Hello. I am a Sydney-based Naturopath and my name is Phoebe Jobson...
How Can Naturopathy Help Individuals Struggling with an Eating Disorder?
There are so many ways a Naturopath can help a patient in recovery from an ED/DE - bringing it back to basics, and really focussing on food, nutrition, exercise and lifestyle is where it is at. And when a multi-disciplinary team is involved, the better I say - especially a GP and Psychologist/counsellor.
5 Tips to Help Embrace Body Appreciation
Four Tips for Building Healthy Body Image...By BodyMatters Australasia
** This article has been reposted from Body Matters Australasia with permission **
Tummy’s sucked in, lips pouted, photo taken and retaken (and retaken again) until the perfect angle is captured. Followed by editing, filters, skin smoothing, ‘face-tuning’ to make boobs bigger, tummies smaller and butts firmer. All of this to perfect the image before it is posted online. . .
Are You Eating Enough?
"Junk Foods" is Trash Talk
An open thank you note to my stomach
How I Got My Period Back
More than Just a Period
Is Weighing Yourself Serving You?
We are all different and unique amazing individuals and we all function as individuals at our own personalised, natural, healthy weight, whatever that is for you. What actually matters is that you are functioning at your physical and mental best, and there are so many ways to measure this and achieve this. If you are nourishing yourself every way possible – physically, chemically and emotionally, your healthy weight, where you function at your best, should just slot in to that.
Ditching the Scales
This blog is here to offer a new perspective for you all, which some of you may not necessarily agree with and that is completely fine, but I think the conversation is important. Due to my past experiences with my restrictive eating disorder, I feel having conversations like this one is so necessary and overdue.
Tips for Body Neutrality in An Appearance-Obsessed World - By BodyMatters Australasia
A new concept, ‘body neutrality’ has made its way into the mainstream to provide a more realistic balance between body-hatred and body-love. The aim of body neutrality is not to necessarily love how you look all the time, but to respect your body enough so that you can take care of it, even when you’re having a bad body image day. Ultimately, it is knowing your body is good and worthy of care regardless of how it looks.…by Body Matters, Australasia
