How Taking Care of the Basics Helps You Make Peace with Food

How Taking Care of the Basics Helps You Make Peace with Food

Often people with problematic eating are searching for deep causes for their dysregulated eating. Don't get me wrong, this can definitely be the case. With the right support, you can heal your traumas, you can learn to be with your emotions and you can learn to manage your response to triggers. But if...

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5 Ways Perfection Costs You Your Peace

Peaceful Eating and the Price of Perfection

Peace or Perfection? Your choice. If you want peace with food, and peace with your body, but you've spent a long time striving for the perfect body (according to current Beauty Standards), and the perfect diet (according to the latest book/ celebrity), then at some point you'll need to make a choice...

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Are You Making These 2 Mistakes About Eating?

Do you know where your eating off-switch is? Are you someone who thinks you don't have an eating off-switch, that you just don't know when to stop eating until it's either gone, or you're so full you literally cannot eat anymore? Or perhaps you think that once you start eating you can't stop, so better...

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My Journey With an Eating Disorder

My Journey with an Eating Disorder

It's Eating Disorders Awareness Week here in the UK and in the USA. While it's estimated that there are around 1.25 million people with eating disorders in the UK, we don't really know because there's not nearly enough research. Doctors are given on average less than TWO HOURS of eating disorder training...

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How to Stop Feeling Shame Around Eating

How to stop feeling shame around your food

The only reason you feel shame around what you eat is that you're believing you're wrong for having eaten it. It's not that sugar is bad. It's not that bread is bad. Or pasta, or anything else the diet gurus will have you believe. Those foods are just foods. They are not good or bad. They are not...

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How to Eat Like a ‘Normal’ Person

How to eat like a 'normal' person

'I just want to eat like a normal person!' Has this thought ever crossed your mind? I remember a conversation I had a few years ago with a client about this. She said she was 'trying to eat like a normal person.' I asked what that meant. She said 'normal meal-times; normal portions; normal foods.' I...

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