Mental health

Five Books That Helped Me to Love my Body Again

Five Books That Helped Me to Love my Body Again

Today, I’m sharing my favourite eating disorder recovery books in the hope they will help you to love your body again. I spent most of my teens and early 20s waging war on my body, beating it into submission with extreme diets, exercise and beauty regimes. I suppose extreme might be an understatement – I actually suffered from anorexia, bulimia…

Tips for Early Eating Disorder Recovery

Tips for Early Eating Disorder Recovery

Recently, a lot of people have been in touch to ask for my advice about early eating disorder recovery. It’s a topic I’m painfully familiar with. Throughout my late teens and early 20’s, I battled bulimia, anorexia and orthorexia (as you can imagine, I was a barrel of laughs). This deadly trio robbed me of every joyous experience a young…

Seven Ways to Improve Your Mental Health in Summer

Seven Ways to Improve Your Mental Health in Summer

Let’s talk about how you can look after your mental health in summer… Summer’s well and truly on its way and, as the clouds part, hordes of half-naked Britons flock to the streets in search of ice cream and fruit cider. It’s the season of beer-gardens, bikinis and BBQs (although, only the bravest could pull off all three at once hello…

Four Self-Care Tips That Don’t Actually Suck

Four Self-Care Tips That Don’t Actually Suck

Self-care tips are the new in-thing in the wellness community and it’s become trendy to take care of our mind, body and spirit. Nowadays, it’s cooler to pick a matcha latte over late-night partying. Just type #selfcare into Instagram and you’ll see what I mean. The search shows a million highly-edited photos; it’s a feed littered with chic social influencers…