The Curse of the Junk Food Diet!

It impacts you every morning when you slump out of bed, sluggish from eating too much crap the night before.

You feel it when you’re puffing and panting after climbing one flight of stairs, or when your achy joints feel about 20 years too old.

(And let’s not mention your ever-expanding waistband…)

Maybe you’ve watched the revealing documentary Food, Inc. and you’re convinced it’s time to kick ultra-processed food companies to the curb.

Or maybe you’ve seen What the Health? and you believe a whole food plant-based lifestyle can reverse your diabetes, heart disease, or arthritis.

However you got here, whatever your reasons, you desperately want to cut back on junk food and eat healthier, but it’s so damn hard.

You’ve even had some periods of eating really well for a while, but eventually your willpower turns into rebellion, and your self-control transforms into self-indulgence, and the junk food habit gradually sneaks back into your life.

And that’s totally normal – these products are literally designed to be biologically addictive!

Who am I to think I can help you?

You’re right to ask! It’s a jungle out there…

I tried so many food addiction recovery programs!

Some of them expected me to admit I was “powerless” and that just didn’t land for me—even though willpower had never worked, I knew I wasn’t helpless either.

Others wanted me to believe “all foods fit”, but that did not match my lived experience—I knew I felt better physically and mentally when I eliminated certain products from my eating.

Eventually I realized that what they all had in common, was undermining my own self-trust and intuition (including so-called “intuitive eating” approaches!).

I knew that what I really needed was an approach that honours my own inner wisdom and self-awareness. So I adapted a process that worked for me when I was where you are, to get me where I am now.

Now I share it because I want to take down the ultra-processed food industry, one junk food addiction at a time.

My expertise is in holding a space where you can reconnect with yourself, explore the needs and feelings driving your compulsive eating, and access your inner wisdom so you can support yourself through difficult experiences without turning to food.

I have extensive training & experience in multiple healing modalities, and I’ve led hundreds of hours of presence-based connection groups.

“One size fits all” fits about as well for recovery as it does for leggings, so I provide a ton of info on my philosophy around food addiction and my approach to recovery, so you get a sense of whether my work might be right for you.

My approach is slow and gentle

I believe high intensity growth work is harder to integrate, leads to healing burnout, and ultimately takes longer to achieve the same results (or worse, adds to your wounds and gives you more to heal).

We go slow to go fast.

When you slow down and nurture your system with patience and caring, you create space for your own wisdom to emerge. This supports a healing journey that’s exactly right, just for you.

I am not a guru or a sage. I walk alongside my clients as a fellow wobbly (but skilled) human being, replete with my own struggles and inadequacies, but always learning and growing into greater Wholeness.

Where am I on my own Journey?

Since 2018, I’ve pretty much worked full-time on my healing.

I’ve grown my capacity to stay present with intense feelings and self-regulate my nervous system when I’m distressed. I’ve processed & integrated most of my childhood wounds and I’ve developed healthier tools for emotional regulation.

In 2023, I started using the techniques that are now the foundation of my emotional healing and food addiction recovery.

Over the next couple years, I alternated between embodied approaches and abstinence approaches. It wasn’t until I combined elements from each of them that I started to see some real success.

Now is that I make food decisions from a place of freedom and agency. I’m able to consistently choose healthier foods without force or willpower; it’s just become a habit to eat in alignment with my values.

To be transparent: I don’t eat perfectly! I’ve cut out my “worst offender” junk foods, and I eat some others conscientiously and in alignment with my physical and emotional needs. My eating aligns with my overall health & wellness goals, not just my waistline.