Karen Louise Nutrition Coaching
Body Image Support
“We are easier to control when parts of ourselves are fragmented.” ~ Desiree Adaway
Body Image Support
- $Body image coaching goes beyond simply feeling better in your body; it’s about exploring your relationship to yourself.
- $Healing body image is about turning toward and unraveling the body loathing, shame, dominance, and oppression that have turned your body into a thing needing to be altered or improved.
- $Feeling bad about our body can really impact our life in so many ways. Perhaps, we may not want to take risk in life, we put our lives on hold in some way, we don’t go out in the world, we keep ourselves safe and don’t date, avoid intimacy, exercise, wearing certain clothes, eat in certain ways and so on…
- $We live in a culture that idealizes certain body types while stigmatizing others, leaving many to feel as though there’s something inherently wrong with their bodies.
- $This often leads to a negative body image. While anti-fat bias is pervasive, bad body image extends beyond simply wanting to be thinner or look a certain way.
Body image struggles often look like this:
- $Obsessing with the size, shape and weight of your body.
- $Feelings of hate, guilt, shame, blame, and self-consciousness about your body.
- $Avoiding social situations due to body/social isolation.
- $Body loathings that result in low self-esteem, sadness and or depression.
- $Increased disordered eating behaviors to try and change weight, skipping meals, fasting etc.
Curious about what it would be like to feel at home and at peace in your body?
Body Image Coaching looks like this:
- $Unpack all that you have learned about your body and your struggles—explore your body story.
- $Mindset shifts and self-compassion. Learn new ways to think about the body, new ways to re-parent and talk to yourself in ways that are kinder.
- $Address personal and systemic anti fat bias. Challenge cultural belief systems, creating new narratives that are more empowering.
- $We use several ‘decoding methods’ to discover what has been inaccessible due to the preoccupation with the body, or to exposure to discrimination and stigma.
This process helps you to unhook from the obsession and loathing so that you can begin to feel a renewed sense of freedom, fulfillment, acceptance and joy.
Your body has been through the ringer!
You’ve tried it all and yet, you still feel like your body has betrayed you.
- $This work is tender and takes time, but you deserve to feel at home in your body.
- $Body trust is a birthright, and reclamation is the process of reasserting your right to live in your body without apology, without explanation.
- $Doing this work in a world committed to body hierarchies can feel impossible. You don’t have to do this work alone.
- $Feeling at home in your body is yours to reclaim. Although it might seem impossible, there is a roadmap to help you finally feel less at war with your body.
Let us show you the way. You deserve to feel at peace in your own skin.
“Re-occupying the body is a political act.”
~JENNIFER MULLIAN~
"I am free from food and weight obsession."
“Karen taught me how to listen to my body. I now eat whatever I want without guilt, deprivation or worry!” ~KM
"“I’ve been to a lot of therapists and counselors, group therapy, AA therapy, you name it. "
“I think we hit on more relevant stuff than my last ten years of therapy combined!” (from only 1 session of decoding work)” ~MM
"“Karen is amazingly empathetic therapist, coach and nutritionist."
“She clearly has a passion to heal, with real strategies, and an open heart.” ~MC
Hello! Let Me Introduce Myself...
I’m a nutrition therapist/dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and body trust provider. I specialize in weight-inclusive care, intuitive eating, body image healing, mindfulness, self-compassion and healing from disordered eating, and eating disorders.
Since 2005, I’ve helped hundreds of folks break free from the dieting cycle and create a sustainable and peaceful relationship with food and their bodies.
Healing from food and body image issues takes time, patience and support. As someone who has recovered from chronic dieting myself, I get it!
I am passionate about supporting colleagues (both dietitians and therapists) to develop and strengthen their own wisdom, knowledge and skills.
The work we do as healers is ongoing and we never “arrive” at some place of completion. Like you, I am always learning and unlearning, growing and evolving along this path. I am personally and professionally committed to ongoing supervision and training.
Our work together is informed by social justice movements, the Health at Every Size paradigm, and Body Trust and Intuitive Eating frameworks.
Other modalities include: harm reduction, developmental theory of embodiment, shame resilience theory, motivational interviewing, self-compassion theory and mindfulness-based approaches.
My other passion is plant-medicine and I am a current graduate student at CIIS for certification in Psychedelic Assissted Therapy and Research.
Karen Louise Nutrition Coach
Thank you for reading Karen Louise Intuitive Eating Coach Manifesto
I’ve learned a lot in the past 15 years specializing in eating disorders! I’ve worked at every level of care- from in-patient hospital, to PHP to IOP programs and have had a thriving private practice for over 10 years. While working in programs, I had the opportunity to supervise and train new dietitians.
I’ve personally trained with the best and brightest in our field, including Anita Johnston, author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, Carolyn Costin author of numerous books on eating disorders and Evelyn Tribole author of Intuitive Eating. I’ve also trained with Barbara Birsinger and use her Behavior Decoding Methods to uncover the symbolic meaning and purpose of food and body image issues.
You can see my full work experience here
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HEALTH AT EVERY SIZE
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MINDFUL EATING
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FOOD & NUTRITION
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