Food & Life Freedom with Emma Townsin

The holidays is no holiday for diet culture. These 3 steps can help you stay grounded and confident in your own body and avoid being drawn back into dieting.

For more support, join the Anti-Diet Guide to Overcoming Emotional Eating online course. With lessons, exploratory activities and practical tools to feel good around food into 2024 and beyond!

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I'm Emma Townsin, a Registered Dietitian, a Certified Intuiti...

Grace and I discuss how navigating chronic body symptoms and chronic illness can negatively impact on our body image. And how easily this can spiral in dieting, disordered eating or an eating disorder.

Grace wonderfully weaves her story of navigating MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome) and vulvodynia into her professional knowledge as we explore body image as more than just our appearance but our sense of self and body trust...

Krista and I discuss the first principle of intuitive eating - rejecting the diet mentality. We explore why we can feel stuck dieting, how to spot sneaky "not-a-diet" diets and the first steps you can take to move away from dieting to make space to become an intuitive eater.

About Krista Krista Beck is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and dieter turned intuitive eater. After struggling wit...

Experiencing stressful eating is more common than we realise but we don't talk about it enough!

This episode we will explore

• The difference between overeating, binge eating and emotional eating
• Why you might experience stressful or eating out-of-control
• Some tips to start feeling good around food

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Today Sherry and I discuss the challenges many women face while navigating midlife and menopause while living in a diet culture. From navigating emotions, weight changes, life changes and our society's erasure of aging women, there can be a lot to process and accept which can for some lead us toward dieting as a way to try control a changing internal and external world. Sherry shares some non-diet support and tips for those app...

Binge eating is very common, although if we are struggling with out-of-control eating, it might not feel like it. It is a topic we don't talk about much in our culture.

Toni and I are here to change that and take the shame and stigma out of binge eating. We explore:

• What binge eating is
• Why we might develop binge eating
• What we can do to start feeling good around food

Toni Rudd is a Specialist Binge Eating Di...

Dieting tells you your body cannot be trusted. It tells you your body is wrong and it's normal to feel in a fight between body and mind.

This is not true and we can feel at peace with food while supporting our bodies to feel their best. The key is having a strong mind-body connection.

We will cover:

• what mind-body connection is
• what it can tell us (and why this is important)
• how you can improve your mind-body connection
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Raquel and I discuss body image after pregnancy and how societal pressures and "bounce back" culture can fuel poor body image and sometimes lead to a difficult relationship with food. Raquel shares really helpful tips for navigating body image in the postpartum phase.

About Raquel Griffin

Raquel (she/her) is a queer therapist, Registered Social Worker and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor based in the Canadian Pr...

Today I am talking about what to do if you experience constant, obsessive or stressful thoughts about food. Often referred to as a lot of "food noise". I will talk through 5 reasons why food might be on your mind all the time. And, if you relate to this, I will offer some gentle steps you can take so food becomes less obsessive and more peaceful.

Here’s how to learn more from me, Emma Townsin (Registered Dietitian an...

Jeff and I discuss why intuitive eating and body acceptance messages don't always resonate with men and how we can communicate intuitive eating in a way that is better understood by men. This can help men access support and male partners can be better able to support an intuitive eating journey.

About Jeff Ash Jeff is a nutritionist, Intuitive Eating Coach, personal trainer, and host of the Men's Intuition Podcast wher...

Amanda and I discuss why we can feel body shame and distress around our body especially during periods of life when our body goes through changes. Amanda shares really helpful tips and support to navigate body shame and distress and develop a positive relationship with food and body.

About Amanda Mittman

Amanda is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Body Image Coach. Amanda knows that ...

I'm back for season 2!

I'm Emma Townsin, a UK Registered Dietitian and a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor. The Food & Life Freedom Podcast is back to help you explore your relationship with food and body, to overcome out-of-control eating such as binge or emotional eating and take the guilt out of food.

We are so much more complex and interesting than the diet-y messages and food rules make us out to be. When...

Today we have a bonus episode to explore a listener question. “How do I know if I need another diet plan or if I should try intuitive eating?”

We will look at the differences between following a diet plan compared with intuitive eating and explore the 6 signs to look out for that intuitive eating may be your path to finding food freedom.

So tune in to this 10 minute bonus episode that will help you break down what path you need to...

This week we are exploring emotional eating. If you find yourself feeling out of control around food when big emotions come up, this episode will support you with the steps you need to recover from emotional eating without turning to dieting.

We will cover:

1. Why we eat for emotional reasons
2. The positive role it can serve in your life
3. How to know when emotional eating is harmful
4. 4 steps you can take to deal with stressful em...

How does stress and your nervous system influence your gut symptoms? If you experience IBS or gut symptoms, it can be tempting to turn straight to food. But, as we will learn, the gut responds to much more than just food.

We will cover:

1. What is stress and why we need to stop trying to "reduce" it

2. How stress can impact the gut with both physical and nervous system changes

3. When to try food modifications and when to...

Today, we are exploring what it really means to be “healthy”? Is health a personal responsibility? And how much impact does diet and exercise really have on our health? By understanding what makes you feel healthy, rather than what our culture says should be healthy, you can prioritise the areas of your health and wellbeing that really matter to you.

This episode is an exploration, from my own personal perspective looking into the...

Today we are exploring diet culture and how it relates to principle 1 of Intuitive Eating - rejecting the diet mentality. We will explore what diet culture is, the 6 most common lies we are told about food and bodies and how we can actively start rejecting diet culture.

Exploring and letting go of diet culture is the number one step to finding a peaceful and easy relationship with food and your body so this is a must listen episo...

I speak with Ela Law, Nutritionist and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor about how to let go of weight loss dieting and get started with Intuitive Eating.

We explore why dieting has become about acceptance and safety rather than health, how our sense of identity fits in with becoming an intuitive eater and the most important first steps to take to become an intuitive eater.

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Ela's work focuses on supporting people in hea...

What are the 10 principles of intuitive eating? As a Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor, I see many myths and just plain innacurate information about intuitive eating. So, to bust through this, let's break down the principles to learn how intuitive eating really helps you to stop feeling stressed over food and feel good in your body.

Today's episode is brought to you by Reclaiming Your Food Freedom, an...