Coronavirus: Our Practice Policy
Until we receive clearer directions, CFIH is adopting a “better to be safe than sorry approach”. Please support us in our efforts to reduce the spread of Coronavirus.
International Women’s Day: Our Message
On International Women’s Day, we passionately strike the #EachforEqual pose. To us, this pose symbolises equality, compassionate boundaries, allyship, and the disruption of destructive gender-based cycles.
Exercise and eating disorders
In an interview with Hack on Triple J, CFIH Psychologist, Ashleigh Olive, proposed a number of red flags that can help to identify someone with or at risk of an eating disorder.
New ED Specific Medicare Benefits Schedule: What if my patient isn’t eligible?
The much-awaited changes to the Medicare scheme have finally been announced. However, not everybody will see themselves represented in the eligibility criteria for the scheme.
UPDATE: Medicare MBS item numbers for individuals with an eating disorder
Medicare has released an overview of the new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items numbers that will be included in the scheme aimed at the treatment of eating disorders.
31 fantastic tips – one for every day in January!
Get ready for 2019 with 31 great tips for your recovery journey; one for every day of January!
Struggle to get your 5 Veggies in a day?
Check out Dietitian Kate Pollard’s top tips to include veg anytime in your day.
CFIH Dietitians’ top 5 diet myths BUSTED!
Dietitians Kate & Kate have rounded up the top 5 that get in the way of a healthy relationship with food.
How accurate are nutrition information panels?
Diet-culture loves numbers – we’re sold the idea that we can achieve tight and calculated control over food and our bodies through counting, tracking, weighing and measuring.
5 ways to shut down diet-talk in the office
Office diet-talk can be relentless, triggering and difficult to avoid. If 8 hours of carb, keto and cleanse commentary is making you want to ride your wheelie chair down the fire escape, here’s a few ideas for you: Excuse yourself and walk away. After a few smoke-bomb moments they’ll start to get the picture you’re … Read More
When Intuitive Eating Becomes Another Diet..
Being surrounded by a diet-obsessed culture full of rights and wrongs, dos and don’ts, can make it hard to adjust to a totally new concept in which there is no “right way”. When developing the skills of an intuitive eater, one can become stuck in thinking that they can only eat when they are hungry, … Read More
Show up, do the work, trust in the process
I’ve recently returned to running after abandoning it for some time, with the goal of completing a marathon at the end of the year. During tonight’s run, I got to a point along the course where I would normally fatigue and slow down before stopping..
