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Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emma Gun show and we're shifting gears a little bit.

Normally you're used to me being joined by a guest and they will share with me their life lessons but today it's just going to be you and me.

And the reason we're going to be having this one-on-one time together is because I posted something on Instagram recently about having an eating disorder.

And the response was so overwhelming and huge with so many people saying that it resonated, that it seemed appropriate to have this conversation with you.

So, this is an episode that you might want to listen to if what I'm about to say in the next 60 to 90 seconds resonates with any of your lived experience or any feelings that you've ever had.

So, I was in my 40s when I realized that the way that I ate, resembled an eating disorder and it's important that we come back to that a little bit later in the episode.

But for many, many years I was utterly, totally and completely preoccupied with how my body looked, what size it was, how much it weighed.

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