Don’t Weight To Change!

Today’s episode is inspired by Harry’s recent recovery process move into the stage of self-discovery, enabling him to identify the ‘how’ and ‘why’ behind the choices he makes, and understanding how these choices can limit or challenge self-growth.It isn’t about fixing something broken, but about understanding yourself more clearly to empower your ability to make deliberate choices that can help you break the cycle of negative talk or self-sabotaging behaviour.
Please remember we are not clinicians, psychologists or ED specialists.  Our aim is to contribute to the field of understanding around eating disorders, and mental health support, through our lived experience, and our ongoing understanding and application of developing professional expertise and advice.Contact us: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

Today we discuss the many aspects to the carer role so dangerously, insensibly and illogically ill-met by the specialised health care services a carer needs to support a loved one.  
The weight of expectation placed by professional health support services upon a lay person supporting a loved one, with a mental or physical health care needs, presents inevitable mental health care risks to unqualified family members.  
Please be mindful of your limitations, and ensure that you seek out the essential professional health support services you need which are vital to protecting you, and those who are vulnerable who are placed within your charge. 
 
Please remember we are not clinicians, psychologists or ED specialists.  Our aim is to contribute to the field of understanding around eating disorders, and mental health support, through our lived experience, and our ongoing understanding and application of continually developing professional expertise and advice.Contact us: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

On today’s episode, we have the privilege of sharing just some of the wealth of knowledge that Grace H. Richardson has to offer.  Grace is an Identity Coach who helps people who have done years of therapy and are still stuck to create the life they want.
Grace’s expertise speaks volumes to us, in relation to advocating for a vital extensive patient-centred eating disorder approach, as well improving essential self-growth coping mechanisms.
The way that Grace delves into aspects of our internal sense of identity, which impact our external behaviours, is an approach that we identify as a method to be adopted into an essential holistic ED therapy approach, particularly in relation to learning how to reset our nervous system to break the cycle of negative responses that we can come to rely upon which can hinder self-growth, as well as lead to restrictive, addictive, and self-sabotaging behaviours.
Please remember we are not clinicians, psychologists or ED specialists.  Our aim is to contribute to the field of understanding around eating disorders, and mental health support, through our lived experience, and our ongoing understanding and application of continually developing professional expertise and advice.Visit Grace's page here Contact us: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

As part of Men’s Mental Health Month, we discuss the importance of men acknowledging the strength in embracing our (collectively experienced!) vulnerability, in order to vitally open up, talk and save lives.
Please remember we are not clinicians, psychologists or ED specialists.  Our aim is to contribute to the field of understanding around eating disorders and mental health support through our lived experience, and our ongoing understanding and application of continually developing professional expertise and advice.
Contact us: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

We often speak about the weight of social expectation placed on men that puts them at personal risk, but why is it becoming increasingly essential to ensure men stand up to toxic examples of manhood?  
More and more we are seeing how examples of heinous masculinity are proving that it is becoming critically incumbent upon men to speak out and change the outdated, antediluvian behavioural expectations essential to protecting women, and to encourage the mindset vital to safeguarding the whole of society.
Please remember we are not clinicians, psychologists or ED specialists.  
Our aim is to contribute to the field of eating disorder and mental health care, support and understanding through the lessons we learned within our personal experience, and application of the professional knowledge which helped us along the way.Contact us: dontweighttochange@outlook.com

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