Bodywhys Podcast

In this episode, Barry Murphy, our Research and Policy 0fficer, speaks with Dr Una Foye (King's College London) & Hannah Lewis (Queen Mary University of London) about how lived experience of eating disorders can inform research & practice.

Notes

In this episode Jenny and Harriet discuss two common and difficult situations. Firstly, when a person is physically well and eating regularly but not yet recovered, and when a person has reached a safe level of nutrition and health but is unwilling to keep going.

You can find Jenny's website here: https://newmaudsleycarers-kent.co.uk

Bodywhys website: www.bodywhys.ie

In this episode, Barry, our research and policy officer speaks with Dr. Rachel Langbein about psychological recovery from relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S).

Notes:

Rachel’s website

https://theramblesofrachel.wordpress.com/

“It's hard to find balance when you're broken”: Exploring female endurance athletes’ psychological experience of recovery from relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211266921000402

“I’d got self-destruction down to a fine art”: a qualitative exploration of relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S) in endurance athletes https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02640414.2021.1883312

The IOC consensus statement: beyond the Female Athlete Triad—Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S)

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/48/7/491?hootPostID=0116e43013bf35a19d2c4f30c76050b1

Mental health in elite athletes: International Olympic Committee consensus statement (2019) https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/11/667

You can find Jenny's website here: https://newmaudsleycarers-kent.co.uk

Bodywhys website: www.bodywhys.ie

In this episode, Barry speaks to Dr Anisa Jafar, University of Manchester, and Dr Aileen McCabe, Tallaght University Hospital about eating disorders in the emergency department.

Notes:

Recognising and managing eating disorders in the emergency department

Assessment of Patients with Eating Disorders in the Emergency Department – Irish Medical Journal

In this episode, Jenny and Harriet talk about an important part of recovery from an eating disorder - food and eating. They look at the non-negotiable eating boundary, and at how carers can think about how to manage and support their loved one to start eating more normally. This episode and the following couple of episodes will look at this difficult topic. 

You can find Jenny's website here: https://newmaudsleycarers-kent.co.uk

Bodywhys website: www.bodywhys.ie

In this episode, Barry Murphy, our Research and Policy Officer, speaks to Dr Megan Reay, Clinical Psychologist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, about the current research related to patients with longstanding eating disorders.

Study mentioned:

Creating a care pathway for patients with longstanding, complex eating disorders

https://jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40337-022-00648-0

In this episode, Jenny and Harriet talk about an important part of recovery from an eating disorder - food and eating. They look at the non-negotiable eating boundary, and at how carers can think about how to manage and support their loved one to start eating more normally. This episode and the following couple of episodes will look at this difficult topic. 

Bodywhys website: www.bodywhys.ie

In this episode, Barry, our Research and Policy Officer, speaks to Dr Dawn Branley-Bell, Northumbria University, about challenging mainstream framing of eating disorders.

Research mentioned:

It’s not all about control: challenging mainstream framing of eating disorders: https://jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40337-023-00752-9

Remote Healthcare for Eating Disorders throughout COVID-19: https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/rhedc/

In this episode Jenny and Harriet talk about ways that families can think about reclaiming core family values. This involves identifying what your family values are, how to have conversations about them and then how to implement changes in your household to reclaim family life from the eating disorder.

You can find Jenny's website here: https://newmaudsleycarers-kent.co.uk

Bodywhys website: www.bodywhys.ie