Practical, steady eating disorder recovery support.
Real Health Radio treats eating disorder recovery as a full-life process, not a quick behavior fix. Chris Sandel mixes solo teaching, Q&A, and guest interviews on food, movement, anxiety, motherhood, CBT, and the mental load of healing.
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Real Health Radio is a recovery-centered health show with a clear focus on eating disorders, disordered eating, and the long process of rebuilding a freer life around food and movement. It is led by Chris Sandel, who presents himself as a nutritionist, coach, and eating disorder expert. The show often begins with practical orientation. Then it moves into either a solo teaching episode, a Q&A, or a guided guest interview. Its central promise is full recovery, and the recent episodes keep returning to what that can require in ordinary days. Food is treated as more than a menu choice. It becomes a place where rules, fear, urgency, judgment, identity, cost, hunger, and old forms of restriction all show up. The show is especially strong when it slows down a stuck point and makes it usable. Rest is not framed as laziness. It is explained as a recovery need, with attention to the beliefs and loops that can block it. Extreme hunger is handled with directness and reassurance, including the importance of unconditional permission to eat during and beyond recovery. Q&A episodes widen the frame, covering planning versus flexibility, so-called bad foods, scale numbers, menopause, and the tension between physical eating and mental permission. Guest episodes add clinical and advocacy perspectives without losing the show’s practical center. Jennifer Averyt brings cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based treatments, sleep disorders, diabetes, chronic pain, depression, oncology, eating disorders, and GLP-1s into the conversation. Dana Colthart brings anxiety, OCD, exposure and response prevention, acceptance and commitment therapy, and the idea of making values-based decisions while distress is present. Johanna Kandel’s episode connects recovery to support groups, legislation, the National Alliance for Eating Disorders, and life after an eating disorder. Pregnancy, postpartum, and early motherhood also appear as recovery contexts, not side issues. The show’s rhythm is measured and clarifying. It repeats, reframes, and narrows toward the next practical step. Its recovery stance is firm: lighter restriction is still restriction, and food freedom requires more than managing symptoms. That makes the show useful for listeners who want warmth without avoidance, specificity without coldness, and recovery talk that stays close to real behavior.
Made for: For people living with eating disorders or disordered eating, and for supporters who want recovery concepts explained in plain, compassionate language. It especially suits listeners looking for practical help with food rules, movement choices, anxiety, rest, and body distress.
What sets it apart: Real Health Radio stands out for its insistence on full recovery rather than symptom management. It pairs warm coaching-style explanation with guest perspectives from CBT, OCD treatment, advocacy, pregnancy and postpartum concerns, chronic health conditions, and lived recovery experience.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · August 2026
A steady, clinically grounded guest-interview show for listeners working through eating-disorder recovery who want the process treated as ongoing rather than resolved.
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