by Vania Phitidis | Aug 13, 2021 | Blog

Have you ever said to yourself while on holiday "I'm on holiday!" which is a euphemism for "I'll eat and drink to excess because that's what we do on holiday and when I get home I'll get back on the wagon," which, in turn, is a euphemism for dieting or restricting? This is Diet Culture! I watch...

by Vania Phitidis | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog

How do you respond to the following statement: Body image healing requires radical acceptance of your body as it is now. The most typical reaction is disbelief, incredulity and fear. Why? Because we have a skewed understanding about acceptance! If you fall into the camp of disbelievers, you probably...

by Vania Phitidis | Jul 15, 2021 | Blog

It's extraordinary what you can learn in any one moment. Mindfulness teaches us to pay attention, moment to moment, to our current experience, without judgement. Mindful eating is one way that we can practise this. We have several opportunities a day to do so. We don't have to be perfect at it and...

by Vania Phitidis | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog

I get it. When you've spent so long obsessing about food and your body, you're so tired of all that attention on what you are or aren't eating; exhausted from the litany your mind creates around every morsel that passes your lips, YOU JUST WANT PEACE from all that attention on food! You don't want...

by Vania Phitidis | Jul 1, 2021 | Blog

If you've come from a history of dieting - which you probably have if you're reading this - you'll know what it's like to feel as though food has a hold on you - probably particular types of food. As a way to try to remedy this, you've probably attempted to control your eating by restricting food and...