Healing Your Hunger

In this episode, I’m sharing a conversation I had when I was invited onto the I Quit Wine podcast with Sarah Leather. We talk openly about my own journey with alcohol, including the blackouts, the shame, and the stop-start attempts to quit before I eventually realised that alcohol wasn’t the real issue — it was the deeper emotional patterns underneath. Together, Sarah and I explore what recovery r...

In today’s episode, I talk about the power of journaling and why it’s one of the most useful tools I’ve used in my own recovery and with clients in my Healing Your Hunger 6 Week Program. Journaling is the perfect 'brain Dump', it creates space. Getting thoughts and emotions out of your head and onto paper can help you slow down, understand your reactions, and become more aware of what’s re...

In this episode, I share a personal reflection I wrote years ago about how we check in with ourselves, and how easily we can move away from what’s actually happening in our bodies. I explore how our senses carry emotional information, how the nervous system communicates through sensation, and how disconnection from that internal language can show up in food, relationships, work, and recovery. This...

If you’re in recovery and you’re still bingeing sometimes… this episode is for you. In today’s episode of Healing Your Hunger , I’m talking about why bingeing can still happen as you’re relearning food and relearning yourself and why it doesn’t mean you’ve undone all your work. Recovery isn’t linear. Food isn’t like substances; you can’t be “abstinent” from it. And when you’ve spent years restrict...

In this episode, I explore why we soothe — why we reach for food, alcohol, drugs, or other distractions when something inside us feels overwhelming or hard to stay present with. From a trauma-informed perspective, soothing is not a weakness or lack of willpower, but a very normal and often clever way the nervous system tries to regulate and protect us in the moment. I reflect on unmet needs, emoti...

In this first episode, I introduce the Healing Your Hunger podcast and share why I created this space. Drawing from lived experience and my work as a recovery coach, I talk about recovery from eating disorders and alcohol, the need to self-soothe, and why so many of us turn to food, drink, or other behaviours to cope. Healing Your Hunger uses “hunger” as a metaphor for unmet needs such as safety,...