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How emotional dysregulation can drive emotional eating

How emotional dysregulation can drive emotional eating

May 21, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Emotional Eating, Psychology

Working with clients who struggle with emotional eating This blog is written for professional colleagues from all disciplines whose work involves helping people change how they eat. I’ll write this to you directly, to make the writing flow a bit better than using...
Professionals: Alexithymia plays a part in Emotional Eating

Professionals: Alexithymia plays a part in Emotional Eating

May 1, 2023 | Emotional Eating

If you work with people who struggle with regulating their food intake, the chances are that at least some of your work involves emotional eating. Emotional eating is the tendency to overeat in response to negative emotions, irrespective of feelings of fullness. In...
The 4 eating habits that prevent you losing weight

The 4 eating habits that prevent you losing weight

Dec 28, 2022 | Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits

If you’ve crashed out of a diet more than once before, for the same reason each time, it may save you a lot of angst and hard work to look at what caused the de-railing. The problem may be to do with specific eating habits rather than your overall diet…   What if...
Do you have clients who use food to self-medicate?

Do you have clients who use food to self-medicate?

Jun 1, 2022 | Change your relationship with food, Get control of your eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Real life story

Not long ago, I had a sudden lightbulb moment during a session with a client. I’ve had several interesting insights working with Morag, which I think are to do with her openness and her determination to find things that work for her. In this particular session we were...
Professionals: You don’t have to be a Psychologist to help clients reduce Emotional Eating

Professionals: You don’t have to be a Psychologist to help clients reduce Emotional Eating

May 1, 2022 | Events, Psychology, Real life story, talking about eating and weight

  Emotions are the stock-in-trade of psychologists and psychotherapists, but if your training and expertise is primarily to do with diet and nutrition, then being asked to help someone with their Emotional Eating may be something that feels scary. As one...
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