Stop Dieting, Start Living
When Dieting Takes Over From Living Being on a diet is like forcing your real life body to squeeze into a Barbie and Ken sized dollhouse. Not a great fit if you really want to feel at ho ...
Spelt Coffee & Pecan Cake Recipe
Coffee & Pecan Cake Recipe Spelt is an ancient grain widely recognized for its many health benefits. Triticum spelta, the scientific name for spelt, is a hardier and more nutritious cousin to mo ...
Dark Citrus and Roast Almond Chocolate!
Dark Citrus and Roast Almond Chocolate Oh I do love creating new textures, aromas and flavours in my raw chocolate! This one rivals one of my favourite combo's from a Lindt bar - orange and almond. ...
Brown Rice Caramel Blocks Recipe
Brown Rice Caramel Blocks So I was playing around with the ever versatile hulled tahini and decided to throw in some puffed brown rice to the caramel mix. Of course the brown rice remains soft, surro ...
PB Choc Balls Recipe
PB CHOC BALLS Peanut Butter Chocolate Balls - need I say more.... They're simple and very easy to make because you only need one bowl, one spoon and one tray to make them! If you're a ...
Overcome Negative Body Image
Overcome Negative Body-Image Here's how just one of many clients did it! Sometimes in my coaching practice I need to get down into the pit with a client... really sit down in the mud with them and w ...
I Felt Like a Fat Failure
VULNERABILITY ALERT... (spoiler, I'm not perfect) Yesterday I felt like a fat, inauthentic, hypocritical failure. I know I've gotten into some bad habits this year as I've struggled to balance a gro ...
Is Being Healthy Your Obsession?
I really dislike labels. I especially dislike labelling the way we eat, the way we look, and the way we behave. “I eat clean. I am fat. I am a perfectionist.” Why do we need to make judgement in ...
6 Natural Sweeteners to Replace for Sugar
6 Natural Sweeteners For the last three and half years I’ve been teaching Raw and Healthy Chocolate and Desserts Workshops. They evolved out of my own desire to eat without guilt, upsetting my diges ...
Rustic Rosemary + Hazelnut Torte [Gluten, Grain & Sugar Free]
Rustic Rosemary + Hazelnut Torte [Gluten, Grain & Sugar Free] Real Food Friday! I really like how food can look imperfect yet still absolutely divine, appetising and stimulating to ou ...
Is Food Controlling Your Life?
Is Food Controlling Your Life.... Or are you just eating your feelings? So many people have an unhealthy relationship with food. They habitually use it for comfort, distraction and punishm ...
When Hunger Isn’t Real
When Hunger Isn't Real... We eat for all sorts of reasons: when we’re angry or sad, stressed or festive, starving or hormonal. Most people over-eat, and usually when they weren’t actuall ...
If Not Dieting, Then What? Life After Diets Interview with Robyn Patton
Life After Dieting - interview with Robyn Patton Recently I had a lot of fun speaking with Robyn Patton from Intuitive Nourishment. Turns out we have quite a few things in common: we both like cra ...
The Easiest Way to Exercise
Easiest Way to Exercise? Just Move Your Body I’m grateful to report that our family of four (including one fully fledged teenager and one on the cusp) managed to survive six nights away tog ...
Chocolate JAFFA Cake with Choc Orange Ganache
CHOCOLATE JAFFA CAKE that's healthy! I'm pretty sure you all know how much I love to create whole food dishes to replace the store-bought and processed versions. This one does not disapp ...