Anti-Diet Coaching
Christy Harrison, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor
If you're ready to break free from diet culture, stop obsessing about food, and learn to trust your body, you're in the right place.
I offer coaching to help you get into a peaceful relationship with food and your body—so that you have the energy and mental space to focus on all the other important relationships in your life.
As a certified intuitive eating counselor, I'll help you reclaim your ability to honor your body's individual needs, including hunger, fullness, satisfaction, and pleasure. I also incorporate my extensive training in eating disorders, meditation, and yoga, and my experience as a journalist covering food and nutrition from an anti-diet perspective, to help you stop dieting and find a balanced approach to food and movement.
We'll work together to deconstruct unhelpful beliefs about food, gradually replacing them with internal awareness and non-diet nutrition knowledge to help you feel your best.
Please note: My coaching programs aren't appropriate for people struggling with active eating disorders (i.e. those who are engaging in dangerous behaviors such as purging, or those who are engaging in food restriction or bingeing once a week or more). If you have an eating disorder, please see the National Eating Disorders Association for referrals instead.
MISSION AND PHILOSOPHY
In our fatphobic and food-phobic society, it's no wonder so many people struggle with their eating and worry about their weight. We live in an incredibly body-negative culture (aka diet culture) that thrives on telling people their food choices are all wrong and their bodies aren't good enough as they are. So if you're struggling with these issues, know that you're definitely not alone.
My mission is to help you recognize and reject diet culture in all its forms, tune out the constant noise about nutrition and health, and tune in to your body's intuitive wisdom about hunger, fullness, movement, and rest. I use a weight-inclusive approach to help you make peace with food, which means I'll never put you on a diet or recommend weight loss, whatever your size. Instead, I'll help you move toward greater well-being by focusing on your body's needs rather than on its looks.
I strive to run an inclusive and welcoming practice for clients of all ages, sizes, ethnicities, religious affiliations, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM OUR WORK TOGETHER
In my individual coaching sessions, I’ll challenge you to let go of the harmful beliefs you hold about food and your body, and help you replace them with compassionate self-talk and behaviors that promote true holistic well-being—which includes mental health and your relationship with food, not just what you eat.
I’ll provide one-on-one support as you go through this process, and offer tools and resources to help you implement our work between sessions. You'll also have access to me via email for follow-up questions.
When we begin our work together, we’ll dive into exploring how the diet mentality is showing up for you in subtle ways, and how to shift your mindset from one of deprivation to one of self-care and permission.
I’ll help you make peace with even the foods you consider off-limits, so that ultimately you can have any food in the house and not be afraid of losing control.
I’ll also help you develop greater respect for your body, and start engaging in physical activity for the joy of movement rather than for cosmetic reasons.
You'll learn that it's possible to choose nourishing foods without having to use willpower or control, but because you actually like them.
Ultimately your relationship with food will take its rightful place as just one aspect of your life, nowhere near the most important—because you've got so much more to offer in this world.