Nourish with Kathleen Meehan MS RD

Nourish with Kathleen Meehan MS RD Nutrition counseling to help you heal your relationship with food and end the cycle of disordered eating.

Life lately 🍀
04/09/2025

Life lately 🍀

hope this helps
03/31/2025

hope this helps

yes, this is a soundbite. yes, nuance is necessary. but this is basically it.
02/26/2025

yes, this is a soundbite. yes, nuance is necessary. but this is basically it.

i woke up mad. eating disorder prevention requires access to enough food. controlling people’s access to ALL types of fo...
02/26/2025

i woke up mad. eating disorder prevention requires access to enough food. controlling people’s access to ALL types of food is paternalistic.

no, we don’t know what programs will be cut for sure, but the chatter around social food aid programs has not been reassuring.

donate to your local food banks. and if you have any other suggestions please comment resources or local mutual aid belo...
01/28/2025

donate to your local food banks. and if you have any other suggestions please comment resources or local mutual aid below.



btw - if you’re here for disordered eating and eating disorder support, please know this is all related. without consistent access to enough food and the option to seek out pleasurable foods you enjoy, there is no recovery.

Don’t misunderstand the need for nuance here - please. But recognize that access to copious amounts of food is a human r...
01/27/2025

Don’t misunderstand the need for nuance here - please. But recognize that access to copious amounts of food is a human right many don’t experience. Blatant disregard for science and chemophobia really cannot exist alongside progressive values. The MAHA changes are not a silver lining or a “conversation starter.” This perspective is tied to classism and healthism.

Nuance here! You can like your pasture raised and your grass fed and your locally grown. That is okay. But Chemophobia that makes an already exorbitant food system more expensive and inaccessible isn’t promoting health. Disrupting our entire supply chain because people can’t safely show up to work isn’t promoting health (for anyone, but especially - most importantly - for those who don’t feel safe). Preventing alerting the public to recalls isn’t MAHA.

This isn’t to say our food system can’t evolve - fine. You can value holistic health and also understand social determinants of health and how nutrition relates to the big picture. If your public health food policy isn’t considering the most marginalized, who’s it for? Because if the pricy “free from” product helps some but not all, what are we even doing? I don’t have the answers here but if we can’t acknowledge the privilege in MAHA, 😮‍💨.

I need to go touch grass. I love when the internet accuses me of ~ not caring about health~ The truth is, I do care. I’m...
01/16/2025

I need to go touch grass. I love when the internet accuses me of ~ not caring about health~ The truth is, I do care. I’m just begging for an ounce of nuance. Begging. Homework is assigned - it’s explore dichotomous thinking, chemophobia/orthorexia, logical fallacies and social determinants of health. Ta ta!

harmless in the grand scheme of things, but this interaction served as a reminder of how impressionable children are. an...
09/19/2024

harmless in the grand scheme of things, but this interaction served as a reminder of how impressionable children are. and because IG always benefits from nuance - of course, describing food as “fresh” can technically be done neutrally, but i’m skeptical that was the case given how we often talk about food. something tells me the opposite of fresh is processed.

when talking to kids about food, less is more. solidarity to all parents working to unravel all this nonsense, and extra solidarity to those who feel like the world around us is just winding it right back up again. keep going, it’s so important.

CW - pregnancy disclosure and discussion. As a dietitian and person who’s now been pregnant a few times, I truly believe...
01/18/2024

CW - pregnancy disclosure and discussion.

As a dietitian and person who’s now been pregnant a few times, I truly believe your body will gain the weight it needs to gain to support a growing baby. This differs vastly from what I was taught, and is another reminder that lived experience matters so much more than what the textbooks say. It’s my belief that the ‘guidelines’ are fatphobic nonsense that do nothing to help support a healthy relationship with food and body. There is so much anti-fat bias within the pregnancy world, it’s astounding. The idea that we are able to, and should, control the way our bodies change - in general! - but especially during pregnancy is a testament to how little we understand about well-being.

There’s lots of nuance to apply here, but please know you can trust your body. If you’re hungry, eat. And eat what you can tolerate. To be pregnant and concerned about weight changes is to be disconnected from the experience of your body - I know how hard this can be when your team is pressuring you to consider these things. As we know, “trust your cues” is an oversimplified recommendation, and many times we need mechanical, structured eating too. My main point is that if you feel hungry, you can trust that it’s appropriate to respond with food. Do not second guess your hunger because of anti-fat medical care.

It’s worth mentioning the ways in which thin privilege changes this dynamic, too. The prenatal experience is wrought with anti-fat bias, and the weight stigma people in larger bodies experience does significant harm. And, it’s continued to be fascinating that in this instance, my own thin privilege and educational privilege, as well as explicit requests, hasn’t stopped commentary about ways to control my weight changes. The rage I feel knowing that I’ve experienced a fraction of what others do makes me seethe.

I’ll be taking a leave in a few months. My clients will be in good hands, and it means I won’t be on here as much. But until then, I’m here and I’ve probably got reflux.

And of course, I know how painful and complicated pregnancy news and announcements can be for many people, so I don’t share this lightly. This is my rainbow baby, and for me there was lots of grief in learning of other pregnancies with similar “would be” due dates. If you are grieving, hoping, waiting, I am thinking of you, truly.

eating as a form of self care is so important. it can also be hard. let’s work to let go of what qualifies as a “worthy ...
07/18/2022

eating as a form of self care is so important. it can also be hard. let’s work to let go of what qualifies as a “worthy meal” - the point is, it all counts. anything you’ve assembled counts. anything you’ve microwaved counts. something frozen counts. takeout, counts. the same meal again and again, counts. it all counts as self care.

i once saw a trend on tiktok called “depression meal check.” this gave a name to what had been coming up in sessions and it stuck with me. the supposedly low effort meals that are actually really high effort. those meals are an excellent example of self care. what’s your go to?

your body needs fuel, and that means any type of fuel. things are HARD and you’re doing your best to nourish your body. feeding yourself is self care, and it’s a big deal.

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