Body Image & Self-Compassion:

How to Speak the Language of Love – To Your Body

How to Speak the Language of Love – To Your Body

Valentine’s Day is filled with grand gestures, sweet words, and thoughtful gifts, all meant to express love. But what if, this year, you turned that love inward, to the one companion who has been with you through every single moment of your life? Your body. Just like in any meaningful relationship,...

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Binge Eating Recovery:

Breaking Binge Eating: Understanding and Overcoming the Urge

Breaking Binge Eating: Understanding and Overcoming the Urge

Binge eating often feels like a mystery, doesn’t it? No matter how hard you try, you find yourself there, again and again. An overwhelming force that sweeps in, leaving confusion and guilt in its wake. But what if the real reason behind binge eating isn’t a lack of willpower? What if it’s not...

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Escaping the Dieting Trap:

How to Get Quick Results Without Dieting

How to Get Quick Results

Diet Culture and in fact our aggressive capitalist structure overall, school us into craving quick results. We value speed.  Perhaps it would be truer to say that we have been taught to believe that speed and fast results are essential. As tempting as it is, this blog isn't going to be a sociological...

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Body Image & Self-Compassion, Health Beyond Weight:

Imagine Your Life with No Mirrors and No Sizes

Imagine Your Life with No Mirrors and No Sizes

Can you picture a world with no scales, no mirrors, no reflective surfaces, no cameras, no photographs and no sizes on clothing? In this world, all clothes automatically resize so they always fit perfectly - and there are no fatphobic bigots either. What then? Do you worry about your weight? Do...

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Overcoming Overeating:

Befriending Your Desire to Overeat

Have you ever thought about 'befriending' your desire to overeat? If you're thinking 'what on earth is she on about now' - you're probably not alone! In fact, you can definitely be forgiven for thinking I'm bonkers, because most people who struggle in their relationship with food are so used to...

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