Heal Disordered Eating & Negative Body Image
You can experience the joy of eating & living in your body, free from preoccupation with food & your appearance.
Disordered eating may look like constant dieting, restricting, bingeing, creating rules about what you can eat, or keeping a detailed food log.
It may look like overexercising, purging, or using laxatives to “make up” for falling off the diet wagon.
It may sound like caring about health, taking pride in your appearance, criticizing your lack of willpower, or fixing your “flawed” body.
It may feel like control, safety, comfort, or security.
BUT, IT SUCKS.
It’s exhausting & drains the joy out of our days. Relying on outside sources to tell us how & what to eat steals our trust in ourselves & makes us obsessed with food, weight, counting macros, calories, & steps. We become uncomfortable in our bodies & disconnected from our lives.
You may feel out of control, or worry about losing it if you budge on your rigid food rules & exercise regimen.
You may be so wrapped up in disordered eating or attached to your body size it’s become part of your identity. It may feel scary to let go of the label you’ve been defined by for so long.
Controlling food & manipulating your body may have become your way of dealing with difficult emotions or situations. It might seem familiar, or like there’s no other way. Or maybe on some level it seems less daunting to obsess over what you eat & how you look than examining the pain that’s underneath those worried thoughts & behaviors.
Recovering from restrictive eating, body image issues, or an eating disorder, like anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating is a challenge you don’t have to go through alone.
You can learn to trust yourself & feel at ease in your body!
I help adults & teens with disordered eating habits, body image issues, & eating disorders heal their relationship to food & their bodies. I believe that true wellbeing isn’t just about what we eat, how much we move, or what we look like. I approach recovery with the principles of Health at Every Size & Intuitive Eating.
I work in-person with folks in New Bern, Morehead City, Beaufort, Jacksonville, Greenville, & surrounding areas. I also work ONLINE with people anywhere in North Carolina.
You don’t have to keep suffering, feeling guilty about food, criticizing your body, replaying your choices at night, & worrying about making up for it tomorrow. You don’t have to earn your food through exercise or feel out of control, anxious, & stressed any longer.
You deserve to take up space. You are worthy of enjoying your life. You are already enough.