Find Your Strong Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore a simple but powerful idea: when we resist uncomfortable feelings, they tend to grow stronger, not weaker. This pattern shows up everywhere: for example anxiety on a plane, dental fear, body image, ageing, and cravings. Key threads we unpack: Resistance breeds shame. When we don't admit we're struggling — because we feel we shouldn't be —...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we're joined by the wonderful Caroline Toshack for a thought provoking conversation about coming home to our bodies after an eating disorder or indeed years of chronic dieting. Caroline shares how her career evolved from personal training, sports coaching and competitive endurance sport into Pilates, yoga and body-led therapeutic work. We talk about her exper...

Send us Fan Mail We've been thinking a lot lately about intuitive eating and whether it really is for everyone. There's so much confusion and misinformation out there, and we wanted to take a moment to cut through some of that.  At its heart, Intuitive eating isn't a diet, a religion, or a set of rigid rules to follow — it's a flexible framework designed to help you find freedo...

Send us Fan Mail In a world determined to sell us anti-ageing solutions, what would it look like to trust our bodies instead? This conversation explores ageism, diet culture, menopause, embodiment, and the radical possibility of ageing without apology.  We just loved this conversation with Deb Benfield . Deb truly embodies her work and exudes an inner confidence and an ease with herself and her ow...

Send us Fan Mail If you're based in the UK,  you'll know that at the time of recording it was SUPER hot here.  Hotter weather can often bring up body image concerns, that may have kept themselves hidden under the layers of autumn, winter and spring.   Key Takeaways: Summer can bring body image struggles back to the surface — especially when we’re wearing less and comparing ourselves to u...

Send us Fan Mail I recently turned 50 and Ela is hot on my tail, and as such we are thinking more and more about what it means to embrace our bodies as they inevitably change.*  We are swimming in a sea of diet culture which is compounded by anti-aging culture once we hit upwards of 35.  How do we reconcile our fears about our bodies changing, when they are now visibly aging?   What are our option...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we sat down with Elizabeth Davies (This Woman Lifts) to explore strength training, ageing, body image, and what it really means for women to feel strong. Together we unpack the lifelong pressure women face to stay small, youthful, and aesthetically “acceptable. The conversation covers everything from postpartum recovery and the fear of “getting bulky” to social me...

Send us Fan Mail Why do you move?  Why do you exercise?  There are plenty of reasons, but when we ask people if they'd move in the same way, if movement didn't change how their bodies looked, we often hear a resounding NO.  You have full autonomy but..... While we believe that everyone has full autonomy over their bodies, we also know how beneficial movement and exercise can be for us. W...

Send us Fan Mail What a joy to have Jenny Langley on the podcast.  Since her son recovered from anorexia 20 years ago, Jenny Langley has campaigned to raise awareness of eating disorders and the impact on the whole family, and to provide practical help and support to families affected by eating disorders.   Jenny co-authored the New Maudsley Skills-Based Training Manual a nd wrote of her family’s...

Send us Fan Mail Are you tracking your weight/progress/calories/sleep/exercise/whatever-else-there-is-to-track? We had a feisty conversation about it (always feisty!!), and feel that tracking can be helpful in some situations (e.g. when you are training for a certain goal, when you are recovering from an eating disorder, or when the person tracking is in a good place with food, exercise and their...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2. We could chat to these folks all day.  Tasha* and Brandon are heart-centred coaches who work with recovering perfectionists (Hello!) people struggling with burnout as well as high achieving humans who are navigating complex life circumstances and have lost themselves along the way. In this episode we touch on the following topics: The real definition of burnout and why it...

Send us Fan Mail Ela and I were wondering about our topic for this week and a recent episode of Dragon's Den got us thinking about sugar, continuous glucose monitors and the absolute fear we have around "processed sugar". On Dragon's den, the dragons were tasting a new type of oat energy ball and each of them tasted it, agreed how delicious it was and immediately said that beca...

Send us Fan Mail Christine and I are angry - we re trying to work out why we are so easily led into obedience when it comes to body image and dieting. Watching people (in particular celebrities) shrink before our very eyes is NOT an invitation to do the same, rather, it should be a cause for concern - it shows that we are still way too focussed on appearances and unattainable 'beauty' st...

Send us Fan Mail In the UK this is Eating Disorders Awareness week, so we thought we should talk about it. I have had too much lived experience with eating disorders as I'm sure many of you have had. This week I have become enraged at eating disorders and what they have stripped from me and from my family's life.  But one key thing to remember is that by talking about eating disorders an...

Send us Fan Mail Ela and I are beyond excited to bring you this week's guest, the OG of Intuitive Eating herself, Evelyn. This of course, was one of our most popular episodes to date and if you listen,  you'll understand why. Ela and I are both Intuitive Eating Counsellors and were lucky enough to train with Evelyn.  She is force to be reckoned with! If you are new here or have never hea...

Send us Fan Mail Another fiery episode today where we talk about the tell-tale signs of overexercise as well as some tips for getting back into movement, after a long period of absence. Untangling weight loss and movement is one of the hardest parts of rebuilding our relationship with our bodies.  For many of us, coming from a disordered eating background, it can be all too easy to replace restric...

Send us Fan Mail We were not holding back.. It’s fair to say that both of us are super grateful to all the trailblazers that put perimenopause and menopause on the list of topics that we can now all pretty openly discuss. We are both heading towards 50, and are both supporting clients who are going through hormonal changes in midlife.  Whilst we see that there is a place for tailored perimenopause...

Send us Fan Mail This is our first episode of 2026 and it is one that we both feel incredibly passionate about. We explore why fitness spaces can be high risk environments for eating disorders. Sophie, founder of ED Informed, joins us to discuss how diet culture, harmful fitness messaging and a lack of staff training leave many people vulnerable and unsupported. We start by discussing some common...

Send us Fan Mail Happy holidays everyone!  This is a re-release from our January 2025 episode about easing into the new year.  If you are thinking you need to change your body in 2026, this may just help you reframe and re-evaluate your goals. We had a great chat about how we can set goals in a sustainable way  We also talked about - new year's resolutions and how we have full permission to o...

Send us Fan Mail Spicy one this week.   We both believe that individuals have agency and that commenting on an individual's body, whether it be out of 'concern' or otherwise, is just not helpful. But can we call out a cultural shift towards extreme thinness?  F*ck yes! We feel that we have to. We have a duty of care as professionals working in the non-diet space. We work with client...

Send us Fan Mail Tasha and Brandon and their membership - the Village-  have been a lifeline for me over the last few months, which personally have been incredibly difficult. They work with recovering perfectionists, folks struggling with burnout and high-achieving humans who are navigating complex life circumstances (clcs) and have lost themselves along the way. If you have ever felt exhausted an...

Send us Fan Mail What a joyful conversation with the one and only Nana Crawford, creator of Jigglefitt.   She is a powerhouse and her energy is truly infectious and we hope you love this conversation as much as we did. We talked to Nana about the following topics: Body Acceptance after having kids and seeing your body change out of recognition How to get to know your body again How dance can help...

Send us Fan Mail Before I share the show notes below, a quick disclaimer: this episode is for information and education purposes only and does not focus on medical risk/ replace advice from a medical professional. If you are taking any weight loss drug or are considering taking one, please consult with a professional/ your healthcare provider.  Now - what a treat to have the lovely Aoife McMahon o...

Send us Fan Mail We had the pleasure of chatting with Dr Rachel Evans for this episode - and we absolutely loved her multi-faceted approach to eating disorder recovery. Rachel draws on her own lived experience with Bulimia, and uses lots of different therapeutic modalities in her client sessions so that each session is tailored exactly to the individual client.  Rachel kindly shared her own story...

Send us Fan Mail We are re-releasing this to coincide with the APPG report from Dump The Scales ,  that was delivered to Number 10 yesterday, alongside a petition calling for an inquiry into all eating disorder deaths. You can find the full report here It's always humbling to speak to our amazing experts, and our conversation with Dr Kamila Irvine was no exception! Whilst she is a very senior...