In episode 346 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with academic Sophie Temple.
Sophie is currently Doctoral Researcher in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, specialising in eating disorders, disordered eating and body image pathology during the menopausal transition.
She is also part-time Research Fellow in the School of Education, Department of Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs, College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham.
Sophie’s academic expertise is in the subject of menopausal disordered eating, and how it affects women during all stages of the menopause.
In this episode, we discuss Sophie’s academic journey, how and why she landed on this subject within EDs, the lack of research on these women and why, and the work she is doing to shine a light on it and give medical professionals better tools to treat these women too.
We also talk about the comparison between how EDs manifest in teenagers and young women vs menopausal women and the different internal and external factors which may contribute to these women developing one.
For Sophie’s mental health, we discuss her own experience of disordered eating traits during her undergraduate university degree when she was a sprinter at Loughborough University, the factors in her childhood and adolescence which contributed to those traits, and how her own perception of what someone with an ED looks like changed over time and education.
As always, #itsokaytovent
You can follow Sophie’s work on social media here.
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