ABOUT WHAT WE EAT
I believe
Everything we do for health should allow us to be all-in in life.
I’m so happy you’re here.
I’m a food-loving intuitive eating dietitian, chef and mom of two little people based out of Brooklyn, New York.
I provide virtual 1:1 non-diet nutrition therapy, intuitive eating dietitian coaching and virtual cooking classes.
In my nutrition counseling, I work with clients who feel confused or overwhelmed about how to eat, are tired of thinking about food and their body all the time, worry that they like food “too much,” are frustrated by dieting and the weight loss/regain cycle, recognize that what they’ve learned about “healthy” eating is no longer serving them and are looking for a way to relate to food and their body that feels easier. I also work with clients diagnosed with eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID).
Working with clients in the kitchen, my main goals are to bring the joy back into food and empower cooks to make what they love to eat.
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I believe:
Everything we do for health should allow us to be all-in in life.
Health is about feeling as good as we can in our bodies. When pursuing the look of health becomes its own pursuit, it’s easy for it to get in the way of life instead of enhancing it, filling up too much headspace and/or taking up too much time. We have one precious life and it’s meant for so much more than being small.
In our work, we will discuss what makes life meaningful for you, define health on your own terms, and develop and practice behaviors that help you be all-in.
Our bodies can be trusted.
“When we treat our bodies kindly and consistently and nourish them, their feedback is also consistent, predictable and kind.” This is one of my favorite quotes from Evelyn Tribole, Registered Dietitian and one of the co-developers of the Intuitive Eating framework. When we follow external food rules that don’t sync with our bodies’ nutrition needs, the battle that ensues between body and mind hurts our physical, psychological and emotional health.
In our work, we will confront the beliefs, thoughts and rules that may be getting in the way of you listening to your body. We will practice cueing into your body so you can feel and trust its signals. As you begin to practice being more responsive to you body’s needs, you will feel the difference.
A healthy relationship with food includes pleasure.
Food is one of the simplest, most easily accessible pleasures of life. What we eat doesn’t have to be perfect (whatever that means) to be healthy. It the big picture of what we eat that matters most.
In our work, we will help you develop a more flexible mindset around food and nutrition so that you can eat freely in a way that feels good.
There is no place for guilt and shame when it comes to eating.
It is okay (and healthy!) to eat for reasons beyond physical health. Eating to celebrate, share, honor culture and tradition, comfort and experience pleasure are all valid. Our culture’s pathologizing of these reasons disconnects us from our bodies and causes unnecessary suffering.
In our work, we’ll explore the unhelpful messages you’ve picked up about food and body and then internalized. I will help you develop a more helpful, self-compassionate internal dialog to push back against guilt and shame.
We don’t have full control of our health.
So many things impact our bodies beyond nutrition and other individual behaviors. Social determinants of health (the conditions where we are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age), genetics, and access to health care play an outsize role. Even when we practice all the healthy behaviors accessible to us, the health we want may be illusive. That’s hard though it doesn’t mean practicing health-supporting behaviors holds no value.
Our work is about helping you discover and practice healthy behaviors that are accessible to you and supportive of your version of healthy. It comes with a big dose of acknowledgement that, while we have agency, we do not have ultimate control over every health outcome.
Health doesn’t have a look.
Human beings are meant to come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Two people practicing similar healthy behaviors will look completely different.
I am a Health at Every Size-aligned dietitian, which among many other things means I am neutral about your weight. In developing and practicing health supportive behaviors, your weight may go up, go down or stay the same. Weight is not an outcome we will monitor.
Health is not a moral imperative.
We deserve dignity and respect with or without health. If we practice healthy behaviors, they should be for us alone, not to signal our worth to others.
