Category: Reflections

For so many of us, overeating is a deeply personal and often misunderstood experience.  If you’ve searched for answers about your overeating or wondered why you sometimes turn to food for comfort, you are not alone. What Is Overeating? Overeating is not a sign of failure or a lack of willpower—it’s a very normal response…

Our body image is not our body.  Our body image is an image we have of our body, that has been created in our minds and all of the pain from our past gets stored inside this story. If we have experienced a serious accident or injury, had a traumatic pregnancy or birth, or if…

After surviving my own lived experience of Bulimia and working with people with eating disorders including Bulimia for over 20 years, I wrote a book called: “Eating Out of Control – 7 Steps to Understanding why you do it, so you can stop” Inside it, you will discover there are many hidden meanings to our…

How many people struggle with bulimia and binge eating in Australia? Of the 1.1 million people in Australia with an eating disorder, 12% of these have bulimia, this equates to approximately 132 000 people and 47% have Binge Eating Disorder, this equates to approximately 517 000 people. These figures are from Australia’s leading Eating Disorder…

Binge eating is an experience that often brings with it, feelings of shame, confusion, and a sense of isolation.  If you’re finding yourself drawn to eating a lot of food in one sitting and not understanding why you’re doing it, you’re not alone.  As someone who specializes in supporting people with binge eating, I want…

Many people face challenges with binge eating, and it’s helpful to look at this by creating an understanding of our unmet needs instead. Understanding Binge Eating Binge eating is often a response that helps us deal with feelings of stress, frustration, or loneliness, rather than as a response to our actual physical hunger.  It can…

If you’ve ever wondered what your life might feel like if you were kinder to yourself, please join me. I think this might be an interesting experiment if we could be consistent with it. I do believe when we’re making more of our own decisions about how we want our lives to be, that we…

It is only with the gift of hindsight that I can put into words the overwhelming and all-consuming fear that was mine decades ago when my life was full of bulimia and binge eating. To even consider letting go of these eating disorders would have me frozen to the spot, immobilized, unable to move forward…

When I think of my years spent binge eating, I don’t think “What a waste” because binge eating served many useful purposes for me at a time when I needed it and didn’t feel I had anything else to help me.  This was decades ago, however it’s still a very real and valid explanation that…

Stress eating and overeating occurs when food becomes a way to cope with our feelings.  We often use our eating as an emotional crutch to deal with stress, anxiety, or any other overwhelming emotions.  Here are some insights and strategies to help you manage and overcome this habit, drawing from my book “Eating Out of…