Don’t Weight To Change!

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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

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.
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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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

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: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
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.

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: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
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.

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: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
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.