Real Health Radio

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. We have another guest interview and this week I’m sitting down with Andrea Owen. Andrea is an author, mentor, and certified life coach who helps high-achieving women let go of perfectionism, control, and isolation and helps them choose courage and confidence instead. She’s helped thousands of women to manage their inner critic to create loving connections and liv...

Welcome to another instalment of Real Health Radio. This week I’m sitting down with one of my past clients, Julie, to discuss what it’s been like working together. We cover why she came to see me, what we worked on, and where she is at now with health, body image, and her relationship with food.

This week's guest on the podcast is Sigrún Daníelsdóttir. Sigrún is a clinical psychologist and for most of her career has worked with children and adolescents with eating and body image problems, both within treatment and prevention settings. Her current position is as project manager for mental health promotion at the Directorate of Health in Iceland. Sigrun started the Body Respect movement in...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Emily Nagoski. Emily Nagoski began her career as a sex educator, focusing not only on sex but on stress, nutrition, physical activity, and, sexual violence prevention. She went to Indiana University for a M.S. in Counseling Psychology, completing clinical internships at the Kinsey Institute Sexual Health Clinic and the IU GLBT Stud...

This week it's a solo episode looking at the many causes of irregular periods, anovulatory cycles and missing periods (hypothalamic amenorrhea).

Welcome to another installment of Real Health Radio. This week I’m sitting down one of my past clients, Alex, to talk about what it’s been like working together. Alex had been dieting for almost 20 years when we started working together, and we chat about what inspired her to work with me, what we worked on, and the changes she’s seen in her life.

This week's guest on the podcast is Beverly Engel. Beverly Engel is an internationally recognized psychotherapist and an acclaimed advocate for victims of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. She is the author of 26 self-help books, including three bestselling books on emotional abuse. Beverly is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and has been practicing psychotherapy for 40 years. In add...

This week on Real Health Radio, I take a deep dive into the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. As part of the show I cover: - How the experiment came to be  - Who were the participants and what were the conditions of the study - The different phases of the experiment  - The symptoms experienced by the men as part of the starvation and also the rehabilitation - What the study can tell us about weight...

This week I talk with Marya Hornbacher about her two memoirs on eating disorders and mental health (specifically what it's like to have bipolar), and we wrap up by chatting about the writing process and her advice for writers.

This week on the show I'm chatting with Fiona Willer. Fiona is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian who combines academic research, university lecturing and public speaking with creating professional development resources and training for health professionals through her business, Health, Not Diets. Her research areas are dietetic private practice benchmarking, inter-professional learning,...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Kai Hibbard. Kai is a licensed social worker, author of the novel “Losing It”, body acceptance activist, and motivational speaker. When not providing individual and couples therapy, or publicly combating mass media hypocrisy and body shaming, she uses her voice to give presentations promoting body positivity and to shed light on th...

This week on the show, Chris chats with Jon Robison. Dr Jon Robison holds a doctorate in health education/exercise physiology and a master of science in human nutrition from Michigan State University. He specializes in health promotion and human behaviour, with a particular interest in why people do what they do and don’t do what they don’t do. His presentations and workshops promote shifting heal...

This week I talk with men's health advocate Ollie Aplin. We talk about his journey with mental health issues and how it led him to create MindJournal, a guided journal specifically for men.

This week on Real Health Radio, Chris does a round up of his favourite books, documentaries, podcasts and music of 2020.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Amber Karnes. Amber is the founder of Body Positive Yoga. She’s a ruckus maker, yoga asana teacher (E-RYT 200), social justice advocate, and a lifelong student of her body. Her commitment to accessible, adaptive yoga practice empowers thousands of diverse practitioners around the globe. She is the creator of the Body Positive Clubh...

Real Health Radio is back with another guest interview and Chris chats with Lindsay Kite this week. They cover self-objectification, the problems that arise from learning about 'health and fitness' from mainstream media, research on how children model their parents behaviour relating to body image and much more!

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Emma Louise Pudge. Emma is an eating disorders researcher and activist and Masters student at University College London (UCL) in Health Humanities. Emma researches eating disorders from a feminist, sociocultural and social-justice oriented perspective, and she is particularly interested in exploring how biological, psychological, e...

This week on Real Health Radio it is a solo show and it's a personal one - a life update from Chris. A reflection on 2020.

On this week's episode of Real Health Radio we're digging into the topic of free will. Do we have as much as we think? Or is it a complete illusion?

This week on Real Health Radio it is a solo show and we're covering everything related to satisfaction from eating. What it is, what are the component parts that make up the sensation, the difference between satisfaction and fullness, some of the fears or objections to eating satisfying meals and some of the ways you can start to practice satisfaction with eating.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week it’s a solo episode, and I’m reviewing “The Fiji Study”. This study looks at teenager’s beliefs and behaviours around body image and dieting in 1995 when television was first introduced and then in 1998, three years later. I go over the findings, what some of the possible reasons are, and talk about what I think we can take away from it.

Real Health Radio is back with another guest interview and Chris is chatting with Veronica Garnett. We cover various events and aspects of Veronica's childhood that had an impact on her relationship with her body and with food, her training as a dietician and how her real desire was to go to culinary school, Veronica's anxiety and the ways that she deals with it and the different businesses that V...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week we’re looking at how thinking can affect health. We discuss cognitive dietary restraint (aka dieting) and negative body image, and see if they can impact our physical health as a whole. We review several studies that have been done in this area and we chat about the importance of changing our mindsets around this issue.

This week on Real Health Radio it's another guest interview and Chris is chatting with Anna Sweeney. They chat about her diagnosis with MS at age 15 and how this has impacted on her life. They cover disability, body acceptance, eating disorder recovery and Instagram.

This week on Real Health Radio, Chris is chatting with Victoria Welsby. They chat about Victoria's past and difficulties and the different therapies, jobs and experiences that helped her to turn her life around, including CBT and EMDR. They also discuss Victoria's TEDx talk, appearing on a BBC Documentary and the similarities between cults and diet culture.