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Send us Fan Mail Charlie, better known as The Teachers’ Health Coach, is a certified coach, Nutritionist and qualified Mental Health & Exercise Coach! Six years ago Charlie was diagnosed with chronic stress and burnout after experiencing panic attacks and anxiety in the classroom. This changed the direction of his career and started him on a path to retrain as a Nutritionist, and help teachers...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast we speak about what is disordered eating, alongside the difference between disordered eating and an eating disorder. We also speak about some the issues present in schools around eating e.g. students skipping lunch or concerns about eating in front of other people. www.jenup.com

Send us Fan Mail Jenny has worked closely with the Eating Disorder Research team of The Institute of Psychiatry for over 15 years, and is trained in the New Maudsley Model. She has become an “experienced carer” coach for the research programmes and delivers regular skills workshops for carers, as well as training for facilitators. Today she speaks about how as a parent you can help support your ch...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode with myself and Becky Stone who is qualified Psychotherapist and Eating Disorder Therapist we speak about how to navigate the messages around new year’s resolutions surrounding weight loss and body image, and how this can be triggering for people with eating disorders. www.jenup.com

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we have Suzanne Samaka! She founded the #HonestyAboutEditing campaign to change the law so digitally edited content (photoshop/filters etc) must be labelled so we all know what is real versus fake, to protect our body image and mental health.  Life has taught her that confidence and self-esteem are more important than she ever imagined they would be. Her passion is...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we speak with Felix again about the links between autism and eating disorders, and how autism can affect our eating habits.  Felix has worked in the in the NHS for over 8 years, and has now been working full-time in private practice since 2007. Felix works with a variety of conditions, and is also the most prolific practitioner for ARFID in the world today. Felix i...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we speak about the links between trauma, grief and loss and eating disorders, alongside athletes with eating disorders. Dr. Trujillo is a licensed counsellor and Sport Psychologist. She specialties in grief/loss, self-injury, and addressing mental health needs and access to services with collegiate athletes. Dr. Trujillo is a member of the Big Sky Sport Psychology...

Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week we have have Erin Ayala on the show, Erin is a Sport Psychologist and Certified Mental Performance Consultant. Dr. Ayala has a PhD in Counselling Psychology from the University at Albany. She is also a certified Mental Performance Consultant and is listed on the US Olympic and Paralympic Mental Health Registry.  We will be speaking covering topics around m...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast we speak with Collette from Skratch Labs who is the Athlete Care Manager. We cover all things hydration!  We speak about different topics in this podcast on how to affectively hydrate and to perform at the same time, alongside why people sweat more than others.  We also speak about the best products to use in order replace essential electrolytes in the body, alongs...

Send us Fan Mail Felix has worked in the in the NHS for over 8 years, and has now been working full-time in private practice since 2007. Felix works with a variety of conditions, and is also the most prolific practitioner for ARFID in the world today. Felix is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and clinical hypnotist. He has successfully treated hundreds of clients who have not benefited from pr...

Send us Fan Mail We are delighted to have one of the leading cycling strength and conditioning coaches in the UK and at the front of the movement about bringing more S&C into world tour cycling and endurance sports, we are delighted to introduce Chris Peden! Chris spent 15 years in the military and has gone to study and achieve a masters in S&C and rehab.  Chris is currently coaching and a...

Send us Fan Mail Andy Turner  is an ex professional cyclist having raced many races all over Europe and the world. Including competing in the tour of Britain against the likes of team ineos , and quick step. Sam met Andy in the British racing season of 2017, and they slowly started to become friends and close competitors Andy reached out to sam in 2018, as sam was taking part in a study with previ...

Send us Fan Mail W e are pleased to welcome someone who is going to transform your sleep which is the cheapest recovery tool on the market! Chris is owner and director of Project Athletic which is a small functional fully equipped training facility in Fareham. They focus and specialise in human performance, movement, and good vibes whilst training. Chris is well known for being Lauren Steadman S&a...

Send us Fan Mail Ollie is an former professional cyclist, Zwift Academy finalist 2018, and is currently on the TrainSharp Elite squad and ranked amongst the top riders in the UK. Ollie has secured many wins over the years both in the UK and abroad. Ollies best result to date was finishing 8th in the 2021 Tour of Britain against the likes of Wout Van Aert, Ethan Hayter and Mark Cavendish. In this e...

Send us Fan Mail Patrick Foster is a former professional cricketer, insurance broker and schoolteacher whose life was shattered by a pathological gambling addiction that brought him to the verge of taking his own life in March 2018. Using his experience, he works with schools, companies and individuals, young and old, raising awareness of the dangers of gambling and gaming. By sharing his own stor...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we have Amy Hudson, who is now a keen cyclist after struggling for many years with an addiction to the gym and running, as a way of escaping. Amy qualified as a master practitioner for eating disorders back in 2019, after finishing University, and working for an Eating Disorder charity. Today we are going to go over Amy’s story, asking her a few questions regarding...

Send us Fan Mail Eva's journey started when she decided to go on a diet after she graduated from university, and started to implement a rather intense exercise regime. She loved the feeling of losing weight quickly, and it was the first time anyone had ever referred to her as skinny. She felt the validation she needed in her life. She became obsessed with counting calories and intermittent fa...

Send us Fan Mail Nicky is the author of “Health Hormones and Human Potential: A guide to understanding your hormones to optimise your health and performance”. Nicky is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer in the Division of Medicine University College London. She lectures and researches in areas of exercise endocrinology, with publications in this field. Nicky’s clinical endocrine work is mainly with exe...

Send us Fan Mail Alicia Edge is an Advanced Sports Dietitian, who is the co-CEO of Compeat Performance (a tech startup looking to shift how we access nutrition support for behaviour change) and the Performance Nutrition Lead of Football Australia. In this episode we speak about defining an athlete, the dangers of orthorexia for endurance athletes and the half life of caffeine.  www.jenup.com

Send us Fan Mail Renee is a leading sports Dietitian, specialising in Eating Disorders, REDs, The Female Athlete, Athlete health and performance. Her practice and knowledge is supported by extensive experience of working in both clinical and performance nutrition, including,  Olympic (London, 2012), Paralympic (Rio, 2016) and Commonwealth (Queensland, 2018) teams. In this episode we speak about wh...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the JenUP Podcast, I’m Jenny Tomei. I’m a qualified nutritional therapist, eating disorder coach and personal trainer, we have Sam Woodfield who is my new co-host. Sam is an ex elite cyclist and has recovered from anorexia, orthorexia, and exercise addiction. Welcome to series two of the JenUp podcast focusing on all things SPORTING PERFORMANCE, MENTAL HEALTH,...

Send us Fan Mail Anna Boniface is a long-distance runner, with one international cap for England in 2017. She gradually developed anorexia when she was around 15 years old, which correlated with starting running competitively. She quickly lost her period and became quite withdrawn in her first year of a-levels. She started to attach her running performance to her weight and how many miles she ran,...

Send us Fan Mail George had lived experience with muscularity oriented disordered eating, exercise addiction and body image issues which has impacted relationships, his education and wellbeing. These behaviours have included severe restriction, binging and purging, exercising addictively, and missing out on family and friend life events. All of these symptoms combined have led to extremely low moo...

Send us Fan Mail Janet Treasure, OBE PhD FRCP FRC Psych, is a British psychiatrist, who specialises in research and treatment of eating disorders. She is currently the Director of the Eating Disorder Unit and Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London. In this episode Janet kindly shares the latest research they are carrying out on eating disorders at Kings...

Send us Fan Mail Sam Woodfield is a Ex Elite Cyclist, raced Semi Pro in the fast east and was ranked top 20 in the UK.   In this episode we will be continuing our conversation about Sam's recovery from orthorexia and his exercise addiction.   www.jenup.com