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If, you like me, have had enough of the mental & physical exhaustion of being on and off of diets, feeling at odds with your body and feeling as if the loudest noise you hear in your head is all around food… isn’t its time you realised, it’s not you, it’s the diet, and like all toxic relationships, know when enough is enough and walk away.

You may have spent years trying to change through trying hard and then harder still, motivating yourself with harsh self-criticism, deprivation, and jumping from one diet to another.  Has it been effective?

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I know for me, it often felt like getting out of bed every day, hitting myself really hard with the “brick of shame” hoping it would make me thin, doing this on repeat for far too many years… and no, it was not helpful or kind.

You may also have told yourself that if you could just be more disciplined, have more will-power you will finally make peace with your body and food and instead, when yet again the latest diet attempt fails, you feel more ashamed, disgusted, hopeless and angry with yourself.

If the only thing that diets didn’t do was “work”, as in they rarely do what they say on the tin that would be bad enough, but they also actually cause you harm. They have a detrimental effect on your health and well-being.  Think about any other area of your life where you would put up with a solution to a problem that not only didn’t work, but made the problem worse, exactly how many times would you put up with it?

The simple truth is, it is not you, never has been, and what you really need, and I mean really need to know is there is a different, kinder and more compassionate path to nourishing yourself. 

Coaching with me will provide you with the space to be curious and explore what you really need and want.  My coaching is underpinned with self-compassion, curiosity, creativity, hope and kindness.  Together we explore what nourishing yourself with kindness looks like for you, letting go of the diet culture and all the rules, deprivation and shame that diets bring.

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Is this for you?

Coaching with me will be right for you if any or all of the below resonates with you:

  • You turn to food when you feel stressed, overwhelmed, lonely, tired or low.
  • You feel stuck in cycles of emotional eating, comfort eating, bingeing or night time eating.
  • You are fed up with dieting and food noise.
  • You have had enough of the ground hog day feeling of failing.
  • You struggle with body image, self-criticism or shame around food and your body.
  • You only measure your value and worth by your weight and body size.
  • You are ready to explore a different way of nourishing and caring for yourself
  • You are looking for a more compassionate relationship with yourself
  • You want to reconnect with the joy of eating the way that is right for you.


If you stopped and counted how many hours of your precious life you have spent beating yourself up for another diet failure, extra pounds on the scales?  And in and amongst all that time, how many holidays and celebrations have you have avoided or ruined by how you think about yourself and your body…

well, there are over 8,000 hours in one year… I will leave you to do the maths. I know when I worked out, how many hours of my life I had wasted, it was a powerful enough is enough moment.

How we work together

We meet on online and I commit to offering you a space where you will feel seen and heard.  My aim is for you to stop seeing yourself through the lens of diet culture as well as replace punitive diets with kindness and self-compassion.  This will have a positive impact on how you choose to relate to yourself, your relationships and enable you to care for yourself as if you were your own best friend.

The below is an example of what we may explore together:

  • The emotional triggers beneath eating patterns.
  • how being your own bully and being self-critical creates high levels of stress, shame and ultimately your food choices?
  • Why diets don’t work.
  • How stress, shame and high levels of self-criticism impact your choices.
  • How social media and comparison are harming you.
  • What genuine care, nourishment and support might look like in your everyday life.
  • What matters most to you in your life.
  • Becoming more aware of your values and honouring them
  • Who you think you are, the stories, beliefs and ideas you hold about yourself.
  • How becoming more assertive changes how you care for yourself
  • What self-compassion is and how it is a powerful response to stress and all the challenges of your busy life.
  • The power of hope and daily intentions.
  • The impact of being grateful for your body.


This work is not about being told what to do. It is about helping you reconnect with your own inner wisdom, understand yourself more deeply, and develop practical, compassionate ways of responding to what you feel and need. That is where meaningful and sustainable change begins.

What makes this different

Many people come to this work after years of trying to “fix” themselves. Believing, that when they lost their weight, their world would be perfect.

They have followed plans, judged themselves harshly, and believed that shame or discipline would eventually force change and yet the struggle with food or body image has remained.  

My approach is different because it starts from the understanding that you are not the problem. And that bullying, shaming and harsh criticism has never created any kind of sustainable or meaningful change for anyone, ever. 

So, what does, well, as it turns out, kindness, self-compassion and hope are our superpowers.  And it is my absolute pleasure and privilege to share with you, through our work together, how living your life with the daily practicing of your super powers will profoundly change the filters of how you see yourself, how you show up, the decisions you make and how you care for yourself.

Self-compassion is about treating yourself with kindness instead of criticism, especially during difficult times.

It can help reduce stress, improve emotional wellbeing and build a healthier relationship with yourself and your body. As a powerful antidote to diet culture, self-compassion encourages self-acceptance over shame, helping you move away from guilt and restriction and towards peace, self-worth and lasting wellbeing.

This means our work together can support you to:

  • Treat yourself with kindness instead of criticism, especially during difficult times
  • Helping to reduce stress and improve emotional wellbeing
  • Supporting a healthier relationship with yourself and your body
  • Encouraging self-acceptance over shame
  • Acting as a powerful antidote to diet culture
  • Helping you move away from guilt and restriction
  • Supporting greater peace, self-worth and lasting wellbeing
  • Understand your patterns from a place of curiosity and acceptance.
  • Interrupt old, no longer helpful ways of being with gratitude.
  • Develop ways of becoming more shame resilient.
  • Discover how to become more responsive and less reactive in all areas of your life.
  • Feel calmer and more grounded around food.
  • Build greater trust in knowing owning your own needs.

What you may begin to notice:

When you begin to shift from diet culture thinking towards self-compassion and kindness, you may start to notice a gentler and more supportive relationship with yourself. Instead of being driven by guilt, pressure or self-criticism, you begin to make choices from a place of care, respect and self-worth. Over time, this can create a greater sense of calm, confidence and emotional wellbeing.

  • Less guilt and shame around food and your body
  • A quieter inner critic and kinder self-talk
  • More trust in your own needs and choices
  • Feeling calmer and less consumed by food thoughts
  • Greater self-acceptance and confidence
  • More sustainable and supportive habits
  • Improved emotional wellbeing and resilience

An invitation to talk

If this way of working speaks to you, the next step is simply to get in touch. You do not need to have everything figured out, explain things perfectly, or know exactly where to begin.

Through coaching, we can begin to untangle the pressure, guilt and self-criticism that diet culture creates, and build a more compassionate and supportive relationship with food, your body and yourself.

If you are ready to take that first step, I’d love to hear from you.

Get in touch to ask about one-to-one coaching and take the first step towards a kinder, more peaceful relationship with food and yourself.

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FAQs About Working With Me

No. Diets don’t work and focusing on weight loss is not the answer either. And I understand that you want to change things about your eating and weight and I do not talk about diets or life style changes. My aim is to provide you not only with an antidote to diet culture but also coach you see how being kinder to yourself, will have a profound impact on all areas of your emotional and physical well-being.

Most of my clients say this, and the everything they have already tried, has actually only been a “diet” dressed up in many ways.  My process turns this all on its head, with no diets, no restriction and no telling you what to eat.   The thing mostly not practiced is switching from a diet scarcity mindset to one of abundance, gratitude and growth.

No. You simply need to know enough is enough and be curious about what it would be like to nourish yourself differently and be your own best friend.

No. The whole approach is grounded in Kindness, confidentiality and compassion, especially around the things that feel hardest to talk about. I am not interested in what you eat, weight or your dress size.  I am only concerned with coaching you to explore and experiment with responding to yourself with kindness as opposed to harsh judgement and self-criticism.