Talking with Emma: Stop fighting food & weight

In this episode, I break down the five elements of a great nervous system regulation toolkit for food and weight stress.

I walk through the five elements: understanding where food and body stress actually comes from, building basic emotional competency, learning embodied regulation (the heart of the work), working with the thought patterns underneath — in the right order — and navigating the real-life triggers that set i...

[This episode is part of the Weight-Neutral Health Care In Aotearoa NZ Series]

This week I'm talking with Andrea Palmer, a Wellington-based dietitian, about weight-neutral family feeding — what it actually looks like and why that's harder than it sounds in a culture obsessed with kids' weight. 

In this episode:

• What family-style feeding is, why the parent's job stops at what/when/where, and how removing the mora...

[This episode is part of the Weight-Neutral Health Care In Aotearoa NZ Series] 

This week I'm talking with Dr. Meg Vardy, founding chair of JourneyED, about why taking weight off the table is central to eating disorder peer support, and what it actually means to rebuild trust with your own body. In this episode:

• What peer support actually is, how it's different from clinical treatment and recovery coaching, and why "...

Part of the Weight Neutral Health Care in Aotearoa NZ.

Therapist Nicole Gaviria, founder of Binge Free Bestie, talks about her binge eating disorder, why bariatric surgery didn't fix it, and the three real triggers behind binge eating.

We unpack why the number on the scale was never the actual problem, and Nicole walks through the three triggers she sees behind binge eating in the women she works with: physical restriction, m...

[This episode is part of the Weight-Neutral Health Care In Aotearoa NZ Series]

This week I'm talking with journalist and author Niki Bezzant about paying attention to what our bodies actually need in midlife, vs chasing numbers on the scale. 

In this episode:

• Why Niki spent years internalising the idea that thinness equals goodness — and why she no longer believes that
• The diet industry's business model, and why it depen...

In this episode, I look at that sneaky ingrained belief that if we just try harder — eat better food, be more disciplined, stick to the plan — we’ll finally feel better. But the issue isn’t a lack of willpower or time management. It’s a culture that taught us to fight our bodies instead of working with them.

I share the story of a client who broke this cycle and introduce you to one of my core self-coac...

In this episode we talk about Harriet Moir's Eat Damn Sausage show and why it's such a great way for women to reject beauty standards and find empowerment. 

We talk about 

• Challenging Body Standards:
• The Influence of Patriarchy
• The Power of Storytelling
• Practicing Body Acceptance
• Role Modeling for Future Generations

We look at Harriet'sprofessional work beyond her comedy. She discusses her podcast, "Tell Me Moir...

Is food noise loud in your head? In this episode, I break down what food noise actually is, why your brain produces it, and why using a GLP-1 is a mask, not a fix. If you or someone you love is weighing up a weight loss drug, this gives you the fuller picture before you decide.

Please note: I say the number of Intuitive Eating Studies is around 190. I mean to say 100. 

I walk through the three phases your body goes throu...

Register for the WHERE TO START WITH BODY IMAGE & ADULT KIDS IN A GLP-1 TSUNAMI? masterclass here: 

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Worried about your young adult daughter and the weight loss drugs — but don't know what to say? This free masterclass will help you have the conversation without pushing her away.

In this class you'll learn:

• How body image is formed — and why that helps in ...

Why do so many smart, capable women feel like failures when it comes to money? In this episode, I talk with therapist and Hi Money co-author Rachel Davies about the hidden beliefs, shame, and socialisation that shape how women relate to money — and how the patterns are almost identical to diet culture.

Rachel Davies is a therapist, and co-author of *Money Money Money* with Angela Meyer. After realising at 49 that she had n...

Weight loss drugs are everywhere right now — in ads, in conversations, even being trialled on children as young as six. So what does that mean for how we talk to our kids about food, bodies, and weight?

In this episode I'm joined by Oona Hanson, parent coach and educator based in Los Angeles, who helps families raise kids with a healthy relationship to food, exercise, and their bodies — including families navigating ...

If you keep going around and around on a decision — and no amount of Googling or talking it through is helping — this episode will help.

Confusion feels like an information problem. It isn't. It's a protective strategy your brain uses to keep you from feeling something uncomfortable. And once you understand that, you can actually get out of it.

In this episode, Emma walks you through a four-question tool to get yourself o...

You know what you're supposed to do. Protein. Sleep. Movement. Stress. Fun. Relationships. And yet — underneath all of that knowledge — there is a persistent, grinding feeling that you are behind. That you haven't arrived yet. That you'll get there when the routine is sorted, when you lose a few kilos, when you finally feel on top of it.

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In this episode, I unpack ...

If you've yo-yo'd down and up more than once, this episode is for you.

Emma Wright shares what she learned after 65 (or more) weight loss cycles and what you can do to address it.

She introduces her free upcoming workshop — THE YO-YO SOLUTION THAT ISN'T WELLNESS HOGWASH — where she walks you through the steps to solve yo-yo cycle in way that's specific to your own dieting history.

This episode covers:

— Why weight...

The marketing around Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound is relentless — and is only telling you one very small part of the story.

Louise Adams is a clinical psychologist, author, podcaster and founder of Untrapped. She has spent more than 20 years in the non-diet and Health at Every Size field. She recently co-authored a peer-reviewed paper — GLP-1 Medication for Weight Loss: A Triumph of Marketing Over Patient Care...

In this rerelease I dive into one of the most pervasive and exhausting beliefs I see in my coaching practice: the idea that your body is a problem that needs to be fixed. 

Even for those of us who reject diet culture or adopt intuitive eating, this belief often runs deep and unconsciously influences how we perceive ourselves. 

I explore the systems of belief that reinforce the "fix-it" mentality—from diet culture and ...

Why do women stay in bad relationships — even when they know, in their heart of hearts, that the situation doesn't suit them? This week I'm joined by Sallyanne Hartnell, a divorce coach who helps women navigate every stage of relationship breakdown — from the first quiet question to coming home to themselves on the other side.

We talk about good girl conditioning: the deeply ingrained belief that belonging depends on...

Have you ever set a goal, genuinely wanted it, done all the right things and still found yourself not following through? You're not lazy. You're not lacking willpower. And you are not the problem.

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In this episode of Talking with Emma, cognitive behavioural coach and Intuitive Eating coach Emma Wright shares the real reason most women struggle to stick to health and wellness goals, and why the usual a...

What happens when life-saving medication changes your weight, but the medical system keeps focusing on it?

Katie Rickson lives with bipolar. She has been hospitalised. She has been through the years of misdiagnosis - depression, anxiety, ADHD - before finally getting an answer that made sense of her life. 

And having been to the doctor, seriously unwell, a psychiatrist noted in a report that she was a "slim young woman."

So we ta...