When it comes to transforming our relationship with food, there are several approaches out there, with Intuitive Eating being perhaps the most popular. You might be wondering how it's different from E-CET.

Imagine living under the weight of diet culture for five decades. In this video, we meet a remarkable E-CET client who has been on a diet since she was nine. Now a licensed professional counsellor, she shares her deep insights (...)

I was hosting a workshop series recently and in one of them, I said something that really raised eyebrows. There are no right or wrong, good or bad, reasons to eat. Another one of my seemingly crazy ideas, I know, but stay with me here because (...)

In this post, we’ll explore shame, the profound connection between it and self-compassion, how self-compassion can heal the wounds of shame and nurture our well-being, the benefits of practicing self-compassion, the barriers to doing so, and more (...)

You’re sick of diets and the feelings of shame and failure that follow futile attempts to willpower your way to eating the things you think you should while avoiding the things you think you shouldn’t. I know, it’s an exhausting battle (...)

Explore the profound benefits of cultivating presence through E-CET. Discover how presence empowers you to develop healthier choices and relationships with food, self, and body. Learn how to best support and nurture your overall well-being (...)

Being a human without having developed some unhelpful patterns in your life is impossible. There’s not a person on the planet that doesn’t have some type of unhelpful or even harmful habits they’ve developed over the course of their life, usually as a response to pain or (...)

There’s no shortage of tips, tricks, programs, products, pills, potions (etc) designed to help you fight, resist, control, or ignore your hunger and I’m willing to bet that you’ve tried almost all of them. Perhaps you’ve even had some short-term success with some, only to find (...)

Me: Can you tell me about what life was like before? Carol:  Life was a series of diets, binge eating, feeling ashamed of myself, overexercising, exhaustion, and repressed emotions. I was obsessed with food - I needed it to help me feel better, but I was afraid of it (...)

In the health and wellness world, we're taught that changing our behaviors requires simply being motivated and disciplined enough to change our lifestyles and forcing ourselves to just start to stop engaging in the bad behaviors and start engaging in the good behaviors. But (...)

Why do we keep making bad choices with food and how do we stop? That's what I'm talking about in this video, and it's a question that I asked myself for many many, many, many, many years and I spent many many, many years searching for the answer to those (...)

Let's clear something up about a particular word we hear ALL the time —especially now that it's almost the New Year and all the diet and fitness advice is in overdrive. That word? Willpower. One phrase we often hear this word used in, especially around food is "build your willpower muscle" (....)

This is currently one of my fav breakfasts. Some cheese, apple slices, blueberries, and grapes. It's delicious, takes zero effort to prepare, I love being able to pick at it with one hand while getting some work done with the other and I feel terrific when I'm done eating. (...)

I love this conversation with my fabulous client, Natalie. She's experienced a massive transformation and her story is so inspiring. When she started she was bingeing and restricting, fear and rules around every food in her house, fear and obsession over weight (...)

For decades, this belief has been permeating popular culture, causing most people to live in fear of sugar, and adopt extreme measures such as sugar detoxes, attempts to abstain, or placing strict restrictions on their intake of this so-called addictive drug (...)

I originally met Faye a year or so ago when she messaged me about working with me. We popped on a quick call and as I heard her share some of her history, I knew instantly that I could help change everything for her. She seemed to agree but (...)