The Psychology of Restriction: Why We Fear Ta...

From the outside, Katie Hoover looks like she has it handled: a great career with two kids and two dogs. Underneath, she'd been binging and purging since she was 18 and had pretty much given up. Katie walks through the years of therapists, the safe foods, and the food rules she w ...  Show more

Life can get out of our control and food is the one thing that doesn’t talk back, doesn’t leave, and doesn’t change the rules on you. So you reach for that extra snack. Or you go the other way and count every calorie until the day feels manageable again. Alana walks through why f ...  Show more

Today I talk about mental restriction around food. Something that many people struggle with. I explore: -

What is mental restriction?

What are the negative costs of mentally restricting food?

How can you move to stop this?

I hope that you enjoy the ...

Do you feel the strong desire to control your food? Would you describe yourself as a bit of a "control freak?" Don't worry, I'm a recovered control freak myself, and I know that control is THE BIGGEST issue behind our food and body image issues. Let's break down Control so that i ...  Show more

A Bite Size episode.

This podcast is all about addressing fear.

Fears around your body changing, fears about how you might cope with unpredictable eating events, fear about what might happen if you don’t do a certain number of steps or weigh out your food.