{"id":167485,"date":"2025-07-23T10:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/?p=167485"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:02:33","slug":"healthy-eating-for-busy-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/2025\/07\/healthy-eating-for-busy-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Eating for Busy Educators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This workshop aims to explore how we can improve mental health by eating well and making simple, sustainable food choices that fuel focus, reduce fatigue and support overall mental health. Teaching is a very stressful job and it\u2019s easy for staff in schools to put nutrition on the back burner, often getting into bad habits like eating lunch whilst marking or eating sugary snacks for quick energy. Staff in schools with poor eating habits can develop issues such as digestive disorders, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, autoimmune problems and more. What we eat and how we eat directly impacts how we teach, lead, and feel &#8211; every single day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The focus of this workshop will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Explore the role of the gut microbiome<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Understand the link between blood sugar and the impact of ultra processed and sugary foods on mood and energy levels on staff and students<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reflect on current eating habits and impact on mental health<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide practical, evidence-based strategies for healthy eating to reduce stress, improve energy, focus and boost positive mental health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"nd-content-block_7572a3aea5938634152e3e8adf48c6e8\" class=\"image-block border-bottom padding\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"row flex-row-reverse\">\n            <div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 \">\n                                    <h2>About Clare McRobbie<\/h2>\n                                    <div id=\"bgLayers_comp-m0dlo5hg7\" class=\"MW5IWV\" data-hook=\"bgLayers\" data-motion-part=\"BG_LAYER comp-m0dlo5hg7\">\n<div id=\"bgMedia_comp-m0dlo5hg7\" class=\"VgO9Yg\" data-motion-part=\"BG_MEDIA comp-m0dlo5hg7\">Clare regularly attends teacher-training workshops, meditation retreats, courses, and yoga workshops. She is passionate about sharing the practice with others through her courses and workshops. She has developed, organised and facilitated mini &#8211; mindfulness and wellbeing retreat days reaching hundreds of people in a variety of school, community, workplace and clinical settings and will offer that soon online!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-mesh-id=\"comp-m0dlo5hg7inlineContent\" data-testid=\"inline-content\">\n<div data-mesh-id=\"comp-m0dlo5hg7inlineContent-gridContainer\" data-testid=\"mesh-container-content\">\n<div id=\"comp-m0dlo5hk2\" class=\"Z_l5lU ku3DBC zQ9jDz qvSjx3 Vq6kJx comp-m0dlo5hk2 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\">\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_40 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Clare is an outstanding professional Mindfulness and Wellbeing teacher with excellent feedback from clients.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 pt-4 pt-md-0 \">\n                <div class=\"d-flex align-items-center h-100\">\n                    <picture>\n                        <source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/ND-Education-Webinars-Profile-page-1-4.png\" type=\"image\/png\">\n                                                <source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/ND-Education-Webinars-Profile-page-1-4-540x540.png\"\n                                type=\"image\/png\">\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mw-100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/ND-Education-Webinars-Profile-page-1-4.png\" alt=\"clare mcrobbie\"\n                             width=\"546\" height=\"auto\">\n                    <\/picture>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This workshop aims to explore how we can improve mental health by eating well and making simple, sustainable food choices that fuel [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1684],"tags":[1686],"class_list":["post-167485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","tag-event-details"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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