Intuitive Eating

Break free from your worries about weight and body image.

If you didn’t spend all your time worrying about what you ate or criticizing your body, what would you do with all that “extra” time?

Intuitive eating is an approach to food that gets you out of your head and back into your body.

This approach requires a willingness to set your weight loss goals aside, so you have room for other behaviors that cultivate a healthy relationship with food and your body.

Leave it all behind!

There’s no way around it; rejecting the diet mentality is the first (and arguably most important) principle of Intuitive Eating. So that’s where our work together will start. This work means incorporating some of the foods that you only let yourself have when you’re “off the wagon,” so to speak. But there won’t be a wagon this time.

Sound scary? It certainly can be. But that’s why I’m here! If you trust the process and keep an open mind, you’ll learn how dieting behaviors fuel the deprivation you experience just before you decide to eat the whole package of cookies and have a “cheat day.”

Understanding the dieting-binge-guilt cycle will empower you to challenge the Food Police. (You know, those dudes who live in your psyche and make all those rules about eating and exercise.)

Just imagine! After standing up to the Food Police, foods will be foods – not good, not bad, and not morally superior or inferior. Attending to your hunger and fullness will come more naturally. You’ll eat what you want, when you want it, and won’t overdo it.

But wait!

You might wonder, “What if eating whatever I want leads to ‘unhealthy’ eating forever?” Uh-oh! Things just got interesting! You just asked the million-dollar question. The simple answer is it won’t!

When you stop believing that foods are good or bad, or healthy or unhealthy, honoring your hunger looks different every day. Sometimes, you might like eating a crunchy salad filled with vegetables. Other times, eating two ice cream sandwiches sounds like a better idea.

When you give yourself full permission to eat the foods you so often try to avoid, they aren’t as sparkly as they were when they were forbidden. Your body’s wiring makes you seek a variety of foods when a variety of foods are available and abundant.

Are you an emotional eater?

Disordered eating behaviors (like going too long without food during the day and then eating a large amount while checking out and watching TV each night) often disrupt our natural hunger and fullness cues.

If you turn to food whenever you feel stressed, sad, bored, or happy, you may be skeptical about this whole Intuitive Eating thing. I don’t blame you. I’ve been there myself.

We naturally seek food as comfort and use it to distract ourselves. As you implement Intuitive Eating practices, you’ll become more aware of the link between eating habits and your emotional state. We’ll identify ways to soothe, distract, and resolve any negative emotions you experience – without turning to food.

Respect your body and take back your power.

The work we’ll do together is as much about your body relearning to trust yourself as it is about you relearning to trust your body. Working with your body instead of against it builds that trust. So that’s what we’ll do.

Instead of spending many more years trying to “fix” yourself and your body by dieting, it’s time to turn the page and start a new chapter in your life.

Live and eat how you want to – without feeling bad about it. Listen to your body.

Honor the signals it sends you that tell you what it needs. Reach out now to start your Intuitive Eating journey!