When you’re not feeling comfortable in your body it can overshadow the enjoyment of your whole holiday. I spoke to Ashley Broadwater for her article in Huffington Post about how to avoid and handle body image issues when you’re on vacation. Read the full post here: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/body-image-vacation-advice_l_625c8875e4b0723f801a1ec6 Here are more of my thoughts on how […]

 The Food Body Self™ Summit is 14 day interview series to improve your relationships with food, exercise, your body, and self, starting on 25th April 2022. Through 25 conversations with doctors, coaches, dietitians, and therapists, explore:  💛 Healing from disordered eating behaviours 💛 Unpacking diet culture 💛 How to improve your body image 💛 Cultivating self-care, […]

For Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2022, eating disorder charity BEAT are campaigning to ensure that there is correct and adequate training on eating disorders available to health professionals and for all UK medical schools to introduce proper training. It is estimated that 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder, with many more cases […]

Thanks to Zoe and Jess from Tribe Co for having me on the Vibe with Tribe Podcast. They were so easy to talk to and we covered a lot in this episode. We discuss – My story of developing an eating disorder; from ‘clean’ eating to orthorexia, restrictive eating and being scared of food, to […]

This week I provided an expert comment for Grazia exploring why “We Need To Talk About How Damaging TikTok’s ‘What I Eat In A Day’ Videos Can Be” Read the full article here: https://graziadaily.co.uk/beauty-hair/wellness/tiktok-what-i-eat-in-a-day-disordered-eating-anorexia-eating-disorders/ Comparing what you eat to others on the internet is unhelpful, especially if it is making you feel bad around food […]

Often when you tell someone that you have an eating disorder then they don’t know how to respond. And that’s after you have got over the mental hurdles of telling someone!  Society has made speaking about mental health difficulties a taboo for too long. I feel like this has only been reinforced by people showing […]

New bite-sized episode of the Just Eat Normally Podcast sharing a few things to think about if you’re looking for a private therapist to help support your recovery from an eating disorder.  I’ve also outlined the main points if you scroll down on this post.   Please remember that this podcast shares opinions and information, […]

I was recently quoted in the introduction to a piece in Women’s Health US online that shared 15 journal apps to try. How journaling can be helpful Tracker style journals are useful to record and review progress over time. With busy lives, it can be hard to remember what we were doing, thinking or feeling yesterday, let […]

Christmas time can seem overwhelming when you are in recovery or recovered from an eating disorder. If you’re already starting to worry that “OMG it’s Christmas soon. All that food and the family meet-ups! I won’t be able to cope” then the ‘coping with an eating disorder at Christmas’ mini-series on the Just Eat Normally […]

In this bite-sized episode Dr Rachel Evans answers a listeners question about closing the gap between knowing what to do for eating disorder recovery and then actually following through and doing it, with the example of eating regularly.  We start with a very brief overview of health behaviour change research and the knowledge-behaviour gap, which […]