Emma The Food Therapist

09/11/2025

The human soul doesn’t want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard.

The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding.

But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.

Palmer Parker

30/10/2025

Lover Archetype is your realm of deeply felt emotions, that experiences the world through your body and your felt sense, it is the cradle of your creativity and spontaneity.

It’s the part of you that bonds, gives & receives loving connection, grieves, feels, plays, and creates and when in balance, this brings warmth and richness to life.

But when wounded, you may try too hard to be loved... or stop trying altogether. The truth is, we often cling to limiting beliefs because they offer a way out, a means of escaping change, discomfort, or the courageous yet hard work of moving forward, and changing to have fuller, richer, more deeply experienced lives.

Recognising that you are the one holding yourself back is painful, yet it is also incredibly liberating.

Shadow Work helps us meet these parts within us, not to change them, but to include them. To allow yourself to feel, express fully and authentically, to be vulnerable with others, and to experience deep loving connection, to know how loving you truly are!

If this resonates, there’s a place for you in our December retreat. Come and reclaim the parts of you that long to love and be loved.
East Sussex | 5–7 December
Message me to chat

19/10/2025

Rye + goat cheese + alfalfa + kimchi + asparagus

A nourishing Sunday morning breakfast in metabolic balance

09/10/2025

Mitsi

14/09/2025

Eggs and bottarga on toast
Nom nom!

02/09/2025

Sunday lunch food drop.
1. Babaganoush (+paprika, pomegranate and parsley)
2. Kohlrabi, fennel salad - from new book, Boustany
3. Chickpea fritters
4. Home fired red and yellow peppers
5. Scallops with bacon and sherry vinegar
6. Fresh pasta, courgettes, lemon, garlic and bottarga

… and just like that summer 25, slides over the horizon, winking as it leaves.

29/08/2025

Rye sourdough — fresh from the oven.
Back from 12 days in Spain, and one of the things I miss most when I travel is good rye bread.

It’s a gift to the gut on so many levels — rich in fibre, yes, but also in the invisible kind our bodies can’t digest. These fibres travel to the large intestine, where our microbes feast on them and create short-chain fatty acids like butyrate — the preferred fuel for our colonic cells.

Rye bread blunts your blood sugars from spiking more than other types of bread, meaning it helps lower your insulin response after eating (post-prandial), which is great for weight management & your metabolic health.

This effect is often attributed to rye having higher soluble fibre than plain white bread, or other wheat breads.

However, a recent study indicates it’s more complex than this as the rye feeds the healthy microbiome in your colon. This increases e numbers of the many beneficial gut bacteria your large intestine, including species called:

* * Akkermansia
* * Lactobacillus
* Bifidbacterium
* Ruminococcus
* Coriobacteriaceae
* * Parasutterella

These bacteria transform the glycine found in rye into metabolites that enter your blood stream and have beneficial effects, including improved metabolic health.

This may also help to regulate the hunger hormone (grehlin), improving your appetite regulation and supporting weight management.

For the science geeks go direct to the study at:

PMID: 19781071

03/08/2025

Just because I love green
Rye bread
Goats cheese
Home made pesto

Why I love rye and recommend it to nearly all my clients:

Rye bread isn’t just delicious it’s packed with goodness:

• High in fibre to support digestion and satiety
• Gentle on blood sugar, great for type 2 diabetes risk + weight management
• Rich in beta-glucans that lower cholesterol
• Naturally probiotic, feeding a healthy gut
• High in iron + B vitamins for energy + resilience
• Contains antioxidants for cellular protection
• Linked to lower risk of heart disease, gallstones + colon cancer

It can make a significant positive difference to your system

15/07/2025

Metabolic Balance ™ breakfast - starting the day right: protein | veg | rye (vita) | apple | water | black coffee. Giving your body all the building blocks (protein) it needs and all the fibre, minerals, vitamins it needs to make healthy hormones, enzymes, neurotransmitters and energy for the morning.

No sugary or processed foods keeping blood sugars balanced, and seeing you through to lunch without cravings. This isn’t rocket science - and it’s a healthy anti inflammatory way to eat. No pills, no injections, just healthy food.

I work with personalised nutrition plans for good health, and body composition. No side effects from medications, and an education in life long healthy eating. Get in touch if you’re interested in your own food plan and expert, kind and realistic nutrition coaching.

02/07/2025

Sound on 🔉 The Beachboys, My Vegetables.
The heat has finally broken in London, with a cooler rainy day…. Here’s crumbled feta, sliced beef tomatoes, basil, salt and best olive oil.

30/06/2025

Dearest Friends,

I've been deeply immersed in group Shadow Work training for the last few years - working at depth with a dynamic model based on Jungian/archetypes - over a 2.5 day retreat.

Shadow Work gives you an opportunity to gently explore hidden, denied or suppressed parts of yourself, some of your emotions, or your experiences that you've denied, rejected, or never fully expressed (AKA your shadows). Often, these are also at the core of some of your self-limiting beliefs that may be holding parts of your life in stuck or painful patterns.

By meeting these parts (shadow) with curiosity, compassion and clarity, you can expand your inner ability for greater joy, connection, honesty, creativity, healthy boundaries, sense of self, and self-esteem.

It's very different from talking therapy, and fine to do at the same time, the two go together brilliantly, if you're already in therapy.

I'm looking for participants to attend my first weekend in December, in a beautiful restored retreat centre in East Sussex, and offered at cost price only.

If this piques your curiosity, or you know someone who might benefit from this, pease share. If its you - get in touch for a conversation.

I've love to hear from you.

With love,

Emma

A powerful group retreat (6–8 people) offering a rare chance to break free from limiting identity beliefs and dynamics and reconnect with your authentic self.