The Eating Disorder Therapist

Embracing recovery - 3 steps to banish guilt

What to do, when you’re working hard on healing your relationship with food but you constantly feel GUILTY, for doing this. I share my 3 tips to embrace recovery and deal with those pesky disordered eating thoughts.

Re-wiring your brain to change eating habits with Eugenia Nikiforow

Today I'm talking to Eugenia Nikiforow an Eating Psychology Coach and speaker.  

Eugenia is the founder of Mindfoodness - Eating Psychology Clinic and supports people to feel "normal" around food again by combining Nutrition, Psychology and Neuroscience. She is based in New Zealand and is working with clients all over the world. 

 

Eugenia openly shares her own journey in finding peace with food and her body, and the ups and downs of this. She talks about how she came to set up Mindfoodness and her groundbreaking programme that supports people to change their relationship with food sustainably.  Eugenia has a particular interest in the role of the brain and how habits are formed. She shares her valuable tips and strategies for re-wiring the brain and understanding your eating in a very different way. Hope you enjoy!

 

To find out more, visit Mindfoodness

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Steps towards Intuitive Eating, when you’ve had an eating disorder

Is Intuitive Eating possible, when you’ve had an eating disorder? If so, where do you even start with this? Today I talk about how to begin to eat intuitively. I draw on my own and client experiences: from how to enjoyably eat croissants again without bingeing to managing the Food Police in your head. Hope you enjoy. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. 😊

Body Building, disordered eating and ongoing recovery with Victoria Stockwell

Today I interview Victoria Stockwell - Researcher, Ex Body Builder and Personal Trainer. Victoria has suffered from disordered eating behaviours from the age of 11. Victoria shares openly about her journey in working to overcome disordered eating, looking at possible triggers, the ups and downs of this road and finally getting help. Victoria also talks about her ventures as a competitor, into the Body Building world,  and the impact this had on her eating and body image. She has an absolute wealth of knowledge to share and this is definitely one of my favourite interviews so far. Hope you enjoy!

You can find Victoria on Instagram: @victoria_restoringthebalance

Body image, binge eating and best quotes with Jo Malocca (Anti-Diet Dietitian)

Today I interview Anti-Diet Dietitian, Jo Malocca. Originally from Ireland, Jo is now based in Suffolk, working as a dietitian for the NHS and privately. Jo is absolutely passionate about promoting an anti-diet message and supporting her clients to develop a healthy relationship with food and their bodies. I talk to Jo about a whole range of topics including her last supper meal; body image; binge eating, inspiring quotes and more. I hope you enjoy, as much as I did.

To find out more about Jo: Instagram: @antidietanswers  Website: https://antidietanswers.com/

 

Finding my food freedom, with personal trainer: Jayne Hartley

Today I interview my first guest - Jayne Hartley, who is a personal trainer, mum of 3 and owner of Fierce Fitness, in Clavering, near Saffron Walden.

Jayne started dancing from the age of 5 – later training as a professional dancer; she’s also a fully qualified nurse and is now a personal trainer.

Today, Jayne is in a great place with eating and body image, but it hasn’t always been this way. Jayne talks about her journey in finding peace with food and the things that have helped her achieve this.

Find Jayne on Instagram: @jayne.hartley.fierce.fitness

https://www.facebook.com/fiercefitnessandnutrition/

 

Stopping compulsive exercise - my 3 tips

EXERCISE 🤸‍♀️🏋️🏊‍♀️🚴. What does it mean to you? Do you exercise for joy, pleasure and the love of movement? Or has it become a compulsion or an obsessive thing that you feel you have to do? Today I talk about how to develop a healthy relationship with activity. I also share my own relationship to exercise, after recovering from an eating disorder.

A deep dive into purging, by self-induced vomiting

This is a disordered eating behaviour that’s not talked about enough. There’s often so much shame and secrecy around it. In this episode, I talk about causes of self-induced vomiting; fears about not doing it and how to stop 🛑 for good; drawing on my recovery experience and helping many others to do the same.

Emotional Eating - 3 feelings that trigger this

Emotional eating can be something that we are all vulnerable to doing.

In this podcast, I share some of my own triggers for emotional eating including a split from a toxic boyfriend in the past.

Hope you enjoy. :)

 

 

Staying calm through the Corona storm, when you struggle with food and body image

I share my 5 tips to help you through this tricky period. I talk about managing anxiety, food, exercise, relationships and being stuck at home.