What is self-harm? It is an intentional act of inflicting harm to oneself. The self-harming behaviour we are most familiar with is cutting. This invo…

With Eating Disorders Awareness Week beginning on the 27th of February 2017, what better time to highlight the plight of those eating disorder suffer…

Food is a complicated issue yet so many of us get stuck in the fight to control what we take in; balanced with the energy we burn through exercise. T…

The first 12 step group, alcoholics anonymous (AA), was founded in 1935 by two American men who found a way of tackling their alcoholism. Since these…

According to Beat Eating Disorders, the UK's leading eating disorder charity, eating disorders affect 750,000 people in the UK. If you binge and purg…

When clients identify binge eating as something they want to tackle, they often go on to explore what the underlying causes can be. Binge eating is a…

Susie Orbach famously wrote in her 1970’s classic of the same title that “fat is a feminist issue”, I would like to say that overeating is almost alw…

We live in a society that promotes perfection. Almost every advertisement we see in a magazine, online or on TV is pedalling the myth that if only we…

Eating mindfully is eating with intention and attention. Eating mindlessly is eating with no thought to its purpose nor attention to the experience.…

Are you obese and fed up of it? Do you have food addiction issues? Could you have a binge eating disorder? Is your food intake having an effect on yo…

Most people are familiar with the term anorexia and the idea that pressure to conform to cultural standards of thinness and beauty drives people to s…

Where do you cross the line from taking a healthy interest in food and wanting to take care of your body, to it becoming a dangerous obsession which…