Eating Disorders are a broad church. We all have our stories to tell and unique perspectives to share. In this solo episode, Jemma explored some of the questions submitted by the community.

Steve is a nutritionist and owner of the Mind Muscle Clinic. He gave up a stressful non-stop business, retrained and went from 24 stone to 18 stone in 12-months. Motivated by his desire to be a “great Dad,” gave him focus but Steve is also one of those people who just gets on with what needs to be done - he transformed his life! Tune in now.

Flurina is an osteopath, dancer and creator of The Breathing Body Podcast. Flurina believes, as we do at Love This Food Thing, that eating disorders and behaviours when properly understood and explored can be powerful healing tools. Tune in to hear her story.

Jemma has wanted to interview a mother with a child who has an eating disorder ever since I started this podcast. This is an intimate and raw episode. Listening to Lorraine’s perspective is heartbreaking at times, but we think it’s essential for sufferers and supporters alike.

Liv Sara from the Liv Label Podcast returns to the show to talk all about autism and neurodiversity. Liv has a unique and illuminating perspective and is very much about the lived experience helping others find their way without judgement or shame. Tune in!

Sabrina’s pivotal moment around her disordered eating and orthorexia happened when she became an aunt for the first time. Today, she’s on a mission to dismantle diet culture. This is an empowering, feel good episode due to Sabrina’s vulnerability and candid storytelling that will resonate with all of our listeners.

Dr. Rob Willson PhD is a cognitive behaviour therapist (CBT), with a special interest in Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD). He is currently the chair of Body Dysmorphic Disorder Foundation, which is the world’s first charity exclusively devoted to the condition. Here at Love This Food Thing, we are big supporters of the BDDF and it was my absolute pleasure to chat with Rob and find out more.

Nicola is a trailblazer in her field and keen for the nutritional industry to take responsibility for, sometimes, perpetuating the very problems that people are trying to solve. Tune in for a fascinating discussion related to food and nutrition and slightly away from the norm!

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. We covered dogs and food, dogs barking at the table, dog calming methods, learning dog language, how to teach your dog new behaviours and tons more.

Livia Sara is an autism advocate, writer and creator of the Liv Label Free Podcast. Liv found out she was autistic when she was 20 after years of treatment for what health care professionals assumed was anorexia. But when Liv read Asper Girls by Rudy Simone and met with an early coaching client, her world fell into place.

This is a very personal podcast episode for Jemma. Reina has been a practising astrologer for over 30 years, and has known Jemma for over 2 decades. Reina likes to focus on the client’s early life to explore later patterns in relationships, career choices and wellbeing. There’s always time to explore future events and choices too.

Patrick is a top level Muscle Activation Techniques RX practitioner and trainer with over 20 years experience across the globe. If you exercise, overexercise, live with pain, want to lower inflammation, find ease and strength where there is none and wish to inhabit your body in a healthy nourished way which so many of us do then this episode is for you!

In this episode, Jemma is joined by founder Will and CEO El, from V-Land, an online vegan magazine/platform in the UK and New York. We discuss veganism, bariatric surgery, and a whole lot more!

Esther Cohen is an intuitive wisdom keeper, eating psychologist and guide for embodied wellbeing. Tune in to hear Esther’s enlightening perspective on trauma, eating disorder behaviours and how to reclaim our innate wisdom for self healing to nourish ourselves with loving kindness.

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.

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 Roberts and Phoebe Dale are trainee clinical phsycologists completing their Doctorate of Clinical Psychology at Lancaster University. We think this episode is particularly helpful if you are a young person suffering with an ED or for a parent or carer of someone with an ED.

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).

Prue has never spoken about her eating disorders before and she is keen to share how eating disorder behaviours can impact one’s life while juggling a long term health condition. Prue wishes to remain anonymous.

When Athena moved from Hong Kong to the UK, ED behaviours amongst her peers were rife and normalised but Athena stayed, relatively, unaffected. It was the competitive cultures at Oxford and Harvard followed by the establishment of her financial career in the City that really took its toll. Tune in to hear Athena’s story.