Deep Nourishment
Coaching
Women are not small men.
We have unique physiological needs — what looks like dysfunction is an adaptation to a non-woman-centered world.
I work 1:1 with women who are untangling from the chaos + noise of the “natural health” community, are tired of being at odds with their bodies…who are ready to trust, love, and deeply nourish their bodies.
Your body is magic
Your body matters
Your body is your home
As women, we receive deep social programming that leads us to discomfort and distrust in our bodies.
In the alternative health realm, this programming is weaponized to make us even more obsessed, with higher and higher hoops to jump through in order to be “good women”.
Most of the noise out there isn’t about grounding into your body, listening to your inner hunger, or deeply accepting the magical being that you already are.
You might have a cupboard full of thousands of dollars worth of supplements or “superfoods” and shelves littered with the books of remnants of philosophies you’ve tried and abandoned.
Your deepest shame, however, is that somewhere deep inside of you, you know that you’re using the alternative health ideals to cover up deeply disordered eating patterns.
Sister, I understand.
My own body, food, and healing journey has been one wild and epic adventure, with many twists and turns along the way.
I was raised by a mother with an eating disorder that she hid from and masked with obsessive “natural foods” philosophies. I grew my tiny body on a mostly-raw and mostly-vegan, undercaloried diet. I was fed a constant mental diet of incessant comments from my mother about her body’s size and looks (even though she was always very tiny and thin).
As a young adult, I dove straight into raw veganism, fruitarianism, and even entertained ideas of breatharianism (can anything get more eating disordered than that?). I grew my 2 tiny babies in my body with these ideals, which sucked every bit of life out of me.
The years that followed saw me through piles and piles of books, websites, gurus, raw-vegan-fruitarian-paleo-zero-carb-eat-everything-because-I-want-to-scream diets, and then some. I wanted desperately to crawl out of my skin, and my IBS, chronic fatigue, and brain fog was unrelenting. Nothing helped. Exercise landed me on the couch for the rest of the day. Juice fasts saw me gaining weight.
All along, I secretly knew that my body shame was at the core of it all…but I also desperately wanted to feel good and alive.
And slowly, slowly I started to find my way out of the fog. Many steps forward and some steps back. One piece at a time, I found grounding, healing, and vitality. My journey is still underway and will be for years to come, as healing is a beautifully slow and unraveling journey.
But one thing is for sure — my story isn’t unique, as I watch women everywhere suffering behind their “I eat healthy” masks, wishing so hard that they could just wake up one day and feel good…and most of all, stop obsessing.
Deep Nourishment Session
$125 for 90 minutes
We’ll meet on Zoom (or in-person, if you’re local)
For holistic-minded women who have fallen into dogmatic thinking around food, feel unwell, and are using alternative health to cover up their disordered eating and body discomfort
Together we will…
Focus on unwinding the obsessions, challenging your dogmatic rules, titrating out of a “have to eat squeaky clean” mentality, and sitting with feeling fully in our bodies instead of constantly trying to escape
Draw focus to other areas of well-being that matter too: quality sleep, spiritual devotion, movement that feels good (not obsessive), lots of rest, activities you love, experiencing fulfillment in life (career or passion), relationships, self-perception, self-kindness and acceptance
Set a realistic and kind understanding of how slowly our bodies need us to make changes for healing, learning to find satisfaction in slowness, and to develop a deep respect for our bodies’ wisdom
Also work on overcoming naturalistic fallacy types of philosophies, embrace the imperfection of being human, and learn to embody the miracle of being alive
Then work to bring balance to food intake, understand the biology and physiology of the body, work with imperfections, and find joy in eating again
Frequently Asked Questions
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My views around nutrition are based around my own experiences of being raised raw vegan, having raw vegan pregnancies and postpartum experiences, and the intense body issues that came from not eating animal foods. I’ve been researching ancestral and nourishing foodways for over 20 years, including multiple trainings in holistic health. I'm also currently undertaking a masters degree in functional nutrition. I believe that humans were made for whole foods centered around animal foods and whole carbohydrates. I believe we are all running on under-nourishment and sluggish metabolisms, which we experience as chronic fatigue and organ systems that are underperforming (or sometimes frantically over-performing). Women have unique needs, especially when it comes to our chronic stress-inducing society. I also believe that food is love and stress about food is just as destructive as eating the foods that aren’t “healthy.” You can read more about my experiences and philosophy on my blog.
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If you have a history of disordered eating, absolutely not. There are better ways to assess how well your body is doing, and to figure out how much you're actually eating. I’m interested in knowing how nutritionally dense your food is, and how much you love what you eat. I might suggest that you track your protein intake for a few days, as you learn what “enough” protein looks like for a woman. But we will work with what feels good for you and your body. This is not a one-size-fits-all approach.
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I want you to feel good. Like really, truly, amazingly good. I believe that the more women who feel whole, energetic, and happy in their lives, the more we all benefit. If we feel well, we’re able to work on the other parts of our lives that aren’t working well: such as familial traumas, dysfunctional coping patterns, etc. I believe that wellbeing is the key to solving our world issues, because people that feel good will mirror that out into the world. And I believe it is your birthright to feel good the vast majority of the time.
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I’m a food first kind of girl, and I tend to be pretty skeptical of supplements (especially when they line the pockets of people who have questionable ethics). That said, for some people a minimal few supplements might be the answer to helping you overcome severe deficiencies so you can finally heal. The end goal, however, is for all of us to get as many minerals and vitamins from food as we possibly can!
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I’m a big fan of helping others to feel well-nourished through food, and then finding the other areas of your life that need support. This includes sleep, breathing, mindset, nervous system regulation, relationships, career/business/purpose, spirituality, motherhood, and more. It’s all interconnected, and wellbeing is about ALL of it. Adding nourishment is an amazing place to start, as it is an energetic signal to your nervous system that you are worth caring for. We’ll go as deep as you’re willing to go, with resources and support along the way. My ultimate goal is to help you uncover your wholeness and feel free in your life.
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The quick answer to this is, no, this is not for you if you are in the thick of a diagnosed eating disorder journey. This is for women who have disordered eating patterns which is different from anorexia or bulimia, etc. Those eating disorders require intensive treatment that is specialized to them. I work with women who are struggling with the common cultural fixation on food, which is changed with behavioral and belief alterations, and aren't necessarily acute or life-threatening. If you have a diagnosed eating disorder, or you suspect that you do, please seek help. You matter and your healing is important.