For our final episode of the Season, we are joined by author, radical dietitian and social action poet, Dr Lucy Aphramor. With a PhD in Advancing Critical Dietetics, Lucy developed Well Now – their compassionate, trauma informed approach to public health – while working in the NHS as a community dietitian. A radical voice in weight-inclusive health, Lucy’s practice and teaching focuses on building a society where people of all shapes, genders, ages, races and identities are treated with...

Our guest this week is Dr Nadia Craddock. Body image researcher at the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of West England, Nadia has expertise in numerous facets of body image, including eating disorders, colourism, fashion warning labels, and so much more. With her PhD focused on body size representation in fashion, advertising and beauty, Nadia is a go-to expert in the area of body image and Corporate Social Responsibility, and is passionate about developing a society where we...

Our guest this week is Dr Alexis Conason. A New York-based clinical psychologist, Alexis specialises in the treatment of eating disorders – often overeating related - which she carries out alongside her extensive research into body image, overeating behaviours, and so much more. Passionate about weight-inclusive care, Alexis founded The Anti-Diet Plan in 2018, a programme designed to help people embrace a mindful, peaceful and compassionate approach to eating and body respect, and is very...

Our guest this week is the brilliant Dr Natasha Larmie. A weight-inclusive NHS GP by day and social justice advocate by way of – well, all other hours – Natasha believes passionately in bringing an end to weight stigma in the NHS. A relative newcomer to the Health At Every Size movement, Natasha has generated a significant online following over the past year as the ‘Fat Doctor’, and has since taken on the monumental challenge of speaking up against diet culture, advocating against weight...

Our guest this week is the amazing Virgie Tovar. Author, activist, and one of America’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image, Virgie has truly dedicated her life and academia to ending diet culture and weight discrimination,  making few guests more apt to feature on this Season of the podcast.   In this episode, we explore fatphobia, and its common misconceptions. From feminism and sexuality, to racism and classism, Virgie gives us a crash course on the history...

Welcome back to Season 2 of Well Undone! For this special themed Season, we're taking a short intermission from our personal stories, and doing a deep dive on understanding why, for some, weight gain can feel so inexplicably terrifying. From delving into Health at Every Size, to getting to grips with weight stigma, fatphobia and discrimination, this six-episode Season is packed with experts both clinical and academic, to help us understand where this all comes from, and how it plays out in...

After an entire Season of delving into the minds of my brilliant guests, it seemed only right that I turn over the mic and offer the same of myself. So with huge thanks to my wonderful friend Alice Shaw (of Episode 1 fame, no less) for allowing a poetic...

In this penultimate episode of Season 1, I couldn’t be more excited to bring you the wonder that is Imme Leipnik.Coming from a childhood of thinking sport and exercise was never ‘something for her’, Imme shares with us the evolution of her relationship...

Our guest this week is the brilliant Ellie Miller. No eating disorders, no exercise obsessions, Ellie brings us back to the very core of the podcast – we don’t have to have a ‘problem’, to have a problem.Approaching life from a place of a balanced,...

Our guest this week is Niall Tiller, a late-twenties, London-based paramedic.There are few things that rile me up more than the suggestion that pressures around body image are 'just for women', and that men 'have it easy'. Whilst no doubt the challenges...

This week, we are joined by Beth George. Looking at the world through a slightly different mental health lens this week, Beth shares with us her experience of growing up - and still living with - challenging compulsive tendencies, which in adulthood,...

In this week's episode of Well Undone, we are joined by Bam Thomas, who shares with us her journey from an intensely insecure youngster desperate to achieve the thin ideal, to becoming a woman who embraces herself with confidence, respect, and a...

This week's guest is Cami Down, who gives us a raw and honest unpacking of her experience of getting a scholarship to attend a majority-male boarding school at the age of 13, and the lifelong impact that went on to have on her relationship with her...

My guest this week is Alice Shaw, a mid-twenties City lawyer who talks honestly and powerfully about her experience of juggling life alongside the world of eating disorders. She shares how she first fell down the slippery slope of restrictive eating,...