Hi, I'm Elizabeth.
My desire is to support women as they free themselves from limiting beliefs about what is possible in our relationship with food and body.
True freedom, joy, ease, and happiness does not come from the outside, it’s an inside-out job.
Instead of living in the paradigm of “I’ll be happy when I am a different weight or size”, I assist women to explore what happens when they release external expectations and embrace their own internal wisdom. What would it be like to cultivate happiness now? Why wait?
I assist women in getting out of their heads and reconnecting with their hearts - the true source of inner peace. From this heart space, they are able to make compassionate, flexible, supportive choices about food and movement that lead to increased feelings of satisfaction and joy in all areas of life.
Read on for more of my personal story.
Girls do not decide to hate their bodies, we teach them to.
I went to my first nutritionist when I was 12 and wanted to lose weight before high school. That was when I first started counting calories, measuring 1/4 cups of cottage cheese, tracking my activity level, getting praise for the changing shape of my body, and oh yeah, melting butter in a pan with brown sugar and eating it straight.
Messing with your food, messes with your mind.
Society and our culture teaches us that we are flawed if we aren't a certain size and shape. I wholeheartedly bought into this myth and from an early age started on a path to fix myself that would dominate the landscape of my life (and body) for the next 30 years.
Yet, the harder I tried to control my food, the more out of control I became.
One summer, I realized I was not the only one who struggled with diets and suffered from a Jekyll and Hyde relationship with eating. Eventually, I learned that it wasn't me that was the problem, it was the diet. When I relaxed my attempt to control my food, I started to build a new relationship, first with food, and then with myself. This new relationship was based on allowance, permission, self compassion and trust.
Oh I admit it - I was hugely skeptical at first. I was tired of eating the frosting off of a box of cupcakes and hiding the box in the garbage, but I feared what would happen if I stopped counting calories, weighing myself, reading food labels and counting my steps. You know what happened? I also stopped eating the frosting off of a box of cupcakes and hiding the box in the garbage.
I had discovered that it's not our bodies that are flawed, it's society's messages. Don't let it take you 30 years like me to learn how to live free. You can start today, let me save you some time.
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When I am not reading a book on energy healing or weight science or listening to a podcast on binge eating or self-care, I can be found walking in the reservoir behind my house, eating a meal with my family, or napping on the porch. These are the things that fuel me to do the work that I love and I am grateful that I have learned how to nurture myself in this fashion. By putting on my own oxygen mask first, I am able to show up for my family and appreciate my life more than ever before, and you can too.