Understanding Eating Behaviours

Exploring the thoughts, emotions, and experiences that shape our eating behaviours. Articles to help you understand patterns around food, including emotional eating, feeling out of control, food rules, perfectionism, and using food or eating behaviours as a way to cope.

Body Image: When You Don’t Feel Comfortable in Your Body

Understanding body image, body checking and the small steps that can help

Kelina Fili

Jul 215 min read

Thinking About Food All the Time? Understanding Food Noise and Why It Happens

Constantly thinking about food? Understand what food noise is, what causes persistent thoughts about food, and how factors such as dieting, ADHD, binge eating, anorexia, and eating disorder recovery can contribute to food preoccupation.

Kelina Fili

Jul 96 min read

Have You Ever Had a Gut Feeling? The Gut–Brain Axis and Eating Disorders: Understanding Digestive Symptoms in Recovery

The gut–brain axis plays an important role in eating disorders. Learn how digestion, the gut microbiome and mental health interact, and the reason that digestive symptoms are common during recovery.

Kelina Fili

Feb 274 min read