Apr 26, 2020 | Psychology
Psychotherapist Esther Perel spoke to the Financial Times’ Culture Call podcast about coping in a pandemic. There’s a lot of good stuff in the interview, but Esther’s experience with clients differs from mine, so here is my take on one of the points we differ on....
Apr 18, 2020 | changing eating habits, kids eating healthy food
Young children don’t always want to eat what you want to give them! If your child won’t eat vegetables and you’re pulling your hair out, two publications – “Tiny Tastes” and the Purely Nutrition story books – could be just what you want. They are produced by...
Feb 9, 2020 | Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
Whilst developing Appetite Retraining, I was on a huge learning curve. Despite decades of training and experience in providing psychological therapy, I was having to go back to first principles in order to think about eating and appetite in a way that could help me...
Dec 17, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
Mental imagery or visualisation has long been used in psychological therapies, partly because of its powerful healing potential. It is this healing potential that we can harness in working to help people change unhelpful eating habits and lose weight. Your client’s...
Nov 6, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Get control of your eating, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
The Marshmallow Test Professor Walter Mischel’s “Marshmallow Test” has become famous as a measure of children’s capacity to delay gratification. You may well have heard of it – the child is asked to sit in a room, alone, with a marshmallow on a plate in front of them....
