Feminism, Food & Freedom: Are your emotions controlling your body? With Dr Emilia Thompson #19

Content Warning: This episode touches on deep, serious topics around emotional and physical abuse in relationships. If you, or someone you know, is in need of support, there are resources available at https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/getting-help-for-domestic-violence/.How is your relationship with food and your body? 1% of us might say it’s perfect, but for the other 99% of us, Dr Emilia Thompson is here.Once Britain’s #2 bodybuilder, now fulfilling a purpose to help others live their best lives...

Content Warning: This episode touches on deep, serious topics around emotional and physical abuse in relationships. If you, or someone you know, is in need of support, there are resources available at https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/getting-help-for-domestic-violence/.

How is your relationship with food and your body? 1% of us might say it’s perfect, but for the other 99% of us, Dr Emilia Thompson is here.

Once Britain’s #2 bodybuilder, now fulfilling a purpose to help others live their best lives, she’s a true expert in nutrition, exercise and mindfulness.

Dr Emilia joins us to go Off Script on her complicated relationship with food throughout the years, the worst misleading myths in fitness & nutrition, life as a self-described ‘raging feminist’, and so much more.

This episode covers

• Being Britain’s #2 bodybuilder amid a complex relationship with food
• Escaping an emotionally abusive relationship
• Feminism in the modern age
• The angle from which we can best approach gender equality issues
• Becoming a single mother by choice, and the RUI process
• The low quality of some research reinforcing bad diet trends
• Holistic nutrition and intuitive eating
• Debunking the biggest nutrition myths
• Mastering mindfulness