Minding Me, Gluten Free

The Coeliac Society of Ireland has gathered experts in the fields of nutrition, mindfulness, and exercise to bring you a six-week course so that you can mind yourself while living gluten free.

When you sign up for the free six-week Minding Me Gluten Free course, you will receive a weekly email with links to the various topics detailed above. We look forward to working with you to make Ireland the best place to live gluten free.

Nutrition

When it comes to good nutrition, balance is everything. Eating well and feeling great is not about cutting out all the foods you love but maximizing what you can do with what you can eat.

Exercise

Building up your fitness along with a healthy diet is an integral part of the programme. From week one, you will be eased into a series of simple and effective exercises which you can gradually increase at your own pace as you progress through the course.

Recipes

Minding Me Gluten Free is designed to help you boost the nutritional value of what you eat. Our course provides you with lots of recipes and top cooking tips each week, so that by the end of the course you will have dozens of different ways to prepare meals for your healthy, gluten-free eating experience

Mindfulness

A healthy body is complemented by a healthy mind. During the six-week Minding Me Gluten Free course, you will be presented with several practical and easy to accomplish mindfulness techniques which you can implement into your daily routines.

Meet Your Mentors

Sarah is the founder of Eatwell and has over 20 years’ experience working in nutrition and dietetics. Sarah works with food companies on food legislation and product development as well as delivering workplace wellness sessions and nutrition courses. Sarah is an outstanding speaker on nutrition whether she is delivering a nutrition session or speaking on radio & television.

Sarah KeoghDietitian

Janette is a Pilates teacher trainer with the Pilates Institute Ireland, where she has trained over 400 instructors. She has been teaching Pilates for over 16 years to groups and individuals and launched her online business, Inner Strength Pilates in March 2020 in response to the Covid pandemic. She has a wealth of experience in Anatomy and Physiology having completed a Masters in Exercise Physiology from Trinity College Dublin in 2018. Janette is passionate about the Pilates method and the benefits it can bring to people of all ages and abilities.

Janette PenneyPilates Trainer

Frances Buckley is an Applied Culinary Nutritionist and Chef with over 25 years of professional cooking experience in restaurants and diplomat catering. Applied Culinary Nutrition provides Frances with the expertise to apply culinary skills and nutrition knowledge in developing food for health and wellness. It combines advanced nutrition science with professional culinary skills to provide health supportive meal solutions.

Frances BuckleyTechnical Food Consultant

Suzanne Clarke is a Personal Trainer with Feel Fit Gym in Navan with over 20 years experience in teaching, coaching and training clients. A lifelong coeliac, diagnosed at the tender age of 2 and diagnosed with osteopenia more than a decade ago, Suzanne appreciates the importance of both a healthy diet and a strong exercise regime.

Suzanne ClarkePersonal Trainer

Having studied a B.A in Culinary Arts in Dublin, Aideen has worked as a Pastry Chef in restaurants throughout Ireland along with New York and France for the past decade. This love of food has sparked an interest in Nutrition, where Aideen found herself studying MSc in Applied Culinary Nutrition with TUDUBLIN in 2018, focusing her dissertation on Mindful Eating for health and wellness.Life for Aideen has taken a twist in recent years, where she has turned her love of food and nutritional knowledge into a career of education, working with secondary school children, offering mindfulness courses, yoga, baking courses and applied culinary nutrition skills.

Aideen BurkeMindful Eating Coach

About the Course

Be a healthy you and gluten free too this 2022! Boost your energy, benefit your bones and look at all the things you can do to feel amazing in 2022. We have a 6 week pick-and-mix guide to getting exactly what you need from the New Year. Whether you want to get a rock-solid immune system, look after your heart or balance your mood, we have the nutrition, the recipes and the advice right here. Put together by our very own team of experts, we cover the nutrients, the foods and the how-to you need to build them into your everyday routine. All gluten free, all road tested and all tasting great. Dip in and out or follow us through the next six weeks – either way you will learn more about how what you eat can make you feel amazing.