Bariatric Financial Services

04/11/2025

My sister Linda is a qualified Nutritionist, Chef, Practitioner and Educator who has written an amazing book to help those post surgery. She has had her own amazing weight loss journey.
Check out her message below and I'd encourage you to get a copy of the book.

🌼Healing Is More Than Skin Deep 🌼

Your post-surgery companion for recovery, resilience, and reconnection.

After major body change — whether through weight loss, body contouring, or reconstructive surgery — healing goes far beyond the surface. It’s about learning to trust your body again, to feel safe and confident in your new form, and to reconnect with the life that’s waiting for you beyond recovery.

It takes great courage to walk this path of transformation, and I honour how much strength and tenderness live in each of you. 🤍

I’m Linda — an educator, mentor, practitioner and chef who has walked this path of transformation myself, having lost over 70kg and navigated chronic illness and body image challenges and deep transformation. I created Body Contouring Surgery – An Integrative Healing Companion because I know how much more support we truly need — not just medically but through nutrition and nourishment, nervous-system care, as well as the emotional and energetic repair that helps the body truly integrate.

👉Inside the Guide:
You’ll find over 70 pages of wholistic support to walk beside you through every phase of recovery — including fascia and lymph care, food medicine, nervous system repair, scar and tissue healing, emotional integration, and embodied rituals for self-trust and renewal.

This is more than a guide — it’s a map for returning home to yourself.

💗 Your Free Gift:
You’ll also receive Healing at Home: A Guided Healing Journey — a 20-minute audio practice created to support you through the delicate season of post-surgery healing. It’s a gentle space to slow down, breathe, calm your nervous system and reconnect with your body’s wisdom, helping you nurture trust, safety, and presence as you recover.

Both resources are available through my https://nourishingways.earth/body-contouring-surgery/

The comprehensive guide is only $22 AUD (I have also set up a donation option for those who feel to contribute beyond the $22 AUD). All contributions help fund my own upcoming surgery and continued creation of healing tools for this community.

I’m sharing this with you all because the journey of healing — through the body, through self-love, through transformation — has been at the heart of my own life’s work and now how I give back in service. I know how painful and isolating it can feel, and I also know the relief and empowerment that come when we begin to reclaim our bodies with love and understanding.

🙏🏽If you are able – I would also LOVE it if you could share this offering far and wide (to groups or individuals) – I have not seen anything else available that offers this level of support for the journey you are taking or have taken, and I would love to see it beam out to all who walks this path with you – Thank you in advance for your support!

May this guide bring you comfort, clarity, and a deeper sense that you are not alone in this.

With warmth and reverence,
Linda xo
Founder of Nourishing Ways

23/04/2024

This is incredibly sad 😢

I am certainly seeing this disturbing trend and have helped a number of younger people in the last few years with Trauma and Life insurance claims.

Always seek advice before cancelling and changing your insurance cover and if you haven't had a review in a while then please get in touch and I'd love to help.

Adele Baker joked to her husband when she cancelled, “It’s not like I’m going to die, is it?”

04/09/2022

If you haven't had Medical Insurance before or have cancelled it in the past, now might be the time to reconsider. There are a number of tools to reduce premiums, keep it affordable but also ensure that you don't find yourself or your loved ones in this position.

Almost 7500 people who have waited a year for surgery should now be on lists – but there's little hope anyone makes it to theatre any faster.

07/07/2022

Not a new problem and I don't see it get any better anytime soon...

A surgeon says there have always been waiting lists, but the situation over the past three months was the worst he’d seen in nearly 30 years.

27/05/2022

This is scary but a perfect example of how limited public resources can impact the quality of cover available in Public Hospitals. Good quality Private Medical insurance will provide this treatment and also pay for non-pharmac treatments.

Insufficient machines and staff mean radiation for cancer may be beyond the reach of those without private care within the next decade, oncologists warn.

18/10/2020

Very interesting article about Income Protection

Insurers seek to avert affordability crisis for 650,000 income protection policyholders.

20/09/2020

Really interesting article. Does your medical insurance fully cover non-pharmac medical treatments/drugs or does it only cover those on the pharmac subsidized list? Do you have Trauma Cover that would pay out a lump sum to cover these sorts of costs. Always worth a review of your insurances.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/122796033/familys-50000-cost-for-dads-lifeextending-bowel-cancer-mediciner-medicine

Tony Sullivan was diagnosed with bowel cancer. But the chance of living longer while taking an unfunded drug comes at a cost of $50,000

27/08/2020

This is a very well written and thought-provoking article.

Anna Rawhiti-Connell's weight has been the albatross around her neck for 20 years. Weight loss surgery was a surrender to the science - a surrender she found power in.

17/08/2020

The issue is that this isn't a new problem. It's been going on for years. The waiting list before you actually even get on the waiting list. Private Medical Insurance gives you the power to choose when, where, who and how you get the treatment you want. You are in control.

Patients needing non-urgent surgery face being put on a “waiting list for a waiting list”, an advocate says.

04/05/2020

This is a major issue. Do you know if your Medical Insurance policy will cover Keytruda and other non-pharmac drugs? Some do and some don’t.
If you’d like to know then feel free to ask 🙂

Pharmac's decision to backtrack on funding Keytruda is a major blow for equality in New Zealand's health system, a leading oncologist says.