by Vania Phitidis | Aug 20, 2021 | Blog
Does this conundrum sound familiar? Your clothes are too tight. On the one hand, you feel really uncomfortable. You can’t move freely. You can’t breathe easily. You’re constantly being reminded about your weight gain. You find yourself lingering on...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
