This episode of Breaking the Cycle Takes Singapore features my client and one of Singapore’s most loved food and travel creators — Aiken Chia.

Together, we explore the layered relationship he’s had with food: from using it to soothe childhood wounds to realizing that even in an industry where bigger bodies are more accepted, emotional struggle doesn’t simply disappear.

Aiken shares what it was like to grow up with food as his safest outlet, how that attachment shaped his adulthood, and what it really means to regulate your nervous system without turning to eating. We talk about the emotional cost of constantly performing wellness on the outside while feeling dysregulated on the inside.

This isn’t a weight loss story. It’s a healing story. It’s about detaching from food not to restrict, but to reconnect.

If food has been your anchor, your escape, or your identity, this is one you don’t want to miss.