Thea Munch
We visited Thea Munch. Holistic practitioner, therapist, mentor, and mother. A woman who lives what she teaches, down to the smallest detail.
Q: What is the best advice you would give to a new mother who feels like she's never doing enough?
"Seek community with other mothers. They probably feel exactly the same way as you do."
"I use collagen in our morning porridge every single morning. Bone broth is added to all imaginable stews - or drunk as is."
Q: What does taking a break mean to you personally - what do you actually do?
"As a mother of small children, I don't have high expectations for the content of my breaks. If I did, I think I would be very disappointed and feel like I never got them. I love going out to eat with my friends, but that only happens once a month, so I quickly wired my system to understand that a bath, enjoying cooking - is actually also a very real break. That way, breaks can be experienced several times a day. That's good enough. It doesn't have to be perfect, after all."
Q: If you had to describe your approach to diet and body in one word or one sentence — what would it be?
"Enough of everything."
Holism is not the sum of practices you squeeze into your everyday life.
Q: What do you think when you hear people use the word holistic about a lifestyle that is actually just very strict?
"I think they have misunderstood the actual meaning of the word. Holism is not the sum of the practices you squeeze into your daily life. Holism means wholeness. It is one large ecosystem, and it can be supported and nourished in many different ways."
Q: What would you say to the person who feels guilty about eating something unhealthy?
"CONGRATULATIONS! That sounds nicely balanced — exactly as it should be."
Q: How do you personally keep your nervous system in balance when everyday life with small children is in full swing?
"I don't use meditation as a daily practice, but when I work with reflexology or craniosacral therapy in my practice, I end up in a near-meditative state many times a day because my clients do too. It's an interplay. I feel recharged when I go home from work. It's a huge gift."
Q: What is the most common issue you encounter with your clients?
"The biggest root cause I encounter is a dysregulated nervous system. This can manifest in many ways, both through physical and psychological symptoms. Diet and nutrition can easily fuel and worsen this imbalance."
Q: Bone broth, organ matrix, collagen — what do you use yourself, and when?
"I use collagen in our morning porridge every single morning. In the afternoon, when I need a pick-me-up, I whisk a matcha and add collagen to that too. Bone broth is added to all kinds of stews or drunk as is. I also use it in the cooking water for rice or quinoa. Right now I'm pregnant, so I'm taking a break from organ matrix, which I had just gotten into so well — every day! It's a brilliant product. The only one of its kind on the Danish market. Finally!"
"That's good enough. It doesn't have to be perfect, after all."
Q: What is the most unholistic thing you do that you have no intention of changing?
"What does it mean to be unholistic? Is it smoking cigarettes when you get plastered at Roskilde Festival? I wouldn't consider that unholistic, quite the opposite — but I do it, and I thoroughly enjoy it."
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En dyb, varm ramen lavet på Bone Broth som base. Med grillet pak choi, oksekød og shiitake.
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