Better Eating Blog
Providing expert insights and practical tips, the blog draws on Dr. Sera Lavelle’s 14 years of experience as a psychologist specializing in emotional eating. It offers valuable guidance on overcoming food-related challenges, embracing mindful eating, and building lasting, healthy habits that enhance both mental and physical well-being.
Why Do You Want to Eat When You’re Stressed?
Turning to food for comfort is common but can result in unhealthy patterns and long-term problems; here’s what you can do instead to deal with stress without always turning to food.
What Restriction Does to Your Brain
Find out what restricting food does to your brain.
Is My Eating Disordered?
Learn how to tell if your eating is disordered and when to reach out for help
How the Buddha Thinks of Food
Learn how to incorporate Buddha’s Middle Way into your thinking around food
How to Tell if You Are Actually Hungry (or Eating for Emotional Reasons)
Learn how to accurately read your hunger and satiety signals in order to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle
How Is Bea Different?
Learn why Bea is NOT a diet, but a change in lifestyle and mentality
How quickly will my weight change when making healthy changes to my diet?
Learn to manage expectations about what is healthy and not when making changes to your diet.
Why Does My Weight Fluctuate?
Learn how weight fluctuation is natural and how to make sure that you don’t panic when it does.
How to Have the Perfect Diet
Learn why there is no such thing as the ‘perfect diet’
Should you Weigh Yourself?
Learn the pros and cons of checking your weight and how to determine if it is right for you.
Get the Bea Better Eating App
Dr. Sera Lavelle, founder of NY Health Hypnosis and Soho Integrative EMDR, trained Bea, an AI-powered app designed to help you foster a healthier relationship with food. Using proven psychological techniques, Bea offers step-by-step guidance to shift your mindset around eating. Unlike other apps that promote restrictive diets, Bea delivers supportive, science-backed advice to encourage mindful, positive eating habits that lead to lasting change.
