Nights out are meant to be fun, but for many people with shaky body image, the hours before leaving the house can be the most activating part. You might stand in front of the wardrobe feeling defeated before you’ve even begun. Clothes that “should” fit don’t. Nothing feels right. The mirror becomes the enemy. Your nervous system is already in survival mode before you’ve stepped outside the door. This blog explores the emotional storm that happens behind closed doors…the ander, the panic, the urge to cancel, and offers strategies to help you prepare, regulate, and reclaim a sense of groundedness before social events.

The holidays are painted as a season of joy connection and celebration, but when you struggle with food or body image, December can feel like an emotional minefield. While others talk casually about “being good in January” or “earning another mince pie” you might be quietly battling shame, loneliness, or the fear of losing control around food. What should be a time of warmth can instead become a time of self-judgement and internal overwhelm. This blog offers compassionate, practical ways to support yourself so you can move through this period with more steadiness, presence and care.

Recovery from binge eating isn’t linear. Here’s what it really feels like…..the relief, the discomfort, the small wins, and the quiet steady shifts that build.

So many people believe the only way to heal body image is to love what they see in the mirror.

But love isn’t the starting point, safety is.

This piece explores the gentler, more sustainable middle ground of body neutrality: where compassion replaces control, and peace becomes possible.

A day in the life of a people-pleaser often begins with rushing to meet everyone else’s needs before your own, saying yes when you long to say no, and collapsing into bed late at night drained and unseen….

Writing a self-compassionate letter is one way to interrupt this pattern. It might sound simple, but putting pen to paper allows you to hear another voice: one that is gentler, supportive, and on your side.

That’s why I created “Unmasking the Inner Critic: Reclaiming Self-Worth”, an 8-week group therapy course designed to help you step out from behind the mask, understand where that harsh voice came from, and begin to build a kinder relationship with yourself.

If someone lets you in on their secret, it’s not a failure, it’s an act of courage. Your role isn’t to fix them, but to be steady, soft, and safe. That presence, more than any advice, can help break the cycle of silence and shame.

You wake up, hand instinctively reaching to your stomach before you’ve even opened your eyes…………

A deeply honest look at the secrecy, shame and silent comfort of binge eating.

When you’ve lived in that deep, dark place, when you’ve gone days without washing your hair, when your to-do list feels like a list of failures, when your skin crawls at the thought of being seen. self-care can feel confronting.

Not because you don’t care.

But because it brings you face to face with all the ways you’ve been neglected, sometimes by others, sometimes by yourself. That kind of reckoning can be painful.

This is a guest blog by Becky Stone - Teen and Adult Eating Disorder Therapist

When we talk about binge eating, we often picture an adult quietly battling food urges behind closed doors. But what if I told you that I see the very roots of binge eating,  the emotional triggers, the body shame, the dopamine-seeking,  starting in children as young as Year 8?

Hi lovely, 

You’re doing it. You’re starting to feel a little better. A little clearer. You’ve been letting your guard down just enough to imagine something different, a life that feels softer, freer, maybe even joyful.

But suddenly… it’s terrifying.

You walk into a room, and before you’ve even sat down, the scan has already begun………..

Because while BED is the most common eating disorder, it’s also the most overlooked. Not because it isn’t serious.Not because it isn’t painful. But because so many people are deeply convinced it’s their fault.

You say yes with a smile, but your stomach twists……….

I developed an eating disorder at 15. It would be over two decades before I made my way to a more peaceful place with food, my body, and myself. For years, I swung between restriction, bingeing, self-loathing, and desperate attempts to shrink myself into acceptability.

And now, in my 40s, after all that hard-earned recovery, I find myself faced with something new, something I didn’t see coming.