When gut symptoms don’t make sense - when the same food causes pain one day and no reaction the next - it’s easy to feel confused, broken, or dismissed. This piece explores why digestion can’t be separated from nervous system safety, and how gut symptoms often make sense when we widen the lens beyond food alone.

We’re often told that when we can’t stick to habits or resolutions, we’re lacking discipline. That we’re sabotaging ourselves.

But what if nothing is wrong with you at all?

What if these moments - spending, eating, scrolling, staying up late - aren’t failures of willpower, but nervous systems responding to a future that doesn’t yet feel safe?

This piece explores why change doesn’t come from pressure, but from safety - and why so many of us have been asking too much of ourselves.

“I feel so betrayed by my body. Why is it so broken?”

This question arrives often in my clinic - usually from women whose bodies have been carrying pain, vigilance, and exhaustion for a long time. What if the body isn’t broken at all, but responding exactly as it was shaped to?

I haven’t stepped on my scales for years; but I still haven’t thrown them away.

The story of how I learned to tend to the part of me that was using my scales as an advent calendar to the perfect day and why healing was never going to be as simple as smashing up the scale or using willpower to stop weighing myself…

You don’t struggle to keep foods in the house without bingeing on them because you can’t be trusted around them. You struggle because your nervous system is protecting itself from deprivation.

A trauma-informed, somatic exploration of anorexia nervosa - beyond control and thinness - toward safety, fullness, and embodied healing.

Bulimia isn’t a lack of willpower - it’s a nervous system response to overwhelm. Learn how somatic nutrition therapy helps you rebuild safety and trust in your body’s wisdom.

In a culture that idolises food restriction, bingeing can feel deeply shameful. But through a somatic (read biological, nervous system) lens, it makes the most profound sense, and bingeing is transformed into a portal for healing.

There’s a moment that can happen in the healing process — a moment that feels like the ground falls out beneath you.

You’re sitting with someone you’ve come to trust. Someone who’s been helping you untangle the noise, the shame, the overwhelm. You ask a question — perhaps hoping for a clear answer, a fix, a roadmap. And instead, you hear something unexpected:

“I don’t have all the answers.”

And suddenly, your body collapses.
Grief rushes in.
Fear. Sadness. Even anger.

It’s not just disappointment — it’s something deeper. A rupture in the fantasy that someone out there could save you.

If this has happened to you, I want you to know: it makes so much sense.