Finally, Food and Eating Can Feel Natural.
Hi, I’m Vania.
For years, I was caught in a cycle of binge eating, emotional overeating, and dieting. Pulled between rigid control and chaotic eating, weighed down by guilt and cravings, always chasing the perfect way to eat. It was misery.
Then I discovered a radically different approach, one that didn’t involve fighting food. Instead, I learned to listen to my body’s wisdom and care for my deeper needs. Healing wasn’t about control. It was about coming home to myself, with compassion and trust.
If you’re ready to stop fighting food and start living differently, I’d love to talk.
“When I first contacted Vania, I was lost. Overwhelmed by self-doubt and stuck in an intense binge-restrict cycle, I felt like I had nowhere to turn and no-one to talk to... Working with Vania has been life-changing. And I know that sounds hyperbolic but there is really no other way to describe the night and day comparison between my life now and before we started working together.”
What you can expect
Most people arrive here having spent years trying to fix their eating, and themselves. They know something is wrong but they don’t know why. They’ve tried the diets, the rules, the plans, and none of it has lasted. What they’ve rarely been given is an understanding of why food has felt this way, or what actually helps.
That understanding is what this work is built around. By the end of our time together, you can expect to:
- Understand the cycle. You will see clearly how cultural messages, diet culture, patriarchy, and capitalism have shaped your beliefs about your body and your worth, and how those beliefs have driven your eating. This is not abstract theory. It will make your own story make sense in a way it probably never has before.
- Know yourself differently. You will have a clearer picture of what your real needs are, emotional, physical, and relational, and a growing ability to meet them in ways that don’t involve food.
- Eat without the war. You will have learned and begun to practise eating in a way that is guided by your body rather than a set of rules. And you will have discovered, probably with some surprise, that giving yourself genuine permission to eat is what calms the chaos rather than causing it.
- Begin to befriend your body. Not accept it reluctantly. Not declare yourself fine with it while still measuring your worth by how it looks. But begin an actual relationship with it, built on curiosity and care rather than control. This is the longest piece of work, and the culture will push back on it every single day. What you will leave with is the understanding and the tools to keep going.
In practical terms, here is what I will teach you:
- How to make sense of why you eat when you’re not hungry
- How to recognise your body’s hunger signals, and where your off switch is
- How to eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re satisfied
- How to make peace with food, so nothing is good or bad and you’re not being hounded by food rules
- How to interrupt the compulsive cycle
- How to identify what you’re really hungry for, when it’s not physical nourishment
- Strategies to satisfy those other hungers
- How to identify which foods feel genuinely nourishing to your body, so you can drop all the rules you’ve accumulated
- How to stop being so hard on yourself, and cultivate self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-acceptance instead
What I am not promising:
That food will never be hard again, or that you will never have a difficult day with your body. What I am promising is that you will understand what is happening when it is hard, and you will know what to do with that.
“Working with Vania has helped me make the shift from black and white perfectionistic thinking that was keeping me stuck in the dieting mindset, to living a life where thoughts of what I should or should not be eating hardly ever enter my head.”
Is my coaching right for you?
Yes - but only if:
- You’re tired of dieting and fighting with food and your body
- You want to eat like a ‘normal’ person (whatever that is)
- You’re willing to have an open mind about all the beliefs you have about weight and health
- You’re ready to put weight loss on the back burner and focus on repairing your relationship with food and your body
- You want to accept your body and move on with the things that deeply matter to you
My coaching is not right for you if:
- You have an active restrictive or purging eating disorder. This work is not a substitute for specialist eating disorder treatment. If that is where you are right now, please do reach out to an eating disorder specialist or your doctor, who can help you find the right support.
- You said no to anything in the previous section.
- You just want quick tips. This is deep, sometimes messy work, and it takes time.
- Your primary goal is to find a way to lose weight without dieting.
“My first session with Vania felt like someone opened a door and let a draft of cool mountain air into my claustrophobic existence. She immediately understood me. We’ve talked about it all. With humour and love and miraculous attention to detail, Vania lovingly and astutely becomes a mirror for me to see myself clearly.”
Pricing
Your current relationship with food and your body didn't happen overnight. Twelve sessions builds a solid foundation.
12-Session Programme
£1,500 – paid in full before we begin.
This includes:
- 12 x 60-minute 1:1 coaching sessions with Vania, held via video call
- Full access to the How to Live a Life of Peace with Food course: 12 lessons in the learning hub
- Full access to the Body Image Series: 6 further lessons
- All accompanying worksheets
The course material and worksheets are yours to work through at your own pace. They are not guided session by session, but they are designed to deepen the work we do together, and you are welcome to bring anything they raise into your sessions.
The Peace with Food Guarantee
This programme is offered with a guarantee. If, after fully participating, you are unable to identify what has been driving your difficulties with food or you have not developed working knowledge of the tools taught in this programme, you may request a full refund. Full participation includes completing the courses, the worksheets, and all 12 sessions.
This is something we can talk through in your Discovery Session, or once you’ve decided to go ahead. The full terms are available on request.
Payments by credit card, debit card, PayPal, or bank transfer.
Let's chat about how I can help you find peace with food.
“Vania has helped me do something I never thought possible: let go of a lifetime of body angst and find peace with myself, at whatever size. I can’t recommend Vania enough. The work we have done has changed my life, no exaggeration.”
“The realization that I needed help to change was when the turnaround began. I couldn’t ask for a better coach than Vania, she is caring, compassionate and best of all I feel safe sharing all my feelings with her.”
Who am I and why should you trust me?
My name is Vania Phitidis, founder of Peaceful Eating. I’m a BACP-registered counsellor and psychotherapist with a Humanistic Creative Counselling Diploma, and I hold a B.A. in Psychology and an M.Sc. in Education for Sustainability with a focus on behaviour change.
I’m a registered Intuitive Eating Counsellor and certified MB-EAT (Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training) teacher. I take a Health At Every Size (HAES), weight-inclusive, and weight-neutral approach to all of my work.
With over 30 years of experience, I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of people, of all genders, to find a different relationship with food and with themselves.
“I have known and worked with many coaches, counsellors and therapists at the top of their game, both personally and professionally. Vania is an undiscovered gem, with a magical combination of knowledge, intelligence, empathy and humour. She has helped me more than anyone, and not just with my relationship with food and my body, but my relationship with the world as a whole”
End the struggle with food, eating and your body.
Book a free Discovery Session and let’s talk about what’s possible.
Questions or queries?
If you have any questions, please send me an email.