The Eating Freely™ Online Community

A safer, supportive LGBTQIA+ community for anyone who struggles with their food, weight or body image.

Is this you?

  • Trapped in a cycle of yo-yo dieting, bouncing from one plan to another, trying every new fad out there
  • Literally don’t know WHAT to eat, you have so many competing food rules in your head
  • Beginning to worry about your health, because you are experiencing other physical symptoms you know are connected to your food and weight
  • Avoiding the doctor or other health professionals - because you have experienced weight stigma, mis-gendering or other shaming events in the past
  • An ’all or nothing’ thinker - either doing it ALL right, or ALL wrong (and this is a big part of the problem)
  • A ’People Pleaser’ - putting everyone else’s needs ahead of your own
  • A constant feeling of ’not good enough’ and/or Imposter Syndrome


You are NOT alone!

Almost all of the above experiences are common for every adult who struggles with emotional eating or binge eating.


Many adults struggle with food, weight and your body image 'for as long as they can remember'

Many adults feel like a failure or an imposter or both

Almost every adult who struggles with food, weight and body image shares personality traits like all or nothing thinking and being a 'people pleaser'

They've also commonly experienced some kind of trauma or adverse event, which triggered emotional or binge eating as their safety and coping behaviour.


This is emotional eating and binge eating disorder.
But some experiences ONLY happen to people in the LGBTQIA+ community.

Adults who identify as belonging in the LGBTQIA+ community experience further stressors:

- secrecy and shame
- stigma and bias
- mis-gendering
- lack of understanding
- intolerance
- bigotry
- rejection

... and many doctors, allied health professionals and even family and friends DON'T GET IT.
The Eating Freely™ Program was developed over 12 years of working with many hundreds of adults who struggle with emotional eating and binge eating disorder.
Meet our Founder
Emma Murphy MIACP – Psychotherapist specialist in disordered eating
What you’ll get when you join us!
Memebership of our online community, where you will have all the expert support you need to finally find true freedom around food, FOREVER.


*The Eating Freely™ Online Program includes:
  • Weekly video sessions to work through in your own time
  • Worksheets and tools to help reduce eating episodes
  • Reflective written exercises and journal prompts
  • Meditations to help rewire your brain and break old, unhelpful habits

Our Online Community gives you everything you need.

  • Weekly live group calls with an Eating Freely Coach
  • Access to recordings of all weekly group calls
  • Ongoing support within the member community

Our Monthly Membership is Usually


As this is a new group specifically for the LGBTQIA+ community,
we are offering membership at 50% for our founding members!

Your Monthly Membership is:


We are delighted to be supported by key advocates in public office who champion the LGBTQIA+ Community!


'I am really pleased to see a programme available online which deals with the issues of emotional eating and which is being so tailored to our LGBTQIA+ experience. Having had my own issues with emotional eating, I would have really benefitted from this in my most difficult times. I am also pleased it is being offered at a discounted rate to founding members, which makes it accessible to more people.'

Cllr Hannah Bithell
Scrutiny Chair – Infrastructure, Investment and Inclusive Growth
Obesity Champion
LGBTQIA+ Champion

About Our Community

Your Licensed Eating Freely Coaches:

All Licensed Eating Freely Coaches are are fully qualified health professionals. They have all taken our advanced training to specialise in supporting adults holistically in their relationship with food, weight, body image, emotional eating or binge eating. and work with clients just like you every day in their own practices.

Orla McBennett is a psychotherapist and member of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Denise Wogan is a registered nutritional therapist and pre-accredited psychotherapist.

Each week one of your coaches will facilitate a live 60 minute call to go deeper into the program material, answer any questions and give feedback on anything you wish to bring up.







Your Eating Freely Online Program:

The award winning Eating Freely Program is your guide to finding true freedom around food, forever.

Built around 4 pillars of evidence-based support, it contains everything you need to:

- Reduce episodes of overeating or emotional eating immediately.

- Reset your relationship with food, letting go of unhelpful food rules, restoring better gut function and getting back in tune with your body.

- Remove the autopilot of eating as a reaction to triggers and cravings. Willpower was NEVER the answer - what goes on in your brain at an unconscious level is far stronger than any amount of wullpower you have! When we break this down and explain it, you'll understand how you CAN break the autopilot of emotional eating!

- Reprogram your mind, to replace that inner critical voice with kindness and compassion. Lack of true self-care is at the root of all unhelpful relationships with food. We'll teach you how to Nourish instead of Punish yourself, both nutritionally and emotionally. This is where the real transformation happens.
Your Online Community:

Is a confidential space to spend time with other adults just like you, AND your expert coaches.

We’ve created a private community using the Circle app to ensure you feel supported and safe.

When you download the app, you will have our support with you whenever you go, and can log in for your next online program session, a quick chat or check-in with others, and your live group sessions – no matter where you are.

All group sessions are also recorded so you can watch back and review again after the live sessions.

Feedback from others who have been supported by us:

I started with the coach in September, and we finished up in January. I felt the program was tough Emma to be honest and there were some sessions that were really, really hard. You don't feel it at the time, but the growth in every session is immense.

I was never as glad to have someone like Denise bringing me through this journey, and I owe her a huge amount of gratitude.

I would also like to extend my praises to yourself for all your videos which I have now for future reference and also for your part in my change since doing your program.

I am eternally grateful to you both. I have learned so much, and I know I have more to learn, but I feel so much happier now.

May you always have the strength to help others like you have me.
Olivia, 39 - email feedback
I think the range and breadth of the program was excellent. I really appreciated the fact it wasn't focused on weight. It was focused on health and well-being. The Eating Freely team, they really know the complexity of binge eating disorder.

I would say there has been a 75% drop in binge eating, the program has definitely helped with that. I've taken it all on board and I've lost weight because I've not been binge eating. But the good thing is the losing of the weight has come as a byproduct of not bingeing. It's not been any conscious effort to lose weight, if you know what I mean.

I'm focusing much more on health and well-being, not weight and weight loss, and that that feels very liberating to ditch the pressure to lose weight’.
Catherine, 63 - Online Group Program 2024
Through this program, I learned that I have old outdated beliefs and preconceived thoughts about how I see myself and others.

I found looking back brought up a lot of suppressed issues from childhood/negative experiences that shaped my viewpoint as I grew older.

This is helpful for me to understand, I've learned to be kinder to myself, and I am able to more forward.
Mairead, 58 - worked with Eating Freely Practitioner
I've been meaning to reach out since I finished up the Eating Freely program a few months ago. My guess is it's not the first time you'll have had this feedback, but the experience has been life changing.

I'm not sure that I have the words to describe the turnaround in my attitude to food, my body, self-companion. The program has had consequences on my whole outlook that I never could have imagined.

I have ended (won!) a decades long battle with weight and food, and I am so much more content with life in general.
Marina, 52 - email feedback
don't need food anymore to celebrate and commiserate. For me this has just been an absolute game changer. Before it would absolutely have been at 100% for emotional eating. Now? I wouldn't even say it's even 15/20% of the time...

Yes, I will enjoy myself. Yes, if something is gonna kind of nourish me, not just from a nutritional point of view, but from an emotional point of view, I'll have it. But I don't need to carry on having it if that makes sense? I don't think I can accurately convey just how much the program helped me.’

For me it's that simple. I see it on the shelf and think ‘Do I need that?’ If I have that, am I going to think I shouldn't have had that and then end up punishing myself because of it? If I feel that that's going to be the case, I just don't have it.’
Kate, 39 - Online Group Program 2024
As a man leading a team and with a family, I felt ashamed of my secret eating - usually in my car. Through this program I learned how my childhood, my dad's drinking and being the eldest all played a part in my behaviour. I'm in a far happier place now - in work, in my marriage and with myself.
Patrick, 47
I have made self-care a priority. Food/body image does not take up as much of my thinking as it did before, and my mind set towards these things is more relaxed. I have cut back significantly on the amount of takeaways I order and binge on. I feel like the eating disorder is less of an issue than it was, and I am beginning to move on from it.
Nicole, 55 - Online Program 2023
Honestly, I can say something has clicked. Whether it's the simplicity, whether it's just being kind to yourself and realising I don’t need to beat myself up if I don't get this perfect. The tools have been so useful. Is it going to nourish me or is it going to punish me? And if it's going to punish me, I'm not having it.

I think the key thing has been through the whole thing is there's no good or bad foods anymore. It's just food. The fact you've got a mix of the online, you've got downloadable materials which you can then go back and refer to. We've had the online support, which has been absolutely phenomenal’
Aly, 53 - Online Group Program 2024
What happens when I sign up?
Step 1 - Welcome to the community
Once you sign up, you'll receive a welcome email and video from our founder, Emma Murphy.

You will be invited to join our community space inside Circle, where you can connect with other members and the coaches, and begin working on the Eating Freely Program straight away.
Step 2 - Download the Circle App
For the best experience, download the Circle app on your mobile device. This will keep you connected, allowing you to access all resources and community updates anytime, anywhere.
Step 3 - Introduce Yourself & Connect with others
Introduce yourself to your coaches and other members, and share a bit about your journey. You can chat, ask questions and support other members any time in your community forum.
Step 4 - Work the program!
Within the app you will have:

- weekly video modules, handouts, meditations and all the tools and resources you need to end emotional eating and find peace with food and your body.

- Weekly Live calls with one of our Eating Freely Coaches (on Mondays)

- Recordings of the live calls so you can go back and review.

- Your community, where you can spend time with others just like you.

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