Emotional Eating Solutions

Were you taught not to feel your feelings? Perhaps you didn't feel safe enough to feel anger. Perhaps you were not permitted to feel joy. Likely, if you have issues with food, you have learned to use it instead of feel whatever you're feeling. Feeling your feelings a really important skill to...

The last two posts have focused on why understanding and managing your triggers aren't crucial to changing your behaviour with food. If you missed them, you can read them here and here. Today I want to talk about why triggers do matter. I can boil it down to 2 words: You matter. You are more than a...

My previous post was about why triggers don't cause your overeating. I explained that there are potentially thousands if not millions of triggers - and you would drive yourself nuts if you tried to isolate and resolve each one. It would keep you trapped in thinking about food and your body forever. In...

Oh boy. Today was a day of overwhelm for me. I haven't experienced that level of overwhelm for a loooong time. Since I had no clients booked in today, I had planned to write my blog post, and do some planning for my upcoming Eating Mindfully course in the morning. In the afternoon I'd planned...

As our world has changed, and technological advances have made our lives more physically comfortable – do you think we've become more intolerant as a society to discomfort? This thought occurred to me as I was supporting people in an eating disorders group, particularly around the concept of sitting...