What if recovery from stressful eating meant more than just feeling joy around food?

What if it also meant...

→ having trust and connection with your body (mindfulness)?

→ feeling free of trying to meet impossible body ideals set out in our culture?

→ a healthier way of eating and caring for your body?

→ your mood, your energy and your focus is better so you feel happier and less stressed?

Dieting is not healthy. Eating is not an isolated part of the human experience. Food pleasure and joyful eating are important in our social, cultural, emotional and mental health.

At Food Life Freedom we do more than just liberate you from stressful eating.

We help you break free of diet culture rules too.

Diet culture is a system of beliefs prominent in our culture that ties body size to worth and idealised eating to morality. The messages are so normalised that they largely go by unquestioned, even when they are causing harm. Diet culture is not about health. 

You deserve to make food and body choices that work for YOU without the influence of diet culture.

Meet the founder

Hi, I'm Emma Townsin

Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor

The serious stuff

My qualifications

I work with you as a UK Registered Dietitian and practice from a health at every size (HAES), weight inclusive and trauma-informed lens so you can find your food and life freedom. 

I am:

• A UK registered healthcare provider with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC DT28209) specialised in eating disorders and stressful eating.
• A Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor (CIEC) with an official certification through Intuitive Eating PRO with Evelyn Tribole.

University degrees:

• Master of dietetics, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia (2012).
• Honours research year in food science and nutrition, Deakin University, Melbourne Australia (2010).
• Bachelor of Health Sciences, majoring in Nutrition and psychology (2009)

Additional training and supervision:

• National Autism Training Programme (Anna Freud) - in progress
• Hormone health and eating disorders: clinical and counseling essentials for dietitians with EDRDPro - in progress
• Trauma informed care with Fiona Sutherland and Tracy Brown
• Digestive disorders and eating disorders with Marci Evans RD
• Intuitive Eating PRO course with Evelyn Tribole
• I am a member of my professional body - The British Dietetics Association as well as specialist organisations EDRDPro and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellors, through which I complete regular professional development training webinars.
• I engage in regular supervision with an eating disorder specialist dietitian and intuitive eating proessionals.
• Additionally I work as a Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian in an NHS eating disorder service.

The fun stuff

Facts about me

• I moved to the UK in 2015 for a short stay and just never left. Although I grew up in Australia I also have family in the UK so I feel at home here as well.
• Spending time in green (or blue) space  is important for my mental health. I often break up my days with a walk in the local park or along the canal and I love weekends away in the mountains.
• I love all sorts of food but the foods I miss if they are not available are my basic everyday things like cheddar cheese and grainy bread.
• My current favourite way to “read” is with an audiobook - I particularly love listening to an audio book while walking in a park. 

Now I'd love to learn about you!