How Stress and Anxiety Affect Eating Habits: Understanding the Connection and Breaking the Cycle
Discover how stress and anxiety can profoundly impact your eating habits, from emotional eating to loss of appetite. Our latest post explores this powerful connection and offers practical strategies to help you break the cycle and develop a healthier relationship with food. Ready to take control of your well-being? Learn how our cognitive behavioral therapy-based course can provide the tools and support you need to manage stress and anxiety effectively.
10 Simple Techniques to Manage Stress and Anxiety: Easy Strategies for a Calmer Mind
Feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety? Our latest post offers 10 simple techniques to help you manage and reduce these feelings, from deep breathing and mindfulness to creative activities. These easy-to-implement strategies can bring more calm and balance to your life. Plus, discover how our online course, based on cognitive behavioral therapy, can provide additional tools and support for overcoming stress and anxiety.
Trauma, Abuse and Eating Disorders
Researchers think there are many people with eating disorders who are also suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. There are strong links between eating disorders and a history of childhood sexual abuse and/or adult rape.
10 Books That Helped Me Find Spirituality During Mental Health and Eating Disorder Recovery
Spirituality is a topic that doesn’t come up very often in eating disorder recovery circles and it may not feel relevant to everyone. But for some, a sense of spirituality or even religion can be a source of support, strength and resilience. Don’t worry, I’m not going to preach to you in this post! I’m simply discussing some of the benefits of spirituality that I’ve personally experienced during my mental health recovery, which also helped strengthen my relationship with my body, and learning to trust it, as well as getting to know my body’s signals and connecting to my inner knowing/intuition.
Want to Improve Your Health? Focus on Reducing Stress, Not Weight
Stress, and stress-related illnesses and symptoms are on the rise, and there’s no doubt that COVID-19 has compounded what was already a huge problem for society. In this article, I will explain why stress is so damaging for your health and illustrate how many of the health problems we associate with weight, can be alleviated or managed by tackling mental health rather than fixating on dieting or weight loss.
Talking Therapy: Counselling vs CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
A comprehensive guide to the different types of talking therapy available, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Counselling, Psycho-dynamic counselling and Psychotherapy. I also include links to therapist directories and a guide to choosing the right mental health professional for you.
Are you dieting because you feel out of control in your life?
Do you feel more ‘in control’ of your life on some level, when you're restricting or micro-managing your weight, food and exercise? Here's how to handle that.
How To Overcome An Emotional Eating Disorder
Emotional eating is NOT an eating problem. It's a coping mechanism for difficult emotions and therefore cannot be treated by dieting or restricting foods. To overcome emotional eating you must learn how to manage your emotions, here's how.
Body Wise by Dr Rachel Carlton Abrams - Book Review
Are you tired? Do you suffer from headaches, backaches or pelvic discomfort? Do you experience depression or feel anxious? Do you have allergies, rashes or autoimmune issues? Have you lost your sex drive? Dr Rachel Carlton Abrams' new book, Body Wise, might just hold the answers.
10 Tips For Self Care, For When You Have No Energy
We have three types of energy: Physical, Mental and Emotional. Here are ten self care tips for restoring three of these.