Body Emancipation
The goal of Body Emancipation coaching is to reconnect meaningfully to your physical body and to care for it sustainably. We do this together by fostering trust, kindness and respect for your body and by encouraging intuitive eating and movement to enhance your well-being.
Body Emancipation coaching may be right for you if you:
Criticize, judge or analyze your body
Experience chronic dissatisfaction with your body or appearance
Diet and are preoccupied by thoughts about food and weight
Feel tired and fed up with fighting your body
In the course of our coaching relationship you will develop self-compassion, attune to your body’s needs and cues, make peace with food, and restore trust and respect for your body. Developing insight, motivation and new thinking styles and behaviors will free your energy and creativity to bring ease and meaningful self-acceptance.
Body Emancipation coaching is not a replacement for nutrition counseling and I will make referrals when needed.
My Approach
My coaching practice aligns with the Health At Every Size® (HAES®) principles. HAES® is a weight-neutral framework of care that advances the right to be at peace in one’s body. Health is considered an evolving resource that shifts over time, is based on circumstances and is not a prerequisite or obligation. Health status does not define a person’s intrinsic worth. For more information on HAES® please visit The Association For Size Diversity and Health.
I also follow the Intuitive Eating framework and Body Trust® pathway to guide and encourage you.
Intuitive Eating is a self-care eating framework developed by Evelyn Tribole MS, RDN, CEDRD-S and Elyse Resch MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, FAND in 1995. It is a weight-inclusive, evidence-based model aligned with HAES®. Intuitive eating promotes flexible, individualized eating, movement for well-being and body respect, and counters diet mentality. Ten principles guide the intuitive eating process in a dynamic interplay.
Body Trust® is a strength-based, trauma-informed, scientifically grounded healing modality that encourages movement toward a compassionate, weight-inclusive model of radical self-care to address body oppression, heal body shame and associated patterns of chronic dieting and disordered eating. Based on the clinical work of Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC and Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD, the approach is designed for multi-disciplinary helping professionals to make a shift from a weight-normative to a weight-inclusive approach to care that includes recognition of what helps address intersectional oppressions that have made “body trust” challenging, unsafe or inaccessible.
And to end at the start, I was drawn to coaching to promote freedom from body dissatisfaction because of my clinical experience working with people with eating disorders.