Mindful Eating Tips

Change is something I think about quite a lot - since I'm in the business of helping people to change. Our focus is on changing eating behaviour - but as clients quickly learn - it's not so much about the food, or the weight - it's about how you relate to yourself, to others and to life... we simply...

Have you been hard on yourself lately? Have you been putting pressure on yourself to 'get it right'? Get what right, you might be asking. Well, anything, really: your recovery from dieting, your journey towards body acceptance, your attunement to your needs... A few years ago I ran a Facebook Group...

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. We don't have to be perfect at it and...

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 from all that attention on food! You don't want...

Do you notice that you eat mindlessly quite a lot of the time? You might have heard people say 'just eat mindfully.' Yes... got that... but how? How do you wake up out of the trance of mindless eating so that you can eat more mindfully? It's like saying to someone who often has disturbing dreams...

If you've ever been to London and used the underground, you may have heard a recording over the PA system, as the doors to the train open at the station: 'Mind... the gap.' The warning is to be careful, as the space between the platform and the train is quite big, and there's a chance you could misstep...