Heal Your Food Story

Honor Your Health: Gentle Nutrition Is it possible to eat intuitively and make healthy choices? YES!!! Remember, Intuitive Eating is grounded in self-care and deep inward listening. Sometimes that means chocolate cake and a coffee with a friend and sometimes it means sushi and a seaweed salad at

Are you aware of when you start becoming hungry? I don't mean ravenous, but a gentle knowing that you are going to need food soon to feel and perform your best. Do you acknowledge it and take steps to look after yourself of do you ignore and persist in a distracted state until you are overly hungry?

Is your food life filled with arbitrary rules that have little to do with what you enjoy and what makes you feel well? "I can't have ______, I can't trust myself around _____.

Discover the Satisfaction Factor Are most of your eating experiences enjoyable? What makes an eating experience enjoyable for you? The people you are with, the environment, the actual food...taste, texture, aroma, temperature? Giving yourself unconditional permission to eat? Giving yourself permiss

You don't have to like your body, but you don't get to abuse it. Change begins with acceptance. Acceptance does not mean you are ok with something staying the way it is forever, but acknowledges the reality of what is now.

Maybe. If you have spent a large amount of time trying to control your food life and your biology it can initially feel very chaotic to entertain unconditional permission to eat. It's my experience that these feelings of chaos dissipate over time as you re-learn to trust yourself. What was once s

In a way, yes. Unconditional permission to eat, regardless of your body size is one aspect of Intuitive Eating. However, self-care is also at the core of Intuitive Eating. So how does one balance the two? I'd love to hear your thoughts before I share my own.

You are the master of your food life. Not arbitrary rules that may or may not work for you and your situation.

Is food your friend or your enemy? Hopefully your friend because being in a painful relationship with a life sustaining force is exhausting.

Do you know when you start to become satisfied during an eating experience or do you keep eating until you are suddenly stuffed because you have not been aware enough while you were eating to recognize your bodies signals and pause or stop to reassess your choice to keep eating?

Cope With Your Emotions Without Using Food Man, this is a tough one. Food can be so comforting. In the moment anyway. Unfortunately, that cozy feeling of comfort associated with eating typically doesn't last and the underlying painful emotions do, especially when the core need is not being met. Can

Are you aware of when you start becoming hungry? I don't mean ravenous, but a gentle knowing that you are going to need food soon to feel and perform your best. Do you acknowledge it and take steps to look after yourself of do you ignore and persist in a distracted state until you are overly hungr

The 10 Intuitive Eating Principles are: 1. Reject the Diet Mentality 2. Honor Your Hunger 3. Make Peace With Food 4. Challenge The Food Police 5. Respect Your Fullness 6. Discover The Satisfaction Factor 7. Cope With Your Feelings Without Using Food 8. Respect Your Body 9. Exercise--Feel Th

 Intuitive Eating is not really about weight loss.  It's about healing your relationship with food and your body.  If weight loss happens it is the result of your body feeling safe and cared for, not because you were fixated on it as the primary goal.  It's okay to WANT to lose weight.  It does not