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Before you call it anxiety, try this first
Why your morning coffee might be to blame for your anxiety symptoms, and how a simple language shift can change everything. She laughed during our consultation, but more out of nerves than anything else. Anyone with half a brain could tell she was on edge. She told me that her anxiety was worsening, her chest… Read more
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Why I threw my continuous glucose monitor in the trash
Dietitian Lucy Carey explains why a continuous glucose monitor may not be the God-send you think it is I didn’t think it would end like this. I thought it would be a fun experiment but barely three days later I was begging my partner to get the damn thing off me… You’re used to tracking… Read more
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You don’t need to be an expert to help disordered eating clients
Tackling disordered eating doesn’t need a fancy degree or years of experience – you just need to be equipped with the right framework Recently I called a dietitian colleague because I was seeing a client with a condition I hadn’t worked with before and, well, I was basically freaking out. “I thought about referring her… Read more
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The missing piece in coaching disordered eating clients (and how to find it)
If you’ve ever felt unsure when coaching disordered eating clients, you’re not alone – there’s just a key piece you haven’t been taught yet With two degrees under my belt and having healed my own relationship with food, I thought I’d find working as a dietitian in the community rewarding and meaningful… But I was… Read more
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Intuitive eating won’t work until you fix this first
Dietitian Lucy Cary explains why intuitive eating isn’t something you teach your clients, but the natural end result of healing instead. “Intuitive eating doesn’t work for me. If I listened to my body I’d be eating Tim Tams for every meal!” If you work with clients who have been restricting, binge eating, or yoyo dieting,… Read more
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Overcoming the fear of weight gain
Many clients struggle with the fear of weight gain if they are not restricting food. Here are some practical steps to overcome this. Many of my clients already know they’re stuck in a disordered eating pattern. Talking it through is helpful for them to pinpoint how the restrict-binge cycle is affecting them, but knowing it… Read more
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Disordered Eating Dietitian