Even health professionals like doctors and other dietitians often give misguided advice, making eating a challenge. I love helping people uncover what it is about their bodies and about their eating that they are struggling with, and help them heal - using a non-diet approach.
I’ve learned that most of the world around us doesn’t “get it” when it comes to having a healthy relationship with food.
My passion is to help women learn to
trust and accept
their bodies, so they can also have peace with food.
I grew up in a small town in Iowa. I’ve always been into teaching, science and psychology. Before studying dietetics I thought about becoming a special education teacher, and then a criminal profiler.
Somehow nutrition caught my eye and it has turned out to be the perfect blend of my interests. Using nutrition therapy to help people find peace with food allows me to be part teacher, part scientist, part therapist. And I scratch my itch for solving crimes with true crime podcasts.
I studied dietetics at Iowa State University (go Cyclones!) and attended grad school at the University of Kansas Medical Center. While working with breast cancer survivors in and after grad school, I encountered the deep psychology behind the way women feel about their bodies, and the way this drives them to make decisions about their eating. From there I landed in the field of eating disorders.
I’ve worked in many settings throughout the nutrition and eating disorders field, and have found my home in outpatient private practice, online coaching and podcasting where I can help people with compulsive and disordered eating find peace in their everyday lives.
My story
I love helping people find peace within themselves - about their bodies and about their eating - using a non-diet approach.
ice cream, cereal, bananas
food
The Office, Parks and Rec, Criminal Minds
tv shows
The First Degree, The Jasmine Star Show, My Favorite Murder
podcasts
Intuitive Eating, Health At Every Size, Linchpin
books
Ireland
place to visit
my favorites...
I’m a terrible cook
I appeared on the TV show Modern Marvels
One year I went skydiving for my birthday
I am married to my high school sweetheart
(like, really bad)
fun facts...
In addition to my signature online course, Non-Diet Academy, I also have several other digital products and programs to help YOU find freedom with food.
I'm Also A Course Creator!
Since I've been full-time I started my blog which now has over 500 posts!
2014: LAUNCHED MY BLOG
I saw a handful of clients on the side while working my regular full-time job between hospital and corporate wellness.
2012: STARTED MY COMPANY
A bit more about me.. . .
I started my company in 2012, seeing a handful of clients on the side while still working my regular full-time job split between the hospital and corporate wellness.
Since then my private practice grew to full-time and I launched my signature online course and coaching program, Non-Diet Academy in 2021 and have since helped 1000+ women who are in or near perimenopause to finally feel at peace with food, their body, and their health.
Company History
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Health At Every Size: Applications for Dietitians (Kansas City Dietetic Association)
Getting Clients Out of Their Heads and Into Their Bodies (Florence Crittenton Conference)
Hitting the Wall of Self-Care (Eating Disorders In Sport Conference)
Walking the Tightrope: Managing Co-Occurring Illness and Inflammation in Eating Disorders (International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Webinar Series for Professionals)
Exercise: Friend or Foe? (Children’s Mercy Kansas City)
Simple Strategies for Surviving the Holidays (Menorah Medical Center Bariatric Support Group)
What is Normal Eating? (Middle and high schools)
Popular Presentations I've Given
"Honesty, when I wake up in the mornings and remember I don't have to track/weigh my food, diet or step on the scale, I'm instantly so happy." — Chastity R.
"It feels like I have total freedom. Becoming more engaged in life has been the most fun.
"and I know how to listen to my body to know when I am full or hungry, if something is enjoyable to me or not, and if a food is upsetting my body in any way." — Keturah S.
"I am no longer afraid of food. I enjoy food in moderation...
"but I asked my body, and it actually wasn't interested! So I listened and I didn't have one. I'm still very new to intuitive eating, but I was so happy to find that it's all sinking in!" — Leigh A.
"Someone brought in a big box of donuts to work yesterday, and normally I would have one...
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