Welcome to Proper Mental Episode 12!

This week I’m joined by Dr Emilia Thompson!

Dr Emilia Thompson is a PhD Qualified Nutrition Consultant, University Lecturer and Bikini Competitor.

She is a Registered Nutritionist with the Association for Nutrition (RNutr Sports / Exercise), Lecturer and Educator in Sports Nutrition and qualified Life Coach. She has a BSc degree in Sports Biomedicine, an MSc in Sport and Exercise Nutrition and a PhD in Exercise Physiology.

As well as being a PhD Qualified Nutrition Coach, Emilia is a former bodybuilding competitor so she knows first-hand the complexities of food and our relationship with it.  We talk about disordered eating and common behaviours around food and really get in to where some of these negative behaviours come from and the thought processes behind them.  Emilia goes in to her coaching process and how she begins to help her clients unpick and unpack how they feel about themselves and how that reflects how they think about food.

How you think and how you feel can have a massive impact on how you eat and food can be used to cope with or to deal with, any number of mental health related problems.  Emilia’s approach goes so much deeper than food.  She has a complete holistic approach to all facets of health and we chat about how what you’re feeling affects what you’re eating and vis versa.

We chat about the importance of knowing yourself and understanding your values.  We chat about meditation, gratitude, self-talk and loads of other powerful concepts that you probably never thought related to your diet but are actually completely linked to your diet and in turn linked to all aspects of health.

I asked Emilia some big questions and the amount of knowledge she had at her fingertips, ready to go, was staggering.  Her approach to her work and her clients has such an incredible level of depth to it and although we talk a lot about nutrition, her methods could be applied to any aspect of mental health.

It’s a great listen and I definitely took a lot away from the conversation and I’m sure you will too!

You can connect with Emilia via social media @emiliathompsonphd or for education via @eiq_nutrition.

Her website is www.emilia.fitness

You can connect with the podcast @propermentalpodcast on all the usual platforms!

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Thanks for listening!  Enjoy!