The Joyful + Nourishment Podcast

This week I am trying something new. Well, if you’ve been reading my newsletter for a few years, you will know that I have shared videos before. But I have not added a video to it, since end of 2022 I think. Or at least not since I moved to the Substack platform. In this video I will introduce you to the HALT chart which may be a useful tool, to bring some more awareness to what might be underneat...

We are starting Season 3 of The Joyful Nourishment Podcast with a very informative episode around Hypothalamic Amenorrhea (HA) , with nutritionist Shannon Western. Shannon is a nutritionist and therapist. She is the founder of Ease Nutrition Therapy, a disordered eating non-diet clinic. She supports all relationships with food so people can feel more comfortable with food, their emotions, and thei...

For the final episode of Season two I am sharing with you my conversation about movement as path to body acceptance and moving our bodies with love, that I had with Pilates and Yoga Teacher Ana Stefan. Because movement and exercise can become so bound up in weigh loss pursuits, which often affects our relationship with moving our body, speaking with someone who take as different approach to this f...

I am back with another solo episode, this week. This time on the topic of making peace with food, through the practice of giving yourself unconditional permission to eat ALL foods. I am calling it a practice because it is something we often need to do intentionally for awhile before it becomes second nature. This is something that can be, and often are, pivotal to anyone healing from disordered ea...

The last week of February is ED awareness week, so even though this podcast is a little bit early but still very much relevant for the #edaw2024 theme of: Eating Disorder Recovery and Beyond, Respecting Individuality and Identity. With this in mind, this week’s podcast episode is a conversation with Mirte Kaan who shares kindly her own lived experience of having had an eating disorder. Mirte Kaan...

In this podcast I speak with Lynn McGovern on the topic of orthorexia. This is a type of eating disorder, without an official diagnosis, but that cause a lot of distress and suffering to the person experiencing it. Orthorexia is an obsession with healthy eating. Lynn is a newly graduated psychotherapist MSc in Applied Psychology and much experience working with eating disorders. She has previously...

I am back with a new solo episode this week. Full disclosure here… I do find these solo episodes vulnerable to make, especially when I include personal anecdotes and opinions. Some of the content may resonate and other stuff won’t. And that’s ok. And, it still makes me feel, I don’t know, raw? In this episode I share with you some of my thoughts and experiences when is comes to goal setting and ho...

In this episode I speal with the lovely Nadia Felsch. Nadia Felsch, BHSc (she/her) is a nutritionist, intuitive eating counsellor, feminist and fat activist. She is a white, thin, woman living on unceded Gadigal Country in Sydney Australia with her partner and two miniature dachshunds named Toast and Avocado. Her work is underpinned by the great unlearning of, and healing from the the typical narr...

In this week's episode I have the pleasure of speaking with Melanie Hargraves. Melanie (she/her) is an experienced, curious and compassionate dietitian interested in the way trauma can impact eating and body image. Qualifying over 10 years ago, she blends her lived experience with this expertise to provide pragmatic and practical support for anyone struggling. You can find her on instagram at @whe...

This week’s episode is a solo one with me. I wanted to put together something for everyone who missed the online workshop I did with Kristi last week. This time of year can be particularly challenging if you are trying to move away from dieting or are in eating disorder recovery. There are typically lots of food, social events (centred around food & alcohol) and we might spend more time with famil...

In this week’s guest episode, I speak with Deirdre Reddan from Supported Families. Deirdre Reddan is an Eating Disorder Coach and Parent Coach. She works with both parents and individuals and jointly runs online group programmes for parents affected by eating disorders ( She is also an associate instructor with Youth Mental Health First Aid Ireland. Deirdre is passionate on the topic of disordered...

Welcome the Season 2 of The Joyful + Nourishment Podcast. From now on the pace will be a little slower and you can expect a new episode every other week instead of weekly. I am honouring the space of enough right now, and this is the pace it takes when it comes to the podcast. We are kicking off this season with my conversation with Kristi Koeter Kristi is a marketing and communications leader wit...

In this episode I speak with Anne Richardson who is a registered nutritionist who exclusively works with disordered eaters whether they have received a formal diagnosis or not. She focuses her work more on restriction, so her clients tend to suffer with anorexia, orthorexia and bulimia mostly. She is also currently doing a diploma in cognitive behavioural therapy and this is reflected in her pract...

In today’s episode I talk about body image, partly what it is and especially the influences our society and culture have on how we think and relate to our feelings about our bodies. I will touch on different concepts that we hear about when we talk about body image, such as body love, body acceptance and body neutrality. When did you first learn that your body was a problem? And what if it wasn’t...

In this episode I speak with Shauna Farrell. I loved speaking with Shauna and how she so generously shared her own journey from chronic dieting towards intuitive eating and body acceptance. She talks about the experience of weight stigma and body comments and how this had an impact on how she felt about her body. As a health psychologist she also speaks about how most trainings in healthcare are i...

In this week’s episode I’ll talk about exploring fullness. In this episode I talk about: * What is comfortable fullness? * Is fullness and satisfaction the same thing? * How eating enough food can feel grounding and helps establish a sense of safety in the body. * Some of the reasons why it might be difficult to stop eating, even if you think that you are eating enough * How overeating or binge ea...

This week I am speaking with the fabulous Sinead Crowe from @intutive.eating.irealand Sinead is an Intuitive Eating Counsellor, a Nutritional Therapist and a Perinatal Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist. She is also the mother of 4 children. Sinead shares with me candidly her own dieting journey, how she found Intuitive Eating and how moving away from dieting towards non-diet weight inclusive...

In this episode we will explore the many reasons that we are reaching for food. I’ll talk about the Diet-Deprivation-Binge Cycle ( which you can also read about here) , and we’ll look into physical, emotional, and spiritual hunger. What are your different hungers and how can you feed and nourish them in a supportive way? There is so much to say on this topic and it is something that I find incredi...

In this week’s episode I speak with Emma Murphy. We really dive deep into the different aspects of binge eating and emotional eating such as personality type (which might make you more vulnerable to developing disordered eating), trauma and dieting. You will learn what the risk factors are, when people typically tend to seek help, what help to look for if you are struggling and what the benefits o...

In this week’s solo episode I will explore with you what Diet Culture is, how it tends to show up everywhere and that is does have an impact on everyone but that people who are living in larger bodies and are fat are disproportionately harmed more than people who are thin. I also invite you to get curious and reflect on where you are noticing Diet Culture and diet talk showing up in your own life....

In this week’s episode myself and Louise talk about her own journey of recovery, how she got into counselling and subsequently also became a yoga teacher. Louise is a wealth of wisdom, with a great big heart and in this interview she shares with us all how it is possible to move from just living in the head, with anxiety and having a feeling of simply dragging her body along to a place of feeling...

Welcome to The Joyful + Nourishment Podcast! This is the very first episode of this initial 10 episode podcast series, hosted by Linn Thorstensson, Nutritional Therapist and Body Image Coach. I envision this podcast to be a space for conversations and explorations around all the things that gets in the way of having a kind, compassionate and peaceful relationship with food, eating and body image....

The Joyful + Nourishment Podcast is about exploring all the things that gets in the way of us having a kind, compassionate relationship with food and eating and our bodies and how we can find our way back to Joyful Nourishment in our everyday lives. The full Season 1 will launch on the 25th of Aug 2023, with 10 full episodes of guests and solo shares. Make sure that you Subscribe so that you don't...

I wasn’t entirely sure if I would send a newsletter out this week or not. But here we are. In this voice note I am pondering how do we know when it is the right thing to push through, or when it is the right thing to pause and rest? This is a theme that came up this week both for me personally and also in conversations I’ve had we peers and clients recently. As someone who is both struggling with...

On the 1st of June I deleted the IG app off my phone for a planned month long break from the platform. I think it might only be my second such break ever since joining in 2011. In this week’s Voice Note’s from Linn I am sharing: * How I felt about it * What I enjoyed about it * What I missed * What I am hoping to do next when it comes IG and social media. What are your thoughts on SM today? Are yo...