Seek support for the following
You don’t need to be formally diagnosed to require therapy. Anyone can experience distress with food, eating and body. Self- identifying is enough to need help.
Betrayal, sex, in-laws, parenting, and many more aspects of relationships can be discussed. Therapy can also be used as a safeguard.
To grieve what was lost but never mourned. Find support for depression so you can understand yourself better and find connection and vitality again.
Take a 360 look at your symptoms and reframe them through evidence based science, non-ageist or sexist language and nuance.
The fear is real. You’ve learned a lot! Now lets build on this with nutrition, exercise and behavioural science, and, real world common sense.
IBS, bloating, constipation, haemorrhoids, recovery fears, microbiome & Inflammation, gut hormones, gut-brain connection.
Including sexual abuse, parent-child relationships in adulthood, c-ptsd, intergenerational trauma. Any concerns related to growing up.
Self-inflicted behaviours that are harmful – cutting, scratching, stabbing skin, hair-pulling) or risky behaviours, lack of self-care, self-neglect, self-criticism.
That is, complex-post traumatic syndrome with a sexist label. If you find relationships and regulating your mood intensely difficult, read on.
“The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives”
Esther Perel
Good therapy is undergirded by a foundation of safety and trust. Therapy is often uncomfortable, especially when we push against that leading edge of change! This is why choosing your therapist is important. Having a free chat can offer you a chance to ‘interview’ your therapist and see if instinctively you are left with good vibes. That chat is a central part of the selection process, because it’s not everyday we share and trust the darkest parts of us with a stranger.
Outside of that magic ‘personality’ factor, your therapist should be well grounded in their areas of practice. In this case, the tricks up my sleeve are that I have over twenty years of working with exercise, nutrition, movement and talking therapies, making my approach not only broad, but deep.