About Elle Mace
Elle Mace is a qualified coach, Eating Disorders Practitioner, corporate wellbeing consultant, speaker and author specialising in the relationship between food, body and self. Her work combines professional practice, positive psychology and lived experience following around 17 years of struggling with her own relationship with food and body.
https://www.ellemace.com/
About Food Freedom
Food Freedom: How to find peace from food anxiety, and reclaim your body confidence explores disordered eating, diet culture, body image, self-worth and the deeper psychology behind our relationship with food. Drawing on Elle’s professional work and personal experience, the book combines insight with practical exercises designed to support greater self-compassion, trust and freedom.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/477106/food-freedom-by-mace-elle/9781785046414
Episode Summary:
In this conversation, Elle explores how diet culture, comparison, restriction and the desire to fit in can gradually make our world smaller.We discuss why struggles with food are rarely just about food, touching on safety, control, shame, people-pleasing, boundaries and self-worth. Elle also shares her perspective on GLP-1 weight-loss medications, the messages children absorb around food and body image, and what genuine food freedom can begin to feel like.
Ultimately, this is a conversation about creating more space to live, think, choose and become more fully yourself.
Disclaimer:
This episode includes discussion of eating disorders, disordered eating, body image, dieting and weight-loss medication. It is for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical or therapeutic advice.
If anything raised in this episode affects you, please contact Elle directly via https://www.ellemace.com/ or seek appropriate support from a qualified healthcare or mental-health professional.
Those with ears, let them hear.
Always love,
Ryan
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Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome, Elle Mace
01:25 – 17 Years of Food & Body Struggles
03:33 – Growing Up Inside Diet Culture
06:28 – When Food Anxiety Shrinks Your World
09:25 – The Positive Intention Behind Behaviour
11:28 – Breakup, Bulimia & the Turning Point
12:58 – Recovery Changed Her Whole Life
14:43 – When Control Stops Working
18:13 – Elle's Work With Food, Body & Self
19:10 – Guilt, Shame & Body Messages
21:16 – Fathers, Daughters & Feeling Worthy
24:15 – Get Curious About Your Programming
26:04 – The Scale of Disordered Eating
27:09 – GLP-1s & Modern Weight-Loss Culture
30:05 – What the System Is Missing
31:41 – What Are We Teaching Children?
34:14 – What Food Freedom Actually Feels Like
36:32 – Inside the Food Freedom Book
40:46 – Turning Pain Into Purpose
41:38 – Helping People Feel Seen
44:07 – Elle's Heartprint
46:25 – How Men Can Better Support Women
49:00 – Connect With Elle
50:31 – There Is More to Life
Description:
Elle Mace joins Ryan Hartley to explore Food Freedom, food anxiety, body image, disordered eating and diet culture. Drawing on 17 years of lived experience and her work in food psychology, Elle explains why healing is about more than food, how self-worth and flexibility change recovery, and what it can feel like to finally have more space to live.
