Becoming a Peaceful Eater

My 15 year old daughter stayed home from school yesterday with an upset stomach. I did the right thing, and gave her boiled rice... all day. With one or two pieces of dry toast, and a little brown grated apple for good measure. She was not happy! When it was dinner time, I asked if she'd like...

I'm so delighted today to share with you a guest post, from Liatt Granott - thank you, Liatt! We all have goals for ourselves, which is great. Having goals motivates us to better ourselves, to strive for more for ourselves. But often, these goals such as “I won’t binge any more” do not leave room...

This is a very simple, yet very profound idea - and it's one that, if asked consistently has the potential to transform your relationship with food, and indeed yourself! What if you were to ask yourself this one question before you eat something. What might happen as a result? Here's the question: Do...

It's not so much that I think 'positive' thinking is a bad thing - it's not destructive or harmful in any way - but I do wonder sometimes how useful it is. If you're believing you're useless and pathetic at say controlling your eating, or that you're an utter failure because you've just finished...

I've written before about 'feeling fat' - if you haven't read that yet and you're interested, it's here. In that post I discussed the idea that 'feeling fat' isn't actually a feeling that you can feel in your body, but that rather, it's a state of mind which encapsulates a number of beliefs about...

The brain 'sees' in images Did you know that? Let's do a little experiment: if I say to you 'don't think about salted caramel ice cream,' what happens? You think about salted caramel ice cream, don't you?! Because there isn't an image for 'don't.' This was a revolutionary discovery for me when...