I have known Pam professionally for over 10 years as an expert therapist in both addiction and disordered eating. Pam is incredibly knowledgeable, empathic, wise and humble in her work. We are now working together to bring emotional eating and binge eating disorder training and support to South Africa. I am so grateful to have Pam's expertise on our team to guide us as we grow.

At 21 years old, I was broken. My battle with alcoholism had left me shattered. I had little self-confidence, felt only shame, guilt, and failure. I believed that if I could lose 10 kgs, I would finally be happy. So, I substituted the alcohol with restricting, binging, purging, and excessive exercise.

Pam was trained in Disordered Eating and quickly recognized my patterns. We began the challenging work of recovery, and despite my struggles she never judged me. She encouraged every success and focused less on my mistakes.

Gradually, I began to see that life was worth living. It has been 15 years since I found freedom of my obsessive behaviors and am married and have a career.

I am forever grateful to Pam for her unwavering support and guidance. Thank you, Pam, for everything.

I was never enough. I always felt different and insecure. I started comfort eating at age 4 and by age 12 was prescribed diet pills, restricting and binging constantly. At age 16, a friend taught me to purge, and then I found drugs, what a relief, what power, and no appetite. I went into treatment weighing 39 kilograms and stopped using. In recovery, I once again, binged and purged. I took laxatives, my teeth rotted, my skin and nails became dry and brittle and I had no energy. Someone introduced me to Pam. I now believe she was an angel sent to set me straight. We worked together, and still do. She never judged me, she always listened, she got me to see some hard truths, it wasn’t easy. She gave me hope, she gave me tools. She never gave up. I now have a boyfriend, a job, friends, I feel less different. Now and then, that devil pops up. I feel stressed and out of control. I might binge, I might purge but it's so rare and I don’t beat myself up. I have a life and I am forever grateful