It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
Aug 27, 2026 · 47 min · 11 segments
**Most women who call themselves a binge eater are just eating normally after years of restricting.** Dr. Sarah Cooke was an NHS doctor for twelve years before a Crohn's diagnosis sent her down a…
Sarah CookeGuestStephanie DodierHostWe come out with those diploma, but we have no clue how to not help people without weight loss and without restrictive eating.
We have to go and seek more training because believe it or not, for the listener, we're never taught any of this in school.
Like I was like, where do I get this? Because this is not, this is not common knowledge for me.
And or any, let alone as a doctor or a nutritionist, I was not taught any of it, which is crazy, really.
So I guess the message is for my listener, as you're working with health professional and you, uh, Want to be sure that they have some kind of training, especially if you're deciding, which my listener are, you want to in a weight neutral aspect of health.
And sorry, just to add to that, Stephanie, because I'm training to be a therapist as well.
And certainly in the UK, there is no training in eating disorders in my curriculum.
And I'll add to this, I'm training therapists who have been trained in eating disorder and I train them with body image because there is some eating disorder therapy training with no element of body image, which we know that 83% of eating disturbances are caused by body image disturbance.
We come out with those diploma, but we have no clue how to not help people without weight loss and without restrictive eating.
We have to go and seek more training because believe it or not, for the listener, we're never taught any of this in school.
Like I was like, where do I get this? Because this is not, this is not common knowledge for me.
And or any, let alone as a doctor or a nutritionist, I was not taught any of it, which is crazy, really.
So I guess the message is for my listener, as you're working with health professional and you, uh, Want to be sure that they have some kind of training, especially if you're deciding, which my listener are, you want to in a weight neutral aspect of health.
And sorry, just to add to that, Stephanie, because I'm training to be a therapist as well.
And certainly in the UK, there is no training in eating disorders in my curriculum.
And I'll add to this, I'm training therapists who have been trained in eating disorder and I train them with body image because there is some eating disorder therapy training with no element of body image, which we know that 83% of eating disturbances are caused by body image disturbance.
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