Mindful Eating Blog & Free Resources
Compassionate insights and tips to help you make a start on navigating emotional eating, food shame, and finding peace with food.
My blog posts and resources provide lots of tips and information about how to feel more in charge of food, strategies to tackle mindless overeating, and how to address emotional eating or binge eating. They offer a common-sense approach to weight loss and long-term weight control. In order to make positive, long-term changes, becoming more self-aware around your relationship with food and having better insight into not just what you eat, but how and why you eat, will give you a better foundation from which to find a personalised approach to improving your own unique relationship with food.
Food and eating can symbolise different things to different people. For example, food can calm you down when your nervous system feels completely overwhelmed; it can act as a powerful distraction, temporarily numbing your mind and shielding you from uncomfortable thoughts, heavy emotions or stressful situations that feel too difficult to face in the moment; it can act as a reliable friend when you’re feeling lonely; it can offer a sense of control or predictability when the rest of your life feels chaotic, or it can serve as a safe and easily accessible reward at the end of an exhausting day.
Because food carries such deep meaning, navigating these various layers can quickly feel completely overwhelming. Whilst these articles can’t unpick your entire history overnight, my blog posts are here to break down this complexity into clear, compassionate insights to help you understand your habits and safely make a start on your journey of healing.
My blog posts reflect much of what I cover in my one-to-one sessions and webinars. I hope they inspire in you the hope to begin a journey towards a happier, healthier relationship with food.
If you’re tired of trying to figure things out alone and want to take the next step, let’s look at your unique relationship with food together. Contact me (Emma Randall) to book a free discovery call, or Whatsapp/text me: 07961 423120.
How To Stop Stress Eating and Regain Focus
How To Stop Stress Eating And Regain Focus Do you hear yourself saying, “Why did I just eat that?”, “I know what I should eat, so why don’t I just do it?”, or “I’m so tired of fighting myself [...]
Principles Of Mindful Eating
Principles Of Mindful Eating Mindful eating can help you to develop a better relationship with food by having enjoyable eating experiences that are both physically and psychologically satisfying. It's about being fully present with the food you’re eating in [...]
How To Improve Your Eating Habits With A Stressful Life
How To Improve Your Eating Habits With A Stressful Life Does life feel overwhelming and exhausting, with no time to recharge? Do you find it hard to focus on yourself and your basic needs? Do you push yourself to the [...]
The Difference Between Hunger And Cravings
The Difference Between Hunger And Cravings When we have the urge to eat, the difference between hunger and cravings isn’t always clear-cut. The mind can do a good job of convincing us that it’s time to eat, and so [...]
How To Stop Dieting, Eat Normally And Lose Weight
How To Stop Dieting, Eat Normally And Lose Weight I hear many people say they're sick of dieting, but they're still overweight and just want to start eating 'normally'. Whilst weight loss clubs give people plenty of opportunity to [...]
How To Stop Overeating With ‘Middle-Way’ Eating
How To Stop Overeating With ‘Middle-Way’ Eating Webinar: 'How To Eat Normally And Lose Weight Without Dieting' I've worked with many people over the years, and the vast majority of them have a history of yo-yo dieting where they [...]
Health And Well-Being Tips For The Coronavirus Lockdown
Health And Well-Being Tips For The Coronavirus Lockdown The Coronavirus lockdown is a very challenging time for many. However, there are ways in which we can try to turn it to our advantage if we're mindful of how we [...]
How To Develop Mindful Eating Skills
How To Develop Mindful Eating Skills Mindful eating is a way of helping people to relate to and approach food in a more positive way. There are a range of mindful eating skills that are worth developing if you’re [...]
Tips To Avoid Overeating At Christmas
Tips To Avoid Overeating At Christmas If you want to avoid excessive overeating at Christmas, there are a lot of steps you can take to help you feel more in charge of food. Eating in moderation can actually be [...]
Why We Overeat And What To Do About It
Why We Overeat And What To Do About It There are a multitude of reasons why we might overeat or make poor food choices. We’re confronted with an abundance of delicious, often cheap, high-calorie foods wherever we go, and [...]
How To Boost Your Weight Loss Motivation
How To Boost Your Weight Loss Motivation We all know that weight loss isn’t something we can achieve with minimal effort- it requires self-control, planning, focus, consistency, patience- and motivation. Dieting can feel boring and restrictive, and can require [...]
The Problem With Having A Weight Loss Goal
The Problem With Having A Weight Loss Goal When clients tell me that they want to lose weight, that’s often their primary focus. However, a weight loss goal needs some preparatory work, or some foundation-building first. As a first [...]
