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The line between eating ‘healthy’ and it becoming an unhealthy obsession, which impedes quality of life and mental health, can be hard to distinguish. In this blog, I share my…

A pursuit of finding the ‘right’ diet and to eat ‘healthy’ can become unhealthy if it becomes an obsession and takes the joy out of eating and life. Diets and…

In this blog, I share how I wove our story of coming to a place of accepting a life without children into the novel, The Tears of a Woman. The…

The health halo effect occurs when our perception of food products leads to underestimating how much we are eating or justifying our eating choices or behaviour, whether it be eating…

In this blog, I share how my journey as a childless, not by choice woman infuses my novel writing and excerpts from my debut novel, The Weight of a Woman.…

Here I share an excerpt from my book Joyful Eating of my food and body story. In Joyful Eating, one of the first things I encourage us to do is…

Joy differs from pleasure in that pleasure is derived from an external source, while joy arises from within when we bring our full awareness to the experience. We may think…

How do we stop the cycle of emotional eating when it feels out of control? What is emotional eating? Emotional eating is when the primary reason for eating is mood…

Why in 2022 I am taking the approach of having an affair with creativity, rather than treating writing and publishing as my day job. G’day, and Happy New Year! I…

If you find yourself yet again setting New Year’s resolutions you suspect you’ll break before you even start, read on. Often in the New Year, we overcommit to resolutions, trying…

Thinking the ‘diet starts tomorrow’ can lead to overeating in anticipation of future restriction, whether it’s the New Year or any Sunday when the diet starts Monday. Imagine this, it’s…

We can feel like the distance between the body we have and the body we want is an impassable canyon with snapping crocodiles below. But it is a false illusion…