By BodyMatters Australasia
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On this week’s episode I am super excited to be introducing you to our next special guest, Psychotherapist, Bariatric Specialist, Eating Disorder Clinician & Director of The Australian Centre for Eating Behaviours (ACFEB), Kyla Holley. Currently, Kyla works as part of two multidisciplinary surgical bariatric clinical teams in addition to working in private practice. Kyla also hosts her own podcast and is the author of ‘Change your Relationship with Food’. After training with the National Centre for Eating Disorders (UK) Kyla Founded the ACFEB in Australia and has developed a number of training courses in eating disorders for health professions in Australia and New Zealand. Where Kyla has partnered with Dr Eric Stice at The Oregon Research Institute to ensure that Australia and New Zealand had access to eating disorder and obesity prevention programs such as the Body Project and Project Health. She has also visited the Maudsley and Springfield University Hospitals in London to learn about patient treatment methods, and to learn the MANTRA method for treating adults with Anorexia Nervosa.
Kyla has extensive experience related to metabolic surgery where she is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society (ANZMOSS). In 2017, The Australian Centre for Eating Disorders received a Sunny award and in 2018 an award for Excellence in Social Enterprise. However, has now changed its name to the Australian Centre for Eating Behaviours. Kyla was also announced as runner up in the Coffs Coast Women of the Year Awards in 2018.
On this week’s episode Kyla speaks about the role of clinicians in supporting patients with bariatric surgery. Going through pre-screenings, guidelines, and eligibility criteria for metabolic surgery. As an Eating Disorder clinician, Kyla discusses the eating concerns associated with patients undergoing bariatric surgery including maladaptive eating, disordered eating and changes to eating behaviours. Discussing eating disorders such as Binge- Eating Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa as well as conditions such as Night Eating Syndrome. Emphasising the need for therapeutic support and eating disorder treatment alongside bariatric surgery. In contrast to this surgery Kyla also discusses the risks and concerns with bariatric surgery or current weight loss drugs. Working from a framework of a non- diet approach to treatment for those having bariatric surgery. So please, welcome our next special guest, Kyla!
Podcast summary:
1. Therapeutic support for learning how to live with the bariatric surgery
2. Body image concerns after surgery
3. Maladaptive eating concerns for people post bariatric surgery
4. New weight loss drugs, the risks, and concerns around it
5. Pre surgery screenings and eligibility for bariatric surgery
6. Disordered eating treatment pre and post bariatric surgery
Links to Kyla:
The Australian Centre of Eating Behaviours: https://acfeb.com/about-acfed/kyla-holley/
Podcast: Change Your Relationship with Food
Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyla-holley-066385a1/
Book: Change Your Relationship with Food Journal & Workbook: A powerful combination of
Instagram: @aus_cent_for_eating_behaviour
Links from the episode and to BodyMatters:
BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/
BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau
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On this week’s episode I am happy to be introducing you to our next special guest Yoga Therapist, Founder of Pippa Jackson Yoga and lived experience speaker, Pippa Jackson. Pippa struggled with food, body, her mental health, and self- acceptance from her young teenage years. At the height of her disordered eating was diagnosed with Bulimia Nervosa for the next 14- years. It was here that Pippa battled extremely dark times being trapped in the endless cycle of binging and purging only leaving the house for food. However, It was during this time that Pippa found something she never knew she needed, she found yoga. Not only did Pippa find transformational healing for her mind, body and emotions, but Pippa began educating herself on the philosophy of yoga, started a mediation practice and eventually took her practice on a journey to India! It was here that Pippa went through a deeper healing journey staying in several ashrams, practicing yoga, sharing meals, attending philosophy classes, experiencing sound healing bowls and fire ceremonies. Knowing after these experiences in her heart and soul that she was meant to share the healing tools of yoga for people struggling. Leading her to complete her Yoga Teaching Training and training as a Yoga Therapist.
Pippa is a Certified Yoga & Meditation Teacher who supports adults and children through yoga and Yoga Therapy. Pippa has been trained at the Byron Yoga Centre, the Yoga Therapy Institute Australia, Mental Health Australia, at INSIDEOUT, Institute for Eating Disorders and at Energy Yoga Training. Where she now supports people with emotional & physical burnout, mental health symptoms, stress, body acceptance & body awareness, eating disorders, substance misuse relief, life transitions, sleep difficulties, chronic fatigue,
Today on the 14th of August it is Global Yoga Therapy Day so we thought we would just let you know a little bit more about what Yoga Therapy is! Yoga Therapy provides personalised consultations and a personalised therapeutic program using the principles of yoga to support the client’s holistic wellness through the transformational experiences of yoga. Tools that may be used in Yoga Therapy sessions include gentle asana (postures), pranayama (breath awareness and techniques), mudra (gestures), mantra (chanting), visualisations, relaxation, mediation, counselling, and guidance.
On this week’s episode Pippa speaks about her journey from struggling with Bulimia Nervosa for 14 years to now trusting her body, her emotions, and cultivating a compassionate relationship with herself. We also discuss the role of Yoga therapy in the support of those with disordered eating or recovering from an eating disorder. So
Podcast summary
1. The secrecy and shame involved in binging
2. The loss of control with Bulimia Nervosa
3. Yoga’s ability to release emotions and traumas held in the body
4. Letting yourself feel your bodies emotions
5. The transformational process of yoga therapy
Links to Pippa:
Pippa Jackson Yoga Website: www.pippajacksonyoga.com
Instagram: @pippa_jackson_yoga
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
On this week’s episode I am super excited to be introducing you to our next special guest Principle Psychologist of Noble Psychology and Play therapist, Paula Noble. Paula is a registered psychologist and play therapist, with over 30 years’ experience working with children, adolescents, and parents. Paula’s early career started as a teacher in primary schools working in both Australia and Singapore. She then became a registered psychologist, working as a School Psychologist at Schools such as Cranbrook and Shore in Sydney, providing individual therapy, group intervention, educational assessments, as well as supporting school systems. Paula is also a member of the Australian Psychological Society and College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists and is a certified Lifeline counsellor. A Board Approved Supervisor with AHPRA, Paula provides supervision for provisional and registered psychologists.
Currently, Paula works in private practice at Noble Psychology in North Manly where she provides therapy services, psychological, educational, and psychometric assessments, along with diagnostic assessments for ADHD, ASD and Specific Learning Disorders. Working with children and adolescents implementing CBT skills, emotional regulation techniques, sand tray work, play therapy, and behaviour modification techniques. She is also trained in the Gottman Institute’s Emotion Coaching for parents, providing emotion coaching techniques to assist parents with supporting their children. A psychologist, teacher, parent and grandparent, Paula has a wealth of experience working with children and young people. She is also an avid swimmer, for her physical and mental health, loving long-distance ocean swimming.
On this week’s episode Paula will be speaking about her
Podcast Summary:
1. The effects of COVID on this generation of children
2. The impact of mobile phones, social media, and self-image for children
3. The algorithms encouraging eating disorder, body image and self-harm content
4. Supporting learning or developmental difficulties in children
5. Allowing a child to feel seen, heard and cared for
6. Supporting parents
Links to Paula:
Noble Psychology Website: https://noblepsychology.com.au/
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 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 now looking at the near future of being a new mum. However, as we know and will share, bodies do change and thats okay! That is being human and life is always changing in so many ways. Priorities change, goals change, interests and experiences are always changing. That is why, on this weeks episode, Sophie will be sharing her experiences with the various body changes she has experienced through recovery and beyond now into pregnancy. 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
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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
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