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

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 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

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

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

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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com