Clarissa Kennedy

01/26/2026

When it comes to eating disorders, there is truly no one I respect more locally than Dr. Anita Federici. Her work is deeply compassionate, science-grounded, and profoundly human. She sees people, not diagnoses. And that matters… a lot.

If you’ve ever felt frustrated by the oversimplified advice to “just eat” or wondered why recovery can feel so complex and layered, this conversation is for you. Eating disorders are not a willpower issue. They are not a character flaw. They are rooted in the nervous system, the brain, sensory processing, metabolism, and lived experience. 🧠💞

✨ Beyond “Just Eat:” Understanding the Hidden Complexities of Eating Disorders
with Dr. Anita Federici
🗓 Tuesday, February 3 | 6–7 PM
💻 FREE & Online

With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Federici gently unpacks what often goes unseen:
• Sensory sensitivities
• Interoceptive and perceptual differences
• Neurobiological and metabolic drivers of restriction, bingeing, and avoidance

She’ll also highlight ARFID as an example of how eating disorders can exist far outside the narrow stereotypes many of us were taught.
If you’re a parent, clinician, educator, or someone quietly struggling yourself, this is an opportunity to feel more informed, more compassionate, and less alone. 🌱

Please consider joining… and if it resonates, help spread the word. Sometimes understanding is the first form of care. 💛 Sign up in the link shared below!

12/02/2025

✨ We are blown away. In just 48 hours, both of our Liberation Retreats are almost SOLD OUT! 💜

We’re officially opening the remaining spaces to everyone, and there are only a handful left across both dates.

🌿 Retreat Dates (choose one):
📅 May 1–5, 2026 — 2 spots left
📅 May 7–11, 2026 — 3 spots left
Shared room • Individual beds • Cozy + connected ✨
Cost: $930 USD
Deposit: $400 due within 14 days
Full payment: due within 30 days

📍 Location: Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
🌸 Format: 4 nights / 3 full days

This retreat is a gentle, embodied reset — a return to yourself through compassion, curiosity, and community.

🌿 What’s Included:
💜 Daily regulation practices (movement, grounding, breathwork)
💜 Facilitated process groups for emotional integration
💜 Quiet time for journaling, reflection + nature
💜 Pre-retreat + post-retreat sessions
💜 1:1 nutritional consultation
💜 Recovery-aligned meals (SF/FF/SF dinners)
💜 Topics: shame, self-compassion, shadow work, relapse prevention, identity + resilience
💜 Special Guest: Dr. Vera Tarman (both retreats)

🌱 Why It Matters
Recovery isn’t perfection — it’s coming home to yourself. These retreats are designed for deep support, slow integration, and being truly witnessed in a small, safe, intimate group.

🌟 Ready to reserve your spot? Email info@sweetsobriety.ca with:
💜 Your preferred date
💜 Confirmation that a shared room with an individual bed works for you
We’d be honored to support your healing, growth, and reconnection — body, mind, and spirit.

💜 Molly & Clarissa
Sweet Sobriety

Retreat Link in Bio 🔗

11/08/2025

Your system is asking for triage, not reinvention.

There are seasons where your life is so full, your body so tired, your heart so stretched, that the idea of “redesigning your life” is overwhelming.

And yet your mind keeps saying:

Something has to change.

But here’s the truth most of us miss:

You don’t need to overhaul your life when you’re exhausted or unwell. You need to reduce the load so you can see clearly again.

When your system is at capacity:
• You’ll feel more emotional
• Your relationships feel more fragile
• Work feels heavier
• Your body feels slower
• Everything feels personal

This does not mean you’re failing.
It means you’re tired or that your system is maxed out biologically.

And when you’re in this place, the task is not to:
• Rewrite your whole schedule
• Fix every relationship
• Make bold new decisions
• Push harder

The task is:

Do the next effective thing.
The smallest real thing that preserves your energy and keeps you on your path.

Maybe that means:
• The simplest meal
• 10 minutes outside
• Moving one meeting
• One clear boundary
• Going to bed earlier
• Making one small financial adjustment

Not to change everything.

Just to keep you steady.

Because stability is what makes clarity possible.

You don’t find your way back by intensity.
You find it by gentleness and sequence.

One thing at a time.
The next effective thing.
You move forward … without abandoning yourself.

You don’t need to transform today.

You just need to stay.

11/04/2025

I could not be more excited about this 🙌✨

Feeling incredibly grateful to live in a community like Parry Sound where we’re not just talking about doing health differently…. we’re actually DOING it.

To be part of the CLIP-ON Lifestyle Medicine Program with a team brave enough to look beyond traditional models and treat ROOT causes instead of SYMPTOMS feels like a dream.

This program doesn’t tiptoe around the truth. It understands that ultra-processed food addiction is a real and critical piece of the health puzzle. When we name it, we remove shame. We stop blaming willpower for something that was never about willpower in the first place, but about products engineered to hijack our biology and override our best intentions.

Knowledge gives people their power back. It’s bold. It’s compassionate. And it’s how we help individuals reclaim their health, their freedom, and their lives.

This team is leaning into:
Real nutrition 🌿
Movement that feels good 🏃‍♀️
Sleep support 😴
Stress reduction 🧘‍♂️
Community connection 🤝
And compassionate, science-based behaviour change 🧬💛

Northern Ontario leading the way? Yes please.
Healthcare that meets people where they are? Absolutely.
Hope, empowerment, and evidence-based support? Count me in.

Here’s to rural innovation, healing through lifestyle, and believing deeply that people don’t just deserve to survive, they deserve to THRIVE.

Let’s change lives. Let’s change systems.
And let’s make wellness accessible for everyone. 💚✨

Anyone interested in CLIP can email:
lifestylemedicineps@gmail.com

09/26/2025

I was very honoured to be featured in Parry Sound Life Magazine this month! I didn’t realize I was searching for the “perfect” place to live until I landed in Parry Sound AND it turns out I’d already found it. Sometimes the right place isn’t something you chase down, it’s the one that quietly feels like home the moment you settle in.

I came up here to finish school, but the way this place calmed my nervous system made me never want to leave. Staying turned out to be the BEST decision I’ve ever made.

I feel so lucky to have landed in a place that somehow manages to smell like pine trees, fresh water, serenity and all the seasons all at once. The very scents most people have to buy at Bath & Body Works.

I feel deeply grateful today for the life I’ve been able to create here, the people who make it feel like mine, and the reminder that sometimes home isn’t just where you live, it’s where you’re known.



You can find the online version at the link in my bio 🔗 Page 42

09/25/2025

I’m delighted to be a featured speaker at the 11th Annual Kick Sugar Summit: Super Bundle Edition, streaming free from October 2–12, 2025

This life-changing event features 50+ leading doctors, scientists, and recovery experts revealing the science and strategies you need to break free from sugar and ultra-processed food.

If you have been struggling with sugar cravings, yo-yo dieting, blood sugar swings, fatigue, compulsive eating, chronic illness and can’t seem to find recovery - this summit is for you.

But wait, it gets better…

This year’s summit is commencing fundraising for a documentary exposing our ultra-processed food crisis and the science-backed strategies that offer a way out.

When you donate to support the film, you’ll get their summit Super Bundle—a massive collection of expert gifts, success stories, coaching tools, ebooks, and more. It’s unlike any summit bundle we have seen before.

🎟️ Save your free seat here: https://smpl.ro/al/1NqTgbsPGGp4wBmdszwSji1C/55988-Clarissa-Kennedy

Link in Bio to sign up!

08/22/2025

I’m so excited to share that I was interviewed on the Exception Seekers Podcast! 🎙✨

If you’ve got young people in your life—or if you’re passionate about supporting youth mental health—you don’t want to miss this one. Exception Seekers flips the script on conventional thinking and dives into the stories and insights that bring fresh, evidence-based perspectives to how we care for our kids’ mental well-being.

Their mission? To spotlight the exceptions—the overlooked voices and transformative ideas—that challenge old beliefs and inspire new, more compassionate approaches. 🌱💡

Truly an amazing listen for parents, educators, and anyone who cares about the next generation.

08/14/2025

Why Your Story Matters — and Why We Need You at IFACC 2025
International Food Addiction and Comorbidities Conference

📍 Live in London + Livestream | 🗓 Sept 4–5, 2025 | 🎓 13 CPD Hours
🎟️ 40% OFF with code: SSO → https://www.the-chc.org/fas/conference

If you’ve ever battled sugar addiction…
If you’ve ever felt dismissed, misunderstood, or told your cravings were “just willpower”…
If you’ve reclaimed your life from the grip of ultra-processed foods...
You are the evidence that healing is possible.

But here’s the truth:
Too many are still suffering in silence.
Too many are being told that what they’re experiencing isn’t real.
And the world’s leading health authorities have yet to fully recognize food addiction for what it is—a brain-based, systemic, and urgent public health crisis. That’s where IFACC comes in.

The International Food Addiction and Comorbidities Conference is more than a gathering. It’s a movement. A mission. A global call to action.

🧩 Why Your Support Matters
Your presence at IFACC 2025 helps do something extraordinary:
✅ Build the case for food addiction to be recognized by the World Health Organization
✅ Validate your lived experience and the stories of millions
✅ Empower science, policy, and clinical care to catch up with what you already know—Recovery is real.

Food addiction is real. And we deserve better care. When you attend, you’re not just learning. You’re leading. You're showing the world that lived experience has power—and that together, we can rewrite the narrative.

🔥 Conference Highlights
🧠 Day 1 (Sept 4): The neuroscience, stories, and truth of food addiction
❤️ Day 2 (Sept 5): Comorbidities, metabolic illness, and whole-person healing

🎤 Featuring speakers like:
• Dr. Georgia Ede • Dr. Nicole Avena • Dr. Tro Kalayjian
• Karen Thomson • Dr. Kim Dennis • Dr. David Unwin • Dr. Erica LaFata
Full list of speakers here: https://www.the-chc.org/fas/conference

💡 You’ll walk away with:
✔️ Cutting-edge research
✔️ Practical strategies for healing
✔️ A sense of being seen, heard, and no longer alone

🎟️ Act Now — Use Code: SSO for 40% Off
Whether you attend in-person in London or livestream from home, your ticket isn’t just access—it’s advocacy.
It says: “My story matters. And food addiction deserves a seat at the global table.”

Let’s change the conversation. Let’s change the system. Let’s change the future of health—together.

The International Food Addiction and Comorbidities Conference (IFACC) 2025 will take place at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Euston Square, London, England. This event will provide a platform for the latest research and clinical experience in Food Addiction and its comorbidities,

07/22/2025

07/03/2025

Exciting news! After months of collaboration with an incredible team of international researchers, clinicians, and experts, our new study on Ultra-Processed Food Addiction (UPFA) has just been published! 📚✨

🔍 What is UPFA?
It's a chronic condition where compulsive consumption of ultra-processed foods affects brain circuits, genetics, and life experiences. It's not just about overeating — it's about addiction-like behaviors that can be as serious as addiction to substances like drugs and alcohol.

📈 What's Next?
This consensus is a call for more research into treatment protocols, effective interventions, and understanding the risk factors (genetics, environment, and early exposure). It’s also a major step towards getting UPFA officially recognized in global health frameworks like the ICD-11.

📝 Read the full study here: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1542905/full