Real Food Wellness

03/11/2026

If you've been struggling with chronic bloating, you know the discomfort: tight clothes, that "unsettled" intestinal feeling, the classic distention that feels so uncomfortable, or the feeling of food just sitting in your belly. Digestive challenges are some of the more elusive symptoms to manage and improve due to wide-ranging variables that impact the gut. The gut is considered the "second brain" and contains a vast network of neurons that manage digestion as communicate with the brain. Emotions can impact the gut. The gut can impact emotions.

Here are some baseline questions to ask yourself, as you work with improving symptoms of bloating:

If you've been struggling with chronic bloating, you know the discomfort: tight clothes, that "unsettled" intestinal feeling, the classic distention that feels so uncomfortable, or the feeling of food just sitting in your belly. Digestive challenges are some of the more elusive symptoms to manage an...

03/10/2026

Think your eating or body woes are superficial? If there is suffering, there is a way to depth there.

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03/08/2026

Happy International Women's Day! If there is anything that continues to get in the way of you loving yourself as woman, deeply dedicate yourself to systematically unburdening those inner constraints. It is massive work, work that goes beyond the personal, work that continues through a lifetime...

03/07/2026

Not an eating disorder, but still struggling with eating?

For many women later in their healing journey, traditional support for disordered eating is no longer a fit, but conventional fitness models don't support the psychological aspect of eating enough.

Many women are involved with personal trainers or fitness programs that don't offer the deeper support needed, and often report feeling triggered by different trainers' nutritional biases. If this is you, I assure you there is nothing wrong with you for struggling. You simply might be in a phase of healing that sits somewhere between a being a person struggling with disordered eating and a person who simply want to improve their diet.

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03/03/2026

The intersection between self-respect & self-responsibility 💫

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03/01/2026

It's March! This month I'm doing a little hat tip to the soul and celebrating my private practice anniversary. 17 years now - I feel incredibly grateful that I get to work with clients in capacities that are a great match for my skills and personal temperament. I'm an intuitive introvert that loves people dearly. I've had an ongoing psychological bent and curiosity since my youth and seem to be wired to work with people deeply to assist in their healing and growth.

Half of my professional work continues to fall under the umbrella of Nutrition and Eating Psychology (realfoodwellness.com) where we work head-on with nutrition, a healthy body, and healing one's relationship to food, which is huge work for women. The other half, IFS therapy and Transpersonal Psychology (lauraburkett.com) where we often do deeper work on healing relational dynamics and heeding the call of Individuation.

If you've worked with me before and felt loved and supported, please click here ( https://g.page/r/CTEemuXFDbOIEAI/review ) and leave a short review. It would be a beautiful gift to me and will only take a minute.

A million thanks! And Cheers! ~ Laura

02/26/2026

I’m hoping not just to appeal to your Inner Nutritionist, the aspect of you that strives for the “healthy” thing, but more so to your Inner Nurturer, the aspect of you that can love the body and offer nourishing food as a peace offering of sorts (often a hidden potentiality for many that are used to “performing” with the diet)

Your diet can absolutely include more than this. Though it’s easy for these to slip off the menu with convenience foods and all the powders and bars around, so it is wise to consciously include them.

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02/24/2026

The Nutritive Value of Beauty:

"As I experience it, appreciation of beauty is access to the soul. With beauty in our lives, we walk and carry ourselves more lightly and with a different look in our eyes. To look into the eyes of someone beholding beauty is to look through the windows of the soul. Anytime we catch a glimpse of soul, beauty is there; anytime we catch our breath and feel "How beautiful!," the soul is present."
- Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD

"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul."
- Dorothy Day

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02/23/2026

What I'd like all women to have on their menu right now

02/20/2026

the individuative path...

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02/19/2026

Wellness/Influencer Diet:
Morning: Anti-inflammatory Detox shot
Breakfast: Cottage cheese protein pancakes
Lunch: Healthy Macaroni (steamed cauliflower with cashew/nutritional yeast blend)
Snack: Bone Broth Latte
Dinner: Keto pizza
Dessert: Greek Yogurt with whey protein and 5 chocolate chips

Standard American Diet:
Breakfast: Cereal with side of pop tart, Coffee
Lunch: Double Cheeseburger combo
Snack: Fruit cup
Dinner: Pasta and meat sauce, green beans
Dessert: Twinkies

Carnivore/Influencer Diet:
Breakfast: 3 raw egg yolks with seared beef heart
Lunch: Ground beef and cheddar
Snack: Stick of butter
Dinner: 2 ribeye steaks
Dessert: Liver pate with raw honey

Fruititarian/Influencer Diet:
Breakfast: 3 organic bananas
Lunch: 12 blended ripe papayas in coconut shell
Snack: One jalapeño pepper and star fruit
Dinner: Cucumber, Tomato salad with cantalope dressing
Dessert: Avocado mixed with cacao

I'm sure you can see this is sort of satirical. Though we are weird and interesting creatures, aren't we?

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02/18/2026

There's a lot of suffering in the realm of diet and the body for many people. The fixation on looking or behaving an exact certain way is one area. Over-identification with thoughts and stories about yourself is another. Can you see why the following would be two powerful places for healing?

Healing perfectionism - which addresses the core injury of shame and feeling "something is wrong with me," and invites you to unburden the original places of injury

Expanding into awareness - which invites a person to dis-identify/un-blend with the content of the mind and experience life as it presently is in the moment as direct experience

~ Nutrition, Eating Psychology, & Depth Psychology Counseling ~
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~ IFS therapy & Transpersonal Psychology ~
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