Dr G is a renowned eating disorder expert physician, the author of an incredible book ‘Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders’ and the founder and medical director of the Gaudiani Clinic. In this episode she discussed her holistic approach to patient care, power in the way we talk to ourselves, the myth of needing to be ‘sick enough’ and so much more.  Topics:  Why people feel not ‘sick enough’ to get help and support What Dr G learnt from her patients that she...

To kick off season two we are joined by the incredible Emmy Brunner who is a CEO, Empowerment and Results Coach, Creative Consultant, Speaker, Bestselling Author, Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist with 20+ years of experience. As a clinician, Emmy has supported thousands of women to overcome their eating disorders with her holistic approach that changed the landscape of how eating disorders are treated and viewed in Europe.  Emmy loves sharing everything that she has learnt as an influential...

We reflect on holidays we had when suffering from an eating disorder. Particularly the stand out, cringe moments we are so grateful for being behind us. We also talk about holidays we went on whilst recovering - the fun times as well as the challenges that came up for us and the tools we used in overcoming them. We hope this episode makes you not feel alone and gives you lots of ideas for how to overcome eating disorder thoughts that may come up for you.  Topics covered: Event restricting /...

Chrissy is an incredible recovery coach, currently training to be a counsellor, and has experience working at a clinic as both an eating disorder recovery coach and mentor. She has a passion for ED recovery, mental health, body-image and self-compassion since she started her own recovery journey seven years ago. At the start of Chrissy’s journey, she was in treatment for an eating disorder, describing these as one of her symptoms, but in fact was really in recovery for all areas of her life....

Leading Sports and Eating disorder specialist dietitian Renee McGregor joins us on the podcast. With 20 years experience working in clinical and performance nutrition, with Olympic (London, 2012), Paralympic (Rio, 2016) and Commonwealth (Queensland, 2018) teams she comes with a wealth of experience. She is also the author of five brilliant books and the co-founder and director of #TRAINBRAVE, a campaign raising awareness of eating disorders in sport. In this episode, Renee speaks openly and...

We chat about how we challenged our fear foods and food rules in recovery. How we had to repeat food challenges, several times a week, in different settings and contexts, and without compensating around the food, until they began to neutralise. And then, crucially, keeping all these foods in as permanent parts of our diets. What process we used to challenge food rules/fearsNot compensatingNot treating challenges as a one offFood obsessionsDid we go all in?Tools we used during challengesCoping...

Hope Virgo is a multi-award winning campaigner, speaker and author of three amazing books: ‘Stand Tall Little Girl’, ‘Hope Through Recovery’ and ‘You Are Free (Even If You Don’t Feel Like It)’. In this inspiring episode, she candidly shares her own personal experience of suffering from an eating disorder and offers lots of great practical recovery tips to stay motivated. With her super cute newborn cuddled up on her throughout this is an episode not to be missed. Topics covered: Hope’s...

Is your relationship with movement a problem? In this episode we chat about the role exercise played in Safia’s eating disorder and what she did to gain a positive relationship with it now. Throughout the episode there are some red flags to look out for if you are unsure as to whether your relationship with movement is a healthy one.  Topics covered: How Safia’s relationship with movement has changed from when she had her eating disorder to now she is recoveredWhat drives the need to move...

Ragen is a multi-talented writer, speaker, trained researcher, award winning dancer, elite professional athlete and self acclaimed lover of medals which has resulted in her completing a marathon. She is an inspirational and passionate thought leader in the fields of Health at Every Size, weight stigma and weight inclusive healthcare and fitness after being subject to size discrimination herself. Ragen’s incredibly articulate and research based answers resulted in us learning a lot in this...

Conceiving, pregnancy and becoming a Mum are the most life changing events we have ever experienced. Each of them has brought us an incredible amount of joy, gratitude and taught us so much about ourselves as well as what we value in life. We also talk about the challenges we learnt to navigate through and practical ways we protected our recovery as we became mothers. Despite both having suffered from eating disorders in the past, we have some differences in our stories as well as...

In this special episode, we chat with the superstar CBT-E therapist Carine El Khazen who supported us both on our recovery journey. The insight and incredibly helpful recovery tools she shares makes this episode an absolute must listen. Carine is a clinical psychologist at the American Centre for Psychiatry and Neurology in Dubai. She has also co-authored the first and only CBT-E guide for parents of adolescents receiving CBT-E treatment. The book is entitled: “Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for...

In this episode we talk about our own experience of food in our eating disorders, in terms of it holding an elevated status and importance in our lives. We talk about what it looked like for each of us to hold food on such a pedestal, why that caused us problems, how we went about knocking food off this ED pedestal, and what our relationship to food looks like now. Topics covered: Wanting food and eating conditions to be perfectHow restricting food elevates it’s statusWhen food becomes more...

We absolutely loved this fun myth busting episode with eating disorder specialist dietician Talia Cecchele. She explains common misconceptions from a place of so much knowledge and experience, yet her warmth makes you feel you are having a chat with a friend. Talia is the founder of TCN (Talia Cecchele Nutrition) and works part-time in London's leading private mental health hospital on a specialist eating disorders unit. We are so excited to share this episode with you! Topics...

Hi! We are Meg and Safia. We are both from the UK, but met in Dubai after having the same therapist who supported us to recover from our eating disorders. We immediately became friends and found out we had a shared passion for helping other people who are recovering, which is why we decided to start a podcast. In this first episode we introduce ourselves and fill you in on our experiences of having eating disorders from when they started, through the most challenging moments to the point we...