Blog

On the blog you will find articles and posts about my personal musings on the topics of food, eating and body image as well as my take on how we can live a more mindful, wholehearted and fully nourished life!

How Do I Stop Bingeing On Food

How Do I Stop Bingeing On Food

Bingeing on food is a really distressing thing and can severely impact on someone’s life. If you have never struggled with binge eating it might be hard to imagine that you can even struggle with this. You should be able to just stop right?!   The Definition of...

How to go from Chaotic Eating to Intuitive Eating

How to go from Chaotic Eating to Intuitive Eating

One of the things that we work with in intuitive eating / mindful eating approaches are knowing when we are hungry, and moving through any barriers to meeting this basic need. If you have been going from diet, to diet with periods of “being good”, aka restricting and...

What is “Last Supper Mentality”?

What is “Last Supper Mentality”?

Have you ever heard the term “Last Supper Mentality”? I bet that even if you haven’t heard the term before, you have probably engaged in it, at least if you have ever prepared for any kind of diet.   “Last Supper Eating” is the eating that happens *before*...

Why am I so afraid of gaining weight?

Why am I so afraid of gaining weight?

The fear of weight gain alongside the desire to lose weight is the most common thing I see in my clinical practice. Not everyone in my clinic wants to lose weight but almost everyone fears gaining weight. It is present in clients regardless of body size. The fear of...

How to dress for the body you have

How to dress for the body you have

A few days ago I went though my wardrobe to sort through clothes that no longer fits the body I have now, and to make sure that what I do have is clothing that works for me right now.   One of the things that are often helpful when we are doing body image work is...