HEALING YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD
with your body, with eating, with yourself
To bridge the gap between you and your physical health:
Emotions, Support, Tools, Lifestyle & Stress Management
You’re not broken, I PROMISE.
BUT, are you listening
to what your body is whispering {or screaming} at you?
Listen, it’s normal to feel absolutely exhausted, confused and feel like giving up and pulling your hair out with frustration when things that should bring you joy - like an exciting plane trip back home to visit friends and family, a to-die-for meal out at a hip restaurant with your bestie, or a sleepover with a sexy new love interest - cause you pain instead of that wooohoooo, howling at the moon, feeling!
I get that. I’d be feeling like that too. And to be honest, I have.
As someone who has been there, I ask you, please don’t settle!
From the bottom of my heart I am telling you that YOU SHOULDN’T AND DON’T HAVE TO SUFFER FOREVER!
As weird as it sounds, this is the beginning of your health, not the end. Your body, even if it doesn’t feel like it at the moment, is here to help and guide you. But you’ll need to start listening in and do the work.
The good thing? Good nutrition, delicious healthy eating and an amazing relationship with yourself and your body totally set you up for a life full of health. And as you get older, you’ll be so glad you tuned in while others chose not to pay attention to their health until it was too late to turn it around.
I’M SPEAKING TO YOU IF ANY OF THESE RING A BELL FOR YOU:
You're plagued by anxiety and stress related to food (and possibly in your life in general)
Your intuition tells you you’ve got an unhealthy relationship with food, eating and your body
Every waking hour of your day seems to be spent thinking about food: what to eat, what to avoid, what you WANT so desperately to be able to eat. You feel totally food-OBSESSED!
You’re struggling with binge eating / overeating / emotional eating and feel that you need to take a closer look at how your emotions and lifestyle are contributing to uncomfortable digestive symptoms
You’ve tried everything - diets, tests, treatments - and you’re frustrated and at the point of giving up
You feel alone, unsupported, let down and uncared for by the health professionals who were supposed to have your back (or rather…gut)
No food feels like it sits well with you! The list of foods that feel ok gets smaller and smaller
You’re dealing with painful cramps / bloating / gases / diarrhoea / constipation / killer farts that could knock others unconscious / ETC.
Your symptoms are just getting worse the more you try to control them!
You’ve been diagnosed with a digestive problem and have gone through treatment but your symptoms haven’t gone away or you think you’re experiencing a relapse
Two directions + focuses
depending on what YOU specifically need next:
I’m a multi-passionate millennial that refuses to be crammed into one box. And you my lovely clients need different things from me.
1. THE EMOTIONS FOCUS
Body-focused emotional support (Gestalt)
Moving from the past into the present
Healing from the past & limiting beliefs
Stress and anxiety management
Emotions expressed as physical symptoms
2. THE HABITS FOCUS
Goal-orientated focus
Looking towards the future
Discovering obstacles
Motivation and direction
Lifestyle changes
Goal creation
Forming healthy new habits
Both are with the goal of getting you back on track so you can travel discomfort-free, eat what you like* and enjoy your social life to your heart’s desire!
*WARNING! - You might end up actually preferring eating {delicious} healthy food that makes you feel fabulous and happier in your own skin!
What I don't do:
I cover the emotional and lifestyle management parts that are contributing to your eating problems. If I feel that you'd really benefit from the help of a digestive health professional or nutritionist and you don't yet have one or one that feels right, I'll of course recommend a professional I completely trust to guide you alongside our sessions. This is of course completely up to you, but the suggestion will be there if you’d like it.
By now you should be clear on the How I can help you…
NOW, WHAT DO I NEED FROM YOU?
Look, I wish there was a magic pill that could miraculously cure all these problems, but I’m sorry to say that I never found it as hard as I looked. As much as medical treatments help, the world of eating and digestive issues is one of frequent relapses if you're not careful (and often even if you are obsessing and controlling every mouthful). Treatments do work, don’t get me wrong!, but if you don’t heal your relationship with food, eating and your body, it’s highly likely that your issues will return ( again, been there, done that, got the frikken t-shirt. Actually, maybe I should create a t-shirt club for all us relapsers… ).
So, there is work to be done and I’m going to be completely frank about that from the word go! You’ll need to want change and do the work to get it.
BUT, I can take your hand and lead you through the process the way I wish someone had for me. Instead, I felt unsupported, alone, unbalanced, obsessed, extremely restricted both in terms of diet and socially, and very, VERY frustrated. You don’t have to go through that. My mission is to make sure that my experience and trial and error serves as many of you as possible so that you don’t have to go through what I went through.
Are you ready to:
take a look at your emotions, lifestyle and stress?
ask for help and support?
do the work necessary to make lasting changes?
empower yourself to heal your relationship with food, eating and yourself?
propel yourself towards success, not just with food and eating?
what to do next?
If that’s a biiiiig YES and you’re done suffering on your own and ready to start listening to your body, there are a few ways we can proceed, all depending on where you’re currently at:
CLEAR ABOUT MOVING FORWARD?
Flexible to your schedule, fitting in with your busy life and from the comfort of your home with no need to travel. *Note! I do also offer in-person sessions: in Granada, Spain & also Cape Town, South Africa. It depends on the time of year.
Each session lasts approx. 55 minutes and costs 55€.
Later on you can decide whether you’d like a pack deal including several sessions, at 50€ each.
STILL ON THE FENCE AND NOT SURE?
No worries, it’s normal… It’s really important that we are a good fit and, as you don’t yet know me, we won’t know whether we are well-matched until we have an initial chat. No strings attached. After the call you decide whether you want to contact me to book an online session.
We’ll also chat about what direction could be better for you, coaching or therapy, and how we can best help you get back on track and living your best life.
WANT SOME HELP, BUT NOT READY TO INVEST FULLY, OR STRAPPED FOR CASH?
For the monthly price of 20€ you can join the monthly subscription plan.
Each week I’ll bring you something different and I’ll be focusing on one of the following:
my monthly live group session with therapy and coaching activities and a safe group space to share our difficulties, questions, and, importantly, our wins! It’s an inspiring space where we share, inspire, motivate and hold each other accountable {community space}
a prompt for self-reflection and listening to your body {self-awareness}
an action point to get you creating new, healthy habits, routines and rituals for true wellbeing {habit creation}
a juicy, informative article for improving your health {knowledge is power}
WANT TO STAY INFORMED & receive the newsletter?
Sign up for my Newsletter - I send out a short newsletter every two weeks, with snippets from the monthly subscription: tools, resources, motivation and actionable content.
Foodie Wellness Retreats
Aaaaaand, last but not least, keep an eye out for my Foodie Wellness Retreats. They’re hosted once a year in the sunny tropical coast of Granada, Spain and also in my beautiful home city of Cape Town in South Africa. Details will be posted on the website and in my fortnightly newsletter.
And with that I truly hope I have YOUR specific needs covered! If I don’t and you’d like to contact me to give me some feedback or ask me a question, you are so welcome to send me a message.
I’d LOVE to know who is on the other side of this screen and how I can aim to serve you the best way possible!