Real Health Radio

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Kayla Rose Kotecki. Kayla is a Non-Diet Holistic Nutritionist, Author, and influencer who helps people to stop feeling crazy and uncontrollable around food. She teaches how to overcome the diet-binge-purge cycle by showing people the tools needed to heal their relationship with food and their body, in order to gain their life, heal...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week’s episode is an interview, and today’s guest is Ivy Felicia. Ivy Felicia is a Certified Holistic Wellness Coach and Body Image Expert with a gift for helping people of all body types to embrace body peace and self-love at any stage of life. Her Body Relationship Coaching work is centered on her personal experiences with barriers to body love, and more t...

Welcome to another installment of Real Health Radio. Today I’m speaking to Lu Uhrich. Lu is a Certified Eating Psychology Coach and Body Image Mentor who specialises in helping women to overcome their struggles with yo-yo dieting, food restriction, binge eating, shame, body hate and other unwanted mindsets and behaviours. Through her one-on-one coaching program and online courses, she guides clien...

This week’s guest on the podcast is Dean Burnett. Dean Burnett is a doctor of neuroscience, former psychiatry lecturer, sometimes comedian, regular media pundit and, as of 2018, a full time author. His PhD thesis, completed in 2009, was on the role of the hippocampus in configural learning. His first book, The Idiot Brain, was an international bestseller, having been translated into over 20 langua...

This week on the podcast I'm speaking with Paige Smathers. We talk about her background as a dietician and one of her areas of interest: family feeding dynamics. We cover the division of responsibility and the many aspects of meal time with children. Paige Smathers, RDN, CD is a registered dietitian nutritionist in private practice and podcaster whose work revolves around helping people heal their...

This week’s episode of Real Health Radio is all about detoxification. Doing a “detox” seems to a fairly common thing these days but are they as helpful as they are cracked up to be? It’s a topic that has huge amounts of myths and incorrect information surrounding it and on the show I want to set the record straight. I look at how detoxification works, the different organs that are involved, why mo...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Dana Sturtevant. Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD is a nutrition therapist, facilitator, educator, speaker, writer, and activist specializing in chronic dieting, disordered eating, and body acceptance. A Certified Kripalu yoga teacher, Dana draws from her yoga teaching experience to incorporate mindfulness and self-acceptance practices into...

On this week’s episode of Real Health Radio I’m interviewing another guest and my guest is Krista Scott-Dixon. Krista is a former university professor who turned a hobby of farting around on the internet answering health and fitness questions into a second career. She’s now the Director of Curriculum at Precision Nutrition. She’s run the women’s weight training website Stumptuous.com for 20 years....

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Rini Frey. Rini is a personal trainer turned online educator, body image coach and podcast host. Through her content on Instagram, her Blog, Podcast and online program, she supports women in overcoming disordered eating, chronic dieting and negative body image. Her focus and expertise lies in intuitive eating and an anti-diet appro...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week it’s a solo episode, and I’m taking a second look at the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. Recently, I came across two papers that followed up on the experiment, and I’m reviewing them today, and chatting about the new information they contain.

Welcome back to another instalment of Real Health Radio. This week we are looking at the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study. It uncovers how trauma as a child can impact on someone’s health and behaviours in later life. And despite the study being nearly 20 years old, too few people know about considering its importance.

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...

Back in November 2015 I released episode 15 of the podcast called A Day In My Life. It I detailed what my days look like: when I wake and go to sleep, what I eat, how I structure my day, what are my exercise and movement habits, and so on. Well, we are nearly 3 and a half years on from that show and many things have now changed. The biggest being that I’m now a Dad and have a 17-month-old child. S...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Kai Hibbard. Kai Hibbard 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 lig...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Florence Gillet. Florence is a former client of mine and current Eating Psychology coach. She’s a recovered dieter, a feminist and a mother of two. She helps chronic dieters reclaim their freedom of body and mind without passing on fatphobic, weight-biased values to younger generations. Her professional practice combines strategies...

Episode 142: Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with David McRaney. David is an internationally bestselling author, journalist, and lecturer who created the You Are Not So Smart blog, books, and podcast. He began a blog writing about the psychology behind biases, delusions, and fallacies in 2009. That blog became an […]

Welcome to another installment 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.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week it’s a solo episode, and I’m covering a topic I’ve wanted to address for a long time: weight stigma.  I talk about what it is, what impacts it has on our lives, and I review two papers that try and understand the implications and potential health effects it can have on people.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Fiona Sutherland. Fiona is an Accredited Practising Dietitian & Nutritionist from Melbourne, Australia. She is Director of Body Positive Australia & The Mindful Dietitian, specialising in Mindful Eating, Eating Disorders, eating behaviour and body image from a Health At Every Size and Non Diet Approach. She is also a Sports Dietiti...

My annual show where, I go through my favourite books, documentaries and podcasts of the last year. It’s a wide-ranging mix, with some things that directly relate to health and nutrition but most that have no relation whatsoever.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. On this week’s show I interview Christy Harrison. Christy is a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor based in Brooklyn, NY. She offers online intuitive eating courses and individual nutrition therapy to help people make peace with food and their bodies. Christy began her career as a journalist in 2003, and has written for and...

Welcome back to another installment of Real Health Radio. This week we are looking at energy flux and understanding what that means in the context of your life. I explain what it is, why it’s important and what the major factors of your daily life are that have an influence over energy flux.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Sarah Rzemieniak. Sarah Rzemieniak previously worked as an eating disorder dietitian before recognizing that her true passion was in the coaching and counselling aspect of the work. She then became a certified eating disorder recovery coach through The Carolyn Costin Institute, where she was supervised and trained directly under Ca...

On today’s episode of Real Health Radio I interview Virgie Tovar. Virgie is an author and one of the USA’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is a plus size style writer for BuzzFeed, the founder of BABECAMP and the creator of #LoseHateNotWeight. Virgie also edited the anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion. She holds a Master’s degre...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Rupert Pugsley. Rupert studied marketing and business management after finishing school and then spent over a decade working in the soft drinks industry, working for Pepsi and then Red Bull. About three years ago he went back to school to pursue his interest in psychology, doing a double Masters in Psychology and Occupational & Org...