Have you ever experienced any of the following?
Criticizing yourself for eating something and vowing to change your habits?
Feeling like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - “being good” one minute and bingeing the next?
Eating for emotional reasons or using food as a reward?
Joining Weight Watchers or another diet program and swearing it will be the last time?
Skipping a visit to the doctor because you feel guilty about your weight?
Comparing your experience to people around you and feeling like something is missing for you?
Feeling like weight is the “one thing” that you struggle with and thinking you should just have more gratitude for the good life you already have?
Would you describe yourself as a perfectionist or a people pleaser?
Does your definition of success include being a certain weight or size?
Dread……guilt…….disappointment……judgment……..criticism.
How would your body feel if you could let these thoughts and feelings go?
Ways We Can Work Together
I am a Certified Professional Life Coach (iPEC), mentor and teacher who has studied the science and psychology behind our relationship with food and body so I could better understand my own behaviors. I offer my clients the same information, tools and techniques that helped me learn to appreciate and accept myself and my body, and feel more present and alive in my life.
I have also completed the Be Nourished Certified Body Trust® Provider training, and am a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Certified Eating Psychology Coach. I use a Heath at Every Size® approach and provide trauma informed care.
I work with clients currently in 3 ways:
Single Breakthrough Session
Small Group Mentoring
1-1 Private Coaching
Not sure what is right for you? Let’s explore it together!
What Clients Are Saying:
I came to Elizabeth full of frustration and fear. I knew diets didn't work for me, but I had no idea what to do next. She introduced me to body trust and intuitive eating. My life was transformed. I came out from underneath the weight of 40 years of dieting, diet culture, shame, and fat-phobia. I even found my activist voice and started sharing the good news with my community. I'm free. I needed permission from someone who knew more than me, and I got it. Elizabeth made space for a lot of tears, self hatred, doubt, and ultimately, emergence. I will be forever grateful to her.
Kathryn Hecht, Executive Director, Alexander Valley Film Society
What I love about working with Elizabeth is the sense of safety she creates in the client-coach relationship. Sharing insecurities and vulnerabilities is never easy, but I always feel completely understood in the circle of confidentiality between us. Elizabeth's evolving philosophy around body image/issues brings me a sense of sanity. She asks questions that make me realize how brainwashed we are as a society that worships thinness. Bottom line: I am OK exactly the way I am. Paradoxically, change happens when I accept and love myself -- not because I look a certain way but because of who I am. Elizabeth's guidance, based in her own experience, led me to this place of freedom.
Julie Montinieri, Energy Medicine Practitioner, Blue Heron Healing
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Before coaching I was exhausted from thinking about food and my body all the time. My eating was feeling out of control, and I was full of self-critical thoughts about myself and my body. I wanted to experience more peace and joy in my daily life. I mostly just wanted relief from my fight with food, but I was hopeful that some of the other areas of my life might also benefit.
Now my relationship with food is so much quieter and peaceful to the extent that I have to really think to remember how much I tortured myself about food and my body. As I write this, I remember that every morning I used to wake up and inventory my eating from the day before and decide whether or not it was a good or bad day, and that would have a huge impact on how I started the day. Now I just get out of bed and start my day.
I am not worrying about what I will or will not eat, nor using food to get through the day. I am able to be in my body with more acceptance and self-love and appreciate my body for all it does for me. I choose what exercise feels good, not what I think I should choose, and I find joy in movement. I am much less self-critical, and I'm better able to identify my difficult feelings and sit with them in order to move toward acceptance and relief, instead of just using food or other distractions to try to push the feelings away. This skill is making me a better leader and more effective at my job as well.
I wish everyone I knew had the opportunity to have a guide like Elizabeth to help them become more authentically themselves. This work has been such a gift, and I will forever be grateful.
Single Session Breakthrough:
Sometimes we cannot see the forest for the trees as they say. What are the blindspots and limiting beliefs holding us back from feeling more alive and grounded in our life? This single session is available so you can gain clarity regarding your relationship with food and body and how it is impacting the rest of your life. Explore next steps with someone who has been there too.
90 Minutes
$199 USD
Small Group Mentoring:
What you are experiencing is likely what others are going through as well. Small Group Mentoring will allow you to benefit from community and support others who are also committed to exploring their food and body issues. This offering is for groups of 4-6 participants who have already been practicing Intuitive Eating and would like to celebrate what is working, clarify what is not and dive deeper into the practice. For more information, you can check out the FAQ here.
4-6 participants
2 60 minute Zoom calls a month for 3 months
$333 USD or $111 per month for 3 months (per person)
PRIVATE 1-1 COACHING:
For those looking for a deep dive into healing your relationship with food and body, private coaching is a transformative mentorship and educational experience. This experience will teach you how to start to make peace with your relationship with food in order to cultivate more self-love and self-acceptance and build a life full of ease, vibrant energy, and vitality. My approach combines mind, body and spirit and helps you awaken from the diet culture trance, increase the energy you have available to engage with life and expand your awareness of your own personal power and all the opportunities that are available to you in life. We will do this by exploring the hold that food and body has over you and showing you places you can take back your power. Our work together incorporates the tools and teachings of the Body Trust® process, a registered trademark of Be Nourished, LLC., with additional tools and teachings from my experience as a Certified Professional Life Coach, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and a Certified Eating Psychology Coach. My approach incorporates Health at Every Size® and is trauma informed.
What is included?
90 minute introductory intake session plus:
11 additional individual 60 minute sessions. We can talk on the phone, in person, or use the video platform Zoom, whatever you are more comfortable with.
Sessions are bi-weekly.
Unlimited weekly email support - work through real life situations as they occur and learn from each experience or share wins of the week.
Tools, handouts and suggested resources and practices to help integrate the work.
Your Investment:
$1800 USD paid in full or $300 per month for 6 months (2 sessions a month). All billing and payments are currently handled through Paypal. Additional payment plans are available.
Not sure about coaching? Sign up for a 30 Minute Free Exploratory Call
If you want to learn more, or if you aren’t sure what to do next while you explore your relationship with food, I invite you to sign up for a free 30 minute exploratory call. You have all the answers you need but support and guidance from someone who has been in your shoes might save you some time!