The Women Whisperer

Wherever she goes, Dr Libby Weaver draws in the crowds. Positively glowing with her own good health, she has become the rock star of the wellbeing industry – changing women’s lives by making sense of the science of wellness. In this exclusive interview, she gives Emma Clifton the lowdown on self-worth,physical wellbeing, beauty and finding joy.

- Emma Clifton

Dr Libby Weaver is an emotional creature when it comes to her life’s work. “I don’t always blubber,” she laughs. “But my eyes well with tears very regularly.”

If you were to look at the fields she works in, you might think to yourself: food, hormones, and now beauty… where’s the heart pull in that? But each of these topics comes with a lot of emotional baggage that we only start to appreciate when something goes wrong. Food starts to react badly with you, you start to notice the signs of ageing in your face, your mood swings make you feel like your brain is rented out part-time to a crazy person. Suddenly, these simple words become gateways to very loaded conversations. And for her ever-increasing audience, Libby has become the bridge between the general world of women’s wellness and the complex biochemistry behind it.

Talking to The Australian Women’s Weekly from sunny Burleigh Heads, it’s been another beautiful day in paradise. The tail-end of winter means nothing in Queensland. On the day of our cover shoot, it’s exactly as you would imagine: 22 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. Libby, 43, has only been back home for a matter of days after returning from a speaking gig in Texas. She travels for about 120 days of the year, doing two or three gigs in each location. Kind of like a rock star, but with a very different lifestyle, you would imagine.

She laughs a lot at this. “I book my accommodation based on where I want to eat and access to nutritious food – rock stars probably don’t have that on their mind!”