Hello and welcome to the Get Your Globe at podcast. I'm joined today by the amazing Kimberly Wilson,

charter psychologist, governor of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Mental Health Trust,

host of the Stronger Minds podcast and author of her new book, How to Build a Healthy Brain. On today's episode, we spoke

about the relationship between our plate and our mental health, how we can understand and work

towards healing our disordered relationship with food, and how we can future proof our brains.

I hope you love listening to this episode. Let's bring on the wonderful

Kimberly. Kimberly, welcome to the podcast. Thank you very much for having me. I am very excited

to have you here in your beautiful bright yellow top. I feel like you're cheering up the day already.

I'm all in black. Very kind of cold and wintering and I do try to have a little bit of

colour just to brighten yourself up from the inside. I feel like I like what you're doing.

I have got quite a few questions for you. Yes. And I'm excited to get into it because you talk about

so many different really interesting topics that probably connect to most people. I think

at least most people will connect on so many things. And I think probably the first place to start is

do we all have an emotional connection to food? Because most people I know do, and I would love to

know your thoughts as you are specialised in this area.

Well, my position is that we do all have an emotional association to food and that that is basically biological.

What happens is that when we're born, you know, children are sponges

and you are absorbing everything about your experience

and no you won't remember it, but it's all encoded

quite deeply into the brain. And so much of those very early experiences in terms of your

connection to the main parent, often the mother, is mediated through food. So if you're thinking

about a newborn baby in arms, then while they're breastfeeding or being fed, you've got

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