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When Louise's sister Lillian Johnston arrived in Atlantic City with her tiny backpack, Louise felt a pang of relief, of release. Her sister had arrived on a whim but helped create a healing space around Archer and Louise just by her presence at a time when the family was feeling powerless as the medical staff was running out of treatment options. In Season 2: Episode 6: Healing Sanctuary, Louise scans Archer's hospital room and realizes it could be transformed into a healing sanctuary, a spa-like experience for Archer. She reflects on power and looks back at how the healing sanctuary was created and the ways it rippled out and positively impacted her own psyche and the work of the medical team around Archer. In this episode, you will hear excerpts of interview conversations with: Lillian Johnston, MFA, Louise's younger sister, former art faculty at the Art Institute of Chicago, and faculty at DePaul University Art Department, and currently the art teacher at Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois. Join Louise for Season 2 of Blink of an Eye: Episode 6: Healing Sanctuary: August 17. Day 13.  Listen in afterwards to this week's companion Trauma Healing Learnings episode for new understandings on trauma and tools to navigate your own trauma healing: Trauma Healing Learning: Episode 6: Healing Sanctuary. Victoria Vox created the theme music. Other music in this episode is: Emotional Piano Improvisation by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6199-emotional-piano-improvisation License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Peppers Theme by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4998-peppers-theme License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Dream Culture by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3675-dream-culture License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Emotionalism by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5867-emotionalism License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Mourning Song by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4086-mourning-song License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license To find out more about Archer, Louise, and this podcast, visit our website at blinkofaneyepodcast.com. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @blinkofaneyepodcast, and Twitter @blinkofaneyepod. Make sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can become a member of our Patreon community and see extra Blink of an Eye content and bonus episodes at our Patreon page.  To see some of Archer's artwork, check out www.slimeyard.com.  #hopeforeverything   #obtaineverything

When Louise started her new job, she had no idea of the depths her jealous, nightmare co-worker would stoop to in an attempt to get her job. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/i-work-with-a-nightmare. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Show NotesLouise Karch is a self-confessed word-nerd. She’s an award-winning marketer, author, and speaker. When Louise arrived in Australia from Canada, she carved out her own niche as the Name Whisperer. But it was not without some trepidation; freaking out under-the-doona and fortifying herself with chocolate, she worked out that naming things was not only her gift but her niche. In this delightful interview we talk aboutThe evolution of her award-winning book Word Glue: Find Your Million Dollar Brand Name Why Louise chose not to publish it as an e-BookHow being cheerfully relentless convinced Ken Segal, the man who named the i-mac, to write the forward for her bookThe Pow, Pop and Pro naming tools Name-storming to produce strikingly sticky namesHow coaching with Seth Godin transformed her book and shaped her work with himThe value of community and how she came to have her very own magic wand The Fairy Godmother video she starred in that has over 25million views Neural science, muscle memory and Connect Expand Challenge thinking protocolsContact Louise Karch or order her book Word Glue here: https://www.wordglue.co/See The Fairy Godmother video with over 25 million views: The Pap test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HvHqp_hQicLouise recommends the Bbook “Making Thinking Visible” Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church and Karin MorrisonReady to transform your business?Book a 15 minute phone chat with Pauline BrightLinks:Pauline Bright website Pauline Bright on LinkedIn Bright Business on Facebook Pauline Bright on Twitter

When Louise takes her son Luca on a trip to see his heritage in a long-sunken Venice of the future, she already knows the pitfalls of a city reclaimed by the sea. But once they begin to explore, it becomes apparent that more than the marble statues have been left behind.Written by Kev Harrison Narrated by Alexandra ElroyEdited by Karl Hughes With music by Velleitie and Thom Robson And sound effects provided by Zapsplat.comKev Harrison is a writer of horror and dark fiction living in Lisbon, Portugal. His latest story 'Snap' is out now in Corpus Press' new anthology, 'In Darkness, Delight: Creatures of the Night,' while his other work has featured in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Find out more about him at www.kevharrisonfiction.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The “Fast Track to Health” trial is a year long semi starvation experiment aimed at Australian teenagers. Protest against the trial has been immense, with 20,000 people signing a petition to stop it, multiple complaints lodged to the Ethics Committee who approved the trial, numerous protest statements from eating disorder organisations, and substantial media attention. But the protest has fallen on deaf ears, and the trial looks set to go ahead. This week on All Fired Up, I speak with Emma Hagan, who was 10 years old when her parents took her to a paediatric “O” clinic to help her lose weight. Within a year, Emma was hospitalised with Anorexia, and 13 years later, she is still battling to find recovery. According to the Fast Track team, stories like Emma’s simply don’t happen - they believe that any risk is ‘minimal and manageable’. To which we say: BS. Stories like Emma’s need to be heard. Don’t miss this important conversation!   Shownotes The “Fast Track to Health” trial is a weight loss experiment running out of 2 childhood obesity clinics at Children’s hospitals in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. The trial is aiming to recruit 180 larger bodied teenagers aged 13 -17. In the trial, teenagers will be placed on a very low calorie diet (less than 800 calories a day) for a month, and then subjected to 3 days per week of fasting (less than 700 calories a day) for 11 months. The severity of calorie restriction on kids in growing bodies over such a prolonged period of time has alarmed thousands of health professionals around the world. We know that intermittent fasting is very trendy right now, but the research shows that in the long term, this kind of diet produces no different results than any other diet. On this type of diet, people lose a little bit of weight in the short term, and then the weight comes back. When Louise heard about the trial, she was horrified, and submitted a group complaint to the Ethics Committee who approved the trial which was co-signed by 29 health professionals and 2 organisations. The complaint detailed the lack of research evidence to suggest any efficacy for intermittent fasting, and called for the trial to be stopped on the grounds that it is dangerous and risked the physical and mental health of the teenagers. Dieting in adolescence is the number 1 risk factor for development of an eating disorder. And the more restrictive the diet, the higher the risk. There is a huge body of longitudinal research in the eating disorders literature to show that this risk is significant. Eating disorders health professionals spend a lot of time trying to prevent eating disorders. In teenagers, we really try to emphasise helping kids of all shapes and sizes to take pride in the bodies, to develop a relaxed and attuned relationship with food, and to discourage crash dieting. This trial flies in the face of all known advice usually given to kids. Of course, this intervention is being justified by saying that well, these kids are in larger bodies, they ‘need to lose weight for their health’. So suddenly, something that is extremely dangerous for an adolescent is ok if your body is above a certain number? Louise’s complaint was ultimately rejected by the Fast Track trial’s Ethics committee. They consulted with an anonymous panel of ‘experts’ who agreed that the risk was there, but said that the risk was worth it in the hope that the kids might lose a bit of weight. Louise then started the change.org petition, which has been signed by 20000 people. This petition is calling for the trial to be stopped. This is unprecedented - a weight loss experiment really hasn’t had this level of protest against it before. Numerous complaints to the Fast Track Trial's Ethics committee (more than 60) have been submitted, in groups and by individuals, and all of these complaints have been rejected. Unfortunately, all of these complaints have been dismissed, with the research team consistently justifying their trial. They have even claimed that the risks of eating disorders are ‘minimal and manageable’, which is an extraordinary statement. Anyone who has experienced an eating disorder, or works with young people with eating disorders, knows how absolutely serious and difficult to manage they can be. There’s no such thing as ‘minimal risk’ when you put someone on a crash diet, and there’s no such thing as ‘manageable risk’ when you look at an adolescent with an eating disorder. Dr Louise Baur has said that she is ‘not aware of any studies of hospital based weight loss programs for adolescents which show evidence of harm’. This is a very reductive way of looking at the research and accumulated knowledge of eating disorder development. Dieting, body dissatisfaction and eating disorder development in adolescence go together, and to say ‘look, it doesn’t happen on our watch’ is irresponsible. It’s like looking at the data and saying ‘yes, we know that smoking causes lung cancer, but it wasn’t our packet of cigarettes and we’ve never seen a study to prove it was our cigarettes’. A number of eating disorder organisations in Australia and around the world have called for the trial to be stopped, and posted statements protesting against the trial. There has also been a lot of media attention, some of it recognising the harm, and some of it quite weight biased, centring the ‘need for weight loss’ above all else. We’re not getting anywhere in stopping the Fast Track trial, and our concern is that parents and teenagers are not being adequately informed of the risks, dangers, research, and lived experiences of dieting as a teenager. So we have launched a website to help the general public better understand the issues and the protest. In the website, we go through the research on the efficacy of weight loss for teenagers, particularly intermittent fasting, and of course the risk of developing eating disorders. The website is www.fasttracktrial.com.au Please visit this site, and share it. We don’t believe the gravity of the risk is being adequately shared right now. One aspect which has been erased by the researchers is the stories and lived experience of people whose lives have been scarred by medically supervised dieting. According to the Fast Track team, these stories don’t happen. But they do. These stories need to be heard, and heeded. Today we meet Emma Hagan, and she is here to share her experience. Her eating disorder was directly caused by a paediatric ‘o’ intervention. Emma is still undergoing treatment for her eating disorder, and it is difficult for her to talk about these issues. We are very touched that she is willing to stand up and tell her truth. TW: those with eating disorder or in recovery, the following information may be triggering, as Emma discusses her illness and symptoms in detail. Emma is fired up, because of the way the media have treated this story - ie centring weight loss above her story. A media story just released about the Fast Track trial and the push back against it featured Emma and her experience. However, the article really didn’t pay adequate attention to Emma’s experience, instead favoring a weight loss story from one of the Fast Track participants. Emma found out about the Fast Track trial when she was on the train to Day program for her eating disorder treatment. She was horrified, and thought how did it get past ethics? Many people expressed this reaction - how did it get through ethics? Because the diet is so extreme, and so prolonged, and the target age is the highest risk age group for developing an eating disorder. Emma grew up in a larger body, and experienced teasing and bullying because of her weight. At the age of 10 she ‘practically begged’ her parents to help her to try to lose weight. At the time it was self preservation, she was tired of being picked on. Emma’s parents were aware of the risks of dieting, and wanted to be responsible, so they took her to a childhood ‘o’ clinic. They consulted with the paediatritian to design a safe weight loss program for Emma. Emma’s family did all the ‘right’ things. Emma was taught the difference between ‘safe’ and ‘unsafe’ foods. Early on they instilled the idea that weight loss is good, weight gain is bad, certain foods were good or bad. Emma said it was hard to lose weight when she was at school, with her friends, just trying to be social and a normal 10 year old. That’s not compatible with weight loss. Emma loved food. Over the Christmas holidays, she ‘gained weight’. When she returned to the “o” clinic, she was lambasted for it. This pushed her to increase exercise, decrease food intake, and it became very obsessive. She got to the point where she had lost ‘enough weight’, was told by the paediatritian to stop, but by then she couldn’t. The eating disorder had taken hold. The clinic taught Emma that restriction was a good thing. And the level of restriction she was on was less severe than the level required in the fast Track trial This happened over a period of around 1 year. By the age of 11 she was diagnosed with Anorexia, was hospitalised, and fed on a tube. Emma was sick for many years. Her hospitalisations did not stop at the age of 11. There is a culture of eating disorders in adolescence, which Emma’s parents shielded her from. But still the disorder had her in its grip. Emma is now 24, and still in treatment. Emma blamed herself, not the diet or the ‘o’ clinic, for her illness. She thought she’d taken a good thing ‘too far’. She never questioned the whole paradigm of ‘weight loss is a good thing’, she did not know of HAES or the impact of diet culture or weight stigma. The paediatritian visited Emma in hospital when she was 11, and pretty much told her it was her fault. She seemed surprised that Emma had developed an eating disorder. In retrospect, this was very unfair of her, but at the time it made sense to Emma. One of the repeated messages we are hearing from the Fast Track team researchers is that the risk of an eating disorder is ‘minimal and manageable’. Emma thinks this is dismissive and idealistic. Eating disorders are not ‘managed’. They have their own life. They are obsessive and possessive, and not able to be placated by a professional. Professional oversight did not prevent Emma’s eating disorder. For 13 years, Emma has had a supportive eating disorder treatment team, but if has only been the last 6 months she has been able to embrace recovery. Emma has a team of professionals: a psychiatrist, psychologist, dietitian, and a supportive family. Eating disorders don’t just affect one person, it’s the whole family. It’s surprising in this day and age that we even need to be talking about the risks of dieting - that people like Emma need to stand up and say, this happened to me. It seems pretty obvious that starvation, even if it’s ‘clinically approved’, will lead to an eating disorder. It’s not rocket science! But there is a real push at the moment to erase stories like Emma’s. The Fast Track team even presented a paper at the International Congress for Eating Disorders (ICED) which said that hospital based weight loss programs for teenagers and kids did not cause eating disorders, were safe, and actually ‘beneficial’. The paper hasn’t been released yet, but as soon as it is, Louise will report on it! Because often in their research, the Fast Track team’s conclusions don’t match their data. The Fast Track teams’ prior research shows very little benefit to people in bigger bodies, and yet they’re pressing on with this experiment which is so precarious….. In years to come, we are likely to see a real push back in the form of legal action against programs like these. Emma was interviewed by Melissa Cunningham, the health reporter from The Age newspaper. Emma found it challenging to go through the interview process, she is very insecure about her eating disorder and it was difficult to talk about. She had thoughts like the article wouldn’t go ahead because she wasn’t ‘anorexic enough’. The reported also wanted photos of Emma at her most emaciated, which Emma refused to supply. So they took photos of her now. Reading the article, Emma was genuinely surprised. She even thought - maybe it wasn’t the right one? Because it centred around a dad who had a 14 year old daughter in a larger body, she was active and healthy but always compared herself to her ‘rake thin’ sister. So the dad decided to enrol his daughter in the Fast Track trial, and now the daughter is 8 weeks in, a few kilos lighter and is ‘so happy’. This trial is supposedly for teens in larger bodies who have ‘health complications’ - this girls health status is never mentioned - it’s all about weight. Emma’s story, and the whole story of the protest and the complaint, was sandwiched between this ‘feel good’ weight loss story. Revolting! Considering that it was Emma writing an email to the journalist to raise awareness of the concerns about the trial, to have the whole thing spun into a weight centric erasure of Emma’s story - sucks. The article also minimised the protest against the trial, it only mentioned Louise’s complaint, it did not name the petition, the eating disorder organisation warnings - it really downplayed the push back. Emma emailed the reporter with some ‘Frank feedback’. Her whole experience was washed, erased, by diet culture. There is no good outcome from this trial. There will be minimal and short term weight loss, but the kids won’t be followed for long enough to capture the regain. Failing to pick up eating disorder risk factors, the trial will likely result in ‘interventions’ like this being rolled out to more and more teens in larger bodies. This is a terrifying normalisation of extreme dieting. This trial is the opposite of body acceptance. If they find evidence of eating disorders developing, this means that these kids have been guinea pigs, exposed to known risks even after we have raised the alarm. The researchers might say if they catch it early enough - it’ll be good. But Emma’s WAS caught early - in fact, Emma’s was created by the intervention itself. Early intervention did not save her from a 13 year nightmare. If I was a journalist and heard Emma’s story, I can’t imagine then preferencing a small weight loss story above hers. This speaks to the magnitude of weight bias in our culture. There is such a danger in unexamined weight bias. We have unexamined weight bias in the clinic, in the researchers, in the reporter investigating the story, in the politicians and NHMRC who we are appealing to - weight bias impacts everywhere, it is significant and difficult to undo. We need to listen to the voices of people like Emma. This can happen. It could happen to you too. Please - visit the website, and get across the information about the risks and research. We really need to heed the lessons of 70 years of weight loss research, and make major changes. Weight loss dieting does not work. Big changes need to happen, we can’t keep doing the same thing over and over again & expect a different result. Non-diet approaches to health help people to learn wonderful and health sustaining behaviours which can stick, without harming. Look for HAES Australia, or visit the Ellyn Satter website. Resources: The Fast Track parents information website The Age article where Emma’s story was erased The HAES Australia website The Ellyn Satter Institute Join our fb group - Stop the Fast Track Trial  

The “Fast Track to Health” trial is a year long semi starvation experiment aimed at Australian teenagers. Protest against the trial has been immense, with 20,000 people signing a petition to stop it, multiple complaints lodged to the Ethics Committee who approved the trial, numerous protest statements from eating disorder organisations, and substantial media attention. But the protest has fallen on deaf ears, and the trial looks set to go ahead. This week on All Fired Up, I speak with Emma Hagan, who was 10 years old when her parents took her to a paediatric “O” clinic to help her lose weight. Within a year, Emma was hospitalised with Anorexia, and 13 years later, she is still battling to find recovery. According to the Fast Track team, stories like Emma’s simply don’t happen - they believe that any risk is ‘minimal and manageable’. To which we say: BS. Stories like Emma’s need to be heard. Don’t miss this important conversation!   Shownotes The “Fast Track to Health” trial is a weight loss experiment running out of 2 childhood obesity clinics at Children’s hospitals in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. The trial is aiming to recruit 180 larger bodied teenagers aged 13 -17. In the trial, teenagers will be placed on a very low calorie diet (less than 800 calories a day) for a month, and then subjected to 3 days per week of fasting (less than 700 calories a day) for 11 months. The severity of calorie restriction on kids in growing bodies over such a prolonged period of time has alarmed thousands of health professionals around the world. We know that intermittent fasting is very trendy right now, but the research shows that in the long term, this kind of diet produces no different results than any other diet. On this type of diet, people lose a little bit of weight in the short term, and then the weight comes back. When Louise heard about the trial, she was horrified, and submitted a group complaint to the Ethics Committee who approved the trial which was co-signed by 29 health professionals and 2 organisations. The complaint detailed the lack of research evidence to suggest any efficacy for intermittent fasting, and called for the trial to be stopped on the grounds that it is dangerous and risked the physical and mental health of the teenagers. Dieting in adolescence is the number 1 risk factor for development of an eating disorder. And the more restrictive the diet, the higher the risk. There is a huge body of longitudinal research in the eating disorders literature to show that this risk is significant. Eating disorders health professionals spend a lot of time trying to prevent eating disorders. In teenagers, we really try to emphasise helping kids of all shapes and sizes to take pride in the bodies, to develop a relaxed and attuned relationship with food, and to discourage crash dieting. This trial flies in the face of all known advice usually given to kids. Of course, this intervention is being justified by saying that well, these kids are in larger bodies, they ‘need to lose weight for their health’. So suddenly, something that is extremely dangerous for an adolescent is ok if your body is above a certain number? Louise’s complaint was ultimately rejected by the Fast Track trial’s Ethics committee. They consulted with an anonymous panel of ‘experts’ who agreed that the risk was there, but said that the risk was worth it in the hope that the kids might lose a bit of weight. Louise then started the change.org petition, which has been signed by 20000 people. This petition is calling for the trial to be stopped. This is unprecedented - a weight loss experiment really hasn’t had this level of protest against it before. Numerous complaints to the Fast Track Trial's Ethics committee (more than 60) have been submitted, in groups and by individuals, and all of these complaints have been rejected. Unfortunately, all of these complaints have been dismissed, with the research team consistently justifying their trial. They have even claimed that the risks of eating disorders are ‘minimal and manageable’, which is an extraordinary statement. Anyone who has experienced an eating disorder, or works with young people with eating disorders, knows how absolutely serious and difficult to manage they can be. There’s no such thing as ‘minimal risk’ when you put someone on a crash diet, and there’s no such thing as ‘manageable risk’ when you look at an adolescent with an eating disorder. Dr Louise Baur has said that she is ‘not aware of any studies of hospital based weight loss programs for adolescents which show evidence of harm’. This is a very reductive way of looking at the research and accumulated knowledge of eating disorder development. Dieting, body dissatisfaction and eating disorder development in adolescence go together, and to say ‘look, it doesn’t happen on our watch’ is irresponsible. It’s like looking at the data and saying ‘yes, we know that smoking causes lung cancer, but it wasn’t our packet of cigarettes and we’ve never seen a study to prove it was our cigarettes’. A number of eating disorder organisations in Australia and around the world have called for the trial to be stopped, and posted statements protesting against the trial. There has also been a lot of media attention, some of it recognising the harm, and some of it quite weight biased, centring the ‘need for weight loss’ above all else. We’re not getting anywhere in stopping the Fast Track trial, and our concern is that parents and teenagers are not being adequately informed of the risks, dangers, research, and lived experiences of dieting as a teenager. So we have launched a website to help the general public better understand the issues and the protest. In the website, we go through the research on the efficacy of weight loss for teenagers, particularly intermittent fasting, and of course the risk of developing eating disorders. The website is www.fasttracktrial.com.au Please visit this site, and share it. We don’t believe the gravity of the risk is being adequately shared right now. One aspect which has been erased by the researchers is the stories and lived experience of people whose lives have been scarred by medically supervised dieting. According to the Fast Track team, these stories don’t happen. But they do. These stories need to be heard, and heeded. Today we meet Emma Hagan, and she is here to share her experience. Her eating disorder was directly caused by a paediatric ‘o’ intervention. Emma is still undergoing treatment for her eating disorder, and it is difficult for her to talk about these issues. We are very touched that she is willing to stand up and tell her truth. TW: those with eating disorder or in recovery, the following information may be triggering, as Emma discusses her illness and symptoms in detail. Emma is fired up, because of the way the media have treated this story - ie centring weight loss above her story. A media story just released about the Fast Track trial and the push back against it featured Emma and her experience. However, the article really didn’t pay adequate attention to Emma’s experience, instead favoring a weight loss story from one of the Fast Track participants. Emma found out about the Fast Track trial when she was on the train to Day program for her eating disorder treatment. She was horrified, and thought how did it get past ethics? Many people expressed this reaction - how did it get through ethics? Because the diet is so extreme, and so prolonged, and the target age is the highest risk age group for developing an eating disorder. Emma grew up in a larger body, and experienced teasing and bullying because of her weight. At the age of 10 she ‘practically begged’ her parents to help her to try to lose weight. At the time it was self preservation, she was tired of being picked on. Emma’s parents were aware of the risks of dieting, and wanted to be responsible, so they took her to a childhood ‘o’ clinic. They consulted with the paediatritian to design a safe weight loss program for Emma. Emma’s family did all the ‘right’ things. Emma was taught the difference between ‘safe’ and ‘unsafe’ foods. Early on they instilled the idea that weight loss is good, weight gain is bad, certain foods were good or bad. Emma said it was hard to lose weight when she was at school, with her friends, just trying to be social and a normal 10 year old. That’s not compatible with weight loss. Emma loved food. Over the Christmas holidays, she ‘gained weight’. When she returned to the “o” clinic, she was lambasted for it. This pushed her to increase exercise, decrease food intake, and it became very obsessive. She got to the point where she had lost ‘enough weight’, was told by the paediatritian to stop, but by then she couldn’t. The eating disorder had taken hold. The clinic taught Emma that restriction was a good thing. And the level of restriction she was on was less severe than the level required in the fast Track trial This happened over a period of around 1 year. By the age of 11 she was diagnosed with Anorexia, was hospitalised, and fed on a tube. Emma was sick for many years. Her hospitalisations did not stop at the age of 11. There is a culture of eating disorders in adolescence, which Emma’s parents shielded her from. But still the disorder had her in its grip. Emma is now 24, and still in treatment. Emma blamed herself, not the diet or the ‘o’ clinic, for her illness. She thought she’d taken a good thing ‘too far’. She never questioned the whole paradigm of ‘weight loss is a good thing’, she did not know of HAES or the impact of diet culture or weight stigma. The paediatritian visited Emma in hospital when she was 11, and pretty much told her it was her fault. She seemed surprised that Emma had developed an eating disorder. In retrospect, this was very unfair of her, but at the time it made sense to Emma. One of the repeated messages we are hearing from the Fast Track team researchers is that the risk of an eating disorder is ‘minimal and manageable’. Emma thinks this is dismissive and idealistic. Eating disorders are not ‘managed’. They have their own life. They are obsessive and possessive, and not able to be placated by a professional. Professional oversight did not prevent Emma’s eating disorder. For 13 years, Emma has had a supportive eating disorder treatment team, but if has only been the last 6 months she has been able to embrace recovery. Emma has a team of professionals: a psychiatrist, psychologist, dietitian, and a supportive family. Eating disorders don’t just affect one person, it’s the whole family. It’s surprising in this day and age that we even need to be talking about the risks of dieting - that people like Emma need to stand up and say, this happened to me. It seems pretty obvious that starvation, even if it’s ‘clinically approved’, will lead to an eating disorder. It’s not rocket science! But there is a real push at the moment to erase stories like Emma’s. The Fast Track team even presented a paper at the International Congress for Eating Disorders (ICED) which said that hospital based weight loss programs for teenagers and kids did not cause eating disorders, were safe, and actually ‘beneficial’. The paper hasn’t been released yet, but as soon as it is, Louise will report on it! Because often in their research, the Fast Track team’s conclusions don’t match their data. The Fast Track teams’ prior research shows very little benefit to people in bigger bodies, and yet they’re pressing on with this experiment which is so precarious….. In years to come, we are likely to see a real push back in the form of legal action against programs like these. Emma was interviewed by Melissa Cunningham, the health reporter from The Age newspaper. Emma found it challenging to go through the interview process, she is very insecure about her eating disorder and it was difficult to talk about. She had thoughts like the article wouldn’t go ahead because she wasn’t ‘anorexic enough’. The reported also wanted photos of Emma at her most emaciated, which Emma refused to supply. So they took photos of her now. Reading the article, Emma was genuinely surprised. She even thought - maybe it wasn’t the right one? Because it centred around a dad who had a 14 year old daughter in a larger body, she was active and healthy but always compared herself to her ‘rake thin’ sister. So the dad decided to enrol his daughter in the Fast Track trial, and now the daughter is 8 weeks in, a few kilos lighter and is ‘so happy’. This trial is supposedly for teens in larger bodies who have ‘health complications’ - this girls health status is never mentioned - it’s all about weight. Emma’s story, and the whole story of the protest and the complaint, was sandwiched between this ‘feel good’ weight loss story. Revolting! Considering that it was Emma writing an email to the journalist to raise awareness of the concerns about the trial, to have the whole thing spun into a weight centric erasure of Emma’s story - sucks. The article also minimised the protest against the trial, it only mentioned Louise’s complaint, it did not name the petition, the eating disorder organisation warnings - it really downplayed the push back. Emma emailed the reporter with some ‘Frank feedback’. Her whole experience was washed, erased, by diet culture. There is no good outcome from this trial. There will be minimal and short term weight loss, but the kids won’t be followed for long enough to capture the regain. Failing to pick up eating disorder risk factors, the trial will likely result in ‘interventions’ like this being rolled out to more and more teens in larger bodies. This is a terrifying normalisation of extreme dieting. This trial is the opposite of body acceptance. If they find evidence of eating disorders developing, this means that these kids have been guinea pigs, exposed to known risks even after we have raised the alarm. The researchers might say if they catch it early enough - it’ll be good. But Emma’s WAS caught early - in fact, Emma’s was created by the intervention itself. Early intervention did not save her from a 13 year nightmare. If I was a journalist and heard Emma’s story, I can’t imagine then preferencing a small weight loss story above hers. This speaks to the magnitude of weight bias in our culture. There is such a danger in unexamined weight bias. We have unexamined weight bias in the clinic, in the researchers, in the reporter investigating the story, in the politicians and NHMRC who we are appealing to - weight bias impacts everywhere, it is significant and difficult to undo. We need to listen to the voices of people like Emma. This can happen. It could happen to you too. Please - visit the website, and get across the information about the risks and research. We really need to heed the lessons of 70 years of weight loss research, and make major changes. Weight loss dieting does not work. Big changes need to happen, we can’t keep doing the same thing over and over again & expect a different result. Non-diet approaches to health help people to learn wonderful and health sustaining behaviours which can stick, without harming. Look for HAES Australia, or visit the Ellyn Satter website. Resources: The Fast Track parents information website The Age article where Emma’s story was erased The HAES Australia website The Ellyn Satter Institute Join our fb group - Stop the Fast Track Trial  

A well-known Kiwi handcyclist who was in a critical condition after being struck by a car shocked a Radio Sport host today by ringing up by saying thanks for getting him out of a coma.Ian Walker became a paraplegic after crashing into a truck while out cycling about 10 years ago. He recovered and took up handcycling, later completing the New York Marathon twice, in 2014 and 2017.However last month he was placed in a coma in Christchurch hospital after being hit by a 4WD while out on a training run on the outskirts of the city. Placed in a critical condition, doctors didn't expect Walker to survive.Walker rang into Radio Sport Mornings to thank host Jason Pine for playing a part in him getting out of an induced coma by mentioning English Premier League side Liverpool."I wanted to say thank you very much because they were trying to get me to wake up in ICU," Walker said."They tried talking to me...and then they actually played a bit of Radio Sport on with you about Liverpool's trials and tribulations a couple of weeks ago. And apparently you made mention of the word Liverpool and I didn't sit straight up but I clenched my mouth, pumped my fist and then I started waking up an hour later. So a lot of it goes down to you Mr Pine," he said."Wow. That's amazing," Pine, a fellow Liverpool fan, responded. "I don't know quite what to say about to say I feel extremely privileged to have played any part in your recovery and if there was a little trigger that went off as we talked about our beloved Liverpool, I'm pleased that there was some small part to play. It's really quite moving to here," Pine added.Walker said he had vague memories of the incident that occurred on January 9 but said he's recovering well."I just went for a bike ride for around 40km, I can't exactly remember what happened. From what I've been told I came to a give way sign and carried on. An SUV decided there was enough room on the road for both he and I to be on the same side. He hit me from behind, flipped me over, road over the top of me and broke my legs, broke 95 per cent of my ribs, fractured two hips and I was in an induced coma for four weeks. I've been talking on my own, breathing on my own for first time in six days."I think I've lost a little strength of my left hand and my right hand. But that will come in time. The rib fractures and everything will be healed within the next week. I've still got a cast on my left leg which is broken and my right leg is just really in a moonboot to cover the serious lacerations I have on my right foot. I'll be back."Walker's partner, Louise was stranded overseas at the time of the accident and was unable to get a flight home to be by his bedside a few days afterwards."There was about four doctors who all thought that I wasn't going to make it. When Louise came back from overseas she was told to prepare herself for the worse. Can't keep a good man down."  

At your request, today I'm sharing an incredible client success story. When Louise first found Primal Potential, she felt out of control. Her marriage was in trouble, her finances were on the rocks, she was overweight, stressed out and turning to food & alcohol for comfort. In the last (almost) two years, she has created transformation in every aspect of her life. She would tell you that her 60 pound weight loss is the least of the changes she's made. She infinitely calmer, happier and more in control. Her marriage has improved, her business has improved and she's enjoying her life more. I can't wait to share our conversation with you in today's episode! https://primalpotential.com/501/ Resources: Get on the wait list for the Fall 2018 12 Weeks to Transformation  Follow me on Instagram

In today's episode, I interview Louise Bannister. Louise is the publisher and editor of Lunch Lady Magazine and founder of Frankie, Smith Journal and Spaces. Louise takes us through her three very different births with Harriet, Pearl, and Bon.  Louise's first birth was extremely traumatic. Louise was induced when she went 10 days overdue  through her private obstetrician's care. Louise then went on to have two very different births to Pearl and Bon in the Mullumbimby Birthing Center. Louise shares the struggles of a missed miscarriage, perinatal depression and the pressures of juggling working life and three small children. When Louise fell pregnant the first time she was just starting to create the beautiful magazine, Frankie. Having recently moved to Byron Bay, Louise saw a new GP who recommended that she not have the initial 12-week scan as he believed everything in her pregnancy seemed to be fine. It wasn't until Louise had a scan at 19 weeks that she discovered that her baby had actually stopped growing at 8 weeks.  After recovering from this devastating loss, Louise was determined to follow all the rules by the book when she went on to conceive Harriet. She booked in to see a private obstetrician through the local hospital. She took a hypnobirthing course at her sister's recommendation. Louise went 10 days overdue with Harriet and was scheduled for an induction at midnight when she was 41+3. After being given cervical inducing gel, Louise's contractions started quite hard and fast. Louise describes Harriet's birth as quite horrific and Harriet was pulled out with forceps at 12 midday the same day. After taking a shower that night in hospital Louise started haemoraghe and she was immediately wheeled into theatre and put under a general anesthetic to check for any retained placenta and to find the source of the bleed.  When Harriet was 9 months old Louise decided to try for another baby and discovered she was pregnant with Pearl. Determined to have a completely different experience with her second birth, Louise went through midwifery care at the Mullumbimby Birthing Center for Pearl's birth. She read numerous books including Juju Sundin's - Birth Skills which she found really resonated with her personality. She was looking forward to using sound and vocalisation to work through the pain of each contraction. When the time came for Peal's birth,  Louise was at home surrounded by family. She was on her birth ball talking to lawyers on the phone negotiating the split from Frankie magazine as the contractions began. She transferred a short time later to the Birth Center and gave birth to Pearl in the bath in a very relaxed and quiet birth center. The experience was the complete opposite of the chaotic trauma that surrounded Harriet's labor and birth. Louise recalls eating pizza and chocolate mouse and enjoying soaking in her new little girl before transferring back home to her eagerly awaiting family that afternoon. Louise refers to her third pregnancy with her son Bon as intensely challenging. Unlike her pregnancies with the girls, Louise suffered from prenatal depression. After suffering a terrible ear infection which left her unable to hear properly for over 10 weeks, Louise found she was getting trapped in her own head and negative thoughts began to take over her mind.  She recalls feeling incredibly empathetic towards stories in the news of trauma and distress and feared she might do something she regretted as she couldn't understand why she was having so many dark thoughts. Thankfully Louise was able to share this with her supportive husband who suggested she see her GP and seek out some counselling. Louise found her GP, who she loved, to be incredible and put her fears at ease explaining it is quite common. Her GP thought that if she had some sessions with a psychologist she could work through her fears. Louise found her sessions to be incredibly helpful and she was given strategies to help combat her negative thoughts. One of the strategies she swore by was to drink a glass of water and talk in a comical voice whenever she was starting to think sinister thoughts. She found that this instantly broke the cycle and she was able to move forward with her day. Louise explains that she was actually the most fearful of her third labour and birth as she was emotionally and physically drained. She was launching her new magazine Lunch Lady and after a very trying pregnancy, she was ready to just get the baby out. She explains how she felt she had proven to herself already that she could have a natural birth and she, therefore, wanted to get it out the quickest and easiest way possible. As it turned out when she delivered Bon she was actually the calmest and quietest she had been in all her labours. To hear more of Louise's births in greater detail tune in to her episode here: Today's sponsor is . To see Love to Dream's full range click here: To pick up a copy of Lunch Lady Magazine click here :  Topics covered in today's show: missed miscarriage, traumatic birth, induction, retained placenta,  birth center, hypnobirth, breastfeeding, expressing, Juju Sundin's Birth Skills, water birth, perinatal depression, psychologist, counseling.

Today’s Mindful Expat Guest is Louise Wiles! Louise is an expat coach who works with international assignees, expat partners, and international organizations to help expats and their families not only survive but thrive in their lives abroad! Louise is originally from the UK, but she has spent much of the last 18 years living in Spain and Portugal. Three years ago, she repatriated back to England with her husband and 2 daughters. When Louise first moved abroad for her husband’s career, she left behind a corporate career of her own, so she is intimately familiar with the challenges that dual career couples face when deciding to move abroad and navigating their expat experience. Along with her (former) business partner, Evelyn Simpson, both trained coaches, she began a business called Thriving Abroad, to help expat partners and expat assignees navigate these challenges and create a life they love. Louise also has her own podcast, also called Thriving Abroad, where she interviews guests and covers topics related to helping expats face personal and professional challenges in their lives abroad, and I highly encourage you to check it out. What you’ll hear in this episode: • About Louise's experience of navigating multiple overseas moves and her professional journey of creating her coaching business, supporting expats and expat partners. • The importance of our expectations and really thinking through our decision to move abroad ahead of time. • Some tips for people already living abroad who feel like they're in survival mode to help make the shift from just surviving to actually thriving in their lives overseas!  Resources mentioned in this episode: • Early in our discussion, Louise mentions a book (although not by name) having to do with building a portable business. The book she is referring to is called A Career In Your Suitcase, by Jo Parfitt and Colleen Reichrath-Smith. • Louise mentions some of the work of social psychologist Barbara Frederickson on positivity. To learn more about some of her work, you can check out her website, book (Positivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity, and Thrive), or this TED Talk. • Louise also mentioned the book The Mobile Life, by Diane Lemieux and Anne Parker. • Louise also mentions some research on the importance of morning routines. To learn more about some of this research, check out this article from More about Louise and how to follow up with her: To learn more about Louise and her coaching business, Thriving Abroad, you can visit her website at www.thrivingabroad.com. To check out her book that recently came out (co-authored by Evelyn Simpson), you can read more on the website or find it here on Amazon. You can also follow Louise's Thriving Abroad podcast here on iTunes. You can also find Louise on Facebook or Twitter, and you can email her directly at Louise@thrivingabroad.com. Stay in Touch! To make sure you don’t miss future episodes of Mindful Expat, you can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcasting app. To receive monthly summaries of podcast episodes and stay up to date on other announcements and resources, sign up for the Mindful Expat Podcast Newsletter! (When you sign up, you’ll also receive a free mp3 guided mindfulness exercise to practice on your own!) And, finally, if you’d like to get in touch and leave me a voice message with a question or comment that may be played in a future episode, you can do so here!

Hear from Dr Barry Burns on the psychology of trading and Louise Bedford on enthusiasm. Hear the power of enthusiasm in this week’s episode as Dr Barry Burns joins us for part 2 of his interview on the psychology of trading. Hear why he is passionate about trading and why Louise Bedford believes enthusiasm is a conscious choice for you to make in order to succeed in the markets. Dr Barry Burns has been trading the markets for nearly 50 years. He knows the pitfalls of the markets and where traders get stuck in their psychology. Hear how he teaches his traders to overcome their psychological challenges with a detailed outline of his trading log and the black and white mirror of evidence it provides of your behavioural patterns. Also find out why he is passionate about trading and what it has given him in life. To find out more about Barry go to: www.topdogtrading.com To sign up for his free 5 day course go to: topdogtrading.com/free.html Also go to youtube and type in Top Dog Trading. and... Mindpower with Louise Bedford Top performers are not rich because they are chasing a buck… they are rich because of the intense enthusiasm for their craft. Enthusiasm. It is a decision. A conscious choice. If you are doing something without being under the spell of intense enthusiasm your chances of achieving success are very limited. When Louise encounters traders who aren’t enthusiastic she knows they won’t make it in the markets. Conversely she has seen so many changes in the lives of enthusiastic Mentorees and the positive ripple effect in their lives. Go forth be enthusiastic.  

In this episode of Talking Trading Louise Bedford shares how personal mission statement at age 19 was to liberate people’s lives through trading. She still has the same purpose and wants to help liberate your life as well. We also hear from mentoree Maree Burgess on what it takes to create a high point in the markets and how trading has given her the autonomy and ability to create her destiny. Your Life’s Mission Are you living your life’s purpose? Do you have soul satisfaction? When Louise was 19 she wrote her life’s mission statement – it guided her life and meant so much to her that once she worked out how to trade that she wanted to help liberate other people lives using trading as tool. She wants to liberate yours as well. Are you ready to move forward and trade your fears for peace and your anxiety for confidence? It is one thing to hear your hearts’ calling and it is another thing to act on it. Mentoree - Maree Burgess Maree Burgess’s trading mantra is follow the system. The high point in Maree’s trading journey was last year when she broke even in a couple of good trades and eradicated all her previous trading losses. The lights went on. She cracked her system. The early stages of the Mentor Program were the lowest point in Maree’s trading career when she became aware of how much time she had spent trading doing stupid things. Now trading well is a fundamental part of Maree’s identity. She is a wife, a mum, a corporate banker and a trader. Trading gives her the autonomy and ability to create her destiny.

Edythe Klumpp. In Cincinnati, Ohio, Bill Bergen is living with another woman after separating from his wife, Louise. As time goes on he begins expressing a desire to patch things up with her. Edythe, his live-in lover, does not approve and Bill is caught between the two. When Louise’s badly burned body is later discovered, […] The post Edythe Klumpp – 123 – Generation Why appeared first on The Generation Why Podcast.