Becoming a Peaceful Eater

Somewhere along the way, most of us absorbed a picture of our best self. It isn't always fully formed or consciously held, but it's there. A little lighter, probably. More in control around food. Less preoccupied. Someone who has it sorted in ways you don't quite yet. And almost everything, every...

You are sitting at a table you have sat at a thousand times. Maybe it is Sunday lunch at your parents'. Maybe it is a birthday dinner at a restaurant where everyone is ordering and comparing. Maybe it is just a Tuesday with colleagues in the work kitchen, someone sighing loudly about their meal deal,...

“You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.” – Henri Nouwen Most women I work with have spent years - sometimes decades - treating their body as the source of the problem. Too big. Too undisciplined. Too much. The body is what needs to...

A letter to you, wherever you woke up today. Maybe you're reading this still in bed. Maybe you're already standing in the kitchen, eyeing whatever's left in the chocolate bowl, wondering whether last night counts as a binge and what that says about you. I want to talk to you about that feeling....

Valentine's Day has a way of making us feel like love is something we have to earn. Be attractive enough. Desirable enough. Thin enough. Enough enough. Get the hair right, the outfit right, the body right — and then, maybe, you'll be worthy of love. Sound familiar? Because that's not romance....

Many people don’t realise this, but a lot of the distress they feel around food isn’t actually about food at all. It’s about morality. Somewhere along the way, eating became something you could do well or badly. Foods were sorted into hierarchies. Choices were given moral weight. And your...