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
37: Coping With Weight Gain
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
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 gain
- You feel uncomfortable in a changing body
- You want relief from body-related fear, not another plan
In this episode, you’ll explore:
- The cultural beliefs that teach women to feel like weight gain is a moral failure
- Why dieting is an amazing emotional coping strategy if you don't have another way to feel hard feelings
- How control what we eat can feel safer than uncertainty, even when it costs you
- How to get what you want - confidence, self-respect, feeling good enough - without 'having' to lose weight
You’ll also hear why wanting weight loss does not make you shallow or wrong.
Mentioned in the episode:
The Normalising Weight Gain workshop on March 21.
- Half-day workshop
- Recorded and available by replay
- Focused on tools, not mindset forcing
- Designed for midlife women who want relief, not control
- Limited to 15
Download the Midlife Body Image Guide to get early access to workshop details and ticket release dates.