Real Health Radio

Chris sits down with Dr Jeffrey Hunger to discuss the erroneous assumptions around weight and health, social identity threat and how it's connected to weight stigma, and healthism.

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.

In today's episode, Chris chats with Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani. Their chat centers around eating disorders and being "sick enough" for treatment, orthorexia, values-driven recovery, the overlap between substance use and eating disorders, and more.

This week on Real Health Radio, I do a round up of my favourite books and documentaries of 2021.

In this week's episode, Chris interviews Elyse Resch about her new book, "The Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens", and they review the ten principles of intuitive eating and how they've evolved over the years.

This week I'm looking at prolonged exposure therapy and its use in treating PTSD while also in recovery from an eating disorder. This is a discussion with an anonymous listener, who shares their journey through 11 weeks of prolonged exposure therapy.

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 I'm speaking with Katherine Kimber. Katherine is a Registered Dietitian and Founder of Nude Nutrition on a mission to help people to find food happiness! Katherine offers 1:1 coaching, runs a community and group courses to help people break out of a negative relationship with food.  Katherine has completed an extensive amount of formal education and training with a first-class degree in...

This week's episode is an interview with Nutrition Therapist and Certified Eating Disorder Dietitian, Marci Evans. We chat about body image - why the language we use around it is so important, how to define it, and some ideas for improving it. We also talk about the link between digestive symptoms and eating disorders, and how hypnotherapy can help in some cases.

This week's episode is an interview with somatic nutrition therapist/dietitian, Tracy Brown. We spend most of the conversation chatting about the autonomic nervous system and Polyvagal Theory - how this can impact sensations of hunger and fullness, or someone’s ability to decide what they want to eat.

In this interview, I chat with dietitian and eating disorder specialist Julie Duffy DIllon. Our conversation primarily centers around PCOS - how it overlaps with eating disorders, how it's diagnosed, and how the current medical advice to deal with it needs work.

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. Jo was diagnosed with anorexia a number of years ago. As part of this conversation, she explains how her eating disorder developed, the point at which she finally recognised she had anorexia, the recovering she'd done before we started toge...

My guest this week is Sarah Salmon. Sarah is a Coach, introvert, homebody, INFJ, brain tumour survivor, Nutritionist, TED talker, and highly sensitive person (HSP). Sarah specialises in helping overwhelmed introverts get their energy back. As part of the episode, we cover Sarah surviving a brain tumour, introversion, Highly Sensitive Persons (HSP), boundaries and creating a life that is aligned wi...

This week on Real Health Radio it's a solo show and it's a personal one, where I give you an update on my life and what's been happening in 2021.

This week's guest on the podcast is Deb Dana. Deb Dana, LCSW is a clinician and consultant specializing in using the lens of Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma and create ways of working that honour the role of the autonomic nervous system.  She is a founding member of the Polyvagal Institute and developer of the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series. Deb is th...

In this interview, I chat with therapist and eating disorder specialist Jennifer Rolling. We chat about Jennifer's history with an eating disorder as well as navigating personal relationships and intimacy in recovery, getting stuck in partial recovery, and exercises to help with body image.

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.

This week's guest on the podcast is Dr. Lauren Muhlheim. Dr. Muhlheim, is a psychologist, certified eating disorder specialist (CEDS), and IAEDP (International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals) - approved supervisor who provides evidence-based treatment for eating disorders in the outpatient setting. She works with people of all ages and all eating disorders including anorexia nervosa,...

Welcome back to another episode of Real Health Radio. Today's guest is Charlotte Gibbs. Charlotte is an ultra-distance runner whose relationship with the sport has not always been healthy. After suffering from a succession of stress fractures and amenorrhea, she was diagnosed with RED-S in January 2019. Since then she’s been trying to learn as much as possible about RED-S in order to discover a be...

Today's guest interview is with Rebecca Scritchfield. Rebecca Scritchfield is a registered dietitian nutritionist, certified exercise physiologist, author of the book Body Kindness, and host of the Body Kindness podcast. Through her weight-inclusive, Health at Every Size counseling practice, she helps people make peace with food, find the joy in exercise, and create a better life with workable goa...

This week I talk with writer, speaker, and activist Jes Baker. Jes is a positive, progressive, and magnificently irreverent force to be reckoned with in the realm of self-love advocacy and mental health. She is internationally known for preaching the importance of body liberation, hard conversations, strong coffee, and even stronger language. Jes burst onto the body positivity scene when she creat...

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...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week it’s a solo episode, and I’m exploring the topic of life expectancy. As part of this show, I dig into the current life expectancy rates for the U.S. and the U.K., and explore several possibilities and ideas for why we’re seeing trends go in this direction.

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...

This is a solo episode looking at how restriction and eating disorders affect the brain. I look at how the structure and function of the brain changes, the phenomenon of anosognosia and how long it takes for repair to occur.