You're not craving sugar. You're craving what the sugar used to fix. Food cravings are often treated as a problem of self-control. You want the chocolate, the crisps or the sugar; you know you don't necessarily need it; and the obvious solution seems to be resisting the urge. But cravings are more complex than that. A food craving is an intense desire for a particular food, and it can exist independently of physical hunger. Research into cravings has increasingly looked beyon

Anxiety symptoms often return for a reason. Discover why managing symptoms alone may not create lasting change and how psychotherapy helps uncover the emotional patterns beneath anxiety.

Health anxiety doesn’t just affect your mind — it drains your body, day after day, until burnout sets in without you even realising it. If you live with health anxiety, you already know it is exhausting. What you may not realise is just how exhausting — or how directly it can lead to a state of burnout that has nothing to do with how hard you work. This is something I see often in my practice. People come to me thinking they need help with anxiety, only to discover that what

If health anxiety has you constantly scanning your body for something wrong, you are not alone — and you are not broken. Here is what is actually happening, and what helps. You feel a twinge in your chest. You press your fingers to your neck to check your pulse. You notice your breathing feels slightly off, and before you know it, you have spent the last hour scanning your body for signs of illness or that something is wrong. Sound familiar? This pattern has a name: body chec

If health anxiety keeps coming back no matter how much reassurance you seek, this may be the most important thing you read. You have probably been told, at some point, to stop worrying. Perhaps you have tried. Perhaps you have read the articles, done the breathing exercises, reminded yourself that the scan came back clear — and still, within days or even hours, the anxiety returned. This is one of the most frustrating things about health anxiety. It does not respond to logic

Spent years in therapy but still anxious? Learn why talk therapy alone isn't enough and how EFT tapping addresses anxiety differently. You've been in therapy for years. You understand your patterns. You can trace your anxiety back to its roots. You know why you feel the way you do — and yet, somehow, you still feel anxious. If that's you, you're not alone. And more importantly, you're not broken. Many people come to me after years of talk therapy, still searching for relief.