Everywhere we look, we are surrounded by evidence of diet culture. From a mental health perspective, we wanted to examine how this impacts on our self-esteem and our behaviours around food and exercise. What is a diet culture? A diet culture is in...
Did you know that approximately 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health illness each year? Good mental health is being able to live the life you want to. Poor mental health is when your thoughts, feelings or reactions impact your judgements and make...
I regularly treat binge eating disorders and from the experiences that I have had I see a very strong relationship with the disorder and the client’s basic emotional needs. This kind of therapy is quite unusual in treating binge eating disorders. It targets the...
This week March 1-7th 2021, is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and this year the focus is on Binge Eating Disorder (BED). Binge eating disorder is a condition that causes sufferers to develop an uncontrollable and compulsive relationship with food. It’s...
Eating disorders affect millions of people in the UK alone. The people who are suffering from an eating disorder are diverse, from all ages and every different background. But there is likely to be one thing that links all of these different cases, and that is trauma....