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.
Talking with Emma: Stop fighting food & weight
4: You Are Not Addicted To Food
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Description:
If you feel like you spend too much time thinking about food — what you should eat, what you shouldn’t, whether you’ve already blown it — this episode is for you.
We talk about why you’re not addicted to food. You’re deprived.
And your body is trying to protect you.
In this episode, I explain how black-and-white thinking about food — inherited from diet culture, family messages, and years of restriction — sets you up to feel out of control. We look at why your brain fixates on food, even when you’re not dieting, and how to begin unhooking from that pattern using a powerful self-coaching practice.
You’ll learn:
- Why food obsession is a sign of deprivation, not addiction
- How diet culture trains your brain to think in black-and-white categories
- Why your food thoughts aren’t a moral failing — they’re a survival response
- A self-coaching tool that helps you notice, name, and soften the inherited food rules in your mind
If you liked this episode and want to stay connected with Emma and the tools she shares, the next best step is to download the Midlife Body Image Guide. You'll also get first access to free masterclasses on emotional eating, body acceptance, and getting obsessive food thinking out of your brain.
Links & Resources:
🎧 Download the Midlife Body Image Guide + audio guide.
Curious about working together?
I’m currently taking private clients. Book a consultation where will discuss what you want to achieve, what you’ve currently been doing, and you’ll leave with a clear step-by-step individualised plan to achieve it. Whether I can help you archive your goal or not, you’ll leave knowing what the next steps are.
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