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
55 episodes
52: Your Midlife Body Isn't a Problem To Fix (RERELEASE)
In this rerelease I dive into one of the most pervasive and exhausting beliefs I see in my coaching practice: the idea that your body is a problem that needs to be fixed. Even for those of us who reject diet culture or adopt intuiti...
51: When Good Girl Conditioning Makes You Stay Too Long In Marriage and Diet Culture with SallyAnne Hartnell
Why do women stay in bad relationships — even when they know, in their heart of hearts, that the situation doesn't suit them? This week I'm joined by Sallyanne Hartnell, a divorce coach who helps women navigate every stage of relationship break...
50: Why Your Habit Isn't Happening
Have you ever set a goal, genuinely wanted it, done all the right things and still found yourself not following through? You're not lazy. You're not lacking willpower. And you are not the problem.
49: Body Image and Mental Health (Specifically Bi-Polar) with Katie Rickson
What happens when life-saving medication changes your weight, but the medical system keeps focusing on it?Katie Rickson lives with bipolar. She has been hospitalised. She has been through the years of misdiagnosis - depression, anxiety, ...
48: How to leave diet culture with Lotta Dann
What does it look like to leave diet culture behind — to truly walk away from it?Lotta Dann did it with alcohol. Then, a few years into sobriety, she found herself deep in a diet hole — losing weight, receiving praise, feeling like she w...
47: How The Fear Of Weight Gain Leads To Food Noise In Your Brain
You have done everything right. You have been eating well, making good choices, feeling in control. And then something happens — a birthday dinner, a celebration, a moment of genuine pleasure around food — and suddenly the noise is back. Loud, ...
46: The Hunger That No One Told You About
If you have ever had the experience of eating well all day and then finding yourself in the kitchen cupboards, wondering what just happened — this episode is for you.Most of us have been taught that food noise, cravings, and loss of cont...
Why Cutting Out Sugar Won't Quiet Food Noise (And What Will)
If the first thing you think about when you wake up is food and you'd like that to end, I'm hosting a free workshop to help — End Food Noise Without Weight Loss Jabs.You'll learn:where your unique food noise came fro...
45: Speaking Up Even When It Feels Risky with Jennifer Heuett
When Jennifer Heuett was body-shamed in a LinkedIn comment, she didn't scroll past. She tracked down the commenter's employer, contacted the CEO directly — and days later, that employee lost his job. In this episode, Jennifer shares that story ...
44: What to do when anxiety strikes (or any big emotion) - RERELEASE
This week I'm re-releasing one of my most popular episodes. Given the state of the world at the moment, the tools you'll learn in this episode have never been more useful or needed.In the episode, I walk you through a simple, three-step...
43: Why Getting Dressed Feels So Hard (For So Many Women)
Have you ever cancelled plans because getting dressed felt too hard?Did standing in front of the mirror, trying things on, and seeing your body from every angle suddenly make the whole evening feel overwhelming?In this episode of ...
42: The Hidden Reason Body Image Still Impacts You
In this episode, Emma shares a powerful insight from a recent talk where not a single woman in a room of 90 had never tried to lose weight.That moment reveals something bigger than personal struggle.It reveals a culture.If ...
41: Money, worthiness and body image with Jane Guy
In this powerful episode, I talk with Jane Guy, about how women are socialized to think about money and success. Jane brings a unique perspective on what keeps women stuck around money - their internal stories, cultural narratives a...
40: Emotional Eating is Biology not weakness
This episode is about how stress eating, night eating and unconscious eating are biological responses, not a weakness you need to overcome.Emotional eating a topic the wellness and nutrition world often makes out is a personal weakness -...
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...