Ditch diets, nourish your body, calm your mind

Ditch diets, nourish your body, calm your mind Welcome! I'm a registered dietitian and health coach.

This is where I share about non-diet approaches to health behavior change, body acceptance, stress management, meal planning and preparation, mindful eating, and restorative physical activity.

06/02/2026

"Hey, Brain! It's Body."

So often the biggest barrier a person experiences related to nutrition is a disconnect between the brain and the body. If we don't know what we need, we can't consistently meet those needs. When our needs aren't met, we experience stress, frustration, fatigue, and often a sense of spiraling or crashing. Then we're left to carry on- exhausted, spiraling, crashing all over again.

Slowing down and learning how to check in with both is a key skill I teach my clients so they can develop long lasting health promoting habits! Message me today to learn more about my approach to nutrition as self care and my favorite resources the share!

This carrot is so grown it's sprouting another carrot 🤯
05/25/2026

This carrot is so grown it's sprouting another carrot 🤯

If I had magic fairy dust I would find a way to use it to alleviate suffering. When I wrote these messages to a client I...
02/25/2026

If I had magic fairy dust I would find a way to use it to alleviate suffering.

When I wrote these messages to a client I thought, "maybe that's the magic fairy dust."

I don't have magic fairy dust but I do have conversations with people every day who are suffering in their experience with food. They tell me they've struggled with their weight their whole lives or they used to be an athlete and now they're starting medication for blood sugar management or work got really stressful and self care went on the backburner or the task of making decisions about food is too daunting. And they're confused about what's "healthy" and what they should or shouldn't eat.

Nutrition is complicated and food planning, grocery shopping, prep, clean up is A LOT of work.

But the message i wrote in these screenshots describes a worthwhile starting point. True- it is the most distilled version of this explanation, but I believe that if everyone understood these concepts and practiced them, our collective health would improve and suffering would decrease noticeably.

It's not about tracking
Weighing
Measuring
Restricting
Discipline
Willpower

It's about regulating your nervous system and giving your brain and body the fuel needed to perform basic tasks.

It's also about letting go of the idea that someone else has figured it out for you- maybe there isn't a plan or program or protocol for you to adhere to. Maybe those have distracted you from learning what you need and how to meet those needs.

Here's the hardest part for many people: it's about letting go of the idea that your weight and appearance are something for you to control, to obsess about, to be stuck in spiral of all-or-nothing diets and activity routines. For many, many, many people pursuing a smaller body fuels the cycle of nervous system dysregulation and overeating. And as time goes on other side effects are diminished self worth, depression, and negative physical health.

✨️It is possible to break the cycle. I can help.✨️

My inbox is open! Ask me anything.

"You look happier."Thanks! I stopped blow drying my hair.I stopped being so hard on myself.I stopped searching for valid...
02/24/2026

"You look happier."

Thanks! I stopped blow drying my hair.

I stopped being so hard on myself.

I stopped searching for validation.

I stopped assuming I could read minds.

I stopped centering the male gaze.

What's making you happier these days?

Here's an unfiltered, unedited photo.I'm wearing makeup, but i haven't dyed my hair. These are my gray hairs. There aren...
02/15/2026

Here's an unfiltered, unedited photo.

I'm wearing makeup, but i haven't dyed my hair. These are my gray hairs. There aren't a lot and they aren't very long yet, but I decided not to pull them out.

I've never had cosmetic procedures. These are my forehead wrinkles.

Never got that nose job to straighten it out, even after that first appt with a new primary care doc who squinted and turned his head to the side and said, "so you didn't want to fix your nose after you broke it?" and I looked back at him, confused. "I don't know if I ever broke my nose."

I might have when I was a goalie for my soccer team and I got kicked in the face. Or when I tried to break up a fight in college and a guy accidentally thrashed his head into my nose.

But in that moment, in front of a man i'd never met before who was essentially tasked with authorizing a new set of bloodwork to complete an annual check-up, I felt embarrassed and I didn't want him to look at me anymore.

It was a reminder that people do evaluate the appearance of others and it's difficult to be faced with the idea that we should look different or that we should change our appearance.
. . . . .

I was going through my camera roll and found this from a couple of weeks ago and this picture struck me because 5 or 10 years ago i would have deleted it. In that time I've been through a lot. This face, this body, this strength, this endurance got me through a lot. I feel gratitude and peace with my appearance and who I am.

I'll celebrate my 40th birthday this year and I can't help but think about how rare it is to see a woman's natural appearance.
Natural aging.
Unedited photos.
I don't have anything against anyone who changes their physical appearance or edits their images, but i do think it's important that people know what an aging person looks like instead of only seeing people and images that have been edited. And who knows, maybe i'll decide someday to change my appearance but in the meantime I'm accepting that this is the hair, the skin, the face, the nose, the body that i'm in and i feel so much appreciation for this body.




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