In this episode, Christine talks about her own journey, her passion and experience as well as opening up about the struggle of being a parent of a daughter with an eating disorder.

After overcoming her own eating disorders and a negative relationship with exercise, Christine felt empowered to help others mend relationships with their own bodies and self image. She trained as a PT, kettlebell and pilates instructor before recently becoming an intuitive eating counsellor.

TW this episode discusses various eating disorders and disordered eating.

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On this episode we address the big question of 'enough'.

Is your workout long enough? Is it intense enough? Are your weights heavy enough? Are you exercising often enough?

All things we've both heard from clients in the past, but who's to say what is or isn't enough.

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Lauren didn’t grow up loving exercise, but when she discovered fitness didn’t have to fit into a box and started to try new forms of exercise, she found weight lifting and later a passion for horse riding and arial sport.

Training in many different areas of fitness including injury recovery, functional movement and pre and post natal alongside her own lived experience battling with a brain tumour has given her a unique perspective on training and the industry itself - all of which we discuss on this episode.

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Hannah is a personal trainer with a weight neutral approach, working with individuals and businesses around the world with her very unique perspective as a qualified meditation coach. In this episode she opens our eyes to the meaning of meditation, how it can be interpreted differently by different people and why it is so beneficial.

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Michael is a personal trainer and nutritionist and, despite disliking Iron Bru, he lives in Edinburgh training clients online all over the world. In this episode we discuss the importance of nutrition OUTSIDE weight loss, the space that Michael is creating for men to show that exercise doesn't have to be in pursuit of a muscular 'gym bro' body and his hilarious and very poignant social media videos that helped him create a very successful online following.

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Amy chats to us about the many issues pre and post natal women face when looking to exercise and the misinformation within the industry. She draws from her own experiences during her current pregnancy, and how after the birth of her second daughter she began to seek out knowledge to better educate herself and others around pregnancy and post natal exercise.

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Jeanette is a nutritionist with a human nutrition degree and works with people to help heal their relationship with their food and bodies, mainly focussed on those in bigger/fat bodies.

We discuss the marginalisation of fat bodies, her journey to body neutrality, and the lack of education surrounding mental health and the relationship with food.

TW discussion of disordered eating and fat phobia.

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Dave is a qualified PT, mindset coach and and a mental health pioneer. As someone living with bipolar disorder, he is open about his condition and discusses how he has turned it in to his superpower.

This episode takes a deep dive into mental health and how mindset can impact all areas of life.

TW discussion of various mental health and eating disorders.

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In this episode we talk to Ela Law, an intuitive eating counsellor. Ela got a masters degree and worked in public health nutrition, and slowly started realising things were not sitting quite right. She found intuitive eating and was hooked! Ela tells us what Intuitive Eating actually is and how it can help change folks lives. We touch on childhood 'obesity' and both Amy and Ela talk very passionately about that! It is another really great one to listen to and we are positive you will get a lot out of it! 

Please see the link for details on the 'Trust Your Choices' Course that is offered through Kim's business Body Image Fitness; https://body-image-fitness.co.uk/trust-your-choices/

TW this episode discusses eating disorders and disordered eating.

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In this episode we chat to Emma Green, an anti-diet coach and writer with a PhD in health Psychology. We discuss her struggle with her own eating disorder and how it lead to her interest in health psychology which has ultimately paved the way to a very interesting career in research. . She is passionate about learning and spends her time trying to make science both accessible and understandable to the masses by simplifying in depth and complicated research papers on social media, allowing people to see how nuanced science can really be.

TW this episode discusses eating disorders.

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