Real Food Wellness

07/31/2025

07/28/2025

"The way we do food is the way we do life. Slowing down with meals, then, is symbolic of relaxing into our body, our career, our fears and desires, and anything life presents. It's about granting ourselves the right to share to share in the simplicity of joyous moments on Earth. It's about reclaiming our time, our dignity, and the sanctity of self-care." - Marc David

07/26/2025

My friend and colleague, Dr. Dawn McGregor, is involved in a research project. Her survey on female experience amplifies the female voice making positive change in the world. If you have ten minutes, please consider contributing to her research here:

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07/15/2025

“Painful feelings are, by their very nature, temporary. They will weaken over time as long as we don’t prolong or amplify them through resistance or avoidance. The only way to eventually free ourselves from debilitating pain, therefore, is to be with it as it is. The only way out is through.”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

“Because self-critics often come from unsupportive family backgrounds, they tend not to trust others and assume that those they care about will eventually try to hurt them. This creates a steady state of fear that causes problems in interpersonal interactions. For instance, research shows that highly self-critical people tend to be dissatisfied in their romantic relationships because they assume their partners are judging them as harshly as they judge themselves. The misperception of even fairly neutral statements as disparaging often leads to oversensitive reactions and unnecessary conflicts. This means that self-critics often undermine the closeness and supportiveness in relationships that they so desperately seek.”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

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07/13/2025

Yesterday I attended a graduation party. I scanned the food options, chose what I wanted to eat, knew what to choose to feel satisfied, didn't feel stressed about it, ate to satiation, and drove home feeling well physically.

When I was younger, these sorts of events triggered a lot of stress. Would I mess up my eating? Would I overeat or feel powerless around certain foods? Would that bleed into the rest of weekend and have me make more choices that didn't feel good?

There's a psychological journey women are called to make in their relationship to food. Many ignore the call and continue their adolescent strategies to get their eating "right," but no healing or transformation takes place.

Part of my work has been a response to this collective struggle around eating.

I’m excited to launch my new nutrition and eating psychology program, HEAL YOUR EATING: How to eat well, feel great, and move on with your life.

The content portal opens tomorrow (July 14th)

My small case study group is almost underway, and there is space for one (maybe two) more women.

✅ HEAL YOUR EATING will walk you through each component (nutritional, physiological, psychological) that will teach you how to create a diet you really enjoy, heal your painful or unwanted eating habits (like overeating, binge, eating, and chronic dieting), and be far more in touch with your body - which takes a good deal of anxiety out of eating

Interested? Send me a message at realfoodwellness.com/connect

07/06/2025

Little Bird GR has done it again! Olive & Artichoke with tahini and chili oil glaze main entree 🤌🏼

Learn to love your diet and heal your eating here: https://www.realfoodwellness.com/event-details/heal-your-eating-3-month-online-case-study-program

07/04/2025

This program is for you if you:

✔️Know a lot about nutrition but still run into painful eating patterns like overeating, binge eating, or chronic dieting at times

✔️Are a sensitive soul, feeling type, or HSP

✔️Are still overthinking your diet a lot

✔️Are drawn toward the practical and soulful dimensions of eating

✔️Want to move past social media trends and eat like a grown adult

✔️Feel your ideal outcome would be to eat nutritionally well, enjoy pleasurable foods without panic or defeat, feel great physically, and then move on with your life

HEAL YOUR EATING will walk you through everything you need to know about how to create a diet you really enjoy, how to heal your painful or unwanted eating habits (like overeating, binge, eating, and chronic dieting), and how to be far more in touch with your body - a huge boon in weight regulation.

I've been working with women for the past 16+ years in private practice and have been closely tracking the most helpful interventions that create long-term healing and change (bridging my training in nutritional science, eating psychology, depth psychology, and IFS therapy).

Over these last several months, I’ve organized what I've learned into a user-friendly program to help you feel much more calm and confident about your eating (even if you've been struggling for many years).

It has been a labor of love!

Would you like to be a part of my initial case study group? Just comment or DM “INFO” and I’ll send you more information to look over 🙂 You can also reach me at realfoodwellness.com/connect

07/03/2025

The late Jungian Analyst, Marion Woodman 🩷

07/02/2025

Not a shocking outcome in this study, is it?

Personal task for us all:

Being mindful of what gets in front of our pupils 👀

~ Nutrition, Eating Psychology, & Depth Psychology Counseling ~

[Find out more about my new eating psychology case study group: Heal Your Eating. All the details are at Comment or DM “INFO” more more information]