My guest for this final episode of season four is Georgie Crawford, who I met a few years ago when she asked me to be one of the guest expert contributors to her first online wellness course. Georgie is a qualified health coach, and the founder of one of Ireland’s leading health and wellness brands, The Good Glow. Her award-winning podcast productions, The Good Glow and Soul Sisters are aimed at helping people to discover new and innovative ways to take care of themselves and have been downloaded over 9 million times. She recently published her first book, Glow: Five Steps to Create the Life You Dream About. 

In this very relaxed chat (that absolutely flew by for both of us), we speak about:

• How health is so individual and one size does not fit all

• What it was like for Georgie to write her first book

• How a rock bottom can illuminate whether or not you’re happy with the life you’re living

• The idea that it’s never too late to begin again and the impact of keeping yourself small

• The power that comes from connecting to your inner voice and asking yourself the big questions

• Connecting with what’s really important to you 

• How to find your way when you feel lost in life

• The shame that Georgie felt around her cancer diagnosis 

• The scaremongering around food in the media and how this can contribute to food shame and self-blame

• How long-term vitality starts with self-love and a connection to what you need today

• Casting a vote for yourself every day and how to do this

• Georgies advice on how to start living the life you dream about

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Louise McSharry is a podcaster, broadcaster and writer. She is the host of the incredibly popular Catch Up With Louise McSharry podcast and the author of Fat Chance: My Life in Ups, Downs and Crisp Sandwiches. Louise has been an outspoken advocate for the body liberation movement for several years and is an inspiration to so many of us. When Louise speaks about this topic, she speaks about it through the lens of personal experience and her words have often brought me to tears. This interview is no different and is nothing short of inspiring.

We speak about:

• Why Louise began to speak about food and body image publicly

• Her personal journey with food and body image

• The addictive high that came from losing weight

• The oppressive nature of diet culture

• The multi-faceted nature of what we need to do to free all bodies from body-based oppression

• The issue with the implicit messages of 'thinness at any cost'

• The importance of calling out and questioning diet culture and our societal biases

• Positive body image and how to approach it

• How Louise began to rebuild her relationship with food and her body 

• How to start changing your mindset and perspective

• Counteracting negative messages and setting boundaries 

• What dieting and body-based oppression takes from our lives

• Louises advice for how to start living your best life today

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Dr. Anita Johnston, Ph.D., CEDS is a clinical psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist and supervisor, working in the field of women’s issues and eating disorders for over 35 years.

She is the author of the best-selling book, Eating in the Light of the Moon and co-creator of The Light of the Moon Cafe.

In keeping with the theme of this season, we speak at length about the power that comes from connecting with your authentic self. This episode is a must-listen and one that I was absolutely captivated by. I left it feeling so empowered and inspired, which I hope you will too after listening. 

We speak about:

• How Anita got into this line of work

• What lies beneath disordered eating 

• The role that feminine energy plays in a healthy relationship with food

• How food can distract us from the true issues at play

• The role of authenticity in healing disordered eating

• The difference between belonging and fitting in

• How to begin reconnecting with your authentic self

• The power of metaphor and storytelling in recovery from disordered eating

• The connection between interoception and authenticity

• The difference between physical and emotional hunger

• How you can use food to identify unmet emotional needs

• How to nurture your imagination as your superpower

• Using your dreams and intuition to support recovery

• The power that comes from connecting with your authentic self

Download Anita's free guide here

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Clare McKenna is a radio presenter, event host, speaker and health coach. She currently presents Alive and Kicking, a Newstalk health and wellness show and has worked across national TV and radio for many years. She is an incredible interviewer with a passion for delivering wellness messages to the public without a side of diet culture, which is why I am thrilled to have her on the podcast today.

We speak about:

• Clare’s personal journey of moving away from dieting and restriction towards a more compassionate way of looking after her health

• The impact of diet culture and restriction on her wellbeing

• How she let go of the desire to look a certain way

• The joy that was removed from her life when she focused on her external appearance

• How women bond over dieting, weight and external appearance and what we can do instead

• How to back yourself and develop self-trust to reach your goals

• The importance of putting yourself first and prioritizing the less sexy side of self-care

• What living unapologetically means to Clare

• How comparing ourselves to others takes away from our own happiness

• The impact of social media on body image

• Her advice for living more authentically and unapologetically

Find Clare online here

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Welcome to the Living Unapologetically interview series, where I speak openly and candidly with people I connect with about their personal experiences of living their most authentic and unapologetic life. 

Diet culture robs us of living our lives unapologetically by teaching us that we need to look a certain way to be worthy and valuable. The more we conform, the more worthy we perceive ourselves to be. But the attempt to physically shrink or shapeshift ourselves can cause us to shrink as a whole. This series will invite you to consider the possibility of showing up as your authentic self, no matter your size, shape or external appearance, with no apologies. 

My first guest in the series is one of my best friends, Laura B. This is an open and candid chat between friends about what it takes and how it feels to live unapologetically. 

If you want to feel inspired while listening to a relaxed chat, this is for you!

We speak about:

• What inspired Laura to set up her women’s circle

• What happens in a circle and the power that can come from a gathering of women

• What held her back from showing up unapologetically 

• How accepting every version of herself has helped her to show up as her authentic self

• What she had to shed to become her unapologetic self 

• Moving away from social conditioning

• How she found out what was lacking in her life

• Getting past being afraid of what people will think

• Getting comfortable with discomfort

• Where she first learnt the faulty belief that there are good and bad bodies

• How she acted apologetically in the past and what she would do differently knowing what she knows now

Find Laura and details of her womens circle here

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Has how you feel about your body ever held you back from doing things you really want to do?

How we see ourselves and our bodies can influence our day-to-day thoughts and behaviour and have a significant impact on the way we relate to ourselves and others. In other words, it can have an impact on whether or not we feel safe enough to show up in our lives authentically and unapologetically.

This second half of the book launch season will invite you to consider the possibility of showing up as your authentic self, no matter your size, shape or external appearance, with no apologies. 

In this week's episode, I share five ways that you can begin showing up authentically and unapologetically in your life today.

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BOOK EXTRACT

Let's delve deeper into the final section of No Apologies!

This episode walks you through the third and final part of the book, 'Re-establish', which is the third phase of my signature 'Rebuild' system that will help you to learn how to have a healthier relationship with food and body image.

I give you five actionable take-home steps you can implement today to begin reestablishing health-promoting behaviours. These are each taken from one of the five chapters that make up this third and final part of the book.

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Are you reading No Apologies at the moment or would you like to? Do you struggle to sometimes finish books, even the ones you’d like to? Would you like some accountability and to read it alongside a community? I have just the thing for you. May is book club month for No Apologies! This book club has a twist though - it’s with the author: ME!

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BOOK EXTRACT

Let's delve deeper into my debut book, No Apologies!

This episode walks you through the second part of the book, 'Remove', which is the second phase of my signature 'Rebuild' system that will help you to learn how to have a healthier relationship with food and body image.

I give you five actionable take-home steps you can implement today to begin reconnecting with your body. These are each taken from one of the five chapters that make up this second part of the book.

Order the book here

Are you reading No Apologies at the moment or would you like to? Do you struggle to sometimes finish books, even the ones you’d like to? Would you like some accountability and to read it alongside a community? I have just the thing for you. May is book club month for No Apologies! This book club has a twist though - it’s with the author: ME!

Get all the deets and sign up for free here.

Would you like to be the first to know about the No Apologies Workshop Series when they go live?

Join the waitlist here

Want to know if you have a healthy relationship with food? Complete my free 2-minute quiz to figure it out.

Take the quiz

BOOK EXTRACT

Let's delve deeper into my debut book, No Apologies!

This episode walks you through the first part of the book, 'Remove', which is the first phase of my signature 'Rebuild' system that will help you to learn how to have a healthier relationship with food and body image.

I give you four actionable take-home steps you can implement today to begin ditching diet culture. These are each taken from one of the four chapters that make up this first part of the book.

Are you reading No Apologies at the moment or would you like to? Do you struggle to sometimes finish books, even the ones you’d like to? Would you like some accountability and to read it alongside a community? I have just the thing for you. May is book club month for No Apologies! This book club has a twist though - it’s with the author: ME!

Get all the deets and sign up for free here.

Would you like to be the first to know about the No Apologies Workshop Series when they go live?

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Today, April 27th, 2023, is the day my debut book No Apologies hits the shelves!

I've culminated my years of study and experience into this book, which will teach you how to have a healthier relationship with food, movement and body image.

In this episode, I share with you:

• Why I and the team at Harper Collins decided to title the book No Apologies
• What you will get from reading the book
• My signature 'Rebuild' system that makes up the contents of the book
• An extract from the first few pages

Sales in the first week of publication make a massive difference to the success of a book, meaning that it will have more of a chance to make it into the hands of people who truly need it. 

Purchasing in the first week is the best way to support me and this podcast AND learn about a tried and tested system to rebuild your relationship with food for less than 20quid. You will also be helping spread the word that it IS possible to opt out of toxic diet culture and live a healthy, happy and fulfilling life.

Thank you for your support always.

Niamh

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