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Exhale Psychology Centre Psychology Centre in New Farm Brisbane
Help for eating disorders, trauma, and other complex issues

-Most people think body dysmorphia is about wanting to look different. It’s more like being unable to stop seeing yourse...
20/10/2026

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Most people think body dysmorphia is about wanting to look different. It’s more like being unable to stop seeing yourself as wrong - and building your whole life around trying to hide or fix it.

-Food diaries are a cornerstone of CBT-E. But for some clients, they make things worse - and the research supports that....
18/10/2026

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Food diaries are a cornerstone of CBT-E. But for some clients, they make things worse - and the research supports that. This post looks at what the evidence actually says about self-monitoring in eating disorder treatment, and why client distress about food diaries deserves clinical attention, not dismissal.

References:
Fairburn, C.G. (2008). Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders. Guilford Press.
Lavender, J.M. et al (2013). A naturalistic examination of body checking and dietary restriction in women with anorexia nervosa. Behaviour Research and Therapy.
Lindgreen, P. et al . (2018). Patient experiences using a self-monitoring app in eating disorder treatment: Qualitative study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth.
Lindgreen, P. et al. (2021). Patient use of a self-monitoring app during eating disorder treatment: Naturalistic longitudinal cohort study. Brain and Behavior.

-Trauma is one of the most under-addressed factors in eating disorder treatment. This post looks at why that matters and...
16/10/2026

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Trauma is one of the most under-addressed factors in eating disorder treatment. This post looks at why that matters and what needs to change.

References:
Brewerton, T.D. (2007). Eating disorders, trauma, and comorbidity: Focus on PTSD. Eating Disorders, 15(4), 285-304.
Brewerton, T.D. (2023). The integrated treatment of eating disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, and psychiatric comorbidity. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14.
Webb, H., Griffiths, M., & Schmidt, U. (2024). Experiences of intensive treatment for people with eating disorders: A systematic review and thematic synthesis. Journal of Eating Disorders, 12, 115.

-Self respect can sound like…I deserve better than thisI make decisions that might be hard now but that have my future s...
15/10/2026

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Self respect can sound like…

I deserve better than this
I make decisions that might be hard now but that have my future self in mind
I will not beg for what I deserve
I can tolerate hard conversations
I refuse to betray myself to win others over
I will not stay where I am not valued
My time and efforts are reserved for relationships that are reciprocal and healthy for me

Adapted from millenial.therapist

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Other people’s discomfort with your emotions often tells us about their capacity.When someone pulls away, shuts you do...
13/10/2026

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Other people’s discomfort with your emotions often tells us about their capacity.
When someone pulls away, shuts you down, or implies that you’re “too much,” it’s easy to internalise that as evidence that something is wrong with you. But their response is about their tolerance threshold, not your emotional reality.
You can hold space for both things - that they’re struggling with what you’re expressing, and this is unrelated to the legitimacy of the message.

-When things look better from the outside, the people around you often relax. But that can be exactly when the harder pa...
11/10/2026

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When things look better from the outside, the people around you often relax. But that can be exactly when the harder part begins: facing what the coping was holding back, or keeping up the appearance of being okay. If you’re doing that work quietly, without anyone noticing, it still counts.

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This won’t be everyone’s experience - brains are complex and so are the factors that influence how we function. But fo...
11/10/2026

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This won’t be everyone’s experience - brains are complex and so are the factors that influence how we function. But for many people, this is a pretty common pattern. When the brain is consistently under-fuelled, these are the kinds of shifts that tend to show up.

Full credit to Eat for Life Dietetics for the idea behind this post

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If someone’s distress is making you uncomfortable, chances are, that’s information about you, not about them.The full ...
09/10/2026

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If someone’s distress is making you uncomfortable, chances are, that’s information about you, not about them.
The full post unpacks what “attention-seeking” actually means when you break it down - and what it costs when we use it as a reason to withdraw.

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The idea that you have to love yourself before you can love anyone else is one of those things that sounds wise until ...
08/10/2026

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The idea that you have to love yourself before you can love anyone else is one of those things that sounds wise until you think about it for more than five seconds.
People with low self-esteem, depression, trauma histories - they can love fiercely. They might show up for their kids, their partners, their friends. Often at great personal cost.
Telling someone they’re incapable of real love until they fix themselves first isn’t motivating. It’s shaming. And it reinforces the exact belief that’s already making things hard - that there’s something fundamentally wrong with them.
Do we want people to develop a kinder relationship with themselves? Of course. But framing self-love as a prerequisite for connection gets it backwards. For many people, being loved by others - and learning to receive that - is part of how self-acceptance develops.
Love isn’t something you earn by reaching a certain threshold of self-regard. It’s something people do, every day, even when they’re struggling.

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Full recovery is a meaningful goal for some people. But when it’s the only acceptable outcome across every presentatio...
06/10/2026

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Full recovery is a meaningful goal for some people. But when it’s the only acceptable outcome across every presentation - regardless of chronicity, complexity, or how many rounds of treatment someone has been through - it stops being a benchmark and starts being a way to erase progress.
This post is about questioning whether the benchmark fits. Not about lowering the bar.

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65 Eildon Road, Windsor
Brisbane, QLD
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Tuesday 9am - 5am
Wednesday 9am - 5am
Thursday 9am - 5am
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