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We empower you to explore eating challenges as an opportunity for personal growth and self-discovery.

Our holistic, compassionate approach helps you transform food issues and create foundation for lasting wellbeing and more fulfilling life. Welcome, my name is Anna Czuczman, I'm a psychologist specializing in Nutritional Psychology, Eating Psychology and Mind Body Nutrition, which means that sessions with me can be beneficial essentially for anyone who eats :)

Sessions with me can be beneficial:
- If you can't stop obsessing about food
- If you fight your appetite
- If you turn to food every time you feel uncomfortable, sad or lonely
- If you lost weight and gained it back multiple times
- If you punish your body with forced exercise
- If you hate your body
- If you bombard yourself with negative thoughts
- If you postpone the happiness until you have ''perfect'' body
- If you feel like your experience with food and body is holding you back from fully participating in life

20/03/2026

It 👏 doesn’t 👏 matter 👏

17/02/2026

💜 Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2026 💜

As part of Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I’ll be facilitating two free, compassion-centred peer support circles hosted by Lois Bridges Eating Disorder Treatment Centre

🌱 Break the Binge Cycle: A Compassion-Centered Peer Support Circle

These sessions are for anyone who feels exhausted by binge eating and is looking for a safe, supportive space to explore what’s really driving the urges - and to begin developing a gentler, more compassionate relationship with food and with themselves.

I’ll be holding two sessions to make this support more accessible:

🗓 Online (Zoom)
📅 Monday 23rd February 2026
⏰ 7:30pm – 8:30pm

🗓 In-Person
📍 Lois Bridges, 3 Greenfield Road, Sutton, D13
📅 Wednesday 25th February 2026
⏰ 6:00pm – 7:00pm

✨ Free - but registration required
📧 manager@loisbridges.ie to register

These circles are about getting curious and feeling less alone with something that can be incredibly isolating. If this resonates, you’d be very welcome to join us - or to pass it on to someone who might need it.

17/02/2026

People have something to say about your eating…

when you’re on a diet
when you’re not on a diet

when you exercise
when you don’t

when you lose weight
when you gain weight

when you eat “healthy”
when you eat “unhealthy”

when you track your food
when you don’t

when you’re trying
when you’re not trying

when you’re in control
when you feel out of control

…you literally cannot win.

And when you’re already struggling with bingeing or your relationship with food, all of that noise gets loud.

It makes you question yourself.
It makes you feel like you’re always getting it wrong.
It keeps you stuck between “I need to do better” and “what’s the point.”

No wonder food feels so confusing.

At some point, it stops being about what everyone else thinks -
and starts being about understanding what you actually need.

That’s where things begin to shift.

At Eat At Ease Counselling 🤍 I help you step out of the noise, understand your patterns,
and find a way of eating that actually feels calm, not constant pressure.

16/02/2026

If you’ve ever thought 'why do I keep doing this?' after eating… this is for you.

Bingeing doesn’t come out of nowhere.
It’s not random, and it’s not because you’re weak.

Whether it's driven by restriction, “clean eating,” ADHD, gym culture, or how you feel about your body - understanding the 'why' is where things begin to shift.

You don’t need more control.
You don’t need another fresh start.
You need a different way of looking at what’s actually going on.

If any of this resonates, you’re not alone in it 🤍

19/12/2025

november dump ✨

celebrating love in newcastle
gingerbread lattes
soup season continues
beautiful cabin stay in kinvarra
the christmas lights went up in dundalk
pineapple belongs on chicken (and pizza)
tried pickleball, will be back
lovely catch ups
some autumn fits
beautiful sunny day in ravensdale
tkmaxx strolls never disappoint
more birthday celebrations

19/12/2025

One of my clients said it best:
🗣️ “Every time I go on social media, I feel worse about myself. But I can’t stop scrolling.”

Here’s what we uncovered together:

👉 She wasn’t scrolling to relax - she was scrolling to compare.
👉 And every time she did, she came away with one conclusion:
“They look better. I am not enough.”

But she wasn’t comparing fairly.

She was:
- Zooming in on her insecurities
- Scanning for thinness, perfection, “better”
- Ignoring the millions of bodies that didn’t match the “ideal”
- Forgetting that those images? Often edited, posed, lit perfectly, and taken 100 times before posting

And the saddest part?

She was measuring her worth through someone else’s highlight reel.

If this is you too - know this:

💬 The voice of comparison isn’t the voice of truth.

📲 What you see online isn’t real life.

And when comparison is the trigger for bingeing or body hate, healing means learning how to catch that spiral before it drags you under.

Start by asking:
🪞“Who am I comparing myself to today?”
🪞“What do I believe that image means?”
🪞“What would it feel like to give myself permission to look away?”

You don’t need to match a filtered photo to be worthy.
Your body doesn’t need to “win” in comparison to be good.
You are already enough. And your healing starts when you stop trying to “keep up” and start coming home to yourself.

🤍

19/12/2025

"I haven’t looked at my body in years. I shower in the dark. I wear oversized clothes to hide my shape. I skip shopping trips with friends. I avoid intimacy, not because I don’t want it - but because I can’t bear to be seen.”

Shape avoidance often shows up after years of body scrutiny. When mirror-checking and self-criticism become too unbearable, your brain starts avoiding your reflection altogether. No mirrors. No tight clothes. No photos. Just invisibility.

But while avoidance can feel protective - it also traps you. It limits your life. It keeps you stuck in fear of being seen. It reinforces the story that your body is unsafe, disgusting, unworthy.

If you’re here, reading this and nodding quietly to yourself... there’s nothing wrong with you. Your nervous system is doing what it thinks it has to do to keep you safe.

Healing is about reclaiming your right to exist fully, without shame.

🧠 As a therapist, I’ve walked with many clients through this. The path forward starts with kindness.

You deserve more than a life lived in the shadows of avoidance.
We can take it one step, one thread of compassion at a time.

🧷 Save this if shape avoidance feels familiar.
💬 Or share with someone who might need to hear it.

19/12/2025

Ever have a day where everything feels off in your body and the only words you have are: “I feel fat”?

It happens more than you think. Especially if you’ve lived with body image struggles or eating disorders.

But here’s what I want you to know - feeling fat isn’t about fat.

It’s usually a way your mind has learned to express other kinds of distress:

🌀 Shame

💔 Loneliness

😔 Sadness

💭 Feeling overwhelmed or bloated or emotionally raw

And if you’ve learned to fear or criticize your body, all those sensations get filtered through the same lens: “It must be my body’s fault.”

While this mislabeling is common, it’s also something we can gently unlearn.

Start by pausing the next time you think “I feel fat” and asking: 👉 What else might I be feeling?
👉 What else is happening in my world right now?

The more we build emotional vocabulary, the less often we have to blame our bodies for our feelings.

💌 Save this for when the “fat feeling” hits

💬 Share if this resonates deeply

19/12/2025

“I’m always cold.” 🥶
It’s something I hear so often in recovery spaces.

Sometimes it’s said like a joke.

Sometimes it’s whispered, almost like a confession:
“I can’t ever get warm.”

But here’s the thing:
When your body isn’t getting enough energy, it starts shutting down the non-essentials just to keep you alive.

Heat? That takes calories.
So your body makes trade-offs to protect you:
– blood flow moves away from fingers and toes (they turn blue-ish and cold)
– soft fuzz (lanugo) grows on the skin to trap heat
– shivering slows down because it burns too much energy
– suddenly you’re living in hoodies, blankets, and mugs of tea

Because your body is trying to survive on too little.

None of this means you’re weak.

It means your body is brilliant.

It’s doing the best it can with the resources it has.

But it also means: your body needs more.

More food.
More rest.
More safety.

When people start nourishing themselves regularly again, warmth comes back. Literally.

The fuzzy hair fades. The fingertips aren’t always freezing. The hot drinks become a comfort, not a lifeline.

You’re just cold because your body’s been in survival mode for too long.

It deserves warmth. And so do you.

🤍

15/12/2025

I often gently ask my clients, ‘When you’re scrolling through your feed or walking through a crowd, who do you notice?’

Almost always, the answer is: ‘The thinnest person in the room. The fittest one. The one who seems to have it all together.’

It’s not a flaw in you - it’s a learned survival response in a world that tells us thin is better, prettier is safer, and perfection is the goal.

But here’s what happens:

You glance at someone and assume their body means happiness.

You look at yourself and only see what doesn’t measure up.

You ignore the 98% of people around you who don’t match that “ideal”.

And online? It’s even harder. We’re comparing our real, lived bodies to edited, posed, filtered ones. It’s like holding yourself to a standard that literally doesn’t exist.

So if you feel like you're always falling short - it makes sense. The game was rigged before you started.

But here's the shift:
🧠 Noticing when comparison shows up.
💬 Asking what it's trying to protect you from.
🤍 And learning how to soften the voice that says, “I should look like her.”

You’re allowed to exist in your body - even when it doesn't match what you see online.

And the more you challenge the lies of comparison, the more freedom you begin to feel.

🤍

15/12/2025

You’re not alone if you feel the urge to avoid your reflection or hide your body.

Shape avoidance is something I often see in clients who have been through years of harsh body criticism.

For some, this avoidance feels like protection. Maybe it started with looking at parts of their body that they're not happy with, pinching, or mirror-checking.

But when the checking became too painful, it flipped into avoidance. And now, the idea of seeing your own body, trying on clothes, or even being touched feels unbearable.

It’s your nervous system trying to shield you from pain. But unfortunately, the more we avoid, the more fear and shame grow.

Healing this takes time, and it doesn’t start with forcing yourself to stand in front of the mirror.

It starts with compassion.

With understanding that your body distress has a history.

That the part of you avoiding your shape is the part that’s been hurting for a long time.

And from there, with support, we can begin to gently loosen the grip of avoidance. Not so you “love” your body right away, but so you can live your life more freely - with less fear, and more presence.

🤍

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