colds, struggling with sleep, or navigating a new chapter of life, this episode offers grounded, compassionate guidance you can start using immediately.

Like, subscribe and share — and if you have a question for a future Q&A, message us.

Chapters:

00:00 – Welcome & Winter Health Q&A Introduction

01:10 – Flu Season: First Steps to Strengthen Immunity

02:30 – Why Sugar Weakens Your Immune System

04:10 – The Winter Diet Mistake Most People Make

05:45 – Best Seasonal Foods for Immune Support

07:20 – Dressing for Winter & Protecting Your Immune Defences

08:45 – Foot Baths, Acupressure & Daily Immune Habits

10:05 – Natural Immune Supplements & When to Use Them

12:20 – Restless Legs: Why It Happens (And Why It’s Worse at Night)

13:50 – Liver Health, Circulation & Sleep Solutions

16:40 – Simple Night-Time Rituals to Calm Restless Legs

18:30 – Empty Nest Syndrome: Why It Feels Like Grief

21:00 – Emotional Reset: The ‘I Love List’ Exercise

24:30 – Finding Meaning, Energy & Direction Again

27:40 – Letting Go, Decluttering & Preparing for a New Chapter

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Grief has a way of creeping up on us — often when we least expect it. In this deeply personal episode of Own Your Health, Katie Brindle explores why grief can resurface years after a loss, why it often intensifies around Christmas, and how it lives not just in the mind, but in the body.

Triggered after her father’s 85th birthday party, Katie shares her own experience of unexpected grief following the loss of her mother 17 years ago. Drawing on Chinese medicine, breathwork, visualisation, tapping, and mind-body practices, she explains how grief is linked to the lungs, how emotions can become stored in the fascia, and why traditional “time heals all wounds” narratives don’t always work.

This episode offers practical tools for processing grief gently and safely, including breathing techniques, tapping exercises, grounding practices, and guided visualisation to help release emotional pain and reconnect with a sense of peace. Whether you’re grieving a recent loss, an old one, or simply feeling emotionally triggered at this time of year, this conversation offers compassion, understanding, and real support.

Chapters 

00:00 — When joy turns into grief unexpectedly

 03:45 — Why grief resurfaces years after loss

 07:10 — How grief lives in the lungs (Chinese medicine)

 11:40 — Breathing and releasing emotional tension

 16:20 — Tapping the body to move stuck grief

 21:10 — Why grief doesn’t follow a timeline

 24:50 — Visualisation as a healing tool

 30:10 — Reconnecting with loved ones through energy

 36:40 — Finding peace without bypassing grief

 41:30 — Practical ways to support yourself during grief

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