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pepp talks with sue richards49 - From Overwhelmed to Business Owner: how SIMPLIFY helped Jemma launch Life Admin HiveIn this episode, Sue Richards speaks with Jemma Pimlott, founder of Life Admin Hive, about building a business as an overwhelmed mum while carrying the mental load of family life, home education, and work.Jemma shares her journey from social worker and community nurse to business owner, and how years of self-doubt, ADHD, perfectionism, and imposter syndrome kept her stuck in preparation mode. She explains how the SIMPLIFY programme helped her move from overthinking to implementation, launch her business, and sign paying clients.A powerful conversation for overwhelmed mums in business who feel stretched thin...
2026-02-0240 min
Love This Food ThingSex and Sensuality with Lisa G - Mini Menopause Pod SeriesWelcome back to our mini menopause series with nutritionist and health coach, Lisa G where we chat about some individual aspects of the menopause, or as we’re calling it ‘Four Short Dives from Two Short Divas’.In this fourth and final episode, we chat about sex, because it’s important, and no one needs to suffer in silence - plenty do - around libido/sex drive, vaginal dryness, ways to feel more sensual and to remind you that everyone’s sexual drive fluctuates during menopause.We discuss how hormonal changes can impact libido, body confidence...
2026-01-1213 minLove This Food ThingWhy Menopause Changes How You Need Protein with Lisa G - Mini Menopause Pod SeriesWelcome back to our mini menopause series with nutritionist and health coach Lisa G, where we chat about some individual aspects of the menopause.In episode three of our four-part menopause mini-series, Jemma is joined again by Lisa to talk about one topic that comes up again and again for women in midlife: protein.If you’ve ever felt more fatigued, foggy, hungry, or noticed your body responding differently to food during perimenopause or menopause — this episode is for you. And if you have a complicated relationship with food, you’re especially not alone.This...
2025-12-2913 minLove This Food ThingFood, Mood and Menopause with Lisa G - Mini Menopause Pod SeriesWelcome back to our mini menopause series with nutritionist and health coach, Lisa G where we chat about some individual aspects of the menopause, or as we’re calling it ‘Four Short Dives from Two Short Divas’.In this episode we chat about the impact of declining estrogen on neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and adrenaline, and how this affects mood and stress. Lisa explains the importance of nutrients such as Vitamin C, B vitamins, L-Theanine, and magnesium for supporting adrenal health and mental well-being.We also discuss food sources like leafy greens, supplements suitable for variou...
2025-12-1513 minLove This Food ThingBody Image and Weight Gain with Lisa G - Mini Menopause Pod SeriesWelcome to our mini menopause series with nutritionist and health coach Lisa G where we chat about some individual aspects of the menopause. Or as we’re calling it Four Short Dives from Two Short Divas.First up: Body Image and Perimenopause.We discuss the mind**** nature of our bodies changing, when there’s nothing you can do about it. Hormonal fluctuations. Embracing the change. Ways to get in touch with your body. Seeing menopause as a wonderful opportunity for a new beginning. And there’s an extra add on where...
2025-12-0818 minLove This Food ThingEating Disorder Treatment with Laura CaseyLaura Casey is the Director of Services at the Lois Treatment Centre for Eating Disorders in Dublin.Laura says: “For the person to realise WHY… always helps their recovery because although they can’t change what happened, they can know why this happened. And then what their triggers are, which gets them to a point where they’re more resilient because they’ve done the work.”Laura is passionate about a multi pronged approach for eating disorder recovery.In this episode, we talk about the healthcare system, accessing treatment and how the lack of resources...
2025-12-0150 minLove This Food ThingThe Menopause with Nutritionist and Health Coach, Lisa GLisa believes in using food as medicine.“The starting point for me with clients, if appropriate, is to balance out stress levels. I like to work holistically, it’s never ever just about the food you eat it’s all about small sustainable changes.”I met Lisa on a retreat. She hosted my welcome interview and instinctively knew I was on the edge of burn out. I was so comforted by her warmth and expertise that I invited her onto the podcast. From a young age Lisa suffered with polycystic ovaries and severe hormonal i...
2025-09-2258 minLove This Food ThingAnorexia and Recovery in the Middle Place with Mallary Tenore Tarpley“I found I wanted to stop time. If I could stay the same size as when my Mum was alive I could be closer to her. So I ended up restricting my food intake not because I wanted to be skinny but because I wanted to feel small and safe.”Mallary developed anorexia after the loss of her Mum. Some misguided nutritional education at school helped fuel her symptoms and OCD; a time consuming jumping habit. Young Mallary was determined to be perfect.Many years later when Mallary was teaching journalists how to write restorative narr...
2025-09-0153 minLove This Food ThingRunning and Anorexia with Sean BlakeSean says, “I always remember, one time, getting off the bike and just shivering, I think I’d even stopped sweating. I remember falling onto my bed. I have this memory of a long tunnel and there’s two silhouettes at the end of it. I don’t know where it came from. I blacked out. I went in to my wife and I said I need help. I think I’ve got a problem with food.I’d get up at 5am every morning to run. I’d run if it was raining, snowing, if I was injured. On...
2025-06-0956 minLove This Food ThingHealing from Within: An Intuitive Journey with Katie Beecher“Katie Beecher is… eerily accurate. Her readings… have a heavy dose of spiritual insight, too, which goes straight to what’s going on in your emotional life.”Katie Beecher, MS, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Medical and Emotional Intuitive with over thirty five years of experience. Katie is featured in over 200 media outlets including Goop, Kourtney Kardashian’s website Poosh and Miranda Kerr’s Kora Organics Blog.Katie says, “when I was 10 years old I went through early puberty. I was bullied relentlessly for what I looked like. For having breasts. For having hair. For being...
2025-05-1952 minLove This Food ThingWeight Loss Drugs and Overcoming Binge Eating with Marcelle Rose“I completely understand the pull (of weight loss drugs) why many people see it as a solution but I’m concerned about the fact that we don't have long term data or studies re the health effects and for people with eating disorders it can be a disaster and potentially create/contribute to disordered eating.”Our first podcast guest for 2025 is Marcelle Rose, an Emotional and Disordered Eating Specialist and registered dietician. We cover weight loss drugs, fear around food, appetite and Marcelle’s best selling book The Binge Freedom Method with her four pillar system to...
2025-04-2150 minLove This Food ThingOvercoming Eating Disorders with Lisa MarieSeason 8 concludes with Lisa Marie who recently returned to day treatment for anorexia.“I’ll be trying to get a meal deal in my half hour lunch break and half an hour will go by because I’m stood there, staring at everyone else watching them pick out the first sandwich they see.I’m like, should I have this one, should I have that one, what’s got less in, what’s got more in, should I get something else, should I not have anything. Shall I just have a coffee.It’s truly exhaus...
2024-11-1850 minLove This Food ThingMy Young Daughter and Anorexia with Emma“I can really remember that the relationship with self was difficult. If I trace back to that growing, lovely young girl at 7/8/9 there was a little shift in body shape. I could see she wasn’t happy with herself….I noticed a lot of self loathing creeping in. I used to really worry. I remember going into her room once and she was hitting her stomach.”Emma didn’t notice her daughter had developed anorexia until they were about to board a plane for a family holiday. Emma’s been on a steep learning curv...
2024-11-1156 minLove This Food ThingRelapsing and Recovery with Prue [Part 2]“Initially it didn’t look like a relapse. My frame of mind was, I exercise a lot, I’m in a place where I’m eating well. I feel a lot stronger, physically and mentally. I felt in such a good place I thought I would really like to lose some weight. I just wanted to feel I had some control over my body and the way it looked!”Welcome back to Prue Part 2, for another intimate and candid chat.Prue wishes to remain anonymous.Prue first spoke on the Love This Food Thing Podc...
2024-11-0455 minLove This Food ThingInherited Trauma Release Therapy with Jonathan Meenagh“We’re not just a product of our parents, but all our ancestors who came before us and what happened to them. We get an inheritance when we’re born into a family, the difficulties, events and patterns of how these people felt. What doesn’t get resolved in a family in the generation it happens is then passed onto the next generation that comes into the family."Jonny is an Inherited Trauma Release Therapist whose life was forever changed after his first trauma release session for hoarding (previously food) and sneaker addiction.Jonny’s rational a...
2024-10-2852 minLove This Food ThingHealing Anorexia and Binge Eating Using the Law of Attraction with Amanda DixonAmanda never imagined that she’d ever recover after 25 years of eating disorders and exercise bulimia.“The final turning point was when I had a huge binge one day and was extremely underweight. I went to exercise for four hours. My son was in daycare. I felt so much shame and guilt for eating so much I thought I’m going to make myself throw up. I’d tried before, but thankfully it never worked, but I tried until my throat was bleeding. I just lay on the bathroom floor and thought I cannot live with this...
2024-10-2148 minLove This Food ThingHealing From Abuse and Starvation with Alix NugentAlix was punished with starvation and isolation by some of the nuns at her Catholic Boarding School.“I remember being locked in the attic looking out the window and one of the girls said, there’s Alix. I shouted down, I’ve had no food and these girls who weren’t normally nice to me - they used to call me orphan - opened up their lunch boxes and threw their food up trying to get it through the window. I remember chocolate digestives flying through the air and hitting the floor. I was so grateful.”Alix bing...
2024-10-1451 minLove This Food ThingAnorexia Recovery and Nutritional Wellness with Anne Richardson“It was just a sense of not being good enough. Not good enough because I’m a girl and boys are better. At school I wasn’t good enough. I had everything I needed but my house wasn’t good enough. I lived in quite a messy house. A bit dirty really…I remember watching a film about a little girl doing ballet, and I did ballet and she ended up with an eating disorder. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great to have anorexia.”Anne’s home life was chaotic due, mostly, to her unpredictabl...
2024-10-0754 minLove This Food ThingBulimia and Alcohol Recovery with Ross BeckleyDuring the 1980’s Ross grew up in, “quite a chaotic household and bulimia was my bit of privacy. I’d go and lock myself in the bathroom - there was a big ritual around it, eating, feeling overly full and horrible, and then wanting to be sick. But I had the secrecy of the bathroom, like this is my little secret, which fed into the shame.”She felt particularly susceptible to the ideal body type of the day.At University Ross discovered alcohol and when she bought her first flat, at age 24, her eating disorders spiralle...
2024-09-3053 minLove This Food ThingOrri: A Place of Sanctuary, Safety and Shelter with Kerrie JonesKerrie is a leading Psychotherapist in the treatment of eating disorders and the founder and CEO of Orri, the Eating Disorder Treatment Clinic.“I think I knew from the age of twelve or thirteen that I would do something to help people. It felt really, really important to me and I know it’s a bit of a cliché but I always felt like I was somebody people would come and talk to and I liked being that person.A lot of my early training was looking at that. and understanding what it was about becau...
2024-09-2351 minLove This Food ThingOvercoming Food and Alcohol Addiction with Victoria PalmerVictoria is an award-winning Certified Reiki Master Teacher & Practitioner, Coach, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Guide & Moonologer. “I would stop at the garage on the way back from work and buy sandwiches and crisps and chocolate and eat those in the car on my way home. I was in a very destructive relationship at the time. I got bigger and bigger and bigger.” Victoria opted for surgical intervention to help with her binge-eating, quit drinking in 2010 and then had her daughter in 2015. During this time her spirituality blossomed, but some old food issues reappeared.After many y...
2024-09-1651 minLove This Food ThingAnswering Your Questions about Eating Disorders with Jemma RichardsEating Disorders are a broad church. We all have our stories to tell and unique perspectives to share.I believe that eating disorders are physical symptoms of internal distress with notable exceptions - sufferers with ARFID, varying shades of autism and ADHD, there are probably more - but mostly from my own experience and what I hear from others, it’s about manifesting stuff, “out there” because of an inability to deal with, for whatever reason, what is, “in here.” I also believe in everyone’s potential to recover and that recovery is not for the faint hea...
2024-03-0452 minLove This Food ThingTransforming Your Health and Habits with Steve BrennerSteve is a nutritionist and owner of the Mind Muscle Clinic.“Trying to educate people that it isn’t as difficult as it may seem, a lot of people who have come to me as a client dread it… but once they see the benefits it becomes a new habit. A new way of life."On one level, the “it” Steve talks about is health and fitness but on another, he’s alluding to the courage and motivation it takes to change what no longer serves you. Steve transformed his life.He gave up a...
2024-02-1248 minLove This Food ThingFrom Eating Disorder to Self-Love with Flurina Dominique Thali“I always said I’m recovering from eating difficulties and eating disorders. When I realised it’s much less about recovering, but about uncovering I started to call my journey the uncovering journey.” Flurina is an osteopath, dancer and creator of The Breathing Body Podcast.When Flurina was eleven she had an idea that being thin would make her happier. This random thought caused years of disordered eating and exercise. As time passed Flurina’s double life proved exhausting - bright and sunny on the outside, but internally, sad and depressed. She sought treatment/sup...
2024-02-0545 minLove This Food ThingAnorexia: A Mother’s Perspective with Lorraine“I sometimes feel that the eating disorder has tried to trick me. To feel that we’re getting somewhere and then that door shuts. I feel it morphs itself into something different.”I have wanted to interview a mother with a child who has an eating disorder ever since I started this podcast.Lorraine’s daughter is now in her early 30’s. Her eating disorder behaviour began when she was 15. It’s been a long hard slog for the entire family, but today they are in a better place.This is an intimate and raw epis...
2024-01-2950 min
Liv Label Free | Neurodivergent Eating Disorder RecoveryFinding Your Purpose After An Eating Disorder w/ Jemma Richards @lovethisfoodthingWhat does life look like after an eating disorder? Today, Livia chats with Jemma Richards, the creator and host of the Love This Food Thing Podcast. Her podcast pivots on the premise Is food friend or foe? and delves into how this relationship affects people’s behavior. Jemma believes that eating disorder behaviors are physical symptoms of internal distress, that is to say, symptomatic of an imbalanced relationship with the self. However, when properly understood and recovered from, these behaviors can be powerful healing tools. Topics discussed:
The eating disorder as a tangible manifestation of intangible fears
The realiz...
2024-01-2352 minLove This Food ThingAn Autistic and Neurodiversity Chat (Part 2) with Livia SaraIt was lovely to reconnect with Liv from the Liv Label Free Podcast for our autistic and neurodiversity chat. Liv has a unique and illuminating perspective and is very much about the lived experience helping others find their way without judgement or shame. This is a slightly random episode away from our normal fare. I was trialling new contact lenses to correct an astigmatism and they really affected my brain function (excuses, ahem). Spot the places where I struggle for words - I checked with my optician and she confirmed it’s tough on those neural pathways at...
2024-01-2244 minLove This Food ThingOn A Mission To Dismantle Diet Culture with Sabrina MagnanSabrina’s pivotal moment around her disordered eating and orthorexia happened when she became an aunt for the first time.“It should've been the happiest day of my life and all I remember is the food. I spent the entire day around the buffet table because my Mom had caterers and we had all this food I didn’t allow myself to eat.I kept filling my plate up and then going back for more to a point that I felt so sick… that night I sat in my parent’s basement, I felt so miserable...
2024-01-1557 minLove This Food ThingA Take on Nutrition and Learning to Embrace Food with Nicola Moore“Within my first few weeks of practicing people were coming in to see me who wanted a restrictive diet. It didn't make sense. I was concerned about people’s relationship with food… I decided what I wanted to do from the beginning was speak above that noise. I didn’t see it working for people all I saw was it making people more unwell and feeling anxious and fearful around food and that troubled me.”Growing up food was functional and Nicola didn’t look forward to eating due to some underlying digestive issues. Everything changed when...
2024-01-0252 minLove This Food ThingOur Festive Gift to You: Dogs, Food and Canine Behavioural Issues with Laura DohertyThis episode is kindly sponsored by Nell+Lola (delicious) Natural Dog Treats. Nell+Lola offer 100% natural treats and are supplied direct to you in a sustainable, plastic-free packaging – they’re good for your pet, and the planet! Use the code: LTFT15 to get 15% off your purchase. This is our festive gift to you all as we know how much (like us) you love your dogs! Laura Doherty is a dog trainer and behaviourist who uses force free and reward based methods only. Our dog Bella thinks Laura is her Mum even though I’ve told Be...
2023-12-1857 minLove This Food ThingAutism and Anorexia with Livia SaraWelcome to Season Seven.Our first guest, Livia Sara, is an autism advocate, writer and creator of the Liv Label Free Podcast. Liv says: “I like to compare the autism spectrum to the Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS)We have all these different rays, x-rays, gamma rays… what I love about the EMS there are so many rays we cannot perceive with the human eye but that doesn’t make these rays less powerful. We can’t always see autism, autism does not have a look but autistic people are incredibly powerful.”
2023-12-1151 minLove This Food ThingAstrology, Psychology, the Moon and the Mother with Reina James Reinstein“The human condition seems to bob along pretty well in the same place…. Trust is such an issue… I’ve seen very young babies who are already cut off, who’ve already decided that it ain’t going to happen so I might as well cope myself.That coping stance can become belligerent but it can also simply be a desperate sense of being absolutely adrift, cut off from your spaceship and just out there and then how you come back from that into safety and trust.”Reina has been a practising astrologer for over 30 years and like...
2023-07-3158 minLove This Food ThingMuscle Activation Techniques (MAT) Trauma and Over-exercise with Patrick SpringTrigger Warning: This episode has mentions of understanding calories in regards to units of energy.“The body doesn’t know the difference between chemical, physical and emotional stress.”Patrick is a top level Muscle Activation Techniques RX practitioner and trainer with over 20 years experience across the globe. He is also the author of Health and Fitness Perspective. MAT is relatively new but certain countries have realised its value and are sending their doctors, physiotherapists and colleagues to the USA for accreditation. It’s that good!I was very excited to be intro...
2023-07-2458 minLove This Food ThingVeganism, Bariatric Surgery and V-Land with Founder Will Callaghan and CEO El ArcherTrigger Warning: This episode has mentions of sexual assault. “V-Land is an all inclusive platform. Everybody and every body is welcome at V-Land. It doesn’t matter where you’re from, we will accept you for who you are. .. We say on V-Land you don’t need a passport…. We try to make veganism accessible for as many people as possible. This week I am joined by founder Will and CEO El, from V-Land, an online vegan magazine/platform in the UK and New York. If you are vegan or even remotely plant based or you just wan...
2023-07-1753 minLove This Food ThingAncestral Trauma and The Voice Behind the Symptom with Esther CohenEsther Cohen is an intuitive wisdom keeper, eating psychologist and guide for embodied wellbeing. Her work delves into the root cause of illness..."I think we can trace our disordered eating back to our ancestry and the past few 100 years where women in particular were put in the role that the thinner you were the more godlike or angelic you were. Numerous religious organisations had young women as altar angels and they were starved to death.’... and explores ancestral and familial trauma and importantly the voice behind the symptom.“So much of our alte...
2023-07-1053 minLove This Food ThingThe Embodiment of Male Therapists with Their Male Clients and ED Behaviours, with Maria Guiñazú“The therapists are identifying themselves as male, choosing this career as a second career, and they want to create spaces for other males to say, let’s talk about what’s going on with your relationship with food, your body, how you embody yourself in this world. Let’s talk about vulnerability and how fragile you feel when you see this “perfect” male body.”Practitioner and educator Maria returns to discuss her doctoral thesis and pilot study on the embodied lived experience of male therapists working with male clients with eating disorder behaviours.The societal, cultural and hi...
2023-07-0349 minLove This Food ThingHealing Mind Body and Spirit with Sarah Joseph and Five Element Acupuncture“The things that we do (and the behaviours that we take on) to cover our wound and our shadow can be complete masks. Sometimes when you ask someone how are you they will say, I’m fine. I have to go by their colour, sound, odour, emotion and pulses to understand what’s going on.”Sarah takes great pleasure in food, although in the past IBS caused her enough stress to render daily living unbearable. But when she encountered acupuncture for the first time, her life changed for the better.Sarah describes her initial experience as “magi...
2023-06-2651 minLove This Food ThingThe Eating Disorder Voice with Sarah Roberts and Phoebe DaleSarah Roberts and Phoebe Dale are trainee clinical psychologists completing their Doctorate of Clinical Psychology at Lancaster University.Sarah and Phoebe's area of research is around the “eating disorder voice” - that critical inner voice particular to eating disorders and often missed by eating disorder support services in favour of traditional ‘weight restoring’ methods. It has only recently, in the last decade, even been considered as valid.Sarah and Phoebe want this to change and for the eating disorder voice to be heard, listened to and expressed creatively, be it a story, a song or a pictur...
2023-06-1251 minLove This Food ThingRelative Energy Deficiency Syndrome (RED-S), Exercise and Eating Disorders with Allie Outram“Thinking of a comparison between psychological profiles of athletes and those with eating disorders... perfectionism, black and white thinking, high levels of self control, self expectations, competitiveness, compulsiveness, repetitive exercise routines...”There are so many parallels.“I don’t think you can be excellent at something without an element of obsessiveness.”Ex-athlete Allie Outram makes a welcome return and we deep dive into exercise when dealing with eating disorders, recovery and Relative Energy Deficiency Syndrome (RED-S).Allie explains RED-S in detail:Who’s at risk?What causes it?A...
2023-06-0552 minLove This Food ThingEating Disorders and Diabetes with Prue“I was a little girl really struggling. I would ring home in tears, I would end every phone call with my mother saying, Mum I love you. And I couldn’t end the phone call until she’d said it back.”Prue was sent to boarding school at age 10 and she was lonely, sad and desperate to return home. Age 12 she became anorexic and was diagnosed as a Type 1 diabetic.“In my mind I thought this is it. This will be the end of this misery but that was not the case. I came home only to be...
2023-05-291h 01Love This Food ThingPerfectionism and Finding Peace with The Gong Girl Athena Ko“One day I had to go to the trading floor. I walked down... I was like a size 6, as I was walking down the spiral staircase half the trading floor looked up and checked me out. At that moment I felt attractive but... my body was exhausted, I was barely eating anything, when I wasn’t working I was hitting the gym really hard, I wasn’t sleeping, but...I was like yep, this is it.”Athena grew up in Hong Kong with her Mum cooking fresh food until age thirteen when she went to boarding school in the U...
2023-05-221h 00Love This Food ThingHeal Your Relationship with Food and Your Body Using Conscious Manifestation Techniques with Good Vibe Coach, Jeannette MawJeannette Maw is a Master Certified Coach, founder of Good Vibe Coaching and the Good Vibe University and is a self described “manifesting geek.”“I didn’t turn this power (on) to myself until last, and that feels really irresponsible, I didn’t understand the importance of self-love, I thought I’d just manifest some cool stuff.The key to all of this (conscious manifestation) is a return to love, when I recognised that many of the thoughts I was thinking about food and my body were creating what I didn’t want, I learned how to change...
2023-05-1554 minLove This Food ThingImpulse Disorders and Psychedelic/Plant Medicine with Dr Richard Louis Miller“No one is saying if you take some psilocybin mushrooms or some LSD then you’re healed, no, it’s more like these substances help you go into your internal gold mine, where everything of importance is being and you get to see what’s inside and then after the experience in the days, weeks, months and years that follow you get to examine the nuggets of gold that you took out of that mine and shine them up. That’s when the work on impulse disorders takes place.”Dr Richard Louis Miller – Clinical Psychologist, broadcaster and host of the Mi...
2023-05-0959 minLove This Food ThingAthletics and Eating Disorder Behaviours with Allie Outram“I think eating disorders are one of the most powerful forms of nonverbal communication…”Allie is a former world-class athlete.At thirteen she won at the English School Championships.Motivated by talent, and the desire to make her Dad proud, Allie's athletic career blossomed, alongside a life threatening eating disorder."I guess in running it’s not surprising that traits of great athletes and characteristics of anorexia nervosa are similar.”So the scene was set for the next few years.Allie describes getting well as a long miracle –...
2023-05-0151 minLove This Food ThingBelief Coding® and the Arvigo Technique with Danielle RickwoodDanielle is a ‘root cause’ enthusiast.As a practitioner, Belief Coding® has been the missing link with regard to getting to the root cause of why someone has the discomfort they do…During her 20-year career in the wellbeing industry, Danielle has reached a point of clarity that pain management, be it physical, emotional or spiritual, will only get you so far unless the root cause of the pain is identified and healed.Danielle does this through Belief Coding® a method that upgrades peoples beliefs to support optimal wellbeing.Tune in to hear...
2023-04-2454 minLove This Food ThingBeating Intolerances, IBS and Baking with Luzolo NtimaOur finale to Season Five introduces Luzolo Ntima, founder of The Heavenly Cake Company and finalist in the 2022 Free From Awards.Luzolo creates, bakes and then sends plant based cakes and cookies in the post like a “hug in a box.”She says,“I have always believed that everybody deserves to eat cake, regardless of dietary preferences, whether it’s necessary or not, or if you’re diabetic, nobody should be cake-less.”Thought you couldn’t eat cake? Well, think again because with Luzolo – you can.. and it’s delicious!This is a gentle wind-d...
2022-11-2147 minLove This Food ThingBallet, Body Image and Healing Through Movement with Chrissy SundtChrissy Sundt is an ex ballerina, movement expert and founder of Silver Linings Well Being.Brought up as a strict vegetarian by her father. At home they were, “a weird Norwegian family living in this mad old house” who became “some of the forerunners of the organic farming movement” in the UK.At ballet school Chrissy learnt to internalise her emotional and physical struggles in the name and pursuit of balletic perfection.“Everyone thinks of ballet as this beautiful, elegant thing and actually it’s full of effort. We make it look effortless but it is ef...
2022-11-1452 minLove This Food ThingBullying, Body Image and a Plant-Based Diet with Lisa MarleyLisa Marley is a plant-based chef, presenter and Chef Trainer for Pro Veg.At school she, “Felt the odd one out. I didn’t have a good time at school and I wasn’t a happy child. Food was my friend but also the cause of quite a lot of unhappiness.”And at home her parents could be judgmental, “Oh, you’ve lost weight or you've put on weight. That was their theme and became my theme as well.”During her 20’s, Lisa worked in the fitness industry and then as a TV presenter.
2022-11-0750 min
Mind Body Health & PoliticsIs Food Friend or Foe? – Jemma RichardsComing to you from across the pond, I had the pleasure of speaking with Jemma Richards from the Love This Food Thing podcast. Now in the show’s fifth season, Jemma opens the door to conversations about food, creating a “smorgasbord” of stories for people to relate to and find support in. While we live thousands of miles away from each other, we found common ground in our ideas on food, society, and our desire to create a community of like-minded people. Through her show, much like mine, Jemma works to promote healing through the modality of sharing stories and en...
2022-11-0153 minLove This Food Thing35 Years of Anorexia and Full Recovery with Caroline Drummond SmithCaroline Drummond Smith battled with Anorexia for thirty-five years, which literally became her identity. During this time she brought up three children and stayed married. Now fully recovered, her familial relationships have not only survived, but thrived.“It’s never too late and it’s never too long. I am proof of that. If there is a part of you that truly wants to recover you can do it.”Today Caroline works as an Eating Disorder Coach utilising her experiences, warmth, and innate understanding to support her clients. Tune in for anot...
2022-10-3148 minLove This Food ThingAnorexia, Recovery and Staying Well with Gracie CarpenterGracie Carpenter has a story to share. One day she’ll write her memoir but until then you can hear some of it on Love This Food Thing’s second double episode.This is an excerpt from Gracie’s initial email:“I grew up with alcoholic parents, eventually moving to the care of my grandparents. Shortly after my mother’s death by suicide, I fell rapidly and violently into the clutches of anorexia… the road to recovery has been a long one I have since lost my father, my best friend and most recently her father, who...
2022-10-2447 minLove This Food ThingAnorexia, Grief and A Near Death Experience with Gracie CarpenterGracie Carpenter has a story to share. One day she’ll write her memoir but until then you can hear some of it on Love This Food Thing’s first double episode.This is an excerpt from Gracie’s initial email: “I grew up with alcoholic parents, eventually moving to the care of my grandparents. Shortly after my mother’s death by suicide, I fell rapidly and violently into the clutches of anorexia… the road to recovery has been a long one I have since lost my father, my best friend and most recently her father, who w...
2022-10-1744 minLove This Food ThingFood, Nutrition and Breast Cancer with Dr Tasha GandamihardjaOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.Dr Tasha is a consultant breast cancer surgeon - who wishes we were breast aware every month - and is dedicated to informing and educating people about this particular cancer that affects so many people over the world.The two highest risk factors for breast cancer are being female and ageing. Men can also develop breast cancer but few do - they have their prostate to tend to as they age.Find out about Dr Tasha’s relationship with food. She became vegetarian at medical school but ou...
2022-10-1053 minLove This Food ThingTalking Trauma, Eating Disorders and Healing with Emmy BrunnerPsychotherapist Emmy Brunner is a personal empowerment and transformation coach, CEO of the Recover Clinic and creator of an awakening and healing programme, From Lost to the River.The core tenet of Emmy’s practice is that our mental health conditions are a response to trauma. She says:“Everything from mild anxiety to more significant depressive episodes, everything that we talk about as mental health problems are the result of and a response to trauma.”Growing up Emmy felt a “general blanket sense of unworthiness” and was invested in an overall lack of self-care...
2022-10-0342 minLove This Food ThingADHD, Eating and Food Disorders with Becca KingGrowing up Becca enjoyed eating but feared gaining weight, which caused complications.In an attempt to control her environment and over-stimulated brain she ate less. Becca lost a lot of weight especially during her teenage years when her family relocated and she changed schools; fixating on food helped her focus.Her eating disorder’s shape shifted from anorexia to binge eating. At nineteen, Becca was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed medication. Along with specific practical support her symptoms improved.It was only when Becca was studying to be a dietician - learning about th...
2022-09-2651 minLove This Food ThingThe Role of Trauma and PTSD in Eating Disorders with Joelle Rabow Maletis“It was the perfect storm, an internal conflict and an external conflict. I was being driven by the need to be perfect, the need to fit into an aesthetic world where I was being judged not just on my talent and ability” but on how I looked.Joelle trained in ballet and was dancing professionally at sixteen. She describes herself as, “short, curvy and mouthy,” the antitheses of a ballerinaJoelle was loved but home life felt turbulent, she was constantly treading on eggshells. She also endured gastro-intestinal issues and was diagnosed as coeliac when older.
2022-09-1451 minLove This Food ThingFood, Hunger and Manifestation with Leon AartsAfter my initial approach to the Felix Project they suggested Head Chef, Leon Aarts. Rich, our sound engineer left a note on my final audio saying, “we need more people like Leon”.He’s right. We do!Leon comes from a food-loving family; he remembers feasts around his Grandparents’ dining table, his mother’s love of cooking and lying in bed dreaming of eating and never feeling full.Leon was an overweight boy and although nurtured by family and friends he quietly craved validation and felt not good enough.When Leon changed hi...
2022-09-0551 minLove This Food ThingOvercoming Anorexia and Bingeing with Singer Songwriter Stella AngelikaStella was born into a Greek Cypriot family – a culture that loves and celebrates food - and as a child she ate freely without issue. Stella’s real joy came from performing, grabbing every opportunity to perform both at home, and school.Despite her burgeoning talent Stella experienced an acute awareness of any ways in which she might be different. As she grew older these feelings left her feeling completely out of control. Secondary school was traumatic but at sixteen Stella fell in love with classical singing and three years later won a place at The Royal Nort...
2022-06-2047 minLove This Food ThingAllergies, Anxiety and Eating Disorders with Oli WeatherallOli was born via Caesarean (C-section). At nine months he developed a severe egg allergy and was given antibiotics for an ear infection.His Mum, heeding medical advice excluded nuts from Oli’s diet from then on in a bid to ease his symptoms - current thinking encourages the inclusion of potential allergens Oli is aligned with growing evidence that delivery by C-section increases the risk of allergies and inhibits gut microbiome.Young Oli took his own special chocolate cake to birthday parties, as his Mum didn’t want him to feel left out. L...
2022-06-1354 minLove This Food ThingUlcerative Colitis and Living with a Stoma with Christian HolcombeChristian says, “ten years ago no one knew what a stoma was, especially if they were in their twenties” and it’s one reason why he didn’t share his stoma or condition with anyone other than family and close friends.Young Christian was a picky eater but as a teenager he enjoyed a more varied diet even showing an interest in nutrition.When Christian developed uncomfortable physical symptoms he went to his GP and was diagnosed with haemorrhoids and then IBS. However his discomfort persisted and a colonoscopy later confirmed that he was suffering from ulc...
2022-06-0651 minLove This Food ThingChildhood Trauma, Anorexia and Bulimia with Carolina MountfordCarolina had an unstable childhood with an alcoholic father and emotionally distant mother who could be physically abusive. When Carolina was nine her mother put her on a diet.Bullying at school, compounded by disparaging remarks from her brothers made Carolina feel worthless, like “the fat kid” and as if she were somehow inherently wrong.However, it was her mother’s revelation during a rare conversation that catapulted her over the edge and into full-blown eating disorders.“The world just stopped, for such a long time, and then it just imploded.”Years of f...
2022-05-3049 minLove This Food ThingHungry City and Sitopia - How to Feed and Save the World with Carolyn SteelCarolyn Steel is a leading thinker on food and cities; she was hailed by The Ecologist Magazine as a, ‘21st Century Visionary.”Carolyn was brought up in a family who celebrated food at every opportunity. Her grandparents ran a country house hotel and Carolyn spent endless weekends in the kitchen behind the scenes fascinated with everything, food.She says, “Food is pure love. A love affair! I always get very excited when I’m hungry because I know it’s time to eat again.”Carolyn, initially, trained as an architect but when she learnt to vi...
2022-05-2357 minLove This Food ThingNutritional Healing with Dan PriceDan was always the “skinny kid,” who played sports at Academy level. He had a small appetite and scant regard for food but was happy to eat whatever was put in front of him at home.Dan’s interest in food grew at University where he hit the gym to build muscle and attain the stereotypical male physique portrayed in videos, and the social media platforms at that time.Then food became functional, a tool for achieving goals, namely weight gain followed by weight loss. Dan found both journeys difficult and revelatoryBut his en...
2022-05-1650 minLove This Food ThingPolycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and Low Carbohydrate Eating with Niki ReinNiki Rein was born in Seattle where the climate, similar to Northern Europe, dictates a carbohydrate heavy diet.An avid soccer player and very active, Niki’s hormonal problems began when she was twelve. Years of debilitating symptoms, trips to the doctor and pharmaceutical prescriptions followed as Niki fought her body and her “unknown” condition.During her late teens Niki read “Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom” by Christiane Northrup who described the symptoms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). Niki knew immediately that the description matched everything she had been going through and when a medical diagno...
2022-05-0954 minLove This Food ThingFood Balance, Regular Eating and Exercise with Jamie BourneCompared to his younger brothers and school friends, Jamie was a ‘chubby kid’ who always wanted larger portions. At home, his parents made healthy, wholesome food, which meant Jamie ate well and freely. Today, he enjoys a well-nuanced relationship with food and his body.Jamie liked sport but when he went to University he fell in love with the gym and lifting weights.Initially pursuing a career in PR Jamie enjoyed socialising and office culture but his diet and exercise suffered.Later on, work felt unfulfilling. He changed jobs several times; chasing an elus...
2022-05-0253 minLove This Food ThingPre Vegan(s) and Veganism with Sean RussellSean was an overweight child, maybe because of his parents' divorce. One of Sean’s fondest food memories growing up is the Burger King, and Pizza Hut treats given him by his Mum who was a single parent.Sean’s life took off when he started his career in media production. Overnight all focus on food lessened, although being in the public eye brought certain pressures, which were reflected in his fluctuating weight and varied exercise regimes.When Sean first encountered veganism he took it on as a personal challenge liking that it was hard to d...
2022-04-2548 minLove This Food ThingBinge Eating Disorder and Grief with Lizzie AckerleyGrowing up in a small, parochial town Lizzie felt like an outsider, as if she didn’t belong.At school she viewed her body in a functional way – good for sports - not how it might appear to others and when critical comments were made she became bulimic. When Lizzie went to University and found her “tribe” the bulimia stopped. Lizzie spent time working as a model, despite the scrutiny, she felt empowered. But when her Mum died, after a short illness Lizzie was heart-broken. She began to binge in secret.For the ne...
2022-04-1847 minLove This Food ThingEating Disorders with the Founder of Altum Health, Dr Courtney Raspin“Food is joyful, sensual, fulfilling and stimulating. I think it is one of life’s primary and biggest pleasures.”Courtney hails, originally, from Texas but spent her formative years in Los Angeles training as a dancer and modelling.Not surprisingly body issues dominated, and within her family, great emphasis was placed on physicality.Basing her value as a person on her outward appearance affected Courtney’s mental health but everything fell into place when she swapped dance training for a career in psychology.Courtney moved to London and worked in an NHS Eati...
2022-04-1149 minLove This Food ThingBody Activism, Weight Stigma and Fat Phobia with Serena NangiaWELCOME TO SEASON 4! Joining us for the first episode is body activist, Serena Nangia.Serena is a disruptor. Her mission is to challenge prejudicial beliefs about body issues and stereotypes. She raises the voices of those who are ignored or living in marginalised communities. Serena grew up in a busy household. Both her parents worked long hours as medical practitioners, despite her mother’s ill health. It was Serena who first spotted her younger sister’s eating disorder and there is good reason as to why Serena is known as, “second Mum” in her family...
2022-04-0447 minLove This Food ThingEating Disorders, Depression and PTSD with Lydia GoldmanLydia led an expat lifestyle, forever on the move due to her father’s job. By seventeen, Lydia had been to eleven schools. No time to make friends or put down roots. Consequently she suffered from depression and craved parental attention.Lydia enjoyed food, despite some critical comments from family members, and went along with her parents as they embraced healthy eating and exercise. But life began to unravel when the family relocated to Indonesia and she became unwell – a cycle of compulsive exercise, anorexia and bulimia.The all-familiar, familial struggles coupled with an abusive rela...
2022-01-2450 minLove This Food ThingDigestive Issues, ADHD and Food with Ian ChattamIan was a sensitive child who suffered debilitating migraines and digestive issues from a young age.Desperate to be free of these symptoms, Ian eliminated certain foods that severely restricted his diet. His parents, both professional chefs, did their utmost to feed him healthy and varied food, especially his Mum. But, what they couldn’t prevent was the extreme anxiety Ian felt and the physical behaviours he exhibited as a result of their divorce.Some respite came by way of a therapist (which was unusual for a child in 1970’s Britain) and Ian enjoyed moments of “...
2022-01-1749 minLove This Food ThingFood, Nutrition and Fertility with Sally DixonSally Dixon aka The Fertility Chef has had an interesting relationship with food.As a young child, she regularly enjoyed restaurants with her parents.At fifteen Sally stopped eating. Months later and to the relief of her worried parents Sally saved them further upset when she declared herself “too thin” in some holiday snaps. And she began to eat again.As a student Sally eschewed making food in the shared, and grubby collegiate kitchen for meals from a tin. Even later, working in the fashion industry meant long hours and even shorter meals.
2022-01-1049 minLove This Food ThingAnxiety, Anorexia and Fashion with Eve SimmonsEve is the deputy health editor at The Mail on Sunday - a writer and a journalist. Eve has happy childhood memories around food.At school she felt different, shy and “uncomfortable in her own skin.”Four days before Eve’s thirteenth birthday her father died. Two years later she experienced her first serious bout of anxiety.Eve’s anxiety remained constant, at University, and beyond as she started her new career within the media/fashion industry.Work was exciting and stressful. Prior to her new job Eve dismissed fashion’s...
2022-01-0453 minLove This Food ThingHealing Food Disorders Through Music and Sound with Tallulah RendallTallulah Rendall is a singer/songstress and sound therapist. She was only seven when sent to boarding school and attributes her career to not only “healing the experiences” she had then, but also helping her navigate through life’s challenges.Significantly, during her teens, Tallulah caught glandular fever, which made her instantly allergic to a long list of foods coupled with multiple physical symptoms. She was often defeated by her weakened immune system and digestive issues caused by endless antibiotics.Later, on tour in Australia, she collapsed from hypoglycemia caused by the rigors of being on the...
2021-12-2050 minLove This Food ThingCompulsive Eating, Secret Bingeing and Transformation with Daniel ButcherDan was an overweight child. From an early age he ate big portions, especially the man-sized breakfasts cooked by his Dad (before school). Dan felt happy, momentarily, when full.No one ever said, “that’s too much,” or, “you don’t need all that”. He wished they had.Dan loved competitive sports and still does. He considers it an effective remover of bias gaining self-worth and confidence through sporting prowess. Dan threw himself into everything. Locker-room banter sometimes hurt. Again, no one asked whether his increasing weight was symptomatic of distress. And, again, he wished they had.Dan...
2021-12-1347 minLove This Food ThingBinge Eating Disorder and Obesity with Debbie ButcherWhen Debbie Butcher was nineteen she left home for a new life in the South East despite her Mum begging her not to go. Leaving was the worst decision Debbie ever made and to this day, she remains full of regret.It wasn’t long before her two adorable sons were born, but the wedded bliss Debbie left home for, ebbed away leaving her feeling lost, isolated and alone.With no one to turn to, Debbie sought comfort in food. Overnight, her once healthy and balanced way of eating became obsessive and compulsive com...
2021-12-0650 minLove This Food ThingKicking The Junk Food, Fitness and TRX with Jay BrockwayWhen Jay was tiny he spat out the food prepared by his Mum. As he grew, despite her best efforts, Jay would only eat processed food. He was, he says, “an absolute nightmare!”His Mum, keen for Jay to eat, filled the cupboards with chicken nuggets, pizza and spaghetti hoops, which Jay washed down with vast quantities of Dr Pepper.This heady combination kept him going at school and on the football field until one day Jay gave up his dreams of a professional football career and moved to London for a Personal Training course.
2021-11-2950 minLove This Food ThingExercise Addiction, Disordered Eating and Hypothalamic Amenorrhea with Sarah Liz KingSarah Liz King was a straight ‘A’, high achieving, show jumping and dressage competing kid. This mentality served her well until a digestive issue had her cutting out food groups and later, while training for the bodybuilding, “bikini class”, in the grip of a serious exercise addiction“The smaller I got, the unhappier I got, and the smaller my life became.” Exhausted, trapped and in a downward spiral, Sarah reached out for help. With the right support she was able to unwind and, finally, recover. Today Sarah is Health at Every Size (HAES) Exercise Physio...
2021-11-2247 minLove This Food ThingAnorexia, Feeling Invincible & Learning to Dump the Scales with Hope VirgoWhen Hope was very young she was scared of food. It made her nervous, and “afraid, for a very long time.” Family meals were dysfunctional; arguments commonplace at the dinner table.Unable to express herself and hyper-aware of what she looked like, Hope followed diets, counted calories and fought for control by restricting her food.When she was sexually abused, Hope buried the feeling that there was something “categorically wrong” with her deep within her psyche.Later, Hope’s anorexia made her feel invincible. Protected. However on holiday with teenage friends, Hope realised no one els...
2021-11-1549 minLove This Food ThingBulimia Nervosa and Recovery with the Eating Disorder Therapist, Harriet FrewHarriet was brought up on a busy family farm. Her Mum was a great cook and Harriet had a healthy relationship with food. But during her teenage years she developed bulimia nervosa when she tried to break free from familial expectations.Harriet found freedom at University and through travel. She returned to the UK to further study. As her understanding and fascination around eating disorders grew, she felt finally able to let go of her destructive behaviours. Harriet now works as a therapist in an adult Eating Disorder Unit and runs a small private practice. S...
2021-11-0848 min
Reclaiming MUMFrom frazzled to fired up with Sue RichardsThis week, I’m joined by the awesome Sue Richards. Sue is a health and performance coach, helping ambitious self-employed mums go from frazzled to fired up by making simple tweaks to their diet and lifestyle. In this episode we dive into: Sue's personal experience with food and exercise and how it became such a passion for her How to become intuitive when it comes to living a healthier lifestyle Damaging messaging in the wellbeing space Feeling fired up in life and business What success looks like Tips on how to feel your be...
2021-10-1450 minLove This Food ThingBinge-Eating Disorder, Anorexia and Feeling EMPTY with Susan BurtonSusan Burton is an author, writer and editor on This American Life. Her brilliant memoir Empty was published in 2020 to critical acclaim. Chronicling the binge-eating disorder and subsequent anorexia which dominated Susan’s life, Empty is a must read for anyone with any type of eating disorder/addiction or for those who simply love a good book.As a kid Susan was scared of food. Scared that food would make her sick or that, “something would get in me, that I could never get out.” When she was nine she went on a diet and barely a...
2021-08-1354 minLove This Food ThingAnorexia, Depression and Sexual Abuse with JL KeezJL was brought up on a farm in Southern Australia. She was a perfect student and daughter but life at home was strict and often cruel. At fifteen, in a new school, JL was bullied. She wondered if it was down to how she looked and longing for acceptance decided not to eat.Years of anorexia, marriage and children followed along with OCD, depersonalisation, illness and suicidal depression. When her marriage collapsed JL held it together for the sake of her kids but it was only when she met a therapist and began to unearth forgotten memories...
2021-07-3055 minLove This Food ThingThe Homebody (if your body spoke what would it say?) with Maria GuinazuMaria is a psychologist and educator.Maria was born and raised in Argentina. As a kid she loved to dance. Her Mum was a great role model but Maria still felt not good enough amongst her “beautiful” peers.After some tough years at school, Maria’s interest in the mind-body connection led her to study psychology, move to London and continue her psychological quest.And then, out of the blue, devastating news: Maria’s Mum died.Months later, still numb with disbelief, Maria was invited to study at the Tamalpa Institute for Expr...
2021-07-1648 minLove This Food ThingAstronauts, OCD and the Contaminated Kitchen with Ian Puleston-DaviesIan Puleston-Davies was an anxious boy who dreamt of being an astronaut. Not to see the moon or world from space, but so he could eat NASA’S packs of powdered food worry free. At home, gravy splashed on plates turned the food to ‘goo and stick.’ Tiptoeing over manure into Auntie Margaret’s farmhouse kitchen, where food was thrown about, had Ian shaking and twitching in his own private bedlam.For Ian, the kitchen is a nuclear reactor: a place of contamination. Sell by dates glow neon and mean poison. He longs to cook from his...
2021-07-0259 minLove This Food ThingEating Disorders and Body Dysmorphic Disorder with Tracy NorthamptonTracy Northampton is a psychotherapist and yoga teacher specialising in eating disorders and addiction. She is Governor at St Andrew’s Healthcare, Patron of the Body Dysmorphic Foundation and, currently, runs a private practice in Central London. When Tracy was young the family kitchen was a no-go zone. Meals were rushed - eat to survive, get the job done. In her teens study replaced sport and she became bulimic. Guilt and shame were the tenants in her secret life until a chance encounter with Princess Diana helped her fully recover and pursue her psychotherapeutic career. Tracy...
2021-06-1854 minLove This Food ThingBulimia, Recovery and The Artist’s Way with Katie BarbaroKatie’s Mum was often on a diet and struggled with her body. When Katie followed suit her Mum said she was perfect. But Katie felt confused.“I couldn’t trust what she was telling me.” The discrepancy rang loud and clear.At Grad School Katie over-exercised, controlled her food and ended up bulimic. But when she finally understood, “It’s not the pain that brings us down, it’s the shame around the pain.” (Glennon Doyle) her world began to change. Find out how Katie turned her recovery and body into a creative project...
2021-06-0447 minLove This Food ThingNot Falling Through the Cracks with Abby AttenboroughAbby is a registered associate nutritionist, personal trainer and founder of A + NUTRITION. At school, Abby played sports to a high level. Her skinny friends called her ‘muscly’ but she lived to eat and took care of her nutritional needs.However, at University her relationship with food and exercise soured and she developed anorexia and bulimia. What had started as one thing became something else entirely. But, Abby is ambitious; she knew her lifestyle and the resultant damage would prevent her achieving her goals, and maybe, destroy her chance to become a Mum. So… s...
2021-05-2147 minLove This Food ThingPersonal Training, Social Media and Snacks on the Sofa with Niko AlgieriNiko Algieri is an entrepreneur, celebrity personal trainer and TRX Director of Trainer Branding. Born into a family of elite athletes he felt compelled to continue the family theme. Fitness is his life and business is booming but it takes mettle to stay at the top. For Niko food is friend AND foe. He says, “how can it not be both?’ But it’s not easy. Even for him. Find out what Niko thinks about food, fitness and more while you run in the park or put your feet up. EPISODE TI...
2021-05-0741 minLove This Food ThingWalk on the Wild Side and Recovery with Robin HarfordRobin Harford is a plant based forager, ethnobotanical researcher and wild food educator. As a child Robin sought sanctuary in the woods and moorlands of Devon and later in alcohol and drugs. But, the wild plants of yore were never far from his mind.So, when life as he knew it fell apart he settled to study the plants of his youth and included many from all over the world. In forests, jungles and cities, he learnt to pause, sense and nibble.Find out how Robin’s recovery practice helps him get into “the sub...
2021-04-2356 minLove This Food ThingWe're back for another season!We are BACK for another season of This Food Thing!After receiving such amazing feedback from Season 1, we knew we had to continue the podcast and conversation of food, whether it's friend or foe. We've got an awesome line up of guests for this season and I can't wait to share them with you! The first episode of Season 2 will be launching on April 23, 2021 at 9am, London time. In the meantime, head over to @thisfoodthingpodcast to catch all the sneaky peeks before the Season Two launch and don't forget to subscribe!
2021-04-0903 min
The Eating Disorder TherapistEating Disorder Recovery and This Food Thing Podcast, with Jemma RichardsToday I'm talking to Jemma Richards, voice-over artist and writer. Jemma is also the host of This Food Thing Podcast and lives in London.
Jemma talks openly about her torturous relationship with food and her body, starting from a young age, and how this developed into eating disorders. She shares the painful reality of living with an eating disorder; exploring the secrecy, shame and life engulfment.
Jemma has recovered from eating disorders. In this conversation, she talks about her long and arduous journey through different therapies and other support, to finding the peaceful food place that she occupies to...
2021-02-2038 minLove This Food ThingWeight Loss, Fighting and Denial in the Covert World of Boxing with Mister Ian StreetzIan took his first martial arts class when he was five. With his professional fight career behind him he continues to live and breathe every hook and jab. What Ian doesn’t know about boxing, isn’t worth knowing. However, he readily admits to the industry’s disavowal regarding eating disorders. It’s not even up for discussion. But we discussed it, and then some more. Listen to the expert Mister Streetz and his brilliant, fighting talk. Episode Timestamps:[03:15] - Ian’s relationship with food and olfactory nerve damage[10:00] - Reflecting on childhood memor...
2021-01-0848 minLove This Food ThingOver Exercise, Perfectionism and Control Around Food with Charlotte ToothWhen Charlotte was a child, food was limited and plain. Sometimes, she went to bed hungry. As a dancer this helped her limit her food and over-train, such were the demands of her profession. But it didn’t help her overall health and wellbeing. Charlotte avoided the various pitfalls in the dancing world but even now she struggles to eat “different” food and feels too poor to eat posh. Hear how she maintains balance in her new life. Episode Timestamps:[02:37] - Food in the dancing world[10:03] - Poor, potatoes and going to bed hungr...
2021-01-0841 minLove This Food ThingStuck in a Bulimic and Anorexic Cycle After Years of Bullying with Maali Khan-StokesMaali was bullied at school and became bulimic when she was a teen. Her love of performing kept her sane but at home her ‘perfect’ Mum and older sister added to the mix. Maali veers between not eating and binging. Sometimes, when she’s busy she forgets but most days are a constant battle. She’s not ready to stop her behaviours, however harmful, because right now... they help. Listen to Maali’s candid overview on what led her to this place.Episode Timestamps:[03:58]- Being bullied from 6-18 years old[06:48] - Bulimia and...
2021-01-0847 minLove This Food ThingMaking Peace with Bullying, Bulimia, and Shame with Jane PerryJane Perry was brought up in suburban Canada.As a child she experienced conflict around food. When her best friend’s Mums’ said, “You’re too fat to play with our daughters” the scene was set for bulimia, over- exercise and shame.Now fully recovered and a successful actor, feelings of shame and not being good enough still arise, especially, in front of the camera. In this episode, hear the myriad ways Jane manages her issues and how her love of acting saves the day. Episode Timestamps:[02:00] - Using food as a reward...
2021-01-0844 minLove This Food ThingOvercoming Struggles with Bulimia, Alcohol and Self-acceptance with Roger Lloyd-ThompsonRoger recalls how his Dad’s comment, “Roger you’re getting a spare tyre”, helped set him up for a painful and profound relationship with his body until a life-changing conversation with a Robin. Join me in this first guest episode to hear how Roger conquered his demons and turned his life around, as he struggled with bulimia, alcohol and self-acceptance. A story that has the potential to be doom and gloom is in fact warm, funny and wise.Episode Timestamps:[02:23] - Dad’s ‘spare tyre’ comment[09:26] - Roger’s food issues start: Laxatives...
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