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

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

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.