Talking with Emma: The feminist health coach
Talking with Emma is the podcast for women who are tired of feeling like their health 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, the way you eat and look is never quite “good enough.”
After years of controlling my food, exercising harder, and constantly feeling like a failure, I discovered something different — and more powerful:
Coaching tools that break free of patriarchal structures so you can powerfully change the way you think and feel - and take charge of your health the way you want to.
Each episode, I’ll share the exact tools I use with clients who want relief from the mystery of why health feels so confusing and out of reach — and who are ready to reclaim their power, with the calmness and confidence to reach for their goals.
If you’re ready to see where patriarchy has infiltrated the health and wellbeing industry and kept you in a cycle of blaming yourself and keeping yourself small, this podcast is for you.
📥 Want to go deeper?
Download the Midlife Body Image Assessment — a free tool to help you uncover what’s really going on beneath the food and body noise that patriarchy is very happy for you to have, so you can start feeling more grounded, confident, and in charge.
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: The feminist health coach
9: Don't Gaslight Yourself: You Are Not Imagining The Struggle
Episode 9: Don’t Gaslight Yourself: You’re Not Imagining the Struggle
Welcome to Talking with Emma — a podcast for smart, capable women who are tired of feeling like their body is the one part of life they still haven’t figured out.
I’m Emma Wright — body image coach, author, and someone who knows how hard it can be to have a body.
In this episode, we build on last week’s coaching tool — thoughts are not facts — by exploring something just as important:
You’re not making it up.
That pressure to be thinner? The way people in bigger bodies are treated differently at work, at the gym, in the doctor’s office, even by your friends?
That’s not all in your head.
You might have come to believe those messages, but you didn’t invent them.
They’re cultural beliefs. They’re everywhere.
And they’re baked into our healthcare, our fashion industry, our relationships, and our social media feeds.
This episode is about what it means to stop gaslighting yourself in the face of anti-fat bias and body shame.
You’ll learn:
- Why some thoughts feel true even when they’re not
- How to recognise when you’re internalising cultural bias
- A simple self-coaching tool to validate, interrupt, and reclaim your own thinking
Because the world may continue to suggest that bigger bodies are a problem — but that doesn’t mean you have to agree.
You can stop fixing yourself. You can start coming home to your body.
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📥 Want to go deeper? Download the Midlife Body Image Assessment — it’s the next step in understanding what’s really going on beneath your food and body struggles so you can stop obsessing about food and start feeling more easy in your body.
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I’m currently taking 1:1 clients. Book a no-cost consultation where we’ll talk about your goals and see if I’m the right coach to support you.
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