By BodyMatters Australasia
The podcast currently has 137 episodes available.
On this week’s episode I am super excited to be bringing back one of our very special guests from ‘Eat, Love, Live’, Jo Money. Josephine Money is the Founder and Director of ‘Eat Love Live’, an Accredited Practicing Dietitian, Nutritionist, a Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC), and a co-Founder of Eat Love Live Education. Jo has been working within the eating disorder field for over 20 years working across a range of settings including in private practice, the community and in public health, working with individuals, groups and in program development. Where Jo has worked for the Eating Disorders Foundation Victoria where is now a board member, at Royal Melbourne Hospital in the Eating Disorder Unit, at the Melbourne clinic in their Eating Disorder Program, at the Royal Women’s hospital and at The Body Image and Eating Disorder Recovery a joint initiative from St Vincent’s and Austin hospital. Jo also provides clinical internal supervision and case conferencing for clinicians working to strengthen the link between mental health and dietetic support.
On this week’s episode we will be speaking about the very many stereotypes of eating disorders including how these stereotypes came about. Discussing weight-based stigma, to class-based stigma and the stigma that has been perpetuated through the old research populations. Jo also discusses the stereotypes that are still circling within mainstream society, the media and in and in professional settings such as in healthcare. Shining a light on the difficulties that stereotypes create for people seeking support and the internalisation of stigma. So please welcome our next special guest, Jo!
Podcast Summary:
1. Eating disorders are unique and individual to each person
2. Everybody is deserving of treatment
3. The stigma associated with eating disorders and social class
4. Social classes have their own unique risks for disordered eating
5. Professionals being unknowingly informed by stereotypes
6. The internalised stigma and bias
Links to Jo:
‘Eat, Love, Live’ Website: eatlovelive.com.au
Eat Love Live Education Page: https://elleducation.teachable.com/ Instagram: @eatlovelive
Facebook: Eat Love Live | Melbourne VIC
Links from the episode and to BodyMatters:
BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/
BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau
Butterfly Foundation Helpline: Call their National Helpline on 1800 33 4673. You can also chat online or email
On this week’s episode we will be speaking to our next lovely guest and lived experience speaker, Sophie Munn. Sophie grew up in a small town in South Australia Adelaide called Naracoorte, with a community of around 7,000 people. Growing up in this small tight nit community Sophie had nothing but appreciation for her upbringing. However, like many children, Sophie was exposed to diet culture, the scales and body comparisons. Finding herself beginning to focus on her weight from the young age of 10. From there, small habits with food and a fixation on numbers began to snowball into her teen years. Where Sophie then attended an all-girls boarding school where she became even more conscious about her body. Surrounded by thousands of other girls also focused on appearance and photos Sophie found herself falling deeper into the traps of disordered eating. However, it was after school at university where Sophie placed a lot of pressure on herself to be a perfectionist and high achiever. This was where Sophie really began to neglect her nutrition and overexercise. In the end feeling really rundown where she then presented to the GP for shin splints. It was here that the GP referred Sophie onto a psychologist for eating disorders with concerns for Sophie Health.
On this week’s episode Sophie shares her heartfelt story of going in and out of hospitals and day programs for 4-5 years. Feeling as if her life was stuck in time while the rest of the world was really living. Like many Sophie didn’t know how to get out of the cycle she was trapped in. However, after a lot of dedication and knowing when she needed to reach out for ongoing support, Sophie managed to free herself from the grips of an eating disorder. Now, Sophie has moved her life all the way to Queensland with her fiancé and now is pregnant with her first child! Today Sophie is now dealing with new changes to her body through pregnancy and is looking at the near future of being a new mum. So please welcome our next special guest, Sophie!
Podcast Summary:
1. Navigating body image once recovered
2. The physical changes that happen through age
3. Holding yourself to the physical standard of your younger self
4. The struggles alongside body changes
5. Reaching out before things get bad
For anyone who would like to reach out to Sophie she’s created an email for anyone to reach out for some peer support. So please reach out! Email: [email protected]
Links from the episode and to BodyMatters:
BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/
BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau
Butterfly Foundation Helpline: Call their National Helpline on 1800 33 4673. You can also chat online or email
On this week’s episode I am super excited to be introducing you to our next special guest Founder of Sweet Spot Health, Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC) and Accredited Practicing Dietitian, Maddi Parsons. Sweet Spot Health is a team of Dietitians that use a non- diet approach to help support those with concerns around food, body image and movement. Helping people to break free from unhealthy eating patterns, negative self-talk and internalised diet culture. As someone who struggled with Binge Eating for 10 years Maddi has created a space dedicated to healing people’s relationships with food. Maddi’s Ethos at Sweet Spot Health is to be human, to be personable and be able to be your true authentic self. Where she also has a podcast called ‘we don’t know yet podcast’ interviewing guests
Sweet Spot Health uses the principals of Intuitive Eating and non- diet nutrition to help people with disordered eating or an eating disorder find their sweet spot with life. Sweet Spot Health values the real connections that can be formed with clients as a way to support them along their journey. This means focusing on challenging the inner critic, letting go of calories or food rules and finding value in our lives outside of unhealthy behaviours. Sweet Spot health focuses on ensuring people feel well-nourished and supported to live the life they want to live. Maddi and her team also post uplifting content on their socials as a way to foster a space encouraging empowered eaters and confident bodies. Hoping to create a space and platform for people that ditches the diets and frees up some brain space for all the good stuff in life. Including prioritising real connections in life and people who will put your best interests at heart. So please welcome our next special guest, Maddi!
Podcast summary:
1. Diet culture
2. Having a safe space to explore body or eating concerns
3. The influence of social media
4. The power of feeling, seen, heard, and supported
5. Celebrating the small wins
6. The power of real authentic connections
Links to Maddi Parsons
Maddi's Instagram: @maddiparsons.dietitian
Website: sweetspothealth.co
Sweet Spot Health Instagram @sweetspothealth
Blog: https://sweetspothealth.co/blog/
Podcast instagram: @wedontknowyet.pod
Facebook: Sweet Spot Health
Links from the episode and to BodyMatters:
BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/
BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau
Butterfly Foundation Helpline: Call their National Helpline on 1800
On this week’s episode I am super excited to be introducing you to our next special guest Co- founder of ‘Eat Love Live’, researcher and lecturer, Dr. Christie Bennett. Christie currently works at Monash University as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Nutrition Dietetics and Food and is a Research Fellow of The Higher Education Academy at Monash University. Christie is also an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician with an expertise in eating disorders, disordered eating and its intersection with women’s health including in fertility, pregnancy and PCOS. Since completing her PhD, Christie has worked towards bringing together her clinical and research interests. Continuing to conduct research, investigating the role of nutrition and dietetics pedagogy on disordered eating in students and those impacted by fat phobia. In 2023, she was awarded a School of Clinical Sciences Career Development Fellowship to investigate the barriers and enablers of using client input in health care education. Where she is continuing to research educational interventions to improve inclusivity in dietetics and healthcare more broadly.
On this week's episode we will be speaking about the topic of fat phobia also known as weight stigma or anti fat bias. Where Christie shares some of the research she has been doing on fat phobia and eating disorders including the studies involving lived experience from people in larger bodies. Christie works to privilege lived experience, acknowledge, and honour the experiences of those who are suffering from the experiences of eating disorders. Acknowledging the various systemic barriers, oppressions,
Podcast Summary:
1. The research on fat phobia or weight stigma
2. Fat phobia is systemic
3. The link between the fear of gaining weight and eating disorders
4. Weight stigma and body comments impact everyone
5. A larger body is not a before photo
6. All people should receive adequate care and respect regardless of body shape
Links to Christie:
‘Eat, Love, Live’ Website: eatlovelive.com.au
Eat Love Live Education Page: https://elleducation.teachable.com/
Facebook: Eat Love Live | Melbourne VIC
Links from the episode and to BodyMatters:
BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/
BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau
Butterfly Foundation
On this week’s episode I am super excited to be introducing you to our next special guest Founder of Uncovery and Recovery Coach, Olivia Soha. After, recovering from her own lived experience with an eating disorder, Olivia spent six months in the United States at BALANCE eating disorder treatment centre working as a liaison officer and recovery coach In New York. After returning to Australia, Olivia then opened Uncovery in 2018 and was selected as a Young Social Pioneer with the Foundations for Young Australians where she was awarded a seed funding grant to expand Uncovery in 2019. Olivia has also since then presented at national and international conferences, including at the Australian and New Zeeland Academy for Eating Disorders in 2019 and the International Conference for Eating Disorders in 2020.
More recently, Olivia has consulted on projects such as with the NEDC and the Butterfly Foundation in the development of the Lived Experience Workforce component of the National strategy, and the Peer Workforce Guidelines. Olivia has also facilitated recovery skills and support group programs across Melbourne and in various treatment settings such as in The Melbourne Clinic Eating Disorders Inpatient Program, The Austin Hospital Eating Disorders Inpatient Program and in the Body Image Eating Disorders Treatment and Recovery Service (BETRS).
On this week’s episode Olivia will be sharing her lived experience with disordered eating and struggles with body image concerns. Providing the lived experience support of a positive role model, and showing people that recovery is always possible. So please welcome our next special guest, Olivia!
Podcast Summary:
1. Eating difficulties as a young child
2.The problems with perfection
3. Finding peace beyond the body
4. Sitting with and processing difficult emotions
5. Finding purpose and meaning beyond the eating disorder
Links to Oliva Soha:
Uncovery: www.uncovery.com.au
Instagram: @unvovery.ed.coaching
Podcast: RenourishED
Links from the episode and to BodyMatters:
BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/
BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau
Butterfly Foundation Helpline: Call their National Helpline on 1800
On this week’s episode I am super excited to be introducing you to our next special guest Psychologist, Cathy Anderson. Cathy has worked for 20 years in the eating disorder space as a Senior Clinician, Senior Psychologist and Eating Disorder Coordinator predominantly having worked at the Illawarra Eating Disorders Service. Cathy has also been a guest Lecturer at Wollongong University and the University of Sydney and assisted in the development of content for postgraduate studies at the Nan Tien Institute. Most recently, Cathy was involved in the collaborative national project by the NEDC and ANZAED, providing supervision to psychologists involved in the eating disorder credentials process. Cathy now works at her own private practice called ‘Cathy Anderson Psychology’ in Woonona. Cathy’s practice consists of 80% eating disorder work where she is a Credentialled Eating Disorder Clinician and Board Approved Supervisor.
Cathy has a background of working across fields of rehabilitation, pain management, neuropsychological rehab, community women’s health and eating disorder having worked as a psychologist for 25 years. Cathy’s work has encompassed provision of individual and group clinical work, family psychoeducation groups, workforce development, service development, supervision of psychologist and dieticians as well as has contributed to the development and implementation of the state-wide NSW Eating Disorder Plan.
On this week’s episode we will be speaking about the topic of compassion and self- compassion for those who experience eating disorders or disordered eating. Cathy herself was introduced to the idea of self- compassion in eating disorders about a decade ago when she came across Josie Geller, a Canadian Psychologist, present at the Australian Eating Disorders Conference in Sydney. After watching such an inspirational speaker, learning about the power over self-compassion alongside evidence-based approaches, Cathy wanted to further explore compassion. This is when Cathy came across Kristen Neff, whose work she talks about on the podcast as greatly influencing her practice. Here today, Cathy has additionally taken to narrative approaches from Michael White and Anita Johnston who continually impact her practice in the way she uses metaphor, analogy and lived experience. So on that note, please welcome our next special guest, Cathy!
Podcast summary:
1. Understanding compassion
2. Acknowledging eating disorders serve a function
3. Being able to sooth ourselves
4. Looking at self-compassion in other parts of our lives
5. Comforting yourself like you are comforting a friend
6. The benefits of incorporating self-kindness and self-compassion
Links from the episode and to BodyMatters:
BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/
BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau
Butterfly Foundation Helpline: Call their National Helpline on 1800
On this week’s episode I am super excited to be introducing you to our next special guest, previous group facilitator, Serena Dalton. Serena has run workshops and group facilitation for the company Tomorrow Woman which runs education programs for school students, teachers, for parents, in sports, and more. Serena has a background in studying theatre studies where after working for this organisation found a passion in working in the mental health space and is now completing a Masters in Counselling at University. The company Tomorrow Woman runs workshops across schools in NSW where Serena was lucky enough to be a part of this program for a year a half. The program Serena was involved in was designed for young girls and non- binary girls to speak about topics such as body image, mental health, and gender expectations in a group facilitation setting. While this specific program is not still being run in schools there are still various workshops still being run by this same organisation. Where the company has now been able to run 2,037 workshops with 60,777 participants.
On this week’s episode Serena shares some of the lived experience of school aged girls around body image discussing the impact that it is having on teenage girls in NSW. Where this episode discusses some of the challenges young girls are experiencing with social media, body comparison, and anxiety. Serena discusses the power of this women-based program on addressing some of the current concerns that we are seeing in schools. Bringing a voice to some of the young girls in this generation! So please, welcome out next special guest, Sarena!
A quick update for everyone around the podcast; We will be releasing episodes fortnightly on Wednesdays instead of weekly!
Podcast Summary:
1. Workshops run in schools talking about body image, mental health, and high expectations
2. Body image as a top concern for year 10-11 girls in schools
3. The experiences shared by teenage girls
4. Discussing body image statistics
5. Social media use and body comparison
6. Starting the conversations around body image in schools
Links to Tomorrow Woman:
Website: https://www.tomorrowwoman.com.au/
Instagram: @tomorrowwoman_au
Facebook: Tomorrow Woman
Links from the episode and to BodyMatters:
BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/
BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau
Butterfly Foundation
On this week’s episode we are super excited to be introducing you to our next special guest Host and Social Worker, Jessica Bakon. Jessica is a qualified Social Worker who holds an (Honours) degree from the University of New South Wales. As a new graduate, she worked across both private and public hospitals within the Northern Sydney Local Health District such as at Royal North Shore Hospital. This is where Jessica found passion in utlising evidence- based treatments with patients such as Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy. Jessica was also trained at Royal North Shore Hospital as a student and had the opportunity of working for BodyMatters Australasia, on her second University internship. This is where Jessica was offered the incredible opportunity to host and produce the ‘Understanding Body Matters Podcast’ after the podcast was so beautifully started and crafted by Madison Prubela. Where Jessica has been able to be involved in sharing stories of hope, lived experience, education, professional development, advocacy, wellbeing content and awareness for eating disorders. After a year of working within the healthcare system and gaining the experience she was hoping for Jessica has now gone back to University to complete her Masters of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Hoping to support people in the field of eating disorders and within schools with a special interest for working with adolescents.
A little background about Jessica, she grew up on the Northern Beaches and spent her young working years enjoying her studies, volunteering for charities, and finding a passion in supporting people. However, during her teen years Jessica found herself impacted by disordered eating as a result of an adverse early childhood, social influences and the impact of diet culture. That is why on this week’s episode our Host Jessica will be sharing her story with disordered eating, her upbringing, and the reason for her passions in hosting the ‘Understanding Body Matters Podcast’. Jessica also shares the details of how receiving required support, addressing the adverse childhood experiences and having positive role models in her life really helped her along her journey.
In this week’s episode Jessica will also disclose brief elements of family domestic violence, strength, and success despite significant challenges faced. Where Jessica thanks the many guests on the podcasts who have been so vulnerable in being able to provide awareness for eating disorders, mental health, and overall wellbeing. This is where Jessica shares her value for learning, education, teachers, supervisors, mentors, and positive role models within her life. As the support from these people were all the main components of Jessica being able to be the person she is today. As someone who now loves and values the role that food can have in her life Jessy now shares her story of gratitude for her recovery and the appreciation that she has for her life. So, on that note, please welcome our next special guest host, Jessy!
Podcast Summary
1. The impact of adverse childhood experiences
2. Friendships with people who engaged in disordered eating
3. Learning to drink alcohol in a binge drinking culture in Australia
4. Transitional periods
5. The power of support, role modelling and positive people
6. Education, awareness, and advocacy in eating disorders
BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/
BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau
Butterfly Foundation Helpline: Call their National Helpline on 1800
On this week’s episode we are super excited to be introducing you to our next special guest Host and Social Worker, Jessica Bakon. Jessica is a qualified Social Worker who holds an (Honours) degree from the University of New South Wales. As a new graduate, she worked across both private and public hospitals within the Northern Sydney Local Health District such as at Royal North Shore Hospital. This is where Jessica found passion in utlising evidence- based treatments with patients such as Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy. Jessica was also trained at Royal North Shore Hospital as a student and had the opportunity of working for BodyMatters Australasia, on her second University internship. This is where Jessica was offered the incredible opportunity to host and produce the ‘Understanding Body Matters Podcast’ after the podcast was so beautifully started and crafted by Madison Prubela. Where Jessica has been able to be involved in sharing stories of hope, lived experience, education, professional development, advocacy, wellbeing content and awareness for eating disorders. After a year of working within the healthcare system and gaining the experience she was hoping for Jessica has now gone back to University to complete her Masters of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Hoping to support people in the field of eating disorders and within schools with a special interest for working with adolescents.
A little background about Jessica, she grew up on the Northern Beaches and spent her young working years enjoying her studies, volunteering for charities, and finding a passion in supporting people. However, during her teen years Jessica found herself impacted by disordered eating as a result of an adverse early childhood, social influences and the impact of diet culture. That is why on this week’s episode our Host Jessica will be sharing her story with disordered eating, her upbringing, and the reason for her passions in hosting the ‘Understanding Body Matters Podcast’. Jessica also shares the details of how receiving required support, addressing the adverse childhood experiences and having positive role models in her life really helped her along her journey.
In this week’s episode Jessica will also disclose brief elements of family domestic violence, strength, and success despite significant challenges faced. Where Jessica thanks the many guests on the podcasts who have been so vulnerable in being able to provide awareness for eating disorders, mental health, and overall wellbeing. This is where Jessica shares her value for learning, education, teachers, supervisors, mentors, and positive role models within her life. As the support from these people were all the main components of Jessica being able to be the person she is today. As someone who now loves and values the role that food can have in her life Jessy now shares her story of gratitude for her recovery and the appreciation that she has for her life. So, on that note, please welcome our next special guest host, Jessy!
Podcast Summary:
1. The impact of adverse childhood experiences
2. Friendships with people who engaged in disordered eating
3. Learning to drink alcohol in a binge drinking culture in Australia
4. Transitional periods
5. The power of support, role modelling and positive people
6. Education, awareness, and advocacy in eating disorders
Links from the episode and to BodyMatters:
BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/
BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau
Butterfly Foundation Helpline: Call their National Helpline on 1800
On this week’s episode I am super excited to be introducing you to two lovely practitioners from ‘Eat Love Live’ in Melbourne, Director Josephine Money and Dr. Christie Bennett. Eat Love Live is a clinic that offers Dietetics and nutrition, physiotherapy, movement classes, music therapy, dance therapy and education from a range of different health professionals. Jo and Christie are both the co- Founders for Eat Love Live Education and have both really valued the role of lived experience in eating disorder treatment. Where ‘Eat Love Live’ has now developed a Framework called The Radical Centred Framework which utlises lived experience as a tool to understand the development, maintenance, and recovery of an eating disorder. Eat, Love, Love’ also has an amazing blog, and many other programs to support people with a variety of backgrounds. A little bit about our two lovely guests...
Jo is the Founder and Director of ‘Eat Love Live’ an Accredited Practicing Dietitian, Nutritionist, a Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician, and a co-Founder of Eat Love Live Education. Jo has been working within the eating disorder field for over 20 years working across a range of settings including at the Eating Disorders Foundation Victoria where
Dr. Christie Bennett is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian, Lecturer, Co- founder of ‘Eat Love Live’ education and an Academic Researcher. Christie holds a PhD and a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics with Honours from Monash University. Christie’s expertise is in eating disorders, disordered eating and its intersection with women’s health including in fertility, pregnancy and PCOS. Her PhD investigated the factors that influence glucose tolerance during pregnancy with a particular focus on sleep. She currently works at Monash University as a Lecturer and Research Fellow at Monash University. Where her current research investigates how to best support people experiencing eating disorders and women’s health conditions such as PCOS. Christie is passionate about feminism, social oppression theories, trauma informed care, size inclusive (HAES) and working with lived experience within her clinical practice and research.
On this week’s episode we will be speaking about the topic as to why people may be feeling stuck and unable to recover from an eating disorder. Discussing the idea that every person experiencing disordered eating, or an eating disorder will have a different reason as to why they are feeling stuck. However, Both Jo and Christie draw our attention to the systemic oppressions, the media and trauma as some of the contributing factors to this feeling of stuckness. So please welcome our next special guests, Jo and Christie!
Podcast Summary:
1. Not recognising if you are experiencing disordered eating
2. The endless pursuit of weight loss
3. The belief that weightless will fix all your problems in life
4. The impact of oppressions and trauma on disordered eating
5. The high expectations people place on food, body, and recovery
6. New innovative frameworks to empower clients
Links to both Jo and Christie:
‘Eat, Love, Live’ Website: eatlovelive.com.au
Eat Love Live Education Page: https://elleducation.teachable.com/
Facebook: Eat Love Live | Melbourne VIC
Links from the episode and to BodyMatters:
BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/
BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau
Butterfly Foundation Helpline: Call their National Helpline on 1800
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