Awareness and acceptance, rather than gratitude, enable you to let go of beliefs and behaviours that keep you feeling dissatisfied with your body and eating.

Expressing the grief of losing a child you never conceived or never met is hard to describe, yet the sense of loss is real.

Children intuitively know what and how to eat. Most of us lose this intuition by adulthood as a result of trusting external labels and rules over our own bodies

You know with intimate detail her daily struggle.

There are many reasons we may resist support based on our beliefs and past experiences. Keep looking for those health professionals that 'get' you.

Questions of worthiness do arise for me, and have held me back in my journey as a nutritionist. Yet I have progressed a long way in my journey of accepting my body, learning to be aware of my internal cues and embracing conscious eating.

When we struggle with our weight and well-being, we can wonder whether there is something wrong with our bodies, and lose trust in our bodies signals. Yet these signals are letting you know something is out of balance, not that your body is broken.