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. 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. We aim to encourage discussion around how to stop seeking external validation and permission to change, what change might look like, and how change benefits our mental wellbeing so that we live out the most beneficial version of ourselves in whatever way we choose! Thank you for joining in our discussion!
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Episodes
Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Thursday Jul 17, 2025
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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com
Tuesday Jul 08, 2025
Tuesday Jul 08, 2025
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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com
Friday Jun 27, 2025
Friday Jun 27, 2025
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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com
Saturday Jun 14, 2025
Saturday Jun 14, 2025
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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com
Monday Jun 02, 2025
Monday Jun 02, 2025
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
Friday May 23, 2025
Friday May 23, 2025
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
Monday May 12, 2025
Monday May 12, 2025
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
Monday May 05, 2025
Monday May 05, 2025
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: dontweighttochange@outlook.com
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
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
Monday Apr 21, 2025
Monday Apr 21, 2025
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