CHOCOHOLICS who want to curb their addiction can now get support from a Worcestershire woman while helping to raise money for a children’s bereavement charity.

Chocolate coach and author of Chocolate Rehab Carrie Eddins will be at the Bromsgrove Rugby Club tomorrow to help ‘addicts’.

“First of all it’s important to take it seriously,” Mrs Eddins said. “Chocolate addiction is a very strong addiction and a lot of people when they are in a stressful situation, they go for chocolate.”

The course, which costs £70 for the day, or £40 each if you bring a friend, works on a step-programme and will also show how the food affects your mood and hormone levels.

Ms Eddins is one of only two chocolate coaches in the world, and overcame her decade-long addiction to chocolate through checking herself into her own chocolate rehab in 2004.

Three-and-a-half years later she has written a book about how she overcame it with a view to help inspire other women in particular to do the same – and the message of the book is how to indulge less in chocolate and more in life. “I’m not against or anti-chocolate, it’s all about whether they feel they can benefit from not having as much,” she said.

In her book, Chocolate Rehab, Ms Eddins writes about some of the touching, poignant and often embarrassingly honest aspects of her journey in an effort to really see how she could help to inspire other women to do the same.

She also wants them to take their addiction to chocolate seriously so as to learn how to indulge less in chocolate and more in life.

The book is aimed at women, but some male chocolate addicts might like it too.

A donation of £10 a person will be given to the Noah’s Ark Trust, a charity which helps bereaved children and their families in the counties of Worcestershire and Herefordshire.

“I hadn’t come across this type of charity before and I just thought it was a lovely idea,” Mrs Eddins said.

“Women can relate to family life and it can be a very traumatic experience to lose a loved one, so it is great that they are there to help.”

Currently, the trust is looking for a new home within the city which it can rent at a peppercorn rate.

To find out more about the event, visit noahsark trust.co.uk or visit chocolate rehab.com.

Ms Edkins is currently organising coaching and seminars around the world in tandem with her book launch.

For further information, call 01527 831692.