Don’t Weight To Change!

Episode 54: Is this addiction?

Addiction is borne from the need to both feel something, whether that's control or a way to numb feelings of failure, jealousy, resentment, disappointment or dissatisfaction.  But how do we identify addiction?  What are the factors which determine whether we, or a loved one, is displaying addictive behaviour and how is this important to getting help?   Please remember we are not clinicians, psychologists or ED specialists, but we aim to contribute to the field of understanding around eating disorders and mental health through our personal experience, and our understanding and application of the professional research we acquire.   Thank you to our amazing listeners for joining in our candid discussions and supporting our hope to effect positive change.   Contact us: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

Episode 53: You're a bully, get me out of here!

In today’s episode, we shed light on how to acknowledge the weight of power play dished out through verbal attack, and how to change that dynamic to call out bullies and reclaim your power. Please remember we are not clinicians, psychologists or ED specialists, but share our lived, researched and specialist informed experience of an eating disorder, and mental health trauma, to contribute to the wider understanding in how to best support and improve mental health care services.      Thank you to our amazing listeners for joining in our candid discussions and supporting our hope to effect positive change.   Contact us: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

Episode 52: Living with Tourette's with Calder Holloway

Episode warning: Due to the nature of our discussion, this episode contains strong language.   On this episode, we are honoured to be joined by Calder Holloway. Calder bravely talks about his Tourettes experience to help reduce the weight of anxiety, fear and stigma around this condition. We hope that the weight of knowledge Calder brings so brilliantly to today’s show increases the compassion and understanding essential to neurodivergent ability.   Please remember we are not clinicians, psychologists or ED specialists, but share our lived, researched and specialist informed experience of an eating disorder and mental health trauma to contribute to the wider understanding in how to best support and improve mental health care services. Thank you to our amazing listeners for joining in our candid discussions and supporting our hope to effect positive change. Contact us: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

Episode 51: Welcome back George Mycock!

In this episode we welcome back the phD researcher into men’s access to care for eating disorders, body and muscle dysmorphia, and the founder of the mental health support platform Myominds, George Mycock. We discuss George’s vital research into the interrelationship between the Manosphere rhetoric and eating disorders, and how recognition of the correlation between these spaces can inform, and produce, systems of early intervention critical to protecting men from muscularity orientated body dysmorphia and disordered eating related issues. Please remember we are not clinicians, psychologists or ED specialists, but share our lived, researched and specialist informed experience of an eating disorder and mental health trauma to contribute to the wider understanding in how to best support and improve mental health care services.    Thank you to our amazing listeners for joining in our candid discussions and supporting our hope to effect positive change. Contact us: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

Episode 50: Interview with the incredible Gemma Oaten!

In today’s episode we were honoured to have the expertise and insight of the beautiful actress, presenter, public speaker and CEO of the eating disorder charity SEED Support UK charity, Gemma Oaten. We are beyond grateful to Gemma for sharing her experience on how the complexities of an eating disorder impact upon the social pressure to find ‘the one’, and how acknowledging the effects of the abuse meted out by an ED, the sufferer learns to develop the self-understanding and self-compassion essential to forming respectful, loving relationships. Please remember we are not clinicians, psychologists or ED specialists, but share our lived, researched and specialist informed experience of an eating disorder and mental health trauma to contribute to the wider understanding in how to best support and improve mental health care services.    Thank you to our amazing listeners for joining in our candid discussions and supporting our hope to effect positive change. Contact us: dontweighttochange@outlook.com