We've Been Set Up to Fail

The 143 billion dollar diet-industrial complex is financially dependent on our recurring failure and self-loathing.

Take Your Life Back.

Deep beneath the conversation of how much to eat and what-not-to-eat on any “diet” is the truth that a human body needs enough calories to function, and any less sets off primordial alarm bells.

Deep beneath the endless arguments about carbohydrates, fats, and protein is the truth that eating food is a primary way humans self-soothe.

Eating food is comforting. And processed food companies know how to make it extra-comforting-to-the-point-of-irresistable.

Our high-pressure, fast-paced, economy-centric world is pushing us to the brink. Add chronic caloric restriction and forced-exercise to the mix and it’s no surprise that we’ve become more and more cut off from our inner wisdom.

Most of us no longer have adequate tools to alleviate stress without using harmful coping mechanisms, like eating junk food.

It’s not your fault this feels so hard.

"At War with My Body"

We’ve been sold lies about health and weight loss for decades.

We’ve been told by “experts” that 1,500 calories per day  (or less) is enough.

But our bodies know better.

(And, technically, so does science.)

We’ve been told that we aren’t losing weight because we’re lazy, weak, or undedicated.

But we know the truth runs deeper.

We’ve been told that we need stronger willpower, more discipline, and tighter control.

But we know that’s not the kind of life we want to live.

(And it never works for long, anyway.)

You deserve better than this.

You can choose to end the war against your body. 

The battle in your mind can be over.

Come home to your wholeness. Come home to your true Self.

You can learn to make mealtimes a celebration of abundance, an opportunity to joyfully relish the bounty of our Earth. 

You deserve a life free from obsessing about food.

You deserve a life free from dreading your next binge.

You deserve to live in a body that is celebrated and reflects your inner health and wellbeing.

You deserve to feel deep trust; trust in your body, trust in your appetite, trust in your energy. Trust in receiving nourishment.

I believe with all of my heart that each one of us can come home to our whole Selves and find peace within our bodies and minds. When we have the right tools, steadfast support, good-enough guidance, and consistency, we can learn to let go of the old, broken rules and relax into our inherent wholeness.

We can decide not to waste one more day of our single precious life feeling hungry. 

Not one more day at war with our body. 

Not one more meal at war with our appetite.

The sovereignty to choose how to nourish your body is available when you know how your nervous system operates and you know your Self in the highest and deepest sense.

What We Do

Liberating yourself from Diet Culture and choosing to prioritize your physical and mental health means swimming upstream, against the current of society and going against the culture of our own families and dear friends. It makes sense to need and want more support under these circumstances. With a Nourished Sanctuary Membership, we create that support together.

In our Membership Community, we gain clarity about what you DO want while exploring and resolving what gets in the way of aligning actions with goals. 

We extensively explore the way food interacts with culture, stress, anxiety, depression, overwhelm, and acute & chronic trauma.

By understanding and working with the nervous system, we get to the root cause of these patterns and repair the damage by finding and healing the parts of us who diet, restrict, self-punish, criticize, binge, purge, and eat to soothe.

We learn and practice the best, evidence-based, holistic inner healing tools available; starting with basic Mindfulness and progressing to profound Internal Family Systems (IFS) inspired inner journeys.

We get really curious about why we do what we do with food, and then we take loving action to heal and transform those patterns.

We celebrate each other’s successes and we learn to keep each other company during moments of darkness and struggle.

We troubleshoot nuanced challenges to balance self-care with our complex lives and relationships.

We cultivate inner and outer connections, because deep, lasting healing and transformation happens through loving connection.

We gather for information-packed workshops and enjoy lively discussions about what we learned and how we're applying it to our lives.

If you’re ready to heal your relationships with food and with your body, if you’re ready to do deep self work and return to your one true home (your Self), you’re in the right place and you’re in very good company.

We balance our time between:

Benefits of Nourished Sanctuary Membership

• High quality information and group guidance on: 
• Nervous system physiology, function, and (most importantly) nervous system resourcing.
• Learning to leverage evidence-based neuroplasticity tools to rewire your brain, promote lasting transformation, and avoid common pitfalls.
• Guided DIY Parts Work (Internal Family Systems-informed) to explore resistance and self-sabotage while identifying where powerful healing work is available.
• Devotional Self-Care recommendations, guidance, and troubleshooting to take excellent care of your precious body/mind/spirit.
• Hone in on your life’s purpose, gaining clarity on exactly what you want, why it’s important to you, and how to get it.
• Clarify your values and create a meaningful, values-centered, content life.
• Clarify  your deepest desires to envision your most-aligned future and set specific, manageable, values-aligned goals to move you forward.
• Dedicated workshops on nervous system hierarchies, neuroplasticity, integration, boundaries, trauma healing and integration, nourishing pleasure, holistic emotional wellness and expression, narrative integration, and more.
• Uncover, release, and reprogram deep, subconscious beliefs and conditioning.
• Move toward permanent recovery from diet culture, caloric restriction, and emotional eating patterns.
• Learn to embrace and celebrate dietary abundance.
• Learn to be your own coach as you discover and practice tools that you can come back to again and again. Receive the benefits of an intensive coaching program at a fraction of the cost.
• Abundant opportunities to ask questions, seek clarity, and chew on nuanced concepts using examples from your own life.
• Experience the benefit of doing deep inner work in a collective healing space. When we hold space for one another’s transformative work, we create a special, potent field of healing energy. You know it when you feel it!

Membership Design

This Membership is designed as an approximately six-month journey. Every six-months, the content will restart from the beginning.

The information and practices in earlier modules does build as the weeks and months progress. However, the practices and workshops are informative and engaging in any order, though a few workshops are considered “required” for all new Members (those recordings will be available in the Community space).

It may seem kind of weird and clunky, but I’ve designed Nourished Sanctuary this way for a few important reasons:

• In every course I’ve completed, I often circle back to the content from the beginning and hear it as if for the first time. Having completed the entire arc of learning, I am (finally) able to contextualize and assimilate the information in a more meaningful way. Often, I think: I want to redo the entire course again! But by that time, I no longer have access to the teachers to (finally) ask meaningful questions, engage with the community, and do deeper work. I wanted to design Nourished Sanctuary in a way that allows for cyclical learning. You can do one cycle to learn the tools and move on, or you can enjoy several cycles, spiraling into deeper layers of embodied understanding with each revolution. 
• I want to expand, refine, and distill this content as we go. I’m excited for us to engage, learn together, and shape and reshape these tools to meet your needs.
• You can quit whenever you want or need to. Maybe it felt like the right time to start, but suddenly a life emergency came up that will derail you for 3-months. Simply cancel your Membership and come back when you’re settled and ready. No big financial commitments, no pressure.
• A lot of courses and memberships are sold with false promises of radical transformation in 30, 60, 90, or some other equally unrealistic number of days. The pressure of these quick, profit-driven courses does not facilitate genuine transformation, nervous system rehabilitation, or meaningful connections. I wanted to create an environment where our time together feels luxuriously unpressured. You can stay as long as you like and leave whenever you’re ready.

What We Don't Do

In our Membership Community, we celebrate food, but we don’t dive too deeply into the nuts-and-bolts of what or how much to eat (you'll learn how to let your body decide that).

We cover the bare-minimum-basics of Whole Plant Food nutrition, and you get to choose how closely your body wants to match those criteria. If you’re familiar with my YouTube videos, you already have access to the evidence-based basic lifestyle theory that I practice and will teach here. (The Lifestyle Basics)

Our Membership space isn’t focused on exactly what you “should” or “shouldn’t” eat. We do not use meal plans or menus because these are tools that create more separation between you and the wisdom of your body's natural appetite. 

I strongly encourage you to explore the excellent evidence-based resources section on nutritionally-adequate whole plant food diets that I have learned from. (Check out my Bookshelf Resources page.)

In this space, you choose the eating pattern and flexibility that's optimal for you and aligns with your personal values and goals.

Our work covers everything that gets in the way of that alignment. 

Sometimes, all we need to take really good care of ourselves is information. If all you need is information, my YouTube channel and Recommended Resources page have you covered!

But if your body & mind have been hijacked by diet culture and you learned to use food to cope with daily stress (or unresolved trauma) like I did, information isn’t enough.

In this case, deeper healing work is essential.

Let's Get Started.