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The Full of Beans PodcastThe Assisted Dying Bill & Eating Disorders: Safeguarding Lives with Chelsea RoffIn this powerful and thought-provoking episode, Chelsea Roff returns to the podcast to discuss the Assisted Dying Bill before Parliament and its potential implications for individuals with eating disorders.Chelsea shares insights from her research, highlighting the concerning gaps in safeguarding and the risk of eating disorder patients qualifying as "terminally ill."We explore the ethical, medical, and policy challenges surrounding assisted dying, the importance of proper treatment access, and why public awareness and advocacy are crucial.Key Topics Discussed:Understanding the Assisted Dying Bill: A breakdown of what the bill proposes...2025-03-1056 min
Assisted: Death and Women'A distraction from a new mode of dying'As mentioned last episode of the podcast, Chelsea Roff gave evidence at the Terminally Ill Adults (Assisted Dying) Bill committee this week. As Chelsea told them, the Committee MPs clearly do not want women with anorexia to be given assisted dying in the proposed bill.But Chelsea Roff and Dr Catherine Cook Cottone’s research shows that they DO, already, in 3 US states which follow the US/Australia model for assisted dying that the Westminster draft bill is based on.After Chelsea’s evidence, a series of experts were then invited to opine and said that...2025-02-0206 min
Assisted: Death and WomenAssisted Death and Women Ep 2: A Story of ControlIn Westminster this week MPs heard from a series of invited witnesses that - in their opinion - there was no risk of women with anorexia being given assisted death. But we know different. At least 60 people have been given assisted death where an eating disorder is their primary qualifying condition. That includes in 3 states in the US where assisted death is only for the ‘terminally ill’. Oh and all those who died were women.The reason we know any of this is because of two women, working on a unfunded review to try to find the (hidd...2025-01-3152 min
Assisted: Death and Women"All of the cases we identified were women" Assisted Podcast Ep 1The UK is considering proposals for assisted death, with a Private Member’s Bill sponsored by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater now pushing through Westminster. But we think assisted dying presents specific problems for women, and this movement is not just ‘the next progressive big thing’.Join The Other Half’s Fiona Mackenzie MBE and eating disorder recovery expert Chelsea Roff of Eat Breathe Thrive as we respond to the urgent need to discuss what state-delivered death might do to our society.This podcast is free - sign up for updates and please consider contributing if you c...2025-01-2333 min
The Way We RollKeep it light: Assisted Suicide update and when is hypocrisy acceptable? Plus best bits of 2024On Friday, 29th November, Members of Parliament voted in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. Phil, who is part of Not Dead Yet, an organisation that opposed the bill, gives us an update. He was also at the demonstration outside Westminster Palace. On our last podcast, our guest Peter Torres Fremlin said that sometimes, as disabled advocates, we need to mature and accept people’s motives, which might not be the same as ours, but a win is a win. We debate some moments of possible recent hypocrisy, i.e. funding for...2024-12-2054 min
The Full of Beans PodcastTreatable Not Terminal: Assisted Suicide for in Eating Disorders with Chelsea Roff and Catherine Cook-Cottone Chelsea Roff, Founder and Director of Eat Breathe Thrive, has spent nearly a decade developing integrative health programs for mental health challenges, including a Yoga for Eating Disorders program, now the core of a seven-week intervention. She also leads the largest study on yoga for eating disorders and serves as UK Operations Director for The Give Back Yoga Foundation.Catherine Cook-Cottone, Ph.D., a Licensed Psychologist and Professor at SUNY Buffalo, co-edits Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention and founded the nonprofit Yogis in Service. Her research focuses on embodied self-regulation and psychosocial disorders, with...2024-08-121h 11
Sun & Moon Sober Living Podcast#80: Creating Cultures of Prevention and Change with Chelsea Roff, Founder of Eat Breathe ThriveIn this episode, we discuss:The current mental heath & addiction crisisShifting the focus from an individual to collective issueThe stigma of eating disorders & addictionThe benefits of yoga for recoveryPotential harms of the wellness industryThe story of Eat Breathe ThriveChelsea Roff is the Founder and Director of Eat Breathe Thrive. A yoga therapist, researcher, and educator, she has spent nearly a decade pioneering integrative health programs for people with mental health challenges.In 2011, Roff offered the first Yoga for Eating Disorders program to clients at a treatment center where she had once been treated for...2023-10-2954 min
Yoga MagicYoga for Eating Disorders: Cultivating Self Love, Self Care and a Sense of Community with Chelsea RoffYoga is a tool that helps bring connection to our bodies, the communities around us and to highest expression of who we want to be. Today's guest Chelsea Roff is sharing how Yoga is also one of the most impactful tools in eating disorder recovery. Chelsea is the founder of Eat Breathe Thrive. She is a yoga and mindfulness instructor, research collaborator, and thought leader in neuroscience and integrative health. An eating disorder survivor, Roff has an intimate understanding of the depths of human suffering and the conditions necessary for individuals and communities to thrive. She created Eat Breathe...2023-06-0854 min
The Weeks Well30. Give Back Yoga is a disruptive forceRob Schware and Chelsea Roff are doing so many interesting things in yoga that I don't know where to start in these show notes. First, they are disruptors in an industry that since its modern inception has served a small group of suburban and urban women and the cultural elite. Give Back Yoga Foundation, the organization they run together as Co-Executive Directors, is in the business of serving people in need: those working with addiction, cancer, eating disorders, and those in prison. Schware says, in fact, that he thinks yoga is only about service.
Second, before she...2023-05-0255 min
Yoga Medicine44 Expert Insights: Eat Breathe Thrive - Yoga and Eating Disorders with Chelsea RoffMessages around “clean” eating and ideal body shape or size are ubiquitous, even in the yoga world, with potentially devastating impact for those who experience disordered eating. Today host Rachel speaks with Chelsea Roff, who found her way to yoga early in her recovery from a serious eating disorder. Chelsea went on to become a scientific researcher and yoga teacher, eventually bringing her skills and experience together to become the Founder and Director of Eat Breathe Thrive: a non-profit organization aiming to prevent and help people recover from eating disorders. Today Chelsea shares her definition of e...2022-09-291h 08
HERvoiceExploring Connection with Trauma-Informed Yoga"People who are trauma survivors, their body has not been a safe place. It's not a safe place to land and then there's that disconnect between the body and mind."On this episode of HerVoice, we sit down with Exhale to Inhale Instructor Ellyn Gerry to explore the mind-body connection and the healing power of trauma-informed yoga. Ellyn Gerry has over three decades of combined experience as a Labor and Delivery Nurse, Childbirth Educator and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. She is a highly regarded Prenatal/Postnatal Yoga Teacher, and currently co-teaches the Prenatal Yoga Cen...2022-09-1433 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingAgency, Healing and Recovery with Chelsea RoffIn this episode Harriet is joined by Chelsea Roff Founder and Director of Eat Breathe Thrive. Chelsea is an author, researcher, and educator, and has spent nearly a decade pioneering integrative health programs for people with mental health challenges. In 2011, Roff offered the first Yoga for Eating Disorders program to clients at a treatment center where she had once been treated for anorexia. This later became the heart of Eat Breathe Thrive: a seven-week intervention that combines yoga, meditation, and psychoeducation to help people recover from eating disorders. Two years later, she raised $50,000 in f...2022-05-2442 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingIn Our Experience Season 3 TrailerWelcome to In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga Training, a weekly podcast hosted by Harriet McAtee, founder of Nourish Yoga.We're very excited to announce that Season 3 of In Our Experience will be released on the 3rd of May 2022. We can't wait to share with you even more amazing conversations!In Season 3 Harriet will be speaking to Katie Gordon, Katie McNeil, Beverley Nolan, Carrie Reed, Tom McAtee, Chelsea Roff, Kate Ryan, and Ashleigh Clarke about what's nourishing them, their values, and their ideas about living well. Each episode is around 35 minutes long. We'll...2022-04-2601 min
Conspirituality73: Eating Disorders in Yogaland (w/Jason Nagata & Chelsea Roff)Meat is toxic. Dairy is toxic. Eggs? As dangerous as cigarettes. Garlic stokes the hormones. Avoid nightshades at all costs. Organic or bust. Eat according to your blood type. Eat according to your chronotype. Cacao resonates with the frequency of the sun, but never, ever add sugar to it. Sugar is toxic. Juice cleanses lead you to your highest self. If you’re exhausted already, so are we. This week, Derek anchors our look at how the wellness world disguises eating disorders as purity tests and pathways to “clean” eating. He opens up about his 15-year-battle with orthor...2021-10-141h 48
Unity in YogaIncreasing BIPOC Access to Yoga Teacher TrainingUnity in Yoga host Maya Breuer comes together with Give Back Yoga’s Chelsea Roff and well-known US-based yoga studio YogaWorks’ Justin Temple. Learn how Chelsea and have teamed up to increase access to yoga teacher training. 2021-09-0239 minUnity in YogaCreating Access to Yoga Through Give Back YogaChelsea Roff discusses the mission of the non-profit Give Back Yoga. A collective of organizations, Give Back Yoga works to bring yoga to different populations in need not only in the U.S. but across the world. It’s mission is to make sure the practice of yoga is accessible to anyone who faces obstacles to practice and can benefit from yoga. Heard Here: Eat Breathe Thrive Give Back Yoga Foundation2021-07-1237 min
The Eddie Jones Coaching PodcastEddie's first job, coaching the best and Joe Roff's kickingFor episode five of The Eddie Jones Coaching Podcast we are talking about how you improve the best players in the world. Jones and RFU director of performance Conor O'Shea talk about how Jones' first-ever coaching job in Japan, how he used a holiday to Fiji to motivate a goalkicker in Super Rugby and talks about which England player has improved most during his reign.The pair also use coaching examples involving Stephen Larkham and David Campese to talk about how they improved, speak about the importance of basic skills at a young age with Jones...2020-06-0200 min
SATIATEEp.7 :: SOULFOOD SESSION #2 :: THREE LIFE CHANGING VALUES TO INCLUDE IN YOUR HEALTH AND HEALINGToday’s guest, Chelsea Roff, one of our dynamic guest teachers in The Yoga of Eating, is an incredible inspiration and resource. Chelsea Roff is yoga and mindfulness instructor, research collaborator, and thought leader in neuroscience and integrative health.2017-12-2724 min
SATIATEEp.7 :: SOULFOOD SESSION #2 :: THREE LIFE CHANGING VALUES TO INCLUDE IN YOUR HEALTH AND HEALINGToday’s guest, Chelsea Roff, one of our dynamic guest teachers in The Yoga of Eating, is an incredible inspiration and resource. Chelsea Roff is yoga and mindfulness instructor, research collaborator, and thought leader in neuroscience and integrative health.2017-12-2724 min
The Eating Disorder Recovery PodcastChelsea Roff on Yoga and Mindfulness in Eating Disorder Recovery
In this podcast we talk about yoga, mindfulness and mediation techniques and some in-depth explanations of exactly why they are a game changer in the later stages of eating disorder recovery. We also demo a 20 second breathing exercise that listeners can try for themselves!
Chelsea Roff is the Founder and Director of Eat Breathe Thrive™, a non-profit organization that prevents and helps individuals overcome disordered eating and negative body image. An internationally recognized author, speaker, and educator, Chelsea has spent the past seven years pioneering integrative programs for people with mental health challenges.
Eat Breathe Thrive is...2017-03-0352 min
Yoga Revealed PodcastChelsea Roff: Yoga, the solution for Eating DisordersNamaste Yoga Revealed Podcast Community! This is Alec Rouben, your Boulder Colorado Lovin’ Host! WOW! We are nearly at 100K Downloads and Subscribers! THANK YOU for being apart of this truly devoted and dedicated community! Today we have the pleasure of introducing Chelsea Roff, Founder of EAT BREATHE THRIVE. EAT BREATHE THRIVE is all about illuminating eating disorders and harnessing the power of yoga to absolve body image and the harmful eating disorders that come along with it. Eat Breathe Thrive is a non-profit organization that prevents and helps individuals fully recover from disordered eating and negative body image through ev...2016-08-2949 min
Yoga In My SchoolYoga and Eating DisordersJoin Donna Freeman and guest Chelsea Roff, founder of Eat, Breathe, Thrive as we explore the relationship between yoga and eating disorders.We'll shed light on disordered eating habits, what to watch for and how to create a supportive, accepting environment encouraging all to become more body positive. We'll examine the positive impact yoga can have to reduce anxiety, rebuild body awareness and promote body responsiveness. Plus we'll look at some of the dangers of yoga and how a usually healthy practice may exacerbate body image issues and compound compulsive behavior.Discover the key to helping create joy in your pra...2014-10-0131 min