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Love ShortageCan platonic love give us what our parents didn't?Can we learn to express love when our parents never showed us how? Do we even have the words for it?
And what about platonic love—how does friendship shape the way we love?
These are the big, heartfelt questions I’m exploring today with my wonderful guest, Ruth Steggles.
Ruth is a coach who helps parents navigate the deeply challenging journey of supporting a child with an eating disorder—a path she’s walked herself.
Ruth’s warmth, wisdom, and kindness shine through in this conversation as we unpick what love...2024-12-0836 min
The Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderSpotlight - Ruth, Marie and JacquelineSpotlight: Conversations with people who have useful information around eating disorders
Ruth's Website: https://ruthsteggles.co.uk
Ruth's Substack: https://substack.com/@ruthsteggles2024-10-0859 minThe Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderSpotlight - Ruth and Zoë HardwoodSpotlight: Conversations with people who have useful information around eating disorders
Zoë Harwood is the founder of Light Minds Collective - compassionate mindset coaching for women and teenagers with negative body image, eating disorders and low self-esteem. She guides those who are suffering to realise long-term fulfilment can be achieved by integrating nurturing the mind, body, and soul.
Website: www.lightmindscollective.comSocial Media links:
IG @lightmindscollective/LinkedIn Zoë Harwood
How to get in touch with Zoe: hello@lightmindscollective.com or direct message on Instagram
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Emma from Soulfully You Reflexology, in a nutshell is a Reflexologist who offers treatments, mini retreats and 1-2-1 neurodiverse coaching with a twist.
She grew up with epilepsy until she underwent brain surgery in 2004.
She is a recently diagnosed Autistic and ADHD person with a Neurodiverse family.
Emma has been on a huge transitional rollercoaster journey, gaining lots of experience and understanding around neurodiversity and has helped m...2024-09-171h 07The Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderHeadtorch - Communication IHeadtorch: Ruth talks about what you need to be able to support your child or the person you care for with an eating disorder.
Ruth's Website: https://ruthsteggles.co.uk
Ruth's Substack: https://substack.com/@ruthsteggles2024-08-3016 minThe Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderSpotlight - Ruth & Kel O NeillSpotlight: Conversations with people who have useful information around eating disorders.
Kel is the Services Lead, Educator & Therapist at Kel O'Neill Counselling and Services, offering counselling, training and bespoke services with a special interest in Eating Disorders.
The work that she does involves her wearing a few different hats—at various times, Counsellor / Psychotherapist, an Educator, and Researcher. She is deeply passionate about understanding the intricacies of Eating Disorders and sharing that knowledge with others, whether it involves working one-on-one with someone affected by an Eating Disorder, teaching a room full of pr...2024-08-231h 09The Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderHeadtorch - Dealing with anger and frustrationHeadtorch: Ruth talks about what you need to be able to support your child or the person you care for with an eating disorder.
Ruth's Website: https://ruthsteggles.co.uk
Ruth's Substack: https://substack.com/@ruthsteggles2024-08-1609 minThe Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderSpotlight - Ruth & Linn ThorstenssonSpotlight: Conversations with people who have useful information around eating disorders.
Linn Thorstensson is a Non-Diet Nutritional Therapist who offers nutritional counselling to folk who struggle with their relationship to food, eating and their body.
She strives to practice from a Health At Every Size, trauma informed and social justice lens. (I am however human and won’t always get it right!).
In her work she draws on a multitude of modalities, such as Intuitive Eating, Mindfulness, CBT, Motivational Interviewing Neuroscience, Somatic practices and Nutritional Therapy, with the intention to work with my cl...2024-08-091h 09The Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderHeadtorch - Using your strengthsHeadtorch: Ruth talks about what you need to be able to support your child or the person you care for with an eating disorder.
Ruth's Website: https://ruthsteggles.co.uk
Ruth's Substack: https://substack.com/@ruthsteggles2024-08-0215 minThe Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderSpotlight - Ruth & Richard PalmerSpotlight: Conversations with people who have useful information around eating disorders.
Ruth talks to Richard Palmer who founded The Eating Disorder Recovery Clinic in April 2023.He absolutely loves working in the eating disorders field and watching clients recover. It is the most challenging, and rewarding, work that he has ever undertaken. It’s no secret that he rages at the general level of eating disorder treatment in the UK. Too much of the treatment provided by statutory and independent organisations is just not good enough. Richard's goal with The Eating Disorder Re...2024-07-261h 03The Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderHeadtorch - Trusting YourselfHeadtorch: Ruth talks about what you need to be able to support your child or the person you care for with an eating disorder.
Ruth's Website: https://ruthsteggles.co.uk
Ruth's Substack: https://substack.com/@ruthsteggles2024-07-1915 minThe Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderSpotlight - Ruth & Jo WhitfieldSpotlight: Conversations with people who have useful information around eating disorders.
Jo Whitfield is the National Lead, Wales for Beat
Beat is the UK’s eating disorder charity. Beat exists to end the pain and suffering caused by these devastating mental illnesses.
Eating disorders are a growing mental health crisis. Right now, around 1.25m people in the UK are living with an eating disorder. That’s more than one in 50 people and the emotional and physical damage affects millions of loved ones. Jo Whitfield is the National Officer in Wales and has worked for Bea...2024-07-1240 minThe Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderHeadtorch - Practicalities - doing the right thingsHeadtorch: Ruth talks about what you need to be able to support your child or the person you care for with an eating disorder.
Ruth's Website: https://ruthsteggles.co.uk
Ruth's Substack: https://substack.com/@ruthsteggles2024-07-0519 minThe Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderSpotlight - Ruth, Michelle Barden & Hannah LewisSpotlight: Conversations with people who have useful information around eating disorders.
Ruth talks to Michelle and Hannah who are a research team funded by Gloucestershire NHS ICB to facilitate The Body Project to young people in the county. They are based at the University of Gloucestershire.
Find them on Instagram @bodyprojectgloucestershire and their website www.bodyprojectgloucestershire.co.uk
If you want to get in touch you can email them thebodyproject@glos.ac.uk
Ruth's Website: https://ruthsteggles.co.uk
Ruth's Substack: https://substack.com/@ruthsteggles2024-06-2851 minThe Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderHeadtorch - Getting ResourcedHeadtorch: Ruth talks about what you need to be able to support your child or the person you care for with an eating disorder.
Ruth's Website: https://ruthsteggles.co.uk
Ruth's Substack: https://substack.com/@ruthsteggles2024-06-1915 minThe Recovery Cwtch - For parents who have a child with an eating disorderSpotlight - Ruth & Helen MissenSpotlight: Conversations with people who have useful information around eating disorders
In this episode Ruth talks to Helen Missen.
Helen is a retired nurse, and mother to 3 adult children. Their family have lived on the Welsh/Shropshire borders for 17 years. At the age of 15 her daughter was diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa, and the family as they knew it changed tack. Helen began to learn about her daughter’s illness, whilst successfully petitioning the Welsh government for increased funding for CAMHS.
Her advocacy, petition and connection with clinicians has led her to helping change the po...2024-06-191h 06
HCA Talks HealthRuth Steggles - Our journey with Anorexia and how a parent can be part of their child’s recoveryIn our latest HCA Talks Health episode our host, Zena le Roux, holds a heartfelt conversation with the remarkable Ruth Steggles, who shares her powerful, personal story of helping her daughter’s battle with Anorexia.As we approach #EatingDisorderAwarenessWeek (26th Feb), Ruth's poignant journey becomes even more relevant and significant. Her experience led her to write the book ‘Our Journey with Anorexia – how a parent can be part of their child’s recovery’, which sheds light on the challenges that parents face when their child is diagnosed with an eating disorder, including the tendency to blame themselves.2024-02-2252 min
Coaching OutdoorsCoaching Outdoors Podcast - International Women's Day 2023 Special“Worldwide, everyone everywhere can step forward to truly #EmbraceEquity”In recognition of International Women’s Day 2023 we would like to honour the amazing female guests we have had on the Coaching Outdoors Podcast. We have selected a short snippet of each lady’s podcast to highlight the insight and experience they have to share. And maybe to entice you to watch their episode if you haven’t already.From examples of what brought them to outdoor coaching in the first place and what benefits they and their clients get from the experience, to examples of...2023-03-0713 minCoaching OutdoorsCoaching Outdoors Episode 39 - Rose Dixey and Ruth Steggles“It feels such a privilege when you get to walk literally and metaphorically; walk beside people in these kinds of transformations. It’s an incredible thing to do” ~ Ruth StegglesRose Dixey and Ruth Steggles teamed up in 2013 to breathe life into the collaboration known as “Fresh Air Fridays”. Online, in-person, community-based or corporate, Fresh Air Fridays offers a range of programmes to create an oasis within your daily life. From “Breathing Space” daily 30-minute virtual practices, half-day walk-shops and 12-week or month programmes, Rose and Ruth or their trusted facilitators unpack a theme through a combination of mindfulness...2022-10-0456 min
A Word of GoodEpisode 19: Ruth Steggles, Co-Founder, Fresh Air FridaysTo finish off this podcast series, Gethin speaks to Ruth Steggles while on a mindfulness walk, outside in the Welsh countryside. This episode will end with a short mindfulness session to get you to pause and reflect before continuing with your day. Ruth’s daughter Katharine, was recovering from anorexia and, having developed the skills needed to support her, Ruth decided that it was time to create a new business. A new business that served and supported others. Whilst supporting Katharine back to wellness, Ruth discovered the things that made a big difference were very simple, yet not at ev...2019-10-1631 min