Hello, I’m Renee.

My intention is to help you cultivate a nourishing, trusting, peaceful and relaxed relationship with food and your body. 

Why? Because living any other way, quite frankly, sucks.

I know. I spent years of my life hating my body, eating for weight loss, restricting and bingeing, and judging myself as good or bad based on what I ate. 

I was a slave to the scale. I exercised excessively. I tallied my daily calories in bed every night, micromanaging every morsel with hyper-vigilance.

Our pervasive, insidious diet culture had me utterly convinced that when I finally played my cards right and achieved a smaller body, I would finally feel happy, peaceful, worthy, attractive and acceptable.

I wasted an insane amount of time, energy and headspace trying to control my food and my body.

All-Consuming Struggle
My rigid diet and exercise rules turned me into a rigid person. My struggle to reach my goal weight—then maintain it—was all-consuming.

My life became very contracted and small. I neglected my relationships, my job, my social life—basically anything that threatened my desire for control.

My relentless pursuit of our culture's "thin ideal" was damaging me physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and spiritually.

Completely fed up with the insane amount of time, energy and headspace I was wasting trying to control my food and my body, I finally decided I had enough. Too much of my life had been lost to the relentless war I was waging against myself. 

I needed to unlearn everything our oppressive, toxic diet culture had conditioned me to think and do.

I needed to reclaim my power—and my life.

Too much of my life had been lost to the
relentless war I was waging against myself. 

Reclaiming My Power
With compassion, curiosity, patience and help from some very wise guides, I began to release my diet mentality and truly understand that…

My body is not a problem to solve.

My size and shape don’t determine my value and worth.

The scale doesn’t measure anything that actually counts.

My body isn’t meant to be at a weight that can only be maintained through food restriction and excessive exercise.

What I eat or weigh does not make me a morally good or bad person.

My body is neutral and the only reason I feel bad about it is because I’ve been conditioned to.

Anti-fat bias and dieting are driving my disordered relationship with food and my body.

I have a right to eat what I want, when I want and however much I want without guilt, shame, punishment and policing.

The size of someone’s body says nothing about their physical, mental or emotional health.

All bodies are good bodies, worthy of dignity, respect, pleasure, love and belonging.

My body holds all the wisdom I need; I can trust it to guide me.

I am so much more than a body.

The scale doesn’t measure anything that actually counts.

Putting Insights into Action
Putting all my insights into action helped end my disordered eating, transformed my relationship with food and my body (and ultimately, the quality of my life), and inspired my desire to help others reclaim their power.

Today, when I look in the mirror, I no longer see the woman who would go down the path of self-loathing, under-eating and over-exercising at the mere sight of her reflection. 

Now, I see a woman who accepts, appreciates and respects her body (even on days I'm not digging it!). A woman who has a tremendously pleasurable, peaceful and nourishing relationship with food. A relaxed, intuitive eater who never feels deprived. 

My body holds all the wisdom I need.

It’s important for me to acknowledge that as someone with straight-size privilege (as well as other privileges), on my healing journey and throughout my lifetime, I have not encountered the stigma, discrimination and numerous other obstacles higher-weight individuals face.

While through my work I have gained a better understanding of what life and recovery are like for larger-bodied people, I do not share this lived experience. It is my hope, however, that I can support people across the size spectrum whether it’s by working together, providing guidance to other resources, or some combination of both.

I am fully committed to listening, learning, growing and honoring each individual’s unique experience. And I’m deeply committed to fighting for a world free of anti-fat bias, including uprooting my own implicit biases as well as external constructs and systems that uphold body oppression.

Want to know more? Read my professional bio, learn about my approach, or check out my client reviews.