Real Health Radio

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

My guests this week Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant, the co-founders of the Centre For Body Trust. They have a new book called Reclaiming Body Trust and we get to talk all about it.

This week on Real Health Radio, I do a round up of my favourite books and documentaries of 2022.

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.

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, I chat with Virginia Sole-Smith. We cover her book The Eating Instinct, her daughter Violet relearning how to eat after a life saving operation at age one month, and the myth of the sugar high.

This week on the show it's a solo episode where we look at the topic of restriction. Restriction can take many forms but is at the heart of the struggles of every person that I work with.

Today on the show I'm speaking with Jacob Clark Blickenstaff, his father Harold Blickenstaff was one of the participants in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment.

In part two of his series on sleep, I explore all the different ways we can get better sleep - including optimising your light exposure, energy intake, pre-bedtime routine, bedroom setup, and more.

My guest this week is Stacie Fanelli and we talk all the about intersection of neurodiversity and eating disorders. We cover what neurodivergence is, helpful accommodations in recovery, screening for neurodivergence, masking and animal-assited therapy.

This week I'm speaking with Amy Green Smith. We chat about speaking up and setting boundaries, fear and how this shows up in our modern lives, understanding our motivation, using progressive language, self-worth, hypnotherapy and the difference between “I can’t” and “I won’t”

In today's solo episode, Chris dives into the science behind sleep. Why do we do it? How much should we be getting? What's a sleep chronotype and why should you know yours? How does circadian rhythm work? Is our sleep quality good enough? This podcast answers all these questions and more.

Today on the show I'm chatting with Johanna Kandel. She is the founder and CEO of the National Alliance for Eating Disorders and the author of Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder. We talk about Johanna’s eating disorder, her recovery, and how she founded The Alliance and how it has grown and changed over the last 21 years. Then we cover many topics from her book and some of the wonderful exercises an...

This week on the show it is a solo episode where we look at the topic of Health Inequalities. It's so common when talking about health to focus on "choices" and "personal responsibility" and that "health is in your own hands". But the truth of the matter is that at a population level, health is most directly connected to where you live and socioeconomics. Something we explore in great detail by lo...

This episode is the 2nd edition of my overeating experiment that I did back in 2016. I go through the experiment, what I happened to my body, I look at calories in and calories out and update with new ideas since the original episode came out.

This week on the show I chat with Registered Dietician Emily Fossenback. We chat about Emily's history with orthorexia and her recovery, perfectionism, infertility, adoption, working with eating disorder clients, and feeding children.

I chat with Dr. Rachel Millner - a psychologist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Supervisor and a certified Body Trust provider. We cover Rachel's background and own journey with eating disorder recovery and anorexia in higher weight bodies. They also cover Rachel's role as a supervisor, her work with children and families and about depression, anxiety and mental health.

One of the most difficult aspects of being a parent can be mealtimes with kids. This week on the show I chat with Katja Rowell MD. Katja is a childhood feeding specialist. We cover Ellyn Satter’s Division Of Responsibility, Responsive Feeding Therapy, the frequency of feeding issues, typical eating and growth, the mechanics of eating, and the five steps for creating a healthy feeding relationship.

I sit down with Barbara Allen to dive into the topic of high sensitivity. What is it? How do you know if you are a highly sensitive person? How can we turn it into a strength?

This week on Real Health Radio I chat with Bri Campos. We talk about body image, specifically through the lens of body grief.

I sit down with Will Siu, MD to discuss the current state of the research on psychedelics as well as their therapeutic potential.

This week on Real Health Radio I chat with Betsy Brenner all about her memoir The Longest Match: Rallying to Defeat an Eating Disorder in Midlife. We chat about her childhood, emotional trauma, profound grief, anxiety, depression, the development of an eating disorder in her 40s and everything she did to recover.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week I sit down with my former client Ilinca and we chat about her history with a restrictive eating disorder, being stuck in quasi recovery and getting her period back. We also cover what it was like working together, feeling understood and supported and Ilinca's changing relationship with sleep, food, exercise and happiness.

On this episode of Real Health Radio, it is a solo show and it is all about eating disorder recovery. I cover the many aspects that make up recovery when we truly want to get at all the ways that an eating disorder infiltrates one’s life

This week I talk with personal trainer turned online educator Rini Frey. We chat about her history with an eating disorder, how she healed her relationship with food, and her current work with body acceptance.