Navigating Destination Addiction in Healing Your Relationship with Food, Body-Image and Weight

Healing your relationship with food, your body-image and weight can feel like an overwhelming task. One stuck point which I see exacerbates many clients suffering, is “Destination addiction”. Destination addiction is the belief that reaching a certain point in life, particularly a certain goal, will bring an end to struggles and usher in lasting happiness. […]

Befriending Your Binge-Eating Gremlin

What is the Binge-Eating Gremlin? Do you find yourself frustrated that most of the time you’re trying to ‘eat well’ or avoid binging, but then at a random moment, you completely lose all resolve and before you know it, you’re overeating? When it happens, it can feel mindless or as if someone else has hijacked […]

Understanding the Role of Physical and ‘Mental’ Restriction of Food in Binge Eating

Breaking free from restriction Physical or mental restriction of food, which is often a part of dieting, typically backfires and lead to a distressing spiral of bingeing and self-sabotage. We live in a world obsessed with the latest dieting and weight loss fads and often we find out that these strict measures have the opposite […]

Breaking Free from Binge Eating Disorder: Understanding, Recognising, and Reclaiming Control

Binge eating. It’s a term often used but rarely understood. It is estimated that about 4-5% of  Australians have Binge Eating Disorder (BED). BED is the most common eating disorder, and much more prevalent compared to anorexia and bulimia. As part of my new blog series, I’ll provide an overview of what bingeing is and […]