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Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS) empowering you to reconnect to your body.

28/06/2023

Nutrition can support your mental health. How?
✦We know there is a connection between nutritional status and mental health.
✦We know that the health of our gut (which is modifiable through food, lifestyle, and supplements) can impact the health of our brain.
✦We know that certain dietary patterns are protective in that they can prevent mental health conditions from developing.

What this means:
✅ Nutrition can support your mental health condition by ensuring your nervous system has everything it needs to function well.
✅ Nutrition can ensure any depletion from pharmaceutical drugs are replete.
✅ Nutrition therapy can improve outcomes from psychotherapy.

What this doesn't mean:
❌ Nutrition support can heal your mental health condition.
❌ Nutrition supplements are more appropriate than pharmaceutical drugs.
❌ Nutrition therapy is a replacement for psychotherapy.

To read the full article, copy and paste this "PMID: 36071944" in your browser.

21/06/2023

As a Certified Nutrition Specialist, I practice science-based personalized nutrition therapy from a weight-inclusive* perspective to provide authentic, impactful care.

I utilize both functional and conventional tools to look at your diet patterns, micro+macronutrient intake, stress, sleep, and hormones. I also help to explore your relationship to food and identify existing beliefs and rules around food that are no longer serving you.

Whether your goals are to find more ease around food or support a digestive condition, schedule a free consultation call (link in bio) to see if we're a good fit.

*weight inclusive = using non–weight-based markers of health and well-being and doesn't use body weight as the focal point of treatment or intervention.

15/06/2023

Yes, what you eat IS important. It impacts your energy levels, your sleep quality, your hormones, your stress resiliency, your digestion, and your mental health.

I've spent two degrees and thousands of hours understanding how food impacts all systems of the body.

AND I've learned that when you define your self-worth by what and how you eat, you lose sight of so many other beautiful things about yourself.

Let's quiet the noise around food so all those other beautiful things about you can ✨shine ✨.

20/03/2023

The culture I've grown up in has taught me two very unhelpful things:

☝️ A smaller body = more success
✌️ Eating "healthy foods" = more superiority

I have spent the past two years understanding and unlearning these paradigms, and feel like I am barely scratching the surface.

What I've found is that these two ideas led me very near to orthorexia - a diagnosis defined as an obsession with eating foods that one considers healthy. You read that correctly... an obsession with eating healthy foods is actually NOT healthy.

What if we decoupled our morality from the foods we eat?
What if we didn't look at a fat person and a thin person differently for eating convenient foods?
What if we dropped the judgment of ourselves and others around food?

Some food for thought for your Monday!

07/03/2023

This is an excerpt of a poem I shared with my Restorative Yoga class this past Sunday.

The focus of our practice was to create space internally, through stillness and silence, so that we then have space to bloom - without fear, without expectation, without guarantee.

Here's to the continual process of shedding, growing, and blooming 🌱

13/02/2023

Truth be told, I never really understood the whole dark leafy greens thing until I started studying nutrition.

All I knew of them growing up was from my southern family get-togethers: a relative would have them simmering in a crockpot, looking somewhat swamp-like, with chunks of ham floating like logs. I always skipped that serving and went for extra mashed potatoes.

Fast forward and greens have now become a weekly staple!

Simmered down, they don't taste of much but are packed full of nutrients. You can throw them in soups, scramble them into eggs, or simply serve them as a side with any protein you like.

Shout out to Siembra farm! Thank you for the work you put in to growing such delicious veggies - this week's consists of collard greens, spinach, and radish greens.

Here's to trying new things - even if we have a weird memory of them as a kid!

17/01/2023

Hunger can show up in different ways for different people on different days. Sometimes it feels like a foggy brain, other times it looks like waking up in the middle of the night.

Like any other skill, learning to recognize and honor your hunger takes practice...

✨ It takes practice to notice the subtle cues that come before the rumbling stomach.
✨It takes practice to learn to feed yourself even though you may not know what hunger feels like.
✨It takes practice to prioritize taking care of yourself amidst busy days.

10/01/2023

In the same way you don't need to "earn" going to sleep every night, you do not need to earn your food. Like sleep, food is a basic need that has to be met.

No matter how much or little you've moved your body, your body still needs fuel to perform all of its basic functions.

Take care of yourself 🌻

09/01/2023

Up-leveled my Italian cooking this weekend with gluten-free fettuccini and focaccia!

I acknowledge not everyone enjoys being in the kitchen, but to me it is where I feel most inspired and creative (especially when you get to poke finger holes in wet, oily dough). Baking gluten-free is an added challenge but it's so fun to tinker with flours and textures!

On the gluten-free front... there is a lot of trendy, wellness talk that suggests gluten-free is "healthier". My thoughts?

If you have a health condition such as celiac disease that requires you to eat gluten-free (like me!), then yes, restricting gluten from your diet is imperative.

If you've heard or read about it and want to try it out, I encourage you to reach out to a nutritionist/dietitian (like me!) who is trained to help you identify what is causing your symptoms. Restriction is rarely the solution.

05/01/2023

I hear this "solution" far too often in the wellness world - if you don't want to eat chocolate/cookies/cheese/whatever, simply don't bring it into the house. But according to the literature and many clients' lived experiences, this
just.
doesn't.
work.

Why? A process called HABITUATION.

When we are repeatedly exposed to a food that we feel we can't control ourselves around, the intensity of that feeling diminishes. By keeping certain foods out of the house, we create a false sense of control and security.

I'm more interested in reducing the power of those foods have over us and re-learning how to trust our bodies.

For this reason, there is, and will always be, ice cream in my freezer.

03/01/2023

These phrases have seeped their way into our regular vocabulary in the we talk about our food and decisions around food. They often bring a sense of judgement to food, and in return, often lead to feelings of shame and inadequacy.

What happens if you become curious, rather than judgmental, towards food? This might look like:

⭐️ How do I feel when I say "I should" do something?
⭐️ How do I feel when I eat a food I have labelled "bad"?
⭐️ Is there ease around food when I view it from the lens of "healthy or unhealthy"?

26/12/2022

Diet culture encourages us to start a diet to lose weight and/or restrict certain foods to be healthier (with very poor clinical efficacy). We do our best to become smaller and restrict... but our bodies are really brilliant and resourceful, so we become hungrier and crave the foods we aren't allowing ourselves to have.

This often leads to overeating in some capacity and is followed by thoughts and feelings of guilt, shame and inadequacy.

Sound all too familiar?

Stepping out of this cycle can feel scary and overwhelming, like stepping into totally uncharted territory. If you're feeling ready to say no to yet another diet and move away from this cycle, book a free consultation call (link in bio).

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