It has taken me a long time to come to the point where I feel confident I can help people with their relationship to food. It took a lot of study, and healing my own relationship to food and my body before I felt ready. I see the term thrown around on social media a lot by coaches who also recommend cutting calories and it makes me cringe!


I trained as a Nutritional therapist between 2017 – 2021. When I first started seeing clients, I worked with women helping them to lose weight. The women sitting in front or me (or on a Zoom screen!) were impressive, inspirational, successful. But they were often juggling a LOT. Busy jobs, high pressure careers, or running a home (sometimes doing both). They were stressed, struggling to set boundaries, people pleasers and prioritised everyone above themselves. They had SO much going for them, yet – they were always chasing weight loss, they never felt good enough. 


Often this pursuit of weight loss begins at a young age, they remember a knock to their confidence, this made them very aware of their body, resulting in their first restrictions around food and them wanting to hide their body and be smaller. A story very similar to mine. They never felt like they could accept themselves as they were, they didn’t like their body, their confidence was low, they were not comfortable, it stopped them from living fully and it developed into years of constant internal battles, dieting and going ‘off track’.

I started to notice how dieting was impacting the women I was working with, and how weight loss was impossible to maintain for the majority.


I decided to stop working with weight loss as it didn’t sit well with me, I wanted to do further research into the impacts of weight loss. This is when I found out about how dieting impacts our physical health, metabolism, hormones, and mental health, food pre-occupation, worsening self-esteem, and body dysmorphia. During this time, I began working with hormone imbalances instead, I loved this work and I still do, but most women I work with have disordered eating habits, emotional eating, overeating, binge eating so I knew I wanted to be able to help with these issues.

I was having a similar experience personally too.


Overtime I realised how much headspace was taken up with controlling my food, comparing my body to others, how life experiences were overshadowed by my food control and my weight. My weight was yo-yo’ing, despite doing everything meticulously. Even when I lost weight, it was never good enough. It wasn't like what is sold to us - "lose weight and you will be confident and healthy!" I found when I lost weight, I was still comparing my body to others, I still felt self-conscious, I was trapped in constant food restriction, the fear of regaining weight was never-ending. Not only that but I was so tired, restricting calories and nutrients comes at a price. Everything felt like an uphill battle. 

In 2021 I began working 1:1 with an Intuitive Eating Counsellor, even though I knew so much about nutrition, and logically I knew I needed to stop dieting, I didn't know how to. It was my 'norm' for so many years, I knew I needed support and guidance.


Healing my relationship to food has been the best inner work I have ever done, it has changed my life for the better and I haven't looked back since!


I have so much more energy, I am so much more present on holidays and special occasions, I love healthy food and exercise because I actually enjoy them, I can keep bread, chocolate and cake in the house without even thinking of them. To some this might sound small, but if you are someone who struggles with this - I have been there! 

After giving myself enough time to settle into this new way of living, I finally decided I wanted to help women with their own journey, so I went on to train as an Emotional Eating and Binge Eating Specialist.

It breaks my heart when amazing women spend their life hating their body.

How many times have you looked back on a picture of your younger self and seen how beautiful you were back then? Yet you remember hating your body at that time.

I want you to feel confident NOW, I want you to care for your body and your health so you can live life fully, instead of constantly trying to make it smaller in order to feel accepted by the world. Don’t wait until you are on your death bed to realise that life is about so much more than being the smallest version of yourself.

You can improve your health without dieting, you can build your confidence and happiness without having to be your ‘goal weight’.

It frustrates me that weight loss has been pushed on us for so many years through diet culture and body shaming, if you are not sure what diet culture is, one example of this is Bridget Jones being called fat when she was 9 stone! It is insanity.

Think back to your very first diet, if you stayed that size your whole life how would you feel?

Dieting leads to disordered eating habits, emotional eating, binge eating, it disconnects you from your hunger and fullness cues, causes metabolic and hormonal changes for a lot of people – this in turn leads to low self-esteem and weight gain. We need to stop this cycle.

No more shame and guilt due to eating habits. Less headspace is taken up by food, eating becomes enjoyable and nourishing. 

It becomes easier to honour and prioritise your needs, instead of soothing and distracting with food or turning to restriction to make up for the 'bad' food. 

Less highs and lows of being 'on track/off track', more balance in habits and inner thoughts. 

Relearn the enjoyment of movement, exercise, activity doesn't feel like a chore. 

Reconnect to your body's hunger and fullness, no more going to bed uncomfortable because you are so 'stuffed'. 

More presence in life, being able to go to a special occasion, holiday, out for a nice meal with family and friends without the worry and preoccupation of what you can/cannot eat. 

Less self-criticism and hatred, your inner voice becomes compassionate, encouraging and supportive.

More inner confidence, self-belief and self-trust.