Weight restoration is one of the most physically and psychologically uncomfortable aspects of eating disorder recovery.
Continue readingHow to Stop Calorie Counting
Calorie counting…may result in the opposite of the expected outcome due to the mental and physical response to intense and measured restriction – bingeing.
Continue readingHow to Enjoy Exercise: Joyful Movement
You’re probably well-versed in the benefits of movement – namely improved physical and mental wellbeing. However, many of us have a relationship with exercise that’s far from healthy.
Continue readingHow to Stop Comparing Yourself and Live a Full Life
…should we really build our sense of self-worth, self-value, and self-esteem on the destruction of ourselves or the decimation of another’s appearance, characteristics or attributes?
Continue readingWhy You Won’t Want to Start a Diet this January
If you’ve been berating yourself over your lack of willpower, it’s time to take a deep breath and release the guilt and blame. In this blog we explain set point theory and why diets fail you.
Continue readingHow to Set a New Year’s Resolution that Sticks
Often when we want to change something within our lives, within ourselves, about ourselves we’re given to wait for some sort of temporal milestone – that is, we wait for Mondays, for foreign holidays, for big birthdays, for Weddings…for New Years.
Continue readingWhat You Need to Know to Tackle This Holiday Season
Christmas is often referred to as “the most wonderful time of the year” but it can also be the most stressful time of the year if you’re struggling with your relationship with food and your body.
Continue readingHow to Raise Children in a Diet-Obsessed World
With 50% of children aged 8 to 13 years old wanting to lose weight, it’s difficult to know how to protect our most vulnerable and allow them to arrive in adulthood unscathed by diet culture.1
Continue readingWhy You Need to Stop Weighing Yourself
Results from longitudinal studies illustrate that daily self-weighing is correlated to anxiety, depression, body image dissatisfaction/ disorders and deteriorations in self-esteem and self-worth…
Continue readingWhat is Orthorexia? The Pathology of ‘Healthy Eating’
“Orthorexia” as a descriptive or diagnostic term was first devised by a holistic practitioner Steven Bratman in the 1990s to describe an eating pattern characterised by an intense fixation on “healthy eating” to the…
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