My guest, Kate Reid, is a fellow Scot with a beautiful voice but she talks about having such low confidence that she struggles to accept compliments. Kate talks about her struggle with a binge eating disorder, how opening up and talking was the single most helpful thing, and we muse over whether we can ever truly understand how the mind works…
I invited Kate onto Truthbook because I have loved her honesty and openness through poems, songs, and Facebook posts. In her own words, she has always had an insatiable appetite for wanting to understand why she feels the way she feels and has found solace in talking.
Our paths crossed in the early 2000s, during her days in the Scottish band The Midden-where she was the lead singer and guitarist with her sisters, Meggan and Hazel. A measure of their success-playing in front of 25,000 at Glasgow’s Hogmany in 2004 with Snow Patrol! I remember a particularly vibrant and foot tapping night at the battle of the bands in the Scotia bar in Glasgow and celebrating their win with a pint of Guinness.
Since then, Kate has continued to keep life interesting; she is a singer, songwriter, she has written a book of poems and has a novel in the making. She spent 9 years teaching French, German and Music and more recently she is a radio presenter with Dunoon Community Radio. She is a Top 200 UK chart singer (check out Kate’s newly released song Caroline below). At the age of 40, in 2019, she became a MUM to Alexander….
Kate and Alexander live in one of the most beautiful parts of the world on the North Coast of Scotland.
But behind the scenes of these positive images, Kate has battled with a binge eating disorder pretty much since puberty. I remember when she first spoke about it on FB and thinking wow, I had no idea…
Get touch if you want to follow up anything from this episode-
Kathryn- mrskathrynhsmith@gmail.com
Kate- Katereid@hotmail.com
Links
Kate's website
https://katereid.online
Kate's single Caroline
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/id1570666345?app=itunes
The Midden
https://www.facebook.com/themidden
OnTrack Devon
https://ontrackretreats.co.uk/
Crunch Nutrition
https://www.crunchnutrition.co.uk/
The Binge Eating Therapist
https://thebingeeatingtherapist.com/
Headspace
https://www.headspace.com