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Emotional eating

Understanding Emotional Eating in a Wider Context

When it comes to stress and emotional eating, most people believe the problem lies in willpower – as if the solution were to ‘eat less’ or ‘try harder’. But in truth, emotional eating is rarely about food. It’s about emotions, relationships, and the invisible messages we’ve absorbed over a lifetime.

Food as the only Pleasure

Food as the Only Pleasure: Why Control Won’t Heal

When we use food as the only pleasure, adding more restrictions deepens the struggle. Control and willpower create short-term results. but they reinforce the cycle of guilt, shame, and rebellion. The more tightly you grip, the more likely you are to swing back into overeating. Shifting the mindset away from punishment and control is the first step to real freedom.

Body Love and self-care

Our Relationship With the Body as We Age

Our relationship with the body is one of the longest relationships we will ever have. It begins before we have words, and it continues to change throughout our lives.

And yet, many of us do not really know our bodies. We know how to judge them, compare them, dress them, feed them, push them, control them, punish them, improve them, hide them. But do we know them? Do we listen to them? Do we recognise their language?

Why do I keep binge eating

Why Do I Binge Eat? Dieting and the Binge Cycle

In this blog post, I will explore one common factor that can contribute to binge eating – restriction – and offer some starting points for understanding and changing the binge eating cycle.