Melissa Cole on The Nutter's Club

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Friday, 29 July 2011

“I'll hide away so life can't find me”

Melissa Cole talks about how she gently and slowly overcame destructive eating patterns and depression on this week’s episode of The Nutters Club.

Melissa faces life full on now, but as a young teen a series of heartaches and tragedy made her seek solace in food. Emotionally scarred and terrified of facing life on her own terms, Melissa's life became a constant struggle with relationships, motherhood and food as she sought to hide away from life to avoid the pain.

But deep down, this big-hearted woman knew she had it in her to find a way through. She shares with Mike King and Dr David Codyre how she learnt to embrace life and love her uniqueness.

"You just have to grab happiness, life is so short, the one person you can never run away from in life is yourself, so for goodness sake, love it," she says.

"Melissa Cole is one our guests who seemed to light up the room," says series director Marcus Clayton. "In her interview, I think she was able to touch on her own struggles as a young woman that will ring true for others. Here is someone with a big heart, bruised by circumstance, but who is choosing to rewrite her life-story from a new angle. We say all power to her."

The Nutters Club with Mike King is a weekly radio show on RadioLIVE, Sundays at 8pm filmed and produced by Top Shelf Productions for Maori Television where it screens Fridays at 10:30pm. The Nutters Club Facebook page provides a forum for those with mental health issues and the book, The Nutters Club with Mike King, is in all good bookstores now.

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Melissa Cole on The Nutters Club, Friday July 29, 10:30pm on Maori Television

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