Real Health Radio

Today's guest is Livia Sara. In this episode, we chat about the overlap between autism and eating disorders, existential loneliness, metabolism, body image, eating variety and its place in recovery, the fear of weight gain, hunger signals, interoceptive awareness, and how intuitive eating does or doesn’t work with autism.

On this episode of Real Health Radio, I'm chatting with Michelle Viña-Baltsas. We speak about Michelle's decades-long struggles with food and body and how she healed her relationship with both of them. We also talk about body image, ageism, menopause, hormonal and physical changes, exercise, self-worth, and some of the positives that Michelle has experienced through ageing.

This week I'm speaking with Jo, a client I've recently finished working with. We cover her recovery journey from the depths of anorexia and now back to health.

It's very common with eating disorders to put off eating, both while active in the eating disorder and even in recovery. In this episode, I explain a few of the problems with this strategy.

Today on Real Health Radio, I'm speaking with Dr. Sasha Gorrell. We talk about the question of is anorexia nervosa an anxiety disorder. We spend a lot of time speaking about the brain and other topics like anxiety, compulsive exercise, the microbiome, and reward and fear circuitry.

Eating disorders seemingly use logic to convince you of why you should or shouldn't do certain behaviours or why something is or isn't important. But in reality, eating disorder are actually illogical and this becomes obvious when we look at them more closely.

Today on Real Health Radio, I'm speaking with Alissa Rumsey. We talk about her book Unapologetic Eating: Make Peace With Food and Transform Your Life. We go through the four sections the book contains - fixing, allowing, feeling and growing – and cover some of the ideas and practical suggestions that are offered.

This episode features an interview with past client Jayne Cudia, discussing her journey to recovery from an eating disorder with my guidance. Over two and a half years, they worked closely, transitioning from intensive consultations to a maintenance phase, leading to Jayne's remarkable progress in overcoming her disorder.

This episode was inspired by a recent client conversation (in fact, a conversation I've had many times before). I cover a common fear that comes up connected to making changes and weight gain, something that can stop you in your tracks just as you're getting started.

Full recovery is a term often used in recovery circles, but what does it mean? In this episode, I cover some definitions and different aspects of full recovery and how you can reflect on your own experience to gauge where you are in your recovery.

This week on Real Health Radio, I'm speaking with Ragen Chastain. We cover many topics from her book Fat: The Owner's Manual including Health At Every Size, weight stigma, weight bias in eating disorder recovery, and much more.

This week's guest on the podcast is Louise Adams. Louise Adams is a clinical psychologist who works in private practice from her home in Sydney, Australia and has been practising in this field for more than 20 years. She has written two books, Mindful Moments and The Non-Diet Approach Handbook for Psychologist and Counsellors (with Fiona Willer, APD). She is also the founder of UNTRAPPED, a master...

Eating disorders can have serious and sometimes fatal consequences. In this episode I talk about the recent death of a past client and what I hope people can take from this tragedy.

On this week's episode of Real Health Radio, I'm speaking with Emily Troscianko. We talk about her recovery from anorexia and then many of the topics that she has written about, like eating meat in recovery, anorexia and sex, and then research she is doing looking at reading habits and their connection with eating disorders.

Goal setting is an essential part of the recovery process from eating disorders. In this episode I look at different types of goals, when they are applicable and how to best use goals in support of action taking.

There can be a misconception that when you start recovery, all symptoms immediately improve. This is unfortunately not the case, and it is common for symptoms to arise as part of recovery. In this episode, I go through some of these symptoms and why they occur.

Binges while recovering are a common occurrence, despite the fear that they create. As part of this episode, I look at why binges occur in recovery, how to think differently about them and suggestions for what to do after a binge happens.

Today on the show I'm speaking with Dr. Adele Lafrance. We cover Emotion-Focused Family Therapy, which she co-developed, as well as the research and practice of psychedelic medicine, where we cover ayahuasca, MDMA, psilocybin and ketamine.

On this week's episode Real Health Radio, Chris is chatting with Nicola Salmon. Nicola is a fat-positive fertility coach and author of “Fat and Fertile” and the conversation focuses on all things fertility, conception and pregnancy.

This week it's a solo episode and I'm talking about four lies the eating disorder tells you that stop recovery in its tracks and prevent it from even getting started.

On this week's episode of Real Health Radio, I'm speaking with Denise Bossarte. We talk about her book, Thriving After Sexual Abuse: Break Your Bondage To The Past And Live A Life You Love. As part of the conversation, we cover many of the activities and practices Denise has done as part of her healing journey.

I'm hosting a three-part live virtual training all about developing resilience in recovery and it starts this Thursday 21st.