I’d like to encourage you to think about the following for a minute: Chronic Dieting equals Deprivation of Food. Eating food that we do not need for energy is often a coping mechanism to push down feelings that are historically too dangerous to allow ourselves to feel. So when we no longer have food to hide the feelings, it is then that the feelings are able to surface. The ‘diet’ has enabled the feelings that food has successfully masked and this can inevitably lead to overwhelm, a lack of control, fear, feeling unsafe. So Chronic Dieting leads to feeling unsafe, […]

When I got an email last week inviting me to speak at a local menopause support group about how perimenopause and menopause affects our mental health, I felt an immediate sense of happiness, pride and validation as someone had recognised my skills and felt they wanted me to share my knowledge with the wider group. […]

Why Walk & Talk? Why is Nature so important to me? And why do I want to share this with my clients? Simply put, if we use nature as a metaphor for our lives, we can learn so much and find so much comfort. Using nature as a mirror for our own lives, means knowing […]

What would you say to your younger self? This is something that I first started thinking about a few years ago when a therapist invited me to talk to my eight-year-old self. The purpose of that exercise was to give the little girl protection and comfort and let her know that she was safe. It […]