Understanding and overcoming binge eating disorder is not about willpower. And here's the thing: most people don't know they have a treatable conditi…

Since the lockdown began I've seen posts every single day about how we're eating too much.Mostly people are saying this with humour; people are still…

"I’ll only have one". Before long the whole packet is eaten, and you end up feeling guilty and disappointed in yourself. Then come the shame and dis…

Easter is over, and the chocolate eggs and bunnies are no more - just a pile of scrunched-up foil and crumpled cardboard. But perhaps, for you, that…

We have never had greater access to nutritional information than we do today. We also know more about how our bodies function than ever before, but i…

Sometimes, when we become under distress, it's only too easy to reach out to food and/or drink for comfort.So many times, individuals sit with that u…

Eating is one of our innate survival drives that initiates appetite, resulting in the intake of food. Like breathing and reproduction, these drives a…

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…

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…

Being judged by others can result in us feeling small and disempowered.  Judgements are with us all the time. They are necessary in our day to day l…

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…