Real Food Wellness

09/01/2026

September Newsletter here

September 1st, 2026

08/31/2026

Relationship Boundaries and Eating Habits:

Working with boundaries in relationships is an ongoing practice for most of us. Our relationships can impact us profoundly, for better or for worse. That's why its so important to be discerning about one's relationships and level of involvement in certain relationship dynamics.

For example, if you decide its a value of yours to NOT collude in triangulation, (when one person in a conflict brings in a third party instead of talking directly to the person they have a problem with) and instead encourage direct communication between family members or loved ones, you might do your best to hold that boundary and not participate or change the subject.

The more you can tolerate that not only is that okay to do, but even in the face of push-back, that you are not doing anything "wrong" and are not a "bad person" for stating one's own preference in relationship dynamics, your eating will likely remain fairly unaffected.

Though if a part of you is flooded by guilt or shame for holding new boundaries, eating may very well shift into survival response of heavy soothing or distracting.

This is why working with interpersonal (between you and another person) and intrapersonal (between you and yourself/your inner parts) healing is so important when working with developing a healthier relationship with food. Because eating does not occur in a vacuum.

~ Nutrition, Eating Psychology, & Depth Psychology Counseling ~
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08/30/2026

What you thought would help you have the healthy body and healthy relationship with food you want…

Might be leaving out the other equally valuable side of the story ✨💛✨

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08/27/2026

08/26/2026

In my world, a great relationship with food starts with the relationship you have with yourself 💗

In my world, a great relationship with others starts with the relationship you have with yourself 💗

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08/23/2026

I’m going to teach you a new way of RELATING to your big project of eating well and being in a body.

✨ I’ll share what your actual job is in all this.
(I know it’s hard to know what’s yours to “control” and what’s yours to surrender to when it comes to your eating and body)

✨ I’ll share what it means to move from power OVER the body to power WITH the body.

✨ I’ll share what working with your eating can actually reveal about your physiology, your fears, and your actual growth path.

✨ And finally I’ll share the down-to-earth spiritual truths that have revealed themselves after working with clients for over 17 years.

The class is meant to act an anchor in a sea of manic social media activity that has pulled you away from your Self.

Come learn how to relate to the body, diet, and eating like a grown up. Come learn what happens when you let Love lead the way ✨🩷✨

September 27th, 1pm-3pm ET.
Live and recorded for viewing for a week.

DM me “CLASS” or visit my bio to join class.

08/20/2026

For women, learning how to care for the body is not just practical work.

It’s soul work.

Our challenges with eating, weight, and health are also realms of the soul.

If there were no deeper dimensions to these, don’t you think all the practical strategies out there would have solved the chronic GI symptoms, the chronic dieting, the painful eating habits, and the ongoing pursuit for the ideal diet?

But still, we try and try again to "figure it out."

With the aim of practicality, you will likely track macros or calories, screenshot diet lists, and choose specific things about yourself you’d like to change.

And “advance” you may. Yet so often this way of doing things does not “take” for the long haul. Those who do manage to make longer term changes outwardly, often share dealing with the same struggles internally.

For example, you might lose 5 or 10 pounds yet find you still aren’t willing to accept yourself. Or you might eliminate certain foods from your diet and find you still feel anxious or still have trouble digesting.

Here’s the point in all this: Nutrition without soul is bereft of the substance that heals and transforms us long-term. It’s all performance and no transformation.

After many years, I am convinced that the journey toward the body and style of eating you want is just as psychological as it is scientific.

And of course….

Working with the body and diet is one of many empowering things a woman can do for herself due to the fact that there is a long list of burdens women carry or at least have been impacted by.

(ex. comments from family members about our bodies in our youth, ageism, fitness culture often demonstrating that herculean will and self-denial is the only way to feel gorgeous or self-appreciative or achieve physical goals, developmental traumas that get managed or lived out through painful eating habits, and so much more…)

Without caring for these sorts of things we’ll find ourselves in our 30s, 40s, and 50s trapped in time, not knowing how to care for our bodies as grown women, but still attempting to do things like an adolescent.

Here I’m advocating for courage and will to go deeper.

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08/19/2026

Among the many eating grievances clients share, overeating is high on the list (alongside binge eating, chronic dieting, GI issues, and forgetting to eat/plan meals).

Overeating, at its essence, is eating beyond the point of the body's signal of satiation. The problem is that many, many of us have been domesticated in such a way that we are disconnected from any subtle sensations in the body, so we're left to figure out what the "right" amount of food to eat (from our HEADS and not our bodies), and hope and pray our bodies simply comply. On top of that, many of the more processed foods we have are designed to have a low-satiety point, meaning they are devoid of fiber in naturally occurring whole foods and are easier to overeat in general.

Though positively, whether you're eating a honey crisp apple, trail mix, popcorn, brownies, or smoked salmon, with enough savor and attention, there is a place where eating can organically end. Truly.

Sure, constructing metabolically satiating meals is important, and something I can cover in a different post, but today I'm pointing to one powerful ingredient that can dissolve patterns of overeating, and a few eating psychology principles that support it.

The powerful ingredient is AWARENESS, a quality of being that extends far beyond eating in its scope of power.

And three principles to work with when you want to stop overeating, feel better about your eating habits, and far more comfortable in your body:

1.) The core practice: Be present to what is actually happening (the taste, the sensation), so it actually registers as satisfying. If this sounds insultingly basic, really ask yourself how proficient you really are in this in all circumstances. For some people this is more "advanced" work than adding in an superfood could be.

2.) Accept the tiny grief that eating has to end, once you are satisfied. It's a real thing if you tend to overeat and don't want to.

3.) Build practices that allow for the natural expression of emotion (which is Life itself) to move through. The better you are at this, the less food is burdened to do the big job of distracting you from your emotions

In Heal Your Eating, my 3-month Eating Psychology home study training, you'll find this section (a) in Module 3: Tending to Nuance. If you were to implement the practice I share for a couple of months, you'd notice FAR less overeating, far MORE confidence when eating in social situation, and feeling far MORE comfortable in your body after eating. And you wouldn't need to change the content of your meals.

Join a 3-month eating psychology training to heal emotional eating, binge eating, and chronic dieting while building a healthy relationship with food.