One of world's biggest fitness personalities, Kelsey Wells, opens up about her healing journey, overcoming postpartum depression, managing her anxiety, overcoming body image issues, and making peace with her body.
Jul 2022
Leen Sadder: The Decision to Freeze Your Eggs – and All It Entails
Leen Sadder is a Dubai-based designer, founder, community builder, and one of my dearest friends. On this episode of the podcast, she discusses her decision to freeze her eggs, why it took her so long and the fears that held her back from it, and the reaction of the people around ... Show More
1h 1m
Jun 2022
Dr. Heather Eade: Rethinking the Treatment of PCOS
Dr. Heather Eade is a naturopathic physician, specializing in integrative medicine in Dubai. On this episode of the podcast, she unpacks one of the most common disorders plaguing women today, polycystic ovary syndrome, and offers a refreshingly different take on the treatment of ... Show More
58m 18s
May 2022
Haleh Nia: The Truth About Mental Health and Entrepreneurship
Haleh Nia is the founder and editor-in-chief of Savoir Flair, the Middle East's first online magazine, and founder of Halo Media, its parent company. In a rare interview, she opens up about her entrepreneurial journey, the pressures of working in the digital fashion industry, and ... Show More
43m 6s
Aug 2017
#117: How to Practice Health at Every Size with Deb Burgard, Pioneering HAES and Body-Image Therapist
This week we’re talking with Deb Burgard, one of the founders of the Health at Every Size movement. The psychotherapist, author and activist discusses weight stigma in the healthcare system, pursuing joyful movement, size oppression and the exclusion of fat bodies from eating dis ... Show More
1h 23m
Jan 2023
Ep 59 Kirstie George | Validating Your Emotion | The Self Development Podcast
In this episode, I'm chatting with health and fitness competitor and coach, Kirstie George. Kirstie has set herself the mission to educate and support busy women to feel stronger, build confidence and lead happier healthy lifestyles. She became a personal trainer in 2018 after ex ... Show More
1h 34m
Feb 2020
S3 Ep. 16: Body Image after Injury with Laura Westmoreland
Laura Westmoreland, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Certified Body Trust Provider, talks about how an injury impacted her body image. She shares what helped her move through the experience and how no matter who you are, we all hav ... Show More
47m 25s
Jan 2017
#88: Why "the Perfect Body" & Winning Fitness Competitions Won't Make You Happy with Sarah Vance, Body Image Coach
Body image coach and registered nurse Sarah Vance shares how competitive bodybuilding triggered a disordered relationship with food and fitness, why getting praise for her looks and "healthy lifestyle" only led to unhappiness and pain, how she finally made peace with food and her ... Show More
1h 2m
Feb 2023
Eating Disorder Recovery, Dance, Perfectionism, Body Image and Healing Trauma, with Joelle Rabow Maletis
Today I’m talking to Joelle Rabow Maletis, MAEd, MA, LMFT,who is a licensed clinical psychotherapist, TED-Ed speaker/author – on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, CEO, trauma expert, and podcast host for Switch! as well as Bipolar Girl.
Joelle’s initial passion was dance, training ... Show More
46m 55s
Oct 2021
Dealing with the Root of Eating Disorder Recovery, Healing the Gut and Self-Soothing, with Mindy Gorman-Plutzer
Today, I’m talking to Mindy Gorman-Plutzer, Certified Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner and Eating Psychology Coach. Mindy’s life experience and training inspired her to create a framework that combines functional nutrition, positive psychology, and mind/body scie ... Show More
40m 47s
Jan 2024
S5, Ep.4: Resilience, Eating Disorders & Recovery with Sarah Rzemieniak
Sarah Rzemieniak, a Carolyn Costin Institute Certified eating disorder recovery coach, joins The Body Image Coach for a candid and open conversation on her work as a coach and shares some things she's learned along the way in her own recovery journey. We explore being helpful ver ... Show More
42m 36s
Dec 2020
#264: How to Handle Holiday Diet Talk and Body Comments, and Healing from Weight Stigma with Meg Boggs, Author of FITNESS FOR EVERY BODY
Plus-size fitness influencer and author Meg Boggs joins us to discuss how she made peace with food and her body after decades of disordered eating and weight stigma; how her relationship with social media has evolved from documenting her “weight-loss journey” to body positivity; ... Show More
1h 32m