PODCAST · health
Don’t Weight To Change!
by Harry Nye
Welcome to ‘Don’t Weight to Change!’ Our original ‘Why Weight to Change?’ podcast, began as an advocacy for mental health issues following my personal 10+ year battle with anorexia. By sharing my story, we aimed to help others struggling with mental health issues, especially young boys and men, creating a safe space for candid discussion and support. Following the phenomenal feedback from our listeners, our podcast has organically expanded into issues that affect mental health such as ‘what it means to be human’. Questions such as ‘what compels us to make the life choices we make? Who determines and influences that? How do we alight upon the opinions and beliefs that we live by that form our sense of identity, and how do we identify, and deselect, certain opinions or beliefs when they no longer prove to serve us and who we want to be?Our podcast now seeks to encourage conversations around how to relinquish the weight of self-doubt, expectation, fear and uncertainty which hold
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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: [email protected]
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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: [email protected]
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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: [email protected]
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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: [email protected]
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Episode 49: Inside the Manosphere
We often discuss the manifold aspects of an eating disorder, and how it manifests from destabilising feelings such as self-doubt, uncertainty, fear, rejection etc. In today’s episode, we explore how the ‘manosphere’ presents as a maladaptive coping mechanism by way of a group of men desperately seeking out dysfunctional, dangerous and dehumanising behaviours by way of clawing back some misplaced sense of control. Thank you to our amazing listeners for joining in our candid discussions and supporting all aspects of positive life change that we hope to encourage. Please remember we are not clinicians 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. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 48: What makes me do this?
As part of eating disorders awareness week, we talk about the importance of understanding how factors around the shared conditions of human experience needs to be better understood to vitally inform and improve eating disorder education and treatment. How neurodivergence and our historical, sociological sense of self, formulated by distinctions of religion, race, gender etc, can present factors that can lead to eating disorder vulnerability, and how this understanding is vital to informing the life-saving patient centred outcomes of eating disorder recovery. Thank you to our amazing listeners for joining in our candid discussions and supporting all aspects of positive life change that we hope to encourage. Please remember we are not clinicians 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. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 47: If you can be anything - be kind!
In today’s episode, we discuss how kindness is the most important virtue, particularly in determining someone’s choice ‘to stay’. We discuss the incredible bravery and success of Andrew, a Don’t Weight to Change listener, who is magnificently beating the path through ED recovery, and how Ben Shaw’s ‘Reasons to Stay’ initiative is working to keep people safe from the experience of suicidal distress. Thank you to our amazing listeners for joining in our candid discussions and supporting all aspects of positive life change that we hope to encourage. Please remember we are not clinicians 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. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 46: Eating Disorders are not terminal!
Firstly, please note, the following episode contains highly sensitive discussion on the Assisted Dying Bill and eating disorders, so please listen with caution. Eating disorders are not terminal and there is medical and psychological support available, so never stop advocating for yourself or loved ones who experience an eating disorder. @apositiveplace.4u Please remember we are not clinicians 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. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 45: Recovery - A year on...
Merry Christmas! This time of year can feel truly magical for many, yet incredibly challenging for others. After several Christmases shaped and, at times, overshadowed by my eating disorder, Mum and I reflect on what this season has meant to us in the past, and why this year feels so different. In this episode, we share an honest update on my recovery, now more than a year on, and discuss how I am approaching Christmas differently this time. We also offer insight and reassurance for anyone who may find this period difficult to navigate. Thank you to every single listener who has supported us episode after episode, and helped our podcast reach so many people. We are endlessly grateful. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe, healthy, and flourishing New Year. See you in 2026! ❤️ Please remember we are not clinicians 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. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 44: What is Body Positivity?
What is body positivity and how does it look for men? In this episode we discuss the concept of body positivity, how it is conveyed and whether it is an ideal that is advocated for in the male sphere. Thank you to our amazing listeners for joining in our candid discussions and supporting all aspects of positive life change we hope to encourage. Please remember we are not clinicians 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. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 43: George Mycock: The Mind behind MyoMinds
This week have the honour of having on our podcast George Mycock, the founder of Myominds, an organisation aimed at raising awareness and understanding of mental health issues within the exercising community. In this episode, George discusses his current PhD research into muscularity orientated issues, body dysmorphia and disordered eating in men in his aim to vitally inform and improve existing intervention and treatment services supporting these psychopathological conditions in men. Disclaimer: This episode contains discussion around body dysmorphia, anorexia and suicidal ideation. Links to George's published study and guidance documents: Read here George Mycock PhD guidance: Outreach Resources for Men Contact Us: [email protected]
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Episode 42: Spilling the Beans with Hannah
On this episode, we speak to the incredible ED advocate and campaigner, Hannah Hickinbotham of the Full of Beans podcast, about male representation within ED discussion and the considerations that need to be in place to enable men to reach out and seek help for distorted behaviour around food and exercise. Thank you to our amazing listeners for joining in our candid discussions and supporting all aspects of positive life change we hope to encourage. Content Warning: This episode includes discussion around suicide ideation, inpatient treatment and medical trauma; listen with caution. Please remember we are not clinicians 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.
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Episode 41: Understanding Addiction
In today’s episode, we discuss acknowledging the external forces which impact addictive response. Looking at the theories of addiction by the writers and philosophers Fyodor Doestoevsky and George Bataille, we explore how to better equip ourselves to challenge potentially addictive behaviour by acknowledging the false and dangerous sense of control it appears to give us over our dissatisfaction of how we are socio-culturally placed in the world. Please remember we are not clinicians 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 all aspects of positive life change we hope to encourage. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 40: Candid Convo with Alex Sublette
In today’s episode we are honoured to speak to the amazingly brave and insightful ED recovery, and body neutrality advocate, Alex Sublette. Through our discussion, and her inspiring, ‘be_well_with_Alex’ Instagram page, Alex courageously maps her recovery journey in her determination to support others as they navigate their recovery journey. Please remember we are not clinicians or ED specialists, but share our lived, researched and specialist informed experience of an eating disorder and mental health trauma in our aim 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 all aspects of positive life change we hope to encourage. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 39: P@$£ off with your “at leasts!”
Empathy is a choice, a vulnerable choice because to connect with someone in emotional pain you have to let go of your ego and attempt to put yourself in the place of your loved one, significant other or friend who is struggling. Rarely, if ever, does an empathetic response begin with ‘at least’. So how do we support those we love who our struggling? In today’s episode, we discuss how emotional support means acknowledging the perspective of our loved one’s trauma, staying out of judgement, recognising their emotions and responding accordingly. Please remember we are not clinicians 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. Contact Us: [email protected]
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Episode 38: Baking, Bounce Back & Brave Talks with GBBO's Amos Lilley
As our listeners know by now, we are all about celebrating life wins, especially as a clapback to mental health adversity, and how magnificent life can look on the other side of overcoming trauma and mental health challenges. In today’s episode we speak to our inspiring guest, Great British Bake-off’s, Amos Lilley, who bravely shares his experience of appearing on the show, as well as how he whips (pun intended!) his mental health challenges into shape. Please remember we are not clinicians or ED specialists, but share our lived, researched and specialist informed experience of an eating disorder and mental health trauma in our aim 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 aim to encourage all aspects of positive life change. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 37: Interview with Yasmin Langdon
In today’s episode, we speak to our inspiring friend and mental health advocate, Yasmin Langdon. Yasmin shares her brave battle on how she overcame the cycle of trauma she experienced from bullying and how she has replaced it with the life success she now embraces. Please remember we are not clinicians or ED specialists, but share our lived, researched and specialist informed experience of an eating disorder and mental health trauma in our aim 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 aim to encourage all aspects of positive life change. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 36: I need help, but not the paperwork!
Today’s episode looks at bureaucracy and how, as attested to by the philosopher Hannah Arendt, some ‘bad actors’ can be seen to manipulate society by inundating it with technical administration so as to cover up institutional inaction. Please remember we are not clinicians or ED specialists, but share our lived experience of an eating disorder, and the research and specialist advice we have gathered over a decade, 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 aim to encourage all aspects of positive life change. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 35: Eating Disorders in Men
Today’s episode is informed by work carried out by Ross Sonnenblick into male eating disorders. Following his battle with anorexia, Ross decided to pursue a PhD in male eating disorders to contribute to the tragically unresearched study in this area, which he discusses with Amy Geckl on The Eating Disorder Diaries (found here: 'Goal #4: Daily ED Education – Anorexia in Boys and Men with Ross Sonnenblick'). Thank you for joining our candid discussions, informed by our personal experience and research, in our aim to encourage all aspects of positive life change. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 34: What is anxiety?
Today’s episode is looking at anxiety. Although anxiety is an unavoidable emotion, helping us to prepare for potential threats and challenges, excessive and persistent exposure to anxiety can lead to a host of complex mental and physical conditions. So, what is anxiety and how do we embody it? How does anxiety compel us to outsource our feelings of self to external objects instead of facing feelings of discomfort which can, in the words of Kierkegaard, enable us to experience a more fulfilling sense of self? Thank you for joining our candid discussions, informed by our personal experience and research, in our aim to encourage all aspects of positive life change. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 33: Lost the plot, found the woods with u-turnbacktobasics founder Andy Hill
June is men's mental health awareness month and on this episode, we are grateful to have the phenomenal advocate for men's mental health awareness, Andy Hill. Andy is the founder of the incredible u-turnbacktobasics initiative which provides nature walks, team building, survival, and wild camping retreats to those who are struggling with mental health issues. Today, Andy shares his brave story of how he turned his adversity into the phenomenal u-turnbacktobasics asset which so crucially supports others. Thank you for joining our candid discussions, informed by personal experiences, opinions and research in our aim to encourage the aspects of positive change which can enhance our lives. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 32: Unlocking the power of natural healing with Johanna Nye
On today’s episode, we are grateful to have the qualified instruction of yoga, meditation and breathing techniques teacher, Johanna Nye. As discussed on other episodes, Harry has reached a fork in the road with the recovery techniques being imparted through conventional psychotherapy and, as a result, has decided to pursue alternative traditional ways to alleviate the stress and intrusive thoughts he still battles. Johanna thus provides vital guided breathing techniques which stimulate the Vagus nerve to reduce stress and anxiety, alongside additional benefits such as enhancing cognitive ability and aiding the immune system. Thank you for joining our candid discussions informed by our personal experiences and opinions, and helping us, and others, contemplate the various aspects of positive change that enhance our lives. Contact Us: [email protected]
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Episode 31: What is perfect? (Part 2)
Following on from our last ‘what is perfect’ episode, we discuss how this translates into our sense of self when it comes to education, and consideration of how the arbitrary definition of intelligence might be redefined. Thank you for joining our candid discussions informed by our personal experiences and opinions, and helping us, and others, contemplate the various aspects of positive change that enhance our lives. Contact Us: [email protected]
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Episode 31: What is perfect? (Part 1)
In today’s episode we discuss the modern idea of perfect dictated by social media and the need to help our children become more media literate and to question the dangerous ideals of perfectionism they see online. Thank you for joining in our discussions around mental health informed by our experiences and those of others, and helping us to encourage and reinforce the message that positive change can come at any point in our lives. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 30: Do labels help? - Your responses
In today’s episode, we discuss our listeners invaluable feedback on when behavioural diagnosis can be seen as help, as opposed to hindrance, in how we interact with the world. Thank you joining in our discussions around mental health and helping us to encourage positive change, and reinforcing the motivation that change can come at any point in our lives. Contact Us: [email protected]
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Episode 29: Do labels help? (Part 2)
Here is 'Part 2' of our 'Do labels help?' episode, where we discuss when behavioural diagnosis can be seen as help, as opposed to hindrance, in how we interact with the world. When understanding the human condition in all its different variations can be freeing, instead of an agenda to bind us to a narrow set of behaviours which can hold us back. Thank you joining in our discussions around mental health, informed by our experiences and those of others, in the hope of encouraging positive change and to reinforce the motivation that change can come at any point in our lives. Contact Us: [email protected]
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Episode 29: Do labels help? (Part 1)
In Part 1 of today’s episode we discuss when behavioural diagnosis can be seen as help, as opposed to hindrance, in how we interact with the world. When understanding the human condition in all its different variations can be freeing, instead of an agenda to bind us to a narrow set of behaviours which can hold us back. Thank you joining in our discussions around mental health, informed by our experiences and those of others, in the hope of encouraging positive change and to reinforce the motivation that change can come at any point in our lives. Contact Us: [email protected]
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Episode 28: Don't Weight to Change!
Welcome to ‘Don’t Weight to Change!’ Our original ‘Why Weight to Change?’ podcast, began as an advocacy for mental health issues following my personal 10+ year battle with anorexia. By sharing my story, we aimed to help others struggling with mental health issues, especially young boys and men, creating a safe space for candid discussion and support. However, following the phenomenal feedback from our listeners, our podcast has organically expanded into issues that affect mental health such as ‘what it means to be human’. Questions such as ‘what compels us to make the life choices we make? Who determines and influences that? How do we alight upon the opinions and beliefs that we live by that form our sense of identity, and how do we identify, and deselect, certain opinions or beliefs when they no longer prove to serve us and who we want to be? Our podcast now seeks to encourage conversations around how to relinquish the weight of self-doubt, expectation, fear and uncertainty which holds us back and prevents us from changing into who we want to be. Please join us as we contribute to discussions around mental health informed by our experiences, and those of others, in the hope of encouraging positive change at both individual and societal level, and to reinforce the motivation that change can come at any point in our lives. Contact Us: [email protected]
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Episode 27: Netflix's Adolescence
Following on from our recent masculinity episodes, we join the commentary around Netflix's recent crime drama ‘Adolescence’, and how its focus on the impact of social media is now being critically reviewed by the government. Contact us: [email protected] We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
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Episode 26: Masculinity - Your views
In this week's episode, we share your views following on from our 'what is masculinity?' episode (Episode 24). “Thank you” to all our listeners who took the time to contribute to this crucial discussion and for letting us know we are creating discourse around this vital topic. Contact us: [email protected] We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
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Episode 25: We speak to the incredible Nelly Ghaffar of the Great British Bake Off
The incredible Nelly Ghaffar of GBBO shares her wise words on how to stay positive during times of discomfort and uncertainty. Thank you for Nelly for taking the time to lift our spirits and mind along with hearts of the nation! Contact us: [email protected] We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
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Episode 24: What is Masculinity?
In this episode we discuss the pressures of social conditioning, how it contributes to male identity and its impact on men's mental health. This is designed as an apolitical discussion predicated upon the structural messages that Harry identifies within his worldview which he ascribes as a major contributory factor to his eating disorder. Contact us: [email protected] We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
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Episode 23: Time for change?
In this week's episode, we discuss the latest developments within the government and charities such as CALM, supporting those with mental health conditions such as eating disorders, depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation. Contact us: [email protected] We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
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Episode 22: Why 'this' Podcast?
In this week’s episode, we discuss the intention behind our podcast ‘why weight to change’. We aim to raise awareness of what an eating disorder looks, and feels, like for a sufferer and their family to enhance understanding of its devastating effects and increase the paucity of support available to all those afflicted by this most life-threatening mental illness. We hope to offer reassurance and guidance on seeking the support and intervention essential to conquering the devastating cycle of an eating disorder, and prove the opportunity of life which exists of the other side. Contact us: [email protected] We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
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Episode 21: New Year, New You
In this episode, we discuss the dreaded ‘new year, new you’ resolution ritual, and how the post-Christmas spike in promotions for detox, cleansing and resets can elicit feelings of anxiety, insecurity and self-hate that can lead to eating disorders. Contact us: [email protected] We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
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Episode 20: Christmas Crackers
We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and new year, and wish you all a flourishing 2025! In this episode, we discuss how difficult Christmas and new year is for someone battling an eating disorder and discuss our experience of this challenging time of year for me and my family. Contact us: [email protected] We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
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Episode 19: What Recovery Looks Like
On today’s episode we discuss my eating disorder recovery, and how it is looking for me. During my struggles over the years, I often wanted to speak to someone who can help me navigate the difficulties of recovery and alleviate my anxiety that if recovery wasn’t a smooth transition from sufferer to cured, I was getting it wrong. This episode aims to dispel this assumption and offer hope to others. Please donate whatever you can to the incredible, vital charity, Seed here! Contact us: [email protected] We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
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Episode 18: Freddie Wise - My Eating Disorder Recovery
Today’s episode is informed by the incredible Freddie Wise, who we had the honour of meeting through a New Maudsley online workshop. Freddie is an actor who has appeared in Poldark, The Radleys, Maleficent, and the comedy, Flatmates, amongst many other shows. In the workshop, he discussed his brave battle with his anorexia and substance abuse and shared his highly inspiring road to recovery. On this episode, we also highlight holding onto the lighter side of life which is essential to disempowering the feelings of being held hostage to an eating disorder, for the sufferer as well as its loved ones. Contact us: [email protected] We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
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Episode 17: Supporting adults with an eating disorder
Today’s episode discusses advice on supporting an adult with an eating disorder, and how this starts with breaking the attendant shame around talking about mental health. We highlight the importance of ongoing specialist psychological support essential to providing the sufferer with critical cognitive techniques which enable the ability to challenge and overcome dangerous and self-destructive behaviours. We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 16: MANUP?
In our latest episode, we had the privilege of speaking to Dan Somers of MANUP?, a phenomenal charity that tackles the stigma around men’s mental health. November is Men’s Mental Health Month and not only do we discuss my experiences with an eating disorder but we also my battles with my mental health. We emphasise the importance of speaking up, reaching out and seeking help. Recovery isn’t about perfection; it’s about resilience, honesty, and the courage to keep going, even when it’s messy and hard. We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 15: Heartstopper
Today’s episode is dedicated to the powerful depiction of an eating disorder on Netflix’s, ‘Heartstopper’. This season’s series is a perceptive portrayal of the protagonist, Charlie Spring’s, battle with anorexia. If you haven’t watched the show, we highly recommend it, especially if you are supporting a person with an eating disorder. This episode contains spoiler alerts! We highlight the importance of ongoing specialist psychological support essential to providing the sufferer with critical cognitive techniques which enable the ability to challenge and overcome dangerous and self-destructive behaviours. We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 14: "Fitfluencers"
In this episode, we discuss how bodybuilders and "fitfluencers" on social media present an unrealistic view of perfection which I progressively came to judge myself by, and how their images exacerbated the body dysmorphia and maladaptive coping behaviours which led to my eventual inpatient submission. We highlight the importance of ongoing specialist psychological support essential to providing the sufferer with critical cognitive techniques which enable the ability to challenge and overcome dangerous and self-destructive behaviours. Contact us: [email protected] Please donate and support Georgia here!
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Episode 13: Who is to blame?
In this episode, we discuss the accusations of blame we have experienced throughout Harry's eating disorder, and the pressure these charges place upon a family in the midst of attempting to save their loved one from the grips of this life-threatening mental illness. We highlight the importance of ongoing specialist psychological support essential to providing the sufferer with critical cognitive techniques which enable the ability to challenge and overcome dangerous and self-destructive behaviours. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 12: We need to talk!
In this episode, we discuss the difficulties around approaching a loved one who you suspect may be struggling with an eating disorder, body dysmorphia or mental health issue. We highlight the importance of ongoing specialist psychological support essential to providing the sufferer with critical cognitive techniques which enable the ability to challenge and overcome dangerous and self-destructive behaviours. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 11: The inpatient, inpatient!
In this episode, we discuss Harry's experience as an inpatient admission on St Ann's Eating Disorder Unit and how this shaped his eating disorder recovery. We highlight the importance of ongoing specialist psychological support essential to providing the sufferer with critical cognitive techniques which enable the ability to challenge and overcome dangerous and self-destructive behaviours. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 10: Oh no! Not a holiday!
We’re back! In this episode, we discuss the difficulties around food and diet that eating disorder recovery experiences around holidays. We highlight the importance of ongoing specialist psychological support essential to providing the sufferer with critical cognitive techniques which enable the ability to challenge and overcome dangerous and self-destructive behaviours. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 9: Dad's broken!
In this week's episode we discuss how Harry's eating disorder has impacted his Dad as one of the contributory factors in his nervous breakdown. The purpose of this episode is to acknowledge the importance of men talking in order avoid destructive gender stereotypes that have led to the dangerous and traumatic response of an eating disorder and a mental breakdown. Please remember, we are not clinicians or qualified ED specialists. The aim of our podcast is to provide insight into our experience in the hope that we provide information that might save others from suffering the years of trauma we have encountered under the threat of an eating disorder. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 8: The abusive partner
In this week's episode, we discuss how we came to acknowledge an eating disorder as 'an abusive partner' that convinces the sufferer, and their loved ones, that they are useless, contemptible and unworthy of respect or compassion. Insight into how an ED manifests in this way brought huge succor in how to change our approach, and help Harry to challenge the self-doubt generated by the internal voice of an eating disorder. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 7: QnA with New Maudsley Workshop (Part 2)
In this week’s episode we had the honour of being invited as guest speakers at the New Maudsley Carers Support group chaired by the incredible Jenny Langley. We hope this episode sheds more insight into my ED story and how my family and I are still navigating our way through my recovery. Here is part 2 of that interview. Contact us: [email protected]
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Episode 7: QnA with New Maudsley Workshop (Part 1)
In this week’s episode we had the honour of being invited as guest speakers at the New Maudsley Carers Support group chaired by the incredible Jenny Langley. We hope this episode sheds more insight into my ED story and how my family and I are still navigating our way through my recovery. Here is part 1 of that interview Contact us: [email protected]
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to ‘Don’t Weight to Change!’ Our original ‘Why Weight to Change?’ podcast, began as an advocacy for mental health issues following my personal 10+ year battle with anorexia. By sharing my story, we aimed to help others struggling with mental health issues, especially young boys and men, creating a safe space for candid discussion and support. Following the phenomenal feedback from our listeners, our podcast has organically expanded into issues that affect mental health such as ‘what it means to be human’. Questions such as ‘what compels us to make the life choices we make? Who determines and influences that? How do we alight upon the opinions and beliefs that we live by that form our sense of identity, and how do we identify, and deselect, certain opinions or beliefs when they no longer prove to serve us and who we want to be?Our podcast now seeks to encourage conversations around how to relinquish the weight of self-doubt, expectation, fear and uncertainty which hold
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