SED ARFID Cure Treatment Centre Selective Eating Food Phobia

08/10/2025

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23/08/2025

So…. It’s always good to validate moves forwards

For children especially.

And why not celebrate a huge gigantic achievement as my young football mad friend Lennie from Essex has made on his journey towards free eating

Lennie lived on Jacket Potato without the skin from a baby until his ONE session last month

Yes….. that’s right

One session on Harley Street

….and he has done so well, mum tells me today they’ve tallied it up & he now has 23 different new safe foods - alternating and safe as houses (he tried more than that on the day immediately after his therapy but not all clicked this is normal as we find our way with foods).

Inspired by smoked salmon connoisseur Arlo aged 9 in the news last month mom Kayleigh booked in (huge thanks to Arlo, Steff & Stu)

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news/hypnosis-cures-9-year-old-32149035

So today, the Newsteam went out and took some photos for the wider reaching photo papers so be sure to look out for his article this weekend - share it, inspire sny sufferers and ill advised families that you can unpick the lock and free yourselves of ARFID (with the correct guidance & gameplan).

Thanks to his low value diet And inability to eat or try new foods Lennie has been hospitalised (as have many of our patients).

The answer is nutrition it’s the cure for ARFID and a vital life skill

So be inspired

1. Don’t sit on a diagnosis and accept it- all of us can eat and learn new foods (they are not new for long)

2. Don’t listen to what your GP says (they are trained in medicine and they will tell you that your child will grow out of it (They Won’t).

3. Your nutritionist will further cause grief telling you to put something on the plate (it’s a phobia) try putting a spider in the hand of an arachnophobe. You will get the same response.

4. Your dietician will fearmonger about health risks - and there is plenty. Pressure on pressure doesn’t help.

5. Finally, have hope, followers of our page see our patients fully recover - time and time again so being given no hope by the routes aforementioned doesn’t mean there isn’t a solution.

The best thing to do is source someone with first hand understanding and empathy towards ARFID sufferers to help build up from the level they are at - we normally just stop learning food at 18mo -24mo so it’s very much ignorance fuelled.

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25/06/2025

If you or your loved one has ARFID (Is fearful of food not tasting nice ….read this!

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All you need to know as a parent/Partner

Over the last 20 years we have helped children and adults learn how to eat freely from base food trying to mixed foods in restaurants completely overcoming ARFID to no longer fit within the diagnostics (according to DSM-5).

There are many of our patients results below outlining and inspiring others affected by ARFID to inform and give hope that you (as I have) overcome the food phobia coined & known recently as ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) also SED Selective Eating Disorder also Neophobia - Fear of The New.

It’s a thought - a quite simple thought - that food might not taste nice, ignorance fuelled.

Thoughts are not facts. We’ve made our mind up without knowing - it’s weird - it’s yucky - it’s disgusting is how we convince or hypnotise ourself to believe we are right to be sitting with a handful of beige branded seoerated safe foods as our fuel intake.

The food (all of it) has been condemned to the cells for life imprisonment ….without a fair trial.

The good food news is that this is not the case ehen you isolate the tongue as ‘the only sense that matters with food’ is taste to start with.

Sight and look take a little while later to enhance our eating experience (once you know what food is and learn how to try it).

Here below are some of our patients in the news they follow a blueprint.

normally starts in he high chair. When we have no idea of the enormity of how not eating may cost us down the line.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3723295/The-boy-ate-sausages-beans-11-year-old-terrified-food-cured-thanks-hypnotherapy.html

https://www.real-fix.com/health/schoolgirls-bizarre-phobia-cured-after-a-lifetime-of-only-eating-toast/

https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/believe-it-or-not-this-teenager-ate-plain-pasta-and-croissants-for-a-decade-due-to-the-fear-of-new-food-article-95530766

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/woman-who-only-ate-crisp-27080839

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2265799/Man-addicted-cake-cured-hypnotherapy-Supermarket-worker-Adam-Williams-loses-4-stone.html

https://metro.co.uk/2022/12/11/boy-who-only-ate-beige-food-now-eats-fruit-and-veg-after-hypnosis-17916946/

https://youtu.be/4rk31KUlxDo

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9819625/man-weight-loss-tricked-hypnotherapy-gastric-bypass/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5749943/Britains-fussiest-eater-hooked-sausage-rolls-cured-hypnotherapist.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3260281/Mother-lived-egg-chips-30-YEARS-wedding-hypnotised-eating-proper-meal.html

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/real-life/boy-only-able-eat-beige-25673055

https://www.the-sun.com/news/3513911/teen-plain-pasta-hypnotherapy-food-phobia/

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/girl-10-who-eats-toast-18968993

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/12565778/boy-only-ate-dairylea-sandwiches-food-phobia/

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/diet/boy-who-only-ate-sausages-his-whole-life-cured-of-eating-disorder/news-story/a34b195be5100d3d3917c8a8ed617d1b

https://nypost.com/2021/11/08/tween-has-eaten-nothing-but-chicken-nuggets-her-whole-life/

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/girl-who-only-ate-chicken-19152541

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3710750/Teenager-spent-years-living-bizarre-diet-LEMON-CURD-sandwiches-finally-cured-unusual-eating-disorder-thanks-hypnotherapy.html

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/health/2016/03/22/teen-who-ate-25000-chicken-nuggets-finally-cured-of-food-addiction/

https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/24/woman-enjoys-first-christmas-dinner-after-a-lifetime-of-eating-just-sausages-and-ice-cream-11935655/

With 19 years experience of teaching the basic hand to mouth relaxed eating techniques we have carefully helped hundreds of sufferers to learn how to eat freely having suffered first hand with it for 14 years.

Those with stronger character have been carefully selected to raise awareness of this highly misunderstood eating disorder which affects families across the globe and limits a persons health, functioning and ability to connect with others via food.

Kind, fun, empathic therapies that work to empower children to own their phobia learned at 18mo (normally).

We recommend six fun bite sized 1.5 hr zoom sessions at home or face to face at one of our clinics with controlled systematic desensitisation and gradual exposure during the session (which we would recommend & suggest) to give each person enough session time to develop confidence in trying and form a food vocabulary to eat freely.

We also highly recommend using this MP4 prior to try test to reduce the chance of a stand off, and more importantly to get used to being in the ‘eating state’ known as Rest and Digest in biological terms.

https://www.kilmurrylifecentre.com/product/neophobia-arfid/

We work from the patients perspectives and using cbt techniques allow a person to look from differing perspectives based on logic.

Dos and Donts

Do: not fearmonger. This will lead to more pressure.
Do: Protect your child from well meaning family members that mention mortality based facts
Do: educate on the benefits
Do: Source a good therapist that shows kindness and empathy
Do: Use relaxation techniques YouTube videos that relax a person this will help develop the confidence to eat
Do: introduce and invite conversation about food in a calm way following the mp4 with smiles

We also work with adults with ARFID/ binge eating issues in a similar light but marginally more direct way. The earlier you address it the better, it’s likely that your GP will have said you or your child will grow out of it which is not the case. There is no information on it in the medical journals post age 16 which they reference. It needs professional third party specialist guidance and we won’t just learn to eat without learning how to try foods, how to relax how to develop new foods as normal and then how to eat freely- all of which we can help you or your child to do.

If you are looking for change?

Come to the right place!

Enq: 07747834132

www.kilmurrylifecentre.com

30/05/2025

Getting even more adventurous - well done Tallulah tonight’s breakthroughs everything eaten …AGAIN!!

Spaghetti, quorn bolognaise one tomato one without, garlic bread and halloumi fries just for something extra. She tried it all, the garlic bread was her favourite she ate half a slice!!!

We are all so very proud of you Tallulah - Keep on trying superstar!!!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8z7hdw

If you are looking for change?

Come to the right place!

Enq: 07747834132

www.kilmurrylifecentre.com

29/05/2025

https://www.nationalworld.com/news/woman-has-hypnosis-for-junk-food-phobia-and-eats-burgers-as-medicine-5027101

David Kilmurry Life Coach Therapist UK

David Kilmurry ARFID / Binge Eating Disorder Recovery Highlights for Children Highlight U 'Ctg

29/05/2025

If you can first learn to try foods properly, you can learn to eat freely.

Here is our amazing very sweet friend Leo on his session, learning to eat delicious fruit & highest grade vegetables from Sprouts and Cabbage, to Apples and bananas in our ARFID Recovery programme.

All of these foods are new to Leo but he’s in a relaxed state here and eating normally. Graded desensitisation will make these foods become standard ‘safe foods’ with a controlled regularly try test and lots of positive reassurance.

ARFID is a phobia to the perceived taste of food, in eating an ARFID sufferer struggles to eat at all other senses are overused and the tongue rarely ever gets a chance to try anything interesting /new , it’s normally deemed inedible well before it is actually tasted.

If you want to overcome ARFID we have 20 years and first hand understanding /experience of helping young and less young to freely eat.

Behind breathing oxygen and hydrating ourselves eating is a primal vital life skill which we need to live a normal independent good life and you can learn to eat….at any time of your life. The sooner the better.

If you are looking for change?

Come to the right place!

Enq: 07747834132

www.kilmurrylifecentre.com/book-an-appointment

fans Following Selective Eating Disorder - SED Treatment & Recovery David Kilmurry

ARFID / Binge Eating Disorder Recovery Harley Street

20/03/2025

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/yorkshire-puddings-avoidant-restrictive-food-intake-disorder-151429436.html

For seven years, the main food Tallulah Dent would eat was Yorkshire puddings. Finally, being diagnosed with ARFID changed her life.

07/11/2024

How do you know you don’t like it…. If you haven’t tried it???

Expert on ARFID recovery with Ex- ARFID Sufferer



All you need to know as a parent/partner

The Kilmurry Life Centre is unique in that we get regular newsworthy results with our Patients young and less young.

The food phobia known as ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) also SED Selective Eating Disorder also Neophobia

Here are some of the National and International Press articles that detail accurately our proud patients recoveries from

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3723295/The-boy-ate-sausages-beans-11-year-old-terrified-food-cured-thanks-hypnotherapy.html

https://www.real-fix.com/health/schoolgirls-bizarre-phobia-cured-after-a-lifetime-of-only-eating-toast/

https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/believe-it-or-not-this-teenager-ate-plain-pasta-and-croissants-for-a-decade-due-to-the-fear-of-new-food-article-95530766

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/woman-who-only-ate-crisp-27080839

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2265799/Man-addicted-cake-cured-hypnotherapy-Supermarket-worker-Adam-Williams-loses-4-stone.html

https://metro.co.uk/2022/12/11/boy-who-only-ate-beige-food-now-eats-fruit-and-veg-after-hypnosis-17916946/

https://youtu.be/4rk31KUlxDo

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9819625/man-weight-loss-tricked-hypnotherapy-gastric-bypass/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5749943/Britains-fussiest-eater-hooked-sausage-rolls-cured-hypnotherapist.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3260281/Mother-lived-egg-chips-30-YEARS-wedding-hypnotised-eating-proper-meal.html

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/real-life/boy-only-able-eat-beige-25673055

https://www.the-sun.com/news/3513911/teen-plain-pasta-hypnotherapy-food-phobia/

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/girl-10-who-eats-toast-18968993

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/12565778/boy-only-ate-dairylea-sandwiches-food-phobia/

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/diet/boy-who-only-ate-sausages-his-whole-life-cured-of-eating-disorder/news-story/a34b195be5100d3d3917c8a8ed617d1b

https://nypost.com/2021/11/08/tween-has-eaten-nothing-but-chicken-nuggets-her-whole-life/

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/girl-who-only-ate-chicken-19152541

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3710750/Teenager-spent-years-living-bizarre-diet-LEMON-CURD-sandwiches-finally-cured-unusual-eating-disorder-thanks-hypnotherapy.html

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/health/2016/03/22/teen-who-ate-25000-chicken-nuggets-finally-cured-of-food-addiction/

https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/24/woman-enjoys-first-christmas-dinner-after-a-lifetime-of-eating-just-sausages-and-ice-cream-11935655/

With 20 years experience of patiently finding a bridge to the gap, teaching the basic hand to mouth (relaxed) eating techniques we have carefully helped hundreds of sufferers to learn how to eat freely having suffered first hand with beige processed foods for 14 years.

Those with stronger character have been carefully selected to raise human awareness of this highly misunderstood, dangerous eating disorder which affects families across the globe and limits a persons health, functioning and ability to connect with others via food.

The word Fussy is unnecessary and one reason that health practitioners get it wrong. Fussy implies being finicky or having a choice, as a phobia of what food might taste like there is no choice.

It’s NOT Anorexia, my sleepless nights often involve thoughts of my fellow sufferers being influenced into believing their ARFID is Anorexia, a diagnosis of Anorexia will get your child sectioned, tranquillised and heavy handedly pressurised into eating something that they have no understanding of what it tastes like.

There is pressure from the public for the NHS to at least do something about the epidemic of ARFID but this route will make it many times worse - ignorance makes it worse.

How We Help:

Kind, fun, empathic therapies that work to empower children to own their phobia learned at 18mo (normally). Graded desensitisation, cbt, nlp, learning to try foods, to open hearts and good old moral support do just fine

We recommend six fun bite sized weekly 1.5 hr zoom sessions at home with controlled systematic desensitisation and gradual exposure during the session (which we would recommend & suggest) to give each person enough session time to develop confidence in trying and form a food vocabulary to the final stages and goal - to eat freely.

We work from the patients perspectives and using cbt techniques allow a person to look from differing perspectives based on logic.

Dos and Donts

* Do not try to fix it yourself - it needs an expert versed in ARFID language and self talk to help them reframe fears and know when the anxiety is present.
* Avoid emotion. Emotional pleading, blackmailing are all unhelpful
* All food is good food, every mealtime is hard when we only know a few foods, we all need food so before treatment help your child or partner by not commenting help them feel relaxed distractions are helpful.
* Do not fear monger about health risks will lead to feelings of more pressure.
* Do protect your child from well meaning family members that mention mortality based facts or try to ‘fix us’ with force
* Do educate on the benefits of the right therapy
* Don’t join forums online that aren’t helpful or suggest that ARFID is incurable
* Do have hope
* Do relaxation techniques YouTube meditations that relax a person this will help develop the confidence to eat & attain the eating state.
* Do purchase this mP4 specific to learning the skill of Rest & Digest

https://www.kilmurrylifecentre.com/product/neophobia/

Do: introduce and invite conversation about food in a calm way following the mp4 with smiles, reassurance and without pressure.

When we work with adults with ARFID/ binge eating issues we in a similar light but marginally more direct way.

If you are looking for change?

Come to the right place!

Enq: 07747834132

www.kilmurrylifecentre.com

16/10/2024

Very much honoured to receive this amazing unexpected review from Nikki

Thank you so much and an honour to be a part of the recovery.

Well Done my friends ###

If you are an adult suffering with ARFID

Please feel free to pick up the phone with no judgement we can definitely help you. Eating starts with learning the baseline foods, we are born to , it’s nature and it will snowball once the basics are there. ✅

Enq: 07747834132

www.kilmurrylifecentre.com

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