Tired of Cravings Controlling You?
It’s Time to Take Your Power Back.
If you’ve ever felt like cravings hijack your brain—making you eat when you’re not even hungry—you’re not alone.
The good news?
Cravings aren’t commands.
They’re just waves of desire.
And like ocean waves, they rise, peak and fade.
The craving will pass. The app helps you wait it out.
Urges are like waves. They rise, they peak, and — if you don't act on them — they pass. Every time.
The problem isn't the craving. It's that most people give in at the peak because they don't realise it's about to fade. The Urge Surfing app is there in that moment — to help you ride it out rather than give in to it.
What Is Urge Surfing?
Urge surfing is a technique attributed to the late Alan Marlatt PhD, a clinical psychologist and research pioneer in the field of treating addictions. The idea is simple: instead of fighting a craving or immediately acting on it, you observe it with curiosity.
You notice where it lives in your body. You notice how it feels. You notice that it changes — that it rises, peaks, and starts to ease — without you doing anything at all.
An urge only feels powerful because you've always responded to it before it had a chance to pass.
Allow it to simply be there and pass in its own time and urges will start showing up less often and they will be less intense.
"The focus is on identifying and accepting the urge, not acting on the urge or attempting to fight it." — Alan Marlatt
This app is for you if…
— You find yourself eating when you're not hungry and wondering how that happened
— You feel like cravings hijack you before you've had a chance to think
— You've tried willpower and it works for a while, then stops
— You want to understand what's actually driving the eating, not just manage it
— You're ready to try something that works with your mind rather than against it
Step-by-step support, right when you need it.
The Urge Surfing app guides you through the process in real time — in the moment, when a craving hits, when you'd normally just give in.
It walks you through noticing the craving rather than reacting to it. It helps you stay with the discomfort long enough to see it shift. And over time, as you build up experience of urges passing without acting on them, they change.
The urges probably won't disappear overnight, but they start feeling less urgent, less commanding, less like something that has to be dealt with right now.
Developed by a clinical dietitian and eating psychology coach with nearly 20 years of experience — and used successfully with hundreds of clients — this is the most effective single tool I've found for breaking the craving cycle.
It doesn’t suppress urges, it helps you see them for what they actually are.
Why cravings feel so powerful — and why they don't have to:
Every time you give in to a craving, the brain strengthens the association: this feeling leads to this behaviour, and this behaviour brings relief. The pathway gets worn a little deeper. Next time the feeling arrives, the pull is a little stronger.
Nothing has gone wrong, it's just how the brain learns.
But the reverse is also true. Every time you experience a craving without acting on it — every time you ride the wave instead of giving in at the peak — the pathway weakens. The urge loses a little of its urgency. Over time, what felt like an overwhelming compulsion starts to feel more like a passing thought.
One payment. No subscription. Yours to keep.
AUD$12.99
No ongoing fees, no monthly charges, no catch. Just a simple, effective tool available on your phone whenever you need it.
It’s easy to use.
It's with you in the palm of your hand when cravings hit.
It really can put an end to cravings for good.
Available on Apple and Android
A note from Caroline:
I developed this app because I kept seeing the same thing in my clinic: people who understood, intellectually, that cravings pass — but who needed something in the moment, when understanding flies out the window and the biscuit tin is right there.
The app is that something.
It's a genuinely useful tool for the moments when your logical, rational mind feels very far away.
If you want to understand more about urge surfing before you download — I did an interview with dietitian Amanda Clarke where I walk through the process and show you inside the app. Worth a watch…
Download the URGE SURFING App NOW!
The craving feels urgent.
It isn't.
It’s temporary. It will pass.
The app just helps you sit with it for long enough to see that for yourself.
See for yourself how temporary they actually are.
Over time, urges that once felt overwhelming start to feel like passing background noise.