May 2025
Teaching 'grit', Amnesty International UK, Brain Aneurysm play, New Age of Sexism
How do we teach children to have grit? That's what the Government is suggesting needs to be a new focus in schools, to bolster children's mental health. To discuss how parents can help their children develop resilience, Anita Rani is joined by Sue Atkins, parenting coach and auth ... Show More
57m 14s
May 2025
Kate Nash, Sarah Brown, Cardiac surgeon Dr Indu Deglurkar
Rising to fame at the age of 20, Kate Nash soon became a staple of the British music scene in the late 2000s. Her first album, Made of Bricks, reached number one in the UK and stayed in the UK charts for more than forty consecutive weeks and she’s won a Brit Award. But she’s spok ... Show More
56m 34s
Yesterday
Femicide, The impact of the Budget on women, Remembering Pam Hogg
<p>The Italian Parliament has voted unanimously to introduce the crime of femicide, the murder of a woman motivated by gender, as a distinct law to be punished with a life sentence. It makes Italy one of very few places in the world to categorise femicide as a distinct crime. The ... Show More
57m 13s
Feb 2022
[Repost] #178: The Truth About High-Weight Anorexia with Erin Harrop, Weight-Stigma Researcher
<p>Eating-disorders researcher Erin Harrop joins us to discuss how anorexia is treated (or not) in people of different sizes, how diet culture and weight stigma influence treatment and recovery for disordered eating, the problem with the “atypical” anorexia label, how improving e ... Show More
1h 19m
Sep 2021
Trauma, Health at Every Size and Supporting Black Women with Eating Disorders, with Dr. Carolyn Coker-Ross
<p>Today, I’m talking to Dr. Carolyn Coker-Ross, based in the USA and a medical doctor specialising in eating disorders, trauma and addiction. She presented a TEDxPleasantGrove talk on “The Gifts of Intergenerational Trauma'' in January, 2020.</p>
<p>Dr. Coker-Ross is the author ... Show More
49m 10s
May 2023
#69: Healing In Spite of Yourself & Raising Kids Who Trust Their Bodies with Dr. Rachel Millner, Eating Disorder Psychologist & Fat Activist
The amazing and brilliant Dr. Rachel Millner is on the pod to talk about what's on her plate (literally, and figuratively!), her own journey with an eating disorder as a clinician, and to share wisdom and insights into parenting in our thin-obsessed culture. We also get into the ... Show More
1h 5m
Oct 2020
#256: How Trauma and Shame Affect Our Relationships with Food and the Body with Judith Matz & Amy Pershing, Anti-Diet Therapists
<p>Anti-diet therapists and authors Judith Matz and Amy Pershing return to the podcast to discuss their latest project, The Body Positivity Card Deck; how trauma and shame affect our relationships with food and the body; intersectionality in body-acceptance work; the role of self ... Show More
1h 13m
Apr 2016
#58: Body-Positive Healthcare & Fat Acceptance with Ragen Chastain, Health At Every Size Speaker and Activist
<p>Ragen Chastain (<em>Dances with Fat</em>, body-positive speaker, writer, and dancer) shares how she repaired her relationship to food after a long period of dieting, how we can improve healthcare for people in larger bodies, why diet culture and weight stigma are much more har ... Show More
59m 56s
Nov 2021
[Repost] #149: The Truth About Binge Eating with Amy Pershing, Anti-Diet Therapist and Binge Eating Disorder Expert
<p>Anti-diet therapist and Binge Eating Disorder expert Amy Pershing joins us to discuss how our fatphobic culture hinders recovery, how diet culture steals our personal power, the healing that can be found in getting angry, the role of restriction and trauma in binge eating, and ... Show More
1h 15m
Feb 2022
[Repost] #234: Reasons Not to Panic, Plus Weight Stigma in the Workplace and the Emotional Effects of Restriction with Veronica Garnett, Health At Every Size Dietitian
<p>Fellow anti-diet dietitian Veronica Garnett joins us to discuss how weight stigma in dietetics affected her health and career, the emotional effects of restriction, the importance of representation and community in body liberation, how she’s finally realizing her childhood dre ... Show More
1h 7m
May 2019
#197: Hormones, Disordered Eating, and How The Wellness Diet Harms Your Health with Robyn Nohling, Non-Diet Dietitian and Nurse Practitioner
<p>Nurse practitioner and fellow HAES dietitian Robyn Nohling joins us to discuss her experiences with disordered eating and hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA), how diet culture wreaks havoc on our hormones, why doing less may actually be better for our health, how The Wellness Diet is ... Show More
1h 26m
Dec 2020
#265: How to Avoid the Wellness Diet in the New Year with Harri Rose of Anti-Diet Riot Club, and Thinking Critically About Elimination Diets with Guest Co-Host Ayana Habtemariam
<p>Coach, author, and Anti Diet Riot Club co-creator Harri Rose joins us to discuss how to avoid The Wellness Diet and other forms of diet culture in the New Year, how diet culture is trying to infiltrate the anti-diet movement, the harms of social media despite being a tool for ... Show More
1h 26m
<p>Is current abortion legislation fit for purpose? It's a question debated this morning following the conviction and sentencing of Carla Foster for inducing an abortion outside the legal time limit using pills at home. Nuala is joined by barrister, Harriet Johnson and Ruth Rawlings from CBR UK, Centre for Bioethical Reform which seeks to challenge views on ... Show More
