Explore every episode of the podcast Real Health Radio

It's easy to get hooked by our thoughts, even when they are unhelpful and pull us away from the kind of life we want to lead. This episode gives you five practical tools to help remind you that thoughts are just thoughts.

On this episode of Real Health Radio, my guest is Dr. Colleen Reichmann. We chat about Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), person-focused therapy, eating disorder recovery, motivation, harm reduction versus full recovery, the pros and cons of different levels of care, motivation and her book The Inside Scoop On Eating Disorder Recovery.

This week on the podcast I am looking at Adam Grant's book Hidden Potential and the ideas from it that can be applied to recovery.

This episode is the 2nd edition of a podcast I did a while back on the menstrual cycle. I review the stages of the cycle, what causes menstruation, what happens if conception occurs, and update you with some new information we've learned since the last episode came out.

Chris talks with Josie Geller, PhD, about her research in the eating disorder field. They cover topics like predictors for success in recovery and predictors for relapse, the difference between collaborative and directive change, and the importance of self-compassion in recovery.

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.

Today's interview is with registered dietitian nutritionist, Aaron Flores. We chat about his transition from traditional dietetics to Health At Every Size, his experience with the Body Trust Certification, and his work with body image and men.

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.

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.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week is another solo episode and we’re revisiting something I’ve covered in the past – how thinking can affect health. We discuss cognitive dietary restraint (aka dieting) and and see if it can impact our physical health and brain power. We review several studies that have been done in this area and chat about what we can take from these scientific papers and apply to our lives.

On this week's episode of Real Health Radio, I'm sharing a life update with everything that has been happening over the last 6 months or so.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. On this week's episode, I sit down with my former client Lauri to talk about what it was like working with me. We discussed what prompted her to get in touch, the details of her relationship with food and body image, and what improvements she's noticed since working together.

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.

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.

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.

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 relationships with food and their body. She specializes in chronic dieting, addiction recovery nutrition, eating disorders and family feeding dynamics. Her approach to nutrition and health is grounded in mindfulness and is rooted in the intuitive eating and Health at Every Size frameworks. She is the owner of Positive Nutrition®, which provides individual nutrition therapy, online courses, and mentorship and coaching for professionals.

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 Nutrition and Dietetics from King’s College London, and a distinction in her Masters in Clinical Research. She has an NHS background and is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor. We focus on intuitive eating, looking at how Katherine uses it with clients and some of the common struggles clients have when applying intuitive eating.

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.

Cognitive distortions are patterns of thought that distort our perception of reality, cause us to misinterpret situations, magnify negative emotions, and hold unrealistic expectations of ourselves, others and the world. This can lead to increased misery, anxiety, and self-doubt, ultimately impacting our overall well-being. In this episode, I look at a number of cognitive distortions that you can be on the look out for.

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 together and then the work we did and how different things are now.

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 with who you are.

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 the author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton, 2018); Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices (Norton, 2020); and Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory (forthcoming from Sounds True). As part of the show, we talk about all things polyvagal theory and how eating disorders can impact this.

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, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder (BED), Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), Orthorexia, Muscle Dysmorphia and Male Eating Disorders. She provides cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for adults and family-based treatment (FBT) for adolescents and adheres to Health at Every Size® principles. She is certified in FBT by the Training Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders. Dr. Muhlheim is the author of When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder: Practical Strategies to Help Your Teen Overcome Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating. This book is an FBT-based book for parents who are helping adolescents with eating disorders. Dr. Muhlheim is active in several professional organizations. She is the Eating Disorders Expert for Verywell (formerly About.com) and is Clinical Director of the Eating Disorder Information website, Mirror-Mirror Eating Disorders. She presents nationally to parents, professionals, and trainees. She is active on social media and in eating disorder advocacy efforts. Find her online at EatingDisorderTherapyLA.com We discuss Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Eating Disorders, Family Based Therapy (FBT) for families with adolescents in recovery and Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).

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 better way of being an athlete and to try to educate others who are at risk of making the same mistakes.

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.

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 goals that fit individual interests. Her Body Kindness philosophy has been studied to help reduce depressive symptoms and heal body image in pregnancy and postpartum. A mom of two kids under 7, Rebecca is passionate about examining the cultural narrative around health, wellness, and worthiness while rejecting the pervasive myth that to achieve better health one must control their weight. You can find her writing in Washington Post, Self, and US News as well as appearances in over 100 global media outlets. We chat about her training as a dietician, discovering Intuitive Eating and Health At Every Size, her book Body Kindness, the upward spiral, weight stigma and raising two daughters.

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 created her own ads mocking Abercrombie & Fitch for discriminating against all body types—a move that landed her on the Today Show and garnered a loyal following for her raw, honest, and attitude-filled blog missives. When not writing, Jes spends her time speaking around the world, working with plus-size clothing companies, organizing body liberation events, taking pictures in her underwear and attempting to convince her cats that they like to wear bow ties. Learn more about Jes at TheMilitantBaker.com We talk about shame resilience, body liberation and trust, and the importance of caring for your mental health.

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 masterclass for those who desire freedom from diet prison. Louise is Vice President of Health At Every Size Australia, and is also a Member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), and a member of the Clinical College of the APS. She has a special interest in problematic eating, body image, and weight struggles. Louise fights to educate people about the cruel trap of dieting, which only sets us up to fail. She uses an evidence-based anti-dieting approach to empower people to achieve permanent lifestyle change. Louise is wholly committed to the Health At Every Size (HAES) movement, and to spreading the word about shifting our attitudes about weight and health. Louise is determined to make a difference in changing society’s perceptions about health, diets, weight loss, and bodies. Louise believes that people can approach health and happiness without attaching them to weight changes. She is for body diversity and against fat prejudice. We talk about how dieting doesn't work, the problems with weight loss surgery, the horrendous fast track trial in Australia and the Obesitive Collective and its connection to Novo Nordisk.

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 Dietitian, consulting for The Australian Ballet. Fiona is passionate about supporting people & communities heal their relationship with food and body, and is an advocate for bringing Non Diet Approach training into Universities throughout Australia.

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.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. We have another guest interview and this week I’m sitting down with Andrea Owen. Andrea is an author, mentor, and certified life coach who helps high-achieving women let go of perfectionism, control, and isolation and helps them choose courage and confidence instead. She’s helped thousands of women to manage their inner critic to create loving connections and live their most kick-ass life. We talk about her new book, the importance of noticing and naming your feelings and behaviours, and why knowing your values is so important.

Welcome to another instalment 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.

This week's guest on the podcast is Sigrún Daníelsdóttir. Sigrún is a clinical psychologist and for most of her career has worked with children and adolescents with eating and body image problems, both within treatment and prevention settings. Her current position is as project manager for mental health promotion at the Directorate of Health in Iceland. Sigrun started the Body Respect movement in Iceland, which focuses on promoting body satisfaction and respect for body diversity through various forms of social activism and advocacy. She is the organizer of various awareness-raising events, like the annual celebration of International No Diet Day in Iceland She is also the co-founder and former president of the Icelandic Association for Body Respect and the Icelandic Eating Disorders Association. And because of Sigrun’s activisim, following the Weight Stigma Conference in Reykjavik in 2015, the City of Reykjavik updated their human rights policy to include weight as a protected category. As part of the episode we talk about her eating disorder and recovery from it, weight stigma and weight discrimination and how, because of Sigrun’s activism work, the City of Reykjavik updated their human rights policy to include weight as a protected category.

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 Student Support Services Office. She earned a Ph.D. in Health Behavior with a concentration in human sexuality. She taught graduate and undergraduate classes in human sexuality, relationships and communication, stress management, and sex education. For eight years, she worked as a lecturer and Director of Wellness Education at Smith College, before transitioning to full-time writing and speaking. She now travels all over, training professionals, teaching college students and other lay people, and learning more every day about the science and art of sexual wellbeing. She is a trained Gottman Seven Principles educator, with extensive specialized training in bystander intervention, motivational interviewing, and cultural inclusivity, including race, gender, and class. Emily’s mission in life is to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies.

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.

This week it's a solo episode looking at the many causes of irregular periods, anovulatory cycles and missing periods (hypothalamic amenorrhea).

Welcome to another installment of Real Health Radio. This week I’m sitting down one of my past clients, Alex, to talk about what it’s been like working together. Alex had been dieting for almost 20 years when we started working together, and we chat about what inspired her to work with me, what we worked on, and the changes she’s seen in her life.

This week's guest on the podcast is Beverly Engel. Beverly Engel is an internationally recognized psychotherapist and an acclaimed advocate for victims of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. She is the author of 26 self-help books, including three bestselling books on emotional abuse. Beverly is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and has been practicing psychotherapy for 40 years. In addition to her professional work, Beverly frequently lends her expertise to national television talk shows. She has appeared on Oprah, CNN, and Starting Over, and many other TV programs. We talk about childhood abuse and neglect and the negative impact that this can have, with shame being a huge part of this. Self-compassion can be the antidote to shame but for someone with a history of abuse, there can be many obstacles to self-compassion. We talk about these obstacles and the ways to get past them.