You Are Not Alone

In a world ruled by diet culture and fatphobia, it is easy to feel alone. These systems tell us that we need to shape ourselves to conform to standards that are unrealistic and often harmful. They are good at telling us that the ways we’ve survived are wrong or shameful.
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These systems disconnect us from our own innate knowing about food and what makes sense for our bodies and for our health. It makes sense that you might be feeling overwhelmed and disconnected from your own hunger cues. Perhaps you feel confused by the conflicting information you read about what it means to be healthy. 

The good news is that you are not alone.
​So many of us struggle with relationships with food and with our bodies.

I'm ready to END THE STRUGGLE

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​Get the Support You Need with Nutrition Counseling

We’re here to support you in rediscovering your own embodied relationship with food. At Have Heart Wellness, we work with folks of all experiences, body sizes, and with varying histories of eating disorders and disordered eating to find true food freedom and begin the journey towards truly trusting and respecting your body. 

Using a Health at Every Size and weight neutral approach, we will work with you to regain a relationship with food and body that is truly life affirming. We focus on helping you to find a relationship with food and with your body that will allow you to spend more time on the things you care about, and less time worrying about calorie counting or the latest fad diet. 

We believe that all people can develop the capacity to trust the wisdom of the body first. We want to support the development of embodied eaters who enthusiastically and wholeheartedly choose the choices they make about food and their bodies.

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How Do I Know If I Need Nutrition Counseling?

It’s normal to wonder if seeing a nutritionist or dietitian will be helpful. Many of us have had negative experiences with nutrition professionals in the past who have prescribed diets and weight loss solutions as the key to our health and wellbeing at a great cost to our sense of dignity and connection. 

​We promise you something different.

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​You might benefit from working with a nutritionist if you:

• Find yourself worrying about what or how much to eat
• Feel stuck in cycles of on and off again dieting 
• Feel out of control with food 
• Feel that your relationship with food is impacting your other relationships
• Feel disconnected from what true hunger feels like 
• Feel like the ways you move your body and exercise aren’t super choiceful
• Feel confused about what you actually want to be eating 
• Feel disconnected from the pleasure and joy of food 
• Just need someone to talk to about your food life

Why Do I Need Nutrition Counseling?

Your struggle with food and body is as unique as you are. We know that and we want to support you in what you’re going through. We also know that there are some common factors in what brings folks into our office. 

• A history of disordered eating or an eating disorder
• A recommendation from another healthcare professional
• The concern of a friend, family member, or other close person
• Feeling less than choiceful about your relationship to food, body, and exercise
• Feeling stuck in patterns of restrictive eating followed by periods of feeling very out of control 
• Wanting to break free of the cycle of dieting
• ​Wanting to develop a relationship with food that feels more in line with your values

At Have Heart, we will work with you to become an intuitive eater, so that food can take up a right-sized place in your life. Following Ellyn Satter, we believe that “normal eating” involves flexibility, and adaptability across time and context.

We're here to support you in developing an embodied and choiceful relationship with food, exercise, and your body.

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Who Do We Help?

Again, so many of us have had negative experiences with healthcare providers when trying to get help around our relationships to food and body. At Have Heart Wellness, we fully acknowledge these experiences and have even experienced some of them ourselves. We believe that body liberation and an embodied relationship with food is something that all people deserve. That being said, we work with all folks who are interested in developing an embodied relationship to food, body and movement. 

We specialize working with communities who have traditionally been marginalized from the nutrition and eating disorder treatment worlds

• People of color 
• LGBTQ+ communities, especially trans and gender non-conforming folks
• Fat folks

How Do We Help?

We will work with you to develop a plan that makes sense to your unique situation and needs. We want you to develop a trustful and respectful relationship with food, body, and exercise. We’ll be with you every step of the way as you uncover what that means for you. 
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Through regular and consistent appointments with your nutrition counselor, you’ll begin to develop the resilience it takes to resist diet culture and to find your own embodied relationship with yourself and with food. We’re here as your guide in uncovering what intuitive eating means for you. 

We trust you as the expert on your life, and will work with you to uncover what has shaped your current experience of food, body, and exercise and rewrite the story of your body into one that truly matches your vision for your life.

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