Growing up I hated my body. I did whatever I could to restrict my food intake when something was coming up, like my birthday or a trip overseas. To me, whatever the problem was – weight loss was the answer. ‘That guy will like me if I am skinny…, I will learn to surf when I lose weight…’.

I went on a celery soup diet at 14 because I believed the message the diet industry drums into us – I wasn’t good enough as I was. I should starve myself to be accepted.

I still don’t like celery!!

I got to a point where I felt totally out of control with food. I felt like an addict looking for my next hit of chocolate. I relied on a block of chocolate to get me through late nights of uni work.

Food became a way for me to cope when I felt lonely. It was a way to numb out and feel comfort when I didn’t know what else to do. I went through a tough relationship and didn’t feel safe, food and a bigger body became a way for me to exist and feel safe in this world.

I had so much shame about how I looked.

And hit a massive rock bottom a few years ago.

That’s when I realised it has to come from WITHIN.

I stumbled across Emotional Freedoms Techniques (also called EFT or Tapping). I started to use it in on myself and became a qualified practitioner. I realised that for me food was linked to my emotions and was often the only way I knew to cope with hard stuff that came up.

I used Tapping to remove my blocks of feeling safe in a bigger body, using food as a way to rebel and tapped away food cravings.

Using Tapping and learning to love myself transformed my relationship with food and my body. I now eat from a place of self-love and my life has changed in so many wonderful ways.

I want to teach YOU to live this way too.

Renee x