Do you ever feel like you’ve tried everything to lose weight — diets, workouts, mindset shifts — yet your body still seems to hold on, no matter what you do?

If so, it’s not because you lack willpower. It’s because your body might be protecting you.

In this article, we’ll explore the relationship between trauma and weight — how the body’s survival mechanisms, emotional memories, and nervous system responses can quietly influence metabolism, eating patterns, and self-image. Most importantly, we’ll look at how trauma-informed approaches and...

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I think we’ve all heard of the term, ‘eyes bigger than your belly’. We observe the mountain of food on our plates and wonder where we are going to put it. Our ‘eyes’ are merely reflecting our head hunger, and have nothing to do with the amount of food we actually need, and what our stomachs have the comfortable capacity to hold.

I know I’ve sat in many restaurants ravenous, waiting for the food to arrive and then practically inhaling it as if at any moment the waiter might come and snatch it away! I would then ignore that evident extremely full-feeling and order dessert, knowing there was not an inch of space left in my already expanded stomach. Followed by guilt, remorse and the determination to never do that again. I’m sure we’ve all been there!

Sometimes it takes fe...

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