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Are you obsessed with appearance? Are you continually scrutinising specific parts of your body that you’re not happy with? I’m not talking about checking your hair in the mirror before you leave the house. Or making sure you don’t have corn stuck in your teeth before a meeting. I’m talking about compulsive body checking that’s so habitual, it dominates your life.

As part of your eating disorder recovery, your practitioner may have eliminated or reduced the amount of exercise you can do, especially if you are severely underweight. Understanding and finding the balance between exercising compulsively and exercising for pleasure is tough, and so knowing when and how to reintroduce exercise can be both confusing and scary.

In disordered eating, hunger becomes the symbol for this disconnection. Not listening to your hunger is a sign that you do not trust yourself around food. This lack of self-trust will inevitably show up and affect other areas of your life as well. Making peace with food and your body is synonymous with making peace with yourself.

Eating is becoming an increasingly disembodied, confusing and stressful experience, thanks to diet culture…Diet culture takes advantage of your insecurities and your desire to feel better about yourself. It works by selling you a false promise – that you can get rid of your discomfort, feel more confident, and become more attractive .....

Following rigid food rules around eating (aka dieting) causes you to disconnect from your hunger and satiety cues. You give your power to someone outside, and you begin to alienate yourself from your body. With time, such eating patterns create disturbances not only to the body but the mind also. To overcome these fears, you must learn to trust your body.....

How do you calm your mind and body when you start feeling unbalanced, anxious or self-critical? I am so excited to share one of my favourite self-soothing practices with you today. This is a wonderful practice to do when you feel mentally or emotionally triggered, or tense in the body...