Talking with Emma: Stop fighting food & weight
Talking with Emma is the podcast for women who are tired of obsessive food thinking, struggling with body image and feeling like food and weight is the one thing they can’t get sorted.
I’m Emma Wright — feminist health coach, author, and someone who knows exactly how exhausting it is to live like not matter how much you try, your health is never quite “good enough.”
After years of controlling my weight, focusing on food, exercising harder, and constantly feeling like a failure, I discovered something different — and more powerful:
Coaching tools that help you trust yourself again - and take charge of your health the way you want to.
Each episode, I’ll share the tools I use with clients who want relief health feeling so confusing — and who are ready end emotional eating, stop thinking about food all the time and improve their body image.
If you’re ready for those things, this podcast is for you.
📥 Want to go deeper?
Download the Self-Assessment — a free tool to evaluate what’s really going on beneath the food and body thinking.
Curious about working together?
I’m currently welcoming new 1:1 clients. Book a no-cost consultation where we’ll talk about how to achieve the health goals you have and what kind of support you need to do that, and of course, whether coaching with me feels like the right fit.
Episodes
42 episodes
Bonus - Emotional Eating Solution Masterclass - limited time invite
If you struggle with unconscious, night or stress eating, this invite is for you. I'm going to be teaching a powerful tool to end the battle with emotional eating so it's easier to take care of yourself the way you want to.H...
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39: Emotional Eating Unpacked
In this episode of Talking with Emma we're going to unpack emotional eating from a unique standpoint, so that you can see that it may not be the problem you feel it currently is, and you can actually do something about it.
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38 ways dieting interferes with your life
The pursuit of weight loss is almost universally talked about in positive terms. But it has huge costs. This episode outlines many of the side effects that women are unaware of or not told about when they embark on weight loss behav...
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37: Coping With Weight Gain
In this episode we talk about weight gain in a way you've probably never heard it discussed, especially if you're a midlife woman. This episode is for you:You dislike diet culture but still fear weight ...
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26:31
36: Sexual Wellbeing and Body Image in midlife and beyond
Sexual wellbeing often changes in midlife. Bodies change. Desire changes. But you don't have to settle for being dissatisfied. Yet very few women are given tools to talk about it without shame, pressure, or self-blame.In this...
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Episode 36
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35: Two Cultural Shifts to Notice If You Want to Eat How You Want This Year
These two shifts are based on what I’ve been seeing in clients I coached in 2025—the wins and the challenges the women faced going about their day-to-day lives.These are not wellness trends or research insights. They are what I've notice...
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Episode 35
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33: You don’t need to overhaul your life to be healthy in 2026
In today’s short episode, Emma explains why most goal-setting methods fail women — not because we lack discipline, but because the systems we’ve been taught rely on overhauls, pressure, and all-or-nothing thinking.Links &am...
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32: The life-changing art of never starting again
Most women think they’re inconsistent because they lack discipline.But the real problem is the way we’ve been taught to approach exercise — big, punishing, all-or-nothing plans that collapse the moment life gets busy.In this episode,...
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31: How to Respond When People Make Dumb Body or Food Comments
Even when you’ve done a lot of work on body respect, off-hand comment can send your nervous system into a spin.In this episode, you’ll learn a simple in-the-moment process to help when someone says something thoughtless about your body o...
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30: A Revolutionary Perspective on Health
If you’ve ever wondered why health feels like the one area of life you can’t get sorted, this episode gives you a fresh perspective.I walk you through a new way of seeing health — one where you’ll learn how to work with...
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30: How to take consistent action without giving up
If you’ve ever thought:“Why can’t I stick to anything?”“I know what to do, I just don’t do it.”“I get a few weeks in… and then I fall over again,”this episode is for you.You’ll hear why your pas...
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29: 10 ways to stop weight-loss pressure getting to you this summer
Summer holidays are a time to rest, connect, and step out of the pace of the year. But they’re also when the pressure to lose weight hits it's peak. This year the noise is even louder. Weight-loss drugs are being marketed i...
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Episode 28
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28: How to Stop Apologising for Your Body
Feeling apologetic about your body isn’t a personal flaw. It’s cultural conditioning. And once you see where these thoughts come from — and how they’re reinforced — you can start to unlearn them.In this episode, Emma wa...
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Episode 28
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27: 3-Step Method to End the Binge–Restrict Loop
In this episode, Emma looks at how you can finally step out of the binge restrict cycle using a method grounded in behavioural science and emotional safety.You’ll hear Emma weave together her own lived experience with the evidence-based ...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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26: Get Out Of Your Head and Into Your Body (guided walk)
If you spend a lot of time in your head — replaying conversations, overthinking food choices, or worrying about how you look — this episode is for you.In today’s episode, I’ll take you on a guided walk. It’s not a mindset le...
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25: The Best Body Image Question You Can Ask Yourself
If you’ve ever thought, “I know I should accept my body, but that feels like giving up,” this episode is for you.This week I share the best body image question you can ask yourself — one that changes the entire way you see your ...
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24: What to do when anxiety strikes (or any big emotion)
If you hate feeling anxious or other big emotions and have tried to find a way to handle them, but nothing really works, this episode is for you.Today I’m walking you through a simple, three-step process for bringing self-compassion into...
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20:53
23: How to Exercise Without Turning It Into a Fixing Project
If you’ve ever found yourself saying, “I want to exercise more — but it always turns into another thing I’m failing at,” this episode is for you.In this week’s episode of Talking with Emma, we take a fresh look at movem...
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22: My Story
In this special episode of Talking With Emma, I’m doing something different.Instead of teaching a tool or exploring a concept, I’m sharing my story — from childhood through midlife — and how my own experiences with food, weight, and the die...
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21: 3 Food Mindsets Sabotaging Your Health Goals
Women can find themselves struggling when it comes to food and exercise. Not because they don’t know enough. Not because they’re lazy or weak. But because of the cultural mindsets that sneak in and run the show.In this episode of Tal...
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20: Food Addiction - A Different Perspective
This week on Talking with Emma, I’m diving into one of the most emotionally charged topics in the health world: food addiction. But instead of recycling the same old narratives, I’m offering a different lens — one that cuts through the...
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19: Eating Your Feelings Isn’t Failure — It’s a Sign Your Biology Is Working
Today, we’re flipping the script on emotional eating. I’m saying what most wellness advice won’t: Eating your feelings isn’t a personal failure. It’s actually your biology doing its job. In this episode, we look at why food is such an effective...
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18: What to Do When Getting Dressed Ruins Your Day
What to Do When Getting Dressed Ruins Your DayWe’ve all had those mornings. You get dressed, catch your reflection — or feel your clothes pinch — and suddenly the whole day feels hijacked. The shame hits hard, especially if you “k...
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