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Lauren Sharifi Nutrition

ND Affirming RD Providing ARFID Support, Advocacy and Awareness. Making Eating more Accessible! Follow for tips, recipes and up to date nutrition information!

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03/19/2026

✨ Registration Now Open!✨
🔗Link in bio or https://l.bttr.to/8j20d

Building Safety to Support Nourishment in ARFID:
A S.A.F.E.R. Foundations Framework

This 60-minute foundational course introduces the S.A.F.E.R. Framework — a safety-based, lived-experience–informed approach to supporting nourishment in ARFID without pressure, coercion, or harm.

This training is for:
• Dietitians, therapists & allied health providers
• Parents & caregivers
• Adults with ARFID

Inside, you’ll learn how to:
• Understand ARFID as an embodied, nervous-system–influenced experience
• Recognize why urgency and “just try” approaches often backfire
• Apply the S.A.F.E.R. Framework ethically and sustainably
• Reduce eating distress without removing structure or support
• Adapt support across clinical, caregiving, and self-support roles

Registration link in bio 🔗

For dietitians:
This course has been approved for 1.0 CPEU by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).

Equity pricing is available.
Group rates available for 5+ participants
📧lauren@laurensharifi.com

03/16/2026

A little update from the practice — I’m hiring!

Lauren Sharifi Nutrition is growing and I’m looking for a Registered Dietitian who is passionate about neurodivergent-affirming ARFID care to join the team.

This role focuses on older teens (16+) and adults who have often felt misunderstood in traditional eating disorder spaces.

Remote | Part-time to start (15–20 hrs/week) | Potential to grow.

If this work resonates with you, I’d love to connect.

📩 Lauren@LaurenSharifi.com

Full post: ‘https://arfiddietitian.com/were-hiring-associate-arfid-dietitian/

03/09/2026

ARFID isn’t you “not trying hard enough.”
It’s your nervous system trying to protect you.

Avoidance.
Restriction.
Rigidity.
Slow eating.
Shutdown.

These aren’t character flaws.
They’re protective nervous system responses.

When eating feels unsafe, the body prioritizes protection over nourishment.

Inside the S.A.F.E.R. Framework, I teach how to:

• Understand ARFID through a nervous system lens
• Shift from compliance-based strategies to safety-based support
• Build regulation before expansion
• Reduce pressure and increase sustainable nourishment
• Support yourself (or others) without shame

This on-demand course is designed for:
Adults with ARFID, caregivers, and providers.

✨ Includes 1.0 CPEU for dietitians

If you’re ready to move from pressure → safety,
registration is open.

Link in bio to join.

FeedingDifferences CPEU

03/04/2026

Many adults live with ARFID without realizing their eating patterns have a name.

Because ARFID was only formally recognized in 2013, many people grew up being told they were just “picky eaters.”

But ARFID can show up in different ways — including sensory sensitivities, low appetite, fear-based eating, or difficulty eating during times of stress.

I wrote a new blog post about why ARFID is often missed in adults and what it can look like.

You can read it at the link in my bio.

02/17/2026

✨ New Course Announcement ✨

Building Safety to Support Nourishment in ARFID:
A S.A.F.E.R. Foundations Framework

This 60-minute foundational course introduces the S.A.F.E.R. Framework — a safety-based, lived-experience–informed approach to supporting nourishment in ARFID without pressure, coercion, or harm.

This training is for:
• Dietitians, therapists & allied health providers
• Parents & caregivers
• Adults with ARFID

Inside, you’ll learn how to:
• Understand ARFID as an embodied, nervous-system–influenced experience
• Recognize why urgency and “just try” approaches often backfire
• Apply the S.A.F.E.R. Framework ethically and sustainably
• Reduce eating distress without removing structure or support
• Adapt support across clinical, caregiving, and self-support roles

🗓 Registration opens March 9th
📩 Join the waitlist now (link in bio) to get early access + updates

For dietitians:
This course has been approved for 1.0 CPEU by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).

Equity pricing is available.
Group rates available for 5+ participants

01/19/2026

I’m writing the first guidebook focused entirely on adults with ARFID—and lived experience belongs at the center.

If you’re an adult (18+) with diagnosed or suspected ARFID and want to share your experience, I’ve created an optional, unpaid survey linked in my bio. Anonymous or attributed.

Thank you in advance for your time and for sharing what feels safe for you.💜💜

01/13/2026

Relational safety matters — especially with ARFID.

Many with ARFID can eat more easily with certain people and not at all with others. This isn’t about motivation or willpower. It’s about safety.

When someone feels believed, supported, and free from pressure, the nervous system is more likely to stay regulated — and eating becomes more possible.

Force, shame, or “just try it” don’t build trust. They build fear.

Support that helps ARFID centers safety, choice, and respect.

✨ If you want to learn more about building safety around food — including relational, sensory, and nervous system support — my ARFID Workbook is linked in my bio.

12/31/2025

ARFID doesn’t look one way.

Two people can both have ARFID and need very different support.

That’s why management isn’t about one “right” plan — it’s about understanding safety, sensory needs, nervous system support, and access, then building strategies that actually fit the individual.

✨ Support should be flexible.
✨ Progress looks different for everyone.

If you want to learn more about the many ways ARFID can show up — and explore neurodivergent-affirming ways to manage and support ARFID — check out our ARFID on-demand webinars.

Learn more & register
🔗 Link in bio | ARFIDdietitian.com

12/29/2025

Things I say all the time in sessions.
(No food guilt required.)

➡️ Swipe for 5 nutrition facts I share with clients
✨ Accepting new clients mid-January — details in link in bio

12/23/2025

If a food that once felt “safe” suddenly isn’t anymore — you’re not doing anything wrong.
This is often called a food jag, and it’s a very common ARFID experience.

Safe foods can change with stress, sensory shifts, illness, or nervous system overload.
That doesn’t mean you failed — it means your body is communicating.

A few gentle ways to navigate it:
• Drop the pressure to replace it right away
• Lean into other accessible foods
• Remember: eating something > eating a specific food
• Let foods come and go — safety isn’t static

Food jags aren’t regression. They’re information.

📘 For more tools to support ARFID with compassion and flexibility, grab the ARFID Workbook — link in bio or at ARFIDdietitian.com

You’re allowed to eat in ways that work for you. 💛

12/11/2025

Eating can feel scary when your brain and body don’t sense safety—you aren’t alone. 🧠💜

This isn’t about being “difficult” — it’s your nervous system protecting you. The first step? Building felt safety and reconnecting with your body.

Grab practical strategies in the ARFID Workbook (link in bio!) to support your nervous system and discover what works for you.

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Thursday	9am - 5pm

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http://arfiddietitian.com/

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