Bulimia Sucks | Kate Hudson Hall
Sep 20, 2026 · 34 min · 17 segments
**Warming around the fireplace, Kate is joined by inspiring Sarah Blankenship Thomas.** Fitness became her first love after dealing with childhood obesity and then teenage anorexia. Her love for…
Sarah Blankenship ThomasGuest
Kate Hudson-HallHostSo I have been in cycles since then, and I'm in my mid forties now, but since my early twenties till now been in a cycle of journaling and brain dumping everything.
And so I will wake up in the morning and brain dump everything to get it out of my head.
Then I will start organizing it into buckets, you know, work buckets, self self-care buckets, you know, kid things, whatever.
But from, from that brain dump, then I feel like I have space on my head to actually, um, create what I need for myself.
And so I start writing some of the things down that I love about me that I'm proud of about me, uh, gratitude.
It doesn't always happen, but when I do that, I feel so much better, not just mentally, but physically I hold myself differently throughout my day.

And so what do you feel that that gives you that journaling or doesn't give you? So apart from the release and clearing your mind, what else does it do by writing out those, those difficult thoughts maybe, or the difficult feelings? How do you feel afterwards? You know, because of that.
It's easy to move on with your day and check things off your list.
And so for me, it allows me and it reminds me that that time is important.

And clearing your mind, stopping and tune and like I love the fact that you've got your buckets and it's actually let's have a look at what's important for the day here and what's just you know normal nonsense that you know flies back and forth in our brains that you know we quite often compare a lot of attention to when we don't need to and it's all negative and shouldn't really be there but we have a choice whether we listen to it or not um and so What I find for a lot of my clients is by them journaling, they find that by writing out their feelings and those thoughts, it helps for them to just to feel so much calmer and more relaxed and just be able to let go of those thoughts and feelings.

And then, like you say, clearing the mind for them to be able to think about things that they want to think about.
So I have been in cycles since then, and I'm in my mid forties now, but since my early twenties till now been in a cycle of journaling and brain dumping everything.
And so I will wake up in the morning and brain dump everything to get it out of my head.
Then I will start organizing it into buckets, you know, work buckets, self self-care buckets, you know, kid things, whatever.
But from, from that brain dump, then I feel like I have space on my head to actually, um, create what I need for myself.
And so I start writing some of the things down that I love about me that I'm proud of about me, uh, gratitude.
It doesn't always happen, but when I do that, I feel so much better, not just mentally, but physically I hold myself differently throughout my day.

And so what do you feel that that gives you that journaling or doesn't give you? So apart from the release and clearing your mind, what else does it do by writing out those, those difficult thoughts maybe, or the difficult feelings? How do you feel afterwards? You know, because of that.
It's easy to move on with your day and check things off your list.
And so for me, it allows me and it reminds me that that time is important.

And clearing your mind, stopping and tune and like I love the fact that you've got your buckets and it's actually let's have a look at what's important for the day here and what's just you know normal nonsense that you know flies back and forth in our brains that you know we quite often compare a lot of attention to when we don't need to and it's all negative and shouldn't really be there but we have a choice whether we listen to it or not um and so What I find for a lot of my clients is by them journaling, they find that by writing out their feelings and those thoughts, it helps for them to just to feel so much calmer and more relaxed and just be able to let go of those thoughts and feelings.

And then, like you say, clearing the mind for them to be able to think about things that they want to think about.
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