Navigating Food-Related Anxiety During the Festive Season: Tips for a Stress-Free Christmas and New Year’s
Feeling anxious about food during the festive period? You’re not alone. In this post, we share practical tips to help you navigate food-related anxiety and social pressures during Christmas and New Year’s. From setting boundaries to embracing mindful eating, learn how to enjoy the season without stress. Ready to make peace with food? Explore our Intuitive Eating Course for the support you need.
How to Stay Mindful and Balanced During the Festive Season: Tips for a Calm and Joyful Christmas and New Year’s
Feeling overwhelmed by the festive rush? Our latest post offers practical tips to help you stay mindful and balanced during Christmas and New Year’s. Learn how to set intentions, practice self-care, and embrace the season with joy and ease. Ready to navigate the festivities with calm? Discover more in our Online Course on Overcoming Stress and Anxiety.
5 Tips to Enjoy Holiday Meals Without Guilt: A Guide to Stress-Free Festive Eating
Worried about navigating festive meals without the usual guilt? This post is your guide to enjoying Christmas and New Year’s feasts with confidence and joy. Discover five simple tips to help you savour every bite, embrace mindful eating, and let go of food-related stress. Ready to make this festive period guilt-free? Explore our Intuitive Eating Course for lasting support in building a healthy relationship with food.
How to Create a Personalised Stress-Relief Routine: Tips for Finding What Works for You
Feeling overwhelmed by stress and unsure where to start? This post guides you through creating a personalised stress-relief routine that fits perfectly into your life. Discover practical tips for identifying stress triggers, exploring various techniques, and integrating simple yet effective practices into your daily schedule. Ready to find balance and calm? Explore our online course on overcoming stress and anxiety, featuring cognitive behavioural therapy and practical tools to support your journey.
Mindfulness for Stress Relief: Simple Techniques to Calm Your Mind in Minutes
Feeling overwhelmed by stress? This post explores how mindfulness can be your quick fix for calming your mind in just minutes. Discover simple techniques like mindful breathing and body scans that you can integrate into your daily routine to manage stress and anxiety effectively. Ready to dive deeper? Check out our online course designed to help you overcome stress and anxiety with cognitive behavioural therapy, complete with video lessons and practical worksheets.
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.
Intuitive Eating vs. Dieting: Why Intuitive Eating is Healthier for Long-Term Wellness
Curious about the difference between intuitive eating and traditional dieting? Our latest post explores why intuitive eating is the healthier choice for long-term well-being. Learn about the detrimental effects of dieting, including its impact on your health and relationship with food, and discover how intuitive eating promotes a balanced, guilt-free approach to nourishment. Embrace a sustainable path to wellness and find out why intuitive eating supports health at every size.
How to Start Your Intuitive Eating Journey: Essential Tips for Beginners Transitioning from Dieting
Ready to break free from restrictive diets and embrace a healthier relationship with food? Dive into our guide on starting your intuitive eating journey. Discover actionable tips for reconnecting with your body’s natural hunger cues, making peace with all foods, and celebrating self-acceptance. Transform your approach to eating and find joy in nourishing yourself with compassion and creativity.
The 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating: A Comprehensive Guide to Food Freedom and Body Trust
Explore the ten principles of Intuitive Eating in this in-depth guide. Learn how to rebuild your relationship with food, trust your body’s natural signals, and embrace food freedom. This comprehensive post covers everything from rejecting diet culture to honouring your health with gentle nutrition, offering practical insights for a more compassionate approach to eating and well-being.
Intuitive Eating 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Building a Positive Relationship with Food
Struggling with diets and food guilt? Discover Intuitive Eating—a compassionate approach that helps you reconnect with your body's natural signals and find joy in eating again. In this beginner’s guide, we explore the key principles of Intuitive Eating, focusing on body positivity, mental well-being, and the freedom to enjoy food without restriction. Start your journey toward a healthier, happier relationship with food today
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)?
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is a diagnosable mental disorder and can have a devastating impact on a person's life, health and wellbeing. An individual diagnosed with BDD may be said to be 'obsessed' with their appearance and perceived 'flaws'. These may be very minor or entirely non-existent 'flaws'.
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.
Eating Disorder Facts and Myths
Eating disorders can be a way of coping with feelings or situations that are making the person unhappy, angry, depressed, stressed, or anxious. They are not the fault of the person suffering, and no one chooses to have an eating disorder. They are complex psychological issues and have surprisingly little to do with food with you dig really deep into them.
What is OSFED and what counts as disordered eating?
Disordered eating doesn't just mean eating disorders. It includes the binge and restrict cycle, the dieting cycle, restriction of amounts or times of food, overeating in the name of a cheat day and then fasting the next day. Sometimes a person’s symptoms don’t exactly fit the expected symptoms for the clinical criteria for eating disorders. In that case, they might be diagnosed with an “other specified feeding or eating disorder” (OSFED).
What is Orthorexia?
Orthorexia refers to an unhealthy obsession with eating “pure” food. Food considered “pure” or “impure” can vary from person to person. This doesn’t mean that anyone who subscribes to a healthy eating plan or diet is suffering from orthorexia. It is not currently recognised in a clinical setting as a separate eating disorder.
Understanding Bulimia Nervosa
People with bulimia are caught in a cycle of eating large quantities of food (called bingeing), and then trying to compensate for that overeating by vomiting, taking laxatives or diuretics, fasting, or exercising excessively (called purging). Someone with bulimia will place a strong emphasis on their weight and body shape and may see themselves as much larger than they are (links to Body Dysmorphic Disorder).
What You Need To Know About Anorexia Nervosa
A person suffering from anorexia may develop “rules” around what they feel they can and cannot eat, as well as things like when and where they’ll eat. They may engage in body checking behaviours such as weighing and measuring themselves regularly (links with obsessive-compulsive features) and they may experience body dysmorphia (a distorted view of their own body).
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.
What Does Your Dieting History Look Like?
For some people, exploring Intuitive Eating and Body Acceptance for the first time, there will still be the temptation to look for 'a better diet' or the 'one that fits'. Here is an exercise I do with my coaching group, where I ask people to look at their own evidence gathered over the years, for why diets don't work!