Nourishing Success

I'm Christie....

And I’m not your typical dietitian. In fact, I’m not the dietitian I was when I entered the field years ago. I was armed with nutrition knowledge, a desire to help people and a belief that I could teach people to change. Oops.  

Knowledge is great.  But eating’s a whole lot more complex than getting the “right” food.  And health is not defined by being at a certain weight.  

Fortunately, my desire to help people allowed me to see that diets and meal plans were not working…the more my clients tried to control their eating, the worse they felt about themselves and the more damaged their food and body relationships became.

Seeing this quickly moved me to study, embody and embrace the principles of Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size®, mindfulness, and self-compassion.

I have specialized along the disordered eating spectrum for over 30 years:  from the chronic dieter to the food-rule-follower to the individual with a clinical eating disorder. In all cases, food thoughts and behaviors rob people of precious time, energy, relationships and aspects of their physical, emotional and mental health.   

My extensive experience has grounded me in a mindfulness-based, non-diet, Health at Every Size®, approach that allows people to identify, understand and move beyond their eating struggles, as they reconnect with their internal signals and rediscover a fulfilling, balanced and satisfying relationship with food. I'm passionate about teaching individuals to eat intuitively and move joyfully and I love supporting professionals  as they work to implement these evidence-based tenets into their own work.