Hannah-Kate Coultas Yoga, Coaching, Consulting

Hannah-Kate Coultas Yoga, Coaching, Consulting Trauma yoga teacher, recovery coach, and Consultant.

Sometimes people are surprised when they miss the eating disorder in recovery. They think it means they’re going backwar...
09/17/2025

Sometimes people are surprised when they miss the eating disorder in recovery. They think it means they’re going backwards or doing something wrong. But here’s the truth:

💭 Missing it can mean you’re in pain, and your system remembers how the ED once distracted you or gave a sense of relief.
💭 It can mean you’re in transition. Change, even healing, can feel scary, and the eating disorder was familiar.
💭 It can mean you’re grieving an identity or a coping tool that once helped you survive.

From a trauma-informed lens, this makes sense. Our bodies and nervous systems develop strategies to protect us from rejection, harm, or overwhelm. The eating disorder may have been one of those strategies.

✨ Missing it isn’t failure. It’s information. It’s your system showing you that you’re still longing for safety, soothing, or connection. In recovery, the work is not to silence or punish that part of you, but to gently listen, and begin to offer new ways of meeting those needs.

You are not failing by missing it.
You are healing by noticing.

The truth is, these rules are not random. They are survival contracts we made with ourselves at some point in our lives....
09/17/2025

The truth is, these rules are not random. They are survival contracts we made with ourselves at some point in our lives.
From the outside, it looks like “bad habits.” From the inside, it’s strategy. It’s your nervous system trying to protect you in the best way it knows how.

Here’s the kicker: even once you know the rules aren’t working, your brain keeps insisting on them. That’s not because you’re weak. It’s because of how survival wiring works…..

🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻New snippet of my latest blog on Why ED rules can feel safer even when we know they are not. Read the full blog via the link in my bio.

here’s the truth: punishment does not create peace. It creates fear, shame, and disconnection.Every time we override hun...
09/05/2025

here’s the truth: punishment does not create peace. It creates fear, shame, and disconnection.

Every time we override hunger, silence fullness, or criticize our reflection, we teach our body:
👉 “You can’t be trusted.”
👉 “Your instincts are wrong.”
👉 “You must be controlled to deserve safety.”

From a trauma-informed lens, this makes sense. Many of us have lived through rejection, abandonment, or criticism. Our nervous systems learned that being smaller, quieter, or more “disciplined” might mean less harm, more acceptance, or finally being loved. Punishment became a survival strategy.

But survival is not the same as freedom.
Freedom begins when we step out of punishment and into trust. When we listen, nourish, and respect our bodies instead of fighting them. When we speak to ourselves with dignity, not disdain.

💙 Punishing your body will not set you free.
Reclaiming trust, compassion, and connection will.

Your body was never the enemy. The culture that taught you to punish it was.

We all have days when body image feels rough. It can be so easy to spiral into shame or self-blame, but here are 3 truth...
08/27/2025

We all have days when body image feels rough. It can be so easy to spiral into shame or self-blame, but here are 3 truths that might help you breathe a little softer:

1️⃣ Sometimes body image struggles are about protection. When our mind fixates on our body, it can be a way of guarding against perceived harm or rejection. It’s not vanity—it’s survival.

2️⃣ Body image is not the same as self-worth. A hard body image day doesn’t erase your value, your relationships, or the truth of who you are.

3️⃣ Struggles with body image can be an invitation. They can point toward unmet needs, like rest, gentleness, or connection ….not a demand to change your body.

💡 From a trauma-informed perspective, these struggles aren’t flaws to “fix.” They’re signals to approach yourself with curiosity, compassion, and care.

Your worth has never been measured by how you look. Not on the easy days, not on the hard ones.

As a kid, I was always at the doctor’s office. I had real symptoms: dizziness, nausea, heart palpitations, chronic fatig...
08/19/2025

As a kid, I was always at the doctor’s office. I had real symptoms: dizziness, nausea, heart palpitations, chronic fatigue, stomach pain, intense food sensitivities, and a body that felt like it was constantly in overdrive or completely shut down.
And every time, I was told some version of “you’re fine.” Normal test results. Shrugged shoulders. Maybe anxiety. Maybe just sensitive.
But I wasn’t fine. What no one could name then was that I was living inside a traumatized, dysregulated body. What no one saw was that an eating disorder was thriving, and that both the trauma and the ED were doing very real damage to my nervous system, my hormones, my digestion, my immune response, and my sense of self.
I wasn’t pretending to be sick. I was sick. Just not in the way the system was trained to recognize.

Small snippet from my latest blog post:
“ The Cost of Being Missed”
Link in bio for the full blog post.

If you’re working through trauma, ED recovery, or trying to reconnect with your body’s cues, this is for you.

💛 If you want to work together, reach out to info@hkcoultas.com or visit hkcoultas.com

We all have that voice, the one that gets loud when we’re tired, tender, or trying something new.It tells us we’re not e...
08/13/2025

We all have that voice, the one that gets loud when we’re tired, tender, or trying something new.
It tells us we’re not enough. Not doing enough. Not healing fast enough.

But here’s the truth: that voice is often old. Borrowed. And rooted in survival.

This post will hopefully offer supportive reminders to help you pause, reflect, and return to your actual self, the one that’s allowed to be human.

✨ You don’t have to be perfect to be worthy of gentleness.
✨ You don’t have to believe the voice just because it’s loud.

We live in a culture that normalizes and even praises under-eating 🤦‍♀️ But what you haven’t heard enough is what really...
08/11/2025

We live in a culture that normalizes and even praises under-eating 🤦‍♀️

But what you haven’t heard enough is what really happens in the body when it doesn’t get enough fuel. Calorie deficits can be deeply harmful to the body.

This slide series breaks down what calorie deficits actually do, to your heart, hormones, gut, nervous system, bones, and brain.

✅This isn’t about fear. It’s about informed care.
✅It’s about naming what’s been normalized.
✅It’s about recognizing that restriction harms at every size.

You don’t have to wait until it’s “bad enough.”
You don’t have to justify your need for nourishment.
You don’t have to earn rest or softness or food.

Your body deserves enough, right now.

Swipe through. Unlearn. 🫶🏻🤍

Grief, loss, heartbreak, betrayal, fear...these are all part of being human. They will come. And when they do, it can fe...
07/30/2025

Grief, loss, heartbreak, betrayal, fear...these are all part of being human.

They will come. And when they do, it can feel like everything inside of you wants to shut down. Numb out. Escape. Control something, anything.
And for many of us, the eating disorder was once our go-to way to do that.
It gave us a false sense of safety, identity, or control when everything else felt like too much. It may have even worked, temporarily. So it makes sense that when something heavy happens now, your first instinct might still be to go back there.
That doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means your nervous system is reaching for the thing it once used to survive.
But that doesn’t mean it’s what you need anymore.
There’s a difference between what’s familiar and what’s actually helpful.
The eating disorder may promise comfort, but what it delivers is disconnection.
Disconnection from your body. From your needs. From others. From the part of you that’s still very much alive and wants to be here.
Recovery, on the other hand, doesn’t promise to take away the pain. But it does give you the tools to move through it……

✨🌞Small Snippet of my New blog on how to Let Recovery Hold You When Everything Else Falls Apart. Read the full blog on my website or click on the link in my bio.

….We would be deeply concerned if someone shared these experiences in a clinical or recovery space. But in the world of ...
07/15/2025

….We would be deeply concerned if someone shared these experiences in a clinical or recovery space. But in the world of GLP-1s, they’re celebrated as progress.
That’s not medicine. That’s disordered thinking, wrapped in a white coat and covered by insurance.

✨🌞Small Snippet from my new blog post on GLP-1’s and Eating disorders.
Find the full blog on my website or click the link in my bio!

We’re often told to “fight” the eating disorder...to push past the urges, override the thoughts, and silence the voice. ...
07/06/2025

We’re often told to “fight” the eating disorder...to push past the urges, override the thoughts, and silence the voice. But what if we took a different approach?

What if, instead of treating the eating disorder as an enemy, we treated it as a protective part of us? Not a monster, not an invader, but a part of us that showed up at a time when something really hurt and it decided food, control, or shrinking ourselves might make things feel safer.
Because here’s the truth: the eating disorder isn’t some separate entity. It’s a strategy. A way your nervous system tried to protect you when things felt too overwhelming, too painful, too MUCH.
It may not be working anymore, but it believes it’s helping. And that’s where dialogue can begin……

✨🌞Snippet from my new blog post on How to dialgoue with the eating disroder to create real change.

✨Find the whole post on my website or the link in my bio.

✨ Not buying it. Never again.Your body was never the problem.
07/01/2025

✨ Not buying it. Never again.
Your body was never the problem.

A heartfelt reminder. Reflecting on my own journey, I spent far too many years at war with my own being, convinced it wa...
06/11/2025

A heartfelt reminder.
Reflecting on my own journey, I spent far too many years at war with my own being, convinced it was a problem desperately needing fixing. The truth I’ve come to understand propelled me as it was never my body that required change. It’s a pervasive tactic designed to control and manipulate a population.
Caring for and nurturing my body became an act of rebellion, a defiance against the narrative that sought to dictate my worth based on appearance.

✨Want to learn more?👇🏻

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Hi! I’m Hannah-Kate ☺️
I’m a Trauma Informed Yoga Practitioner and Eating Disorder Recovery Coach.
Please reach out to me to schedule your free 20-minute consultation for yoga or coaching to see if things would be a good fit! Visit my website Hkcoultas.com or email info@hkcoultas.com to learn more about me and my other offerings! I would be honored to work with you 🤍

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