The Key to Healing, Joy, and Wholeness There’s a quiet part of you that remembers what it felt like to be free—before the pressure, the expectations, the responsibilities. That part of you still exists. It’s your inner child. And reconnecting with them might be one of...
Confidence is not one-size-fits-all, but it does play a role in preventing eating disorders. Yes, EDs are complex and can’t be boiled down to a single cause, but studies show that negative body image is a major contributing factor to the development of EDs. So if...
For a long time, we've wanted to change the name of our 'Psychological Approaches to Obesity' course. People often object to the word 'Obesity', unlike the word 'Fat' which is being reclaimed, promoted, and is often used by body positivity activists. We pondered and rejected quite a...
Do not delay! If someone has an eating disorder, the evidence is clear that early intervention is more likely to result in a successful recovery. Please don’t wait for a significant change in weight or behaviour. Don’t feel that you are being over dramatic. Start...
Advertising is everywhere. It’s such a normal part of modern life than we now accept it without question. If we want to read a newspaper article, we often have to sit through an advertisement or answer a question to be able to access the content....
This is my body! It has some medical problems. I treated it badly for 30 years and its fighting back! Feeding my emotions with food and alcohol instead of love and acceptance has made my body heavy and tired. My back has been painful, my gallbladder...
The sign-up numbers for gym membership increase by about 15% in the first month of the year, so your local gym will be warming up this week in order to sell, as it does every year, the idea of obtaining the perfect body. We know that...
by Bianca Skilbeck Coinciding with Body Image & Eating Disorder Awareness Week (BIEDAW) is the Butterfly Foundations “Love Your Body Week” which runs from 3rd-9th September. With that in mind, there is no better time than now to start to think about the ways in which you...
Ever wonder why your partner eats too much, even when you warn him or her not to? It could be precisely because your admonitions put your partner into a state of reactance, causing them to go against your advice just to prove their independence. Reactance is...
A couple of weeks ago I made an amazing discovery. Thanks to a facebook advertisement from a local health club, I now realise that I have two bodies; a winter body and a summer body. The summer body, is apparently made in the winter, so I’m...