Food Freedom after 17 Years of Disordered Eating and Body Dysmorphia with Elle Mace

This week on the Full of Beans podcast, Han is joined by Elle Mace, a food psychology and body image practitioner, international speaker and debut author of Food Freedom, published by Vermilion/Penguin later this year. Elle brings together years of clinical training with her own lived experience to help people find a calmer, more peaceful relationship with food. Alongside her one-to-one and speaking work, Elle hosts the More to Life podcast. She delivers accredited training for fitness and sports professionals on body image, disordered eating and GLP-1 medications. Elle's approach is simple: food freedom is psychological, and everyone deserves the understanding and support to get there. In this episode, we explore: - Elle's journey to writing *Food Freedom* and putting her disordered eating experience into words - Why awareness is the hardest, and most essential, first step in recovery - How toxic wellness culture can disguise itself as something healthy - Elle's experience of body dysmorphia and how it showed up beyond just weight and shape - Elle's shift between different eating disorders over the years, and why none of them ever really "ended" on their own - The rock-bottom moment that led Elle to ask for help - What eating disorder recovery actually looked like for Elle - Why relationships, jobs and old patterns sometimes have to shift as part of getting well - Protecting your energy in recovery, and why that isn't the same as being selfish - Why hearing relatable, lived experiences can land differently to clinical information **Connect with Us:** - Subscribe to the Full of Beans Podcast <!--THE END--> - Follow Full of Beans on Instagram <!--THE END--> - Check out our website <!--THE END--> - Listen on YouTube <!--THE END--> - Connect with Elle via Instagram (@iamellemace), LinkedIn or via her website www.ellemace.com ⚠️ **Content Note:** This episode discusses eating disorders (including restriction, binge eating and bulimia), body dysmorphia, and body dissatisfaction. Please take care while listening.