Latest articles on counselling and therapy

If most of life your life you have been obsessed with food, on and off the dieting rollercoaster, you will be very familiar with your love-hate food narrative. Despite all your...

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

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 trying to makejokes out of...

"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 disgust with being unable to...

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 chocolate indulgence has left...

“It's like being a prisoner in your own mind, but people don't see 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 it seems that we have never had...

Eating disorders can involve eating too little or too much, and/or becoming obsessed with body weight and body shape. Normally, someone with an eating disorder will exhibit an...

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 uncomfortable feeling, then...

Eating is one of our innate survival drives that initiates appetite, resulting in the intake of food. Like breathing and reproduction, these drives are hardwired into every human...