Find Your Strong Podcast
by Christine Chessman & Ela Law
Health & FitnessE · Explicit
Latest episode
Why Are We All Talking About What We Eat?
Why Are We All Talking About What We Eat?
About this podcast
Encouraging people to find what FEELS good in terms of food, movement and their bodies. Let's challenge the wellness w*nkery and start a new conversation.
In each episode, Christine and Ela discuss their thoughts on diet and fitness fads, speak with fabulous guests about finding peace with food and their bodies, and interview experts so that they can share their insights with you, our lovely listeners.
The hope is that together we can change the narrative around fitness and nutrition, and help you find YOUR strong!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 118 episodes
- Why Are We All Talking About What We Eat? · 41 min · Season 5 Episode 22Send us Fan Mail “You're not lazy because you're resting, and you're not greedy because you have a second portion, you're just a bit hungrier.” So Ela's lovely daughter Milly…
- What To Do When You Experience Body Image Distress. · 37 min · Season 5 Episode 21Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk about body confidence in midlife. As bodies, skin, hair and energy levels change, old and new negative body image thoughts can emerge…
- Can We Talk About Kids, Food and Body Image? · 38 min · Season 5 Episode 20Send us Fan Mail We're BACK! It has been a hot second since we last recorded an episode together and of course we're starting with an emotionally charged subject, just to get you…
- From Weight Watchers to Embracing Your Features. · 44 min · Season 5 Episode 19Send us Fan Mail This week,I'm flying solo and I'm so excited to be chatting with the inspirational Christina Testut. Christina is a fierce body image advocate as well as a…
- Burnout, Belief, and the Right to Recover - with Bex Spiller · 59 min · Season 5 Episode 18Send us Fan Mail Bex Spiller is the founder of The Anti-Burnout Club and creator of the Right to Recover campaign — joins Ela to talk burnout, workplace culture, and why recovery…
- What We Resist, Persists · 31 min · Season 5 Episode 17Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore a simple but powerful idea: when we resist uncomfortable feelings, they tend to grow stronger, not weaker. This pattern shows up…
- Letting Go of the Athlete Identity, with Caroline Toshack · 49 min · Season 5 Episode 16Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we're joined by the wonderful Caroline Toshack for a thought provoking conversation about coming home to our bodies after an eating disorder or…
- Intuitive Eating isn't for everyone. · 39 min · Season 5 Episode 15Send us Fan Mail We've been thinking a lot lately about intuitive eating and whether it really is for everyone. There's so much confusion and misinformation out there, and we…
- Your Body Is Not a Project to Fix: Unapologetic Ageing with Deb Benfield · 48 min · Season 5 Episode 14Send us Fan Mail In a world determined to sell us anti-ageing solutions, what would it look like to trust our bodies instead? This conversation explores ageism, diet culture…
- Summer Bodies, Heatwaves & Unlearning Diet Culture · 28 min · Season 5 Episode 13Send us Fan Mail If you're based in the UK, you'll know that at the time of recording it was SUPER hot here. Hotter weather can often bring up body image concerns, that may have…
- What If We Stopped Fighting Aging? · 33 min · Season 5 Episode 13Send us Fan Mail I recently turned 50 and Ela is hot on my tail, and as such we are thinking more and more about what it means to embrace our bodies as they inevitably change.*…
- Training for Our Old Lady Bodies, with Elizabeth Davies @thiswomanlifts. · 57 min · Season 5 Episode 12Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we sat down with Elizabeth Davies (This Woman Lifts) to explore strength training, ageing, body image, and what it really means for women to…
- What Are You Really Training For? Fitness BEYOND Shrinking Your Body. · 44 min · Season 5 Episode 11Send us Fan Mail Why do you move? Why do you exercise? There are plenty of reasons, but when we ask people if they'd move in the same way, if movement didn't change how their…
- Redefining Exercise After Eating Disorder Recovery, with Jenny Langley · 59 min · Season 5 Episode 10Send us Fan Mail What a joy to have Jenny Langley on the podcast. Since her son recovered from anorexia 20 years ago, Jenny Langley has campaigned to raise awareness of eating…
- Is Our Obsession with Tracking Helpful or Harmful? · 40 min · Season 5 Episode 9Send us Fan Mail Are you tracking your weight/progress/calories/sleep/exercise/whatever-else-there-is-to-track? We had a feisty conversation about it (always feisty!!), and feel…
- Perfectionism Isn't Who You Are and the Burnout Cycle Isn't Inevitable. · 46 min · Season 5 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail Part 2. We could chat to these folks all day. Tasha* and Brandon are heart-centred coaches who work with recovering perfectionists (Hello!) people struggling…
- Can We Eat Sugar AND Be Healthy? · 41 min · Season 5 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail Ela and I were wondering about our topic for this week and a recent episode of Dragon's Den got us thinking about sugar, continuous glucose monitors and the…
- Shrinking Celebrities, GLP-1s and Why We're Angry! · 38 min · Season 5 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail Christine and I are angry - we re trying to work out why we are so easily led into obedience when it comes to body image and dieting. Watching people (in…
- Eating Disorders Do NOT Have a Look. Fighting the Stereotypes. · 32 min · Season 5 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail In the UK this is Eating Disorders Awareness week, so we thought we should talk about it. I have had too much lived experience with eating disorders as I'm sure…
- Who's Benefiting From Our Body Dissatisfaction? A Conversation with Evelyn Tribole (Re-Release) · 45 min · Season 5 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail Ela and I are beyond excited to bring you this week's guest, the OG of Intuitive Eating herself, Evelyn. This of course, was one of our most popular episodes to…
