Michelle S

Before working with Natalie, I approached emotional eating frantically. I was frantic about food, weight and body image.

 After working with Natalie, I feel connected to my body in a way I was craving yet only thought possible in a much smaller body.

Natalie was the first coach I've met that actually had the lived experience of disordered eating and complex trauma AND was willing to share that part of themselves. That created such a safe space, I've never felt safer to share my story.

I was skeptical when I started this work, but I'm here to tell you, it works. I connected to myself and cultivated food neutrality.

 Natalie walked me through how to actually feel my feelings. It changes the game. I learned that I no longer need to shame myself for emotionally eating in any capacity.

If you are struggling with food, weight, size, body image, self-esteem, anything really, Natalie is for you.

Catherine

My primary reason for reaching out to Natalie was to help my daughter since I was seeing signs of emotional eating. I quickly learned the best way to help my daughter would be to help myself. 

Before working with Natalie, I handled emotional eating by keeping myself under “control” through diet, exercise, looking for the next health trend that would cure me from what I thought was a sugar addiction etc. Self-love and trust played no part in what I was doing prior to our work.

Natalie worked with me in a beautifully gentle way and he approach is helpful no matter where you are on your journey dealing with food. Natalie has the most beautiful soul. I told one of my friends, it is like Natalie can see through you, but in a gentle and loving way. Natalie is as authentic and genuine as it gets. 

I learned that self-love and self-trust are the most important

gifts you can give yourself and learned how to shift my relationship with food and my body.

Jennifer

Binge eating was just a part of who I was. I never felt or knew it was something I could fix.

After working with Natalie, I now have tools to help me cope and not fall into the “black hole” . I understand now that this has to do with much more than food.

Natalie is amazing. She is an empath, compassionate, and kind. Most importantly she is patient and understanding. Natalie never judged anything I said but instead listened and cared deeply about me. Natalie also went above and beyond when I was dealing with extremely hard moments.

Working with Natalie changed my life, it made me hopeful. It helped me believe I could change. If you are an emotional eater and want to start healing do not hesitate to reach out to Natalie. It’s an investment in yourself and your life; it’s worth every penny and the time you must put into it. Love yourself and get the support you need. Natalie is a godsent.

Kim

My ED came back during the pandemic. I felt out of control and afraid. 

Before working with Natalie, I was not aware that my eating was related to my emotions. That sounds almost comical knowing what I know now. I thought I just had to restrict and restrict more to stay thin. 

Working with Natalie has been eye opening for me. It’s enabled me to separate emotions and eating as two different experiences. I notice my emotional eating much more now. I’m also finally allow myself to eat freely. I am starting to trust myself and not worry about my food and weight.  

My work with Natalie is all about befriending myself and finding a connection with my inner child (my little). It’s work like I have never done before and I’ve done my share in my almost 60 years or life. 

Natalie has an innate ability to listen and help me discover what I normally would have passed over on the way I’ve always discounted myself. I learned the difference in emotions and how to feel them in my body and using food to not feel and numb out. 

Natalie opened the door to a new way of living and it is just the beginning. I spent a lifetime living with food as my calmer. Allowing the feelings to be felt will take continual practice but I know I am worth it. I won’t go back to the misery I was dealing with living a yo-yo and restrictive life. Thank you Natalie! There is no one else that does this healing work like you.

Shalese

I have a beautiful life and I had been letting it slip by because my daily thoughts and life choices revolved around food, shame, guilt, regret, and lack of self-worth. My days and nights were planned around food, my thoughts were food/body image focused, and my choices were all based around food. I was never present in my life because I always felt less than. I was either thinking about what I could emotionally eat/binge eat, or what restrictive diet I could do because I felt so awful from all the food I was eating. I was living a life where a pendulum was either stuck on emotional/binge eating or a diet. I turn 40 this year and I was tired and exhausted of this self-built prison. 

After starting to work with Natalie, I feel like I am FINALLY on the right path to food and body freedom. I feel like I have the tools that I was completely missing before. I am learning to turn into my body, something I really never tried before.

Working with Natalie just feels right, like a foot going into the most perfect fitting shoe :) It feels peaceful, it feels natural. It feels like exactly what I have been missing out on all these years. 

Natalie gets to the core of your struggle/problem. I was often led to believe that emotional eating is a food problem, a habit problem, a problem that we are “broken and lazy” if I can’t get a hold of it. She has shown me how much deeper this issue goes and has shed light on the areas that truly needed the healing. And by looking at and healing those areas, the food area heals itself on its own. It's a magical combination!!!

Natalie has an amazing and natural ability to hold space for this unique and specialized type of healing. She is relatable and exudes a genuine peace and calmness. She is always present and engaged and it is easy to feel comfortable around her. She has both personal experience with these issues as well as substantial knowledge and insight around the subject. You can feel that Natalie is genuinely invested in your growth and healing.

Jennifer F

I feel like this truly was the missing link and the thing I have been searching for over 25 years. Natalie was the perfect person to support me through this healing. Her approach is intimate, individualized, unique, genuine, and effectively gives you the tools to stop emotional eating and find peace and healing. 

I have learned to start tuning into my body and how it's feeling. I have learned to add in frequent deep breathing. I am finding alternatives to emotional eating that bring comfort and no guilt or shame. Most importantly, I am healing my inner child that has been patiently waiting to be healed for over 30 years. I am learning how to sit with my feelings, to recognize them, hear them, and then let them go, and that is what helps to bring inner peace. I have learned how to start connecting to my true self. I am starting to be more present in my life. I am turning into myself, reconnecting with myself, and beginning to trust myself. I have learned how to start letting go of all the pain that was masked before. I couldn’t’ have done this without you Natalie,

You seem to have the magic potion for my heart and healing. Thank you!

Susan

Before meeting Natalie, I read books, tons of books. I took self-help classes. I listened to podcasts. I wrote lists of all the logical things; I wrote down my “why,” I made a list of reasons “it would be worth it” to stop emotional eating, I set goals, I had playlists of “motivational videos,” and I learned about habits and how they work in the brain. I tried to use science, logic, motivation, and discipline to stop. 

I would recommend working with Natalie because it is not like anything else out there. She allows for personal healing that can only come from finding peace within yourself. She weaves together a beautiful and supportive plan and environment that leads to self-reflection, healing, and helps you connect to yourself in ways that have been missing for years.

I kept wanting to focus on the food and how if I stopped emotionally eating, I would eat less, and by eating less I would lose weight. Letting go and taking the focus off stopping emotional eating for weight loss and connecting and attaching to the idea of stopping emotional eating for inner healing and the most beneficial thing.

I want a life of food freedom, one that lets me focus on what really matters. Thank you Natalie for helping me get to this place.

Carie

I felt very stuck in my relationship with food for coping with stress. I felt like it was all I had to make myself feel better and relieve stress. Natalie has helped me realize that I am not alone. I think that emotional eating can be very isolating, especially when living in a world where restricting food is valued and talked about heavily. I know a lot of people who talk about emotional eating but the answer most people have for it is to restrict, diet, and work out heavily. After working with Natalie, I am feeling less guilt and shame about not restricting.

I am working on incorporating more healthy foods into my life and eating on a more regular schedule. I will be continuing to work on my hunger signals and letting go of my negative beliefs about food. I have tools to soothe myself other than using food and have been able to incorporate some of those. I plan to keep working on this as well so I need food less and less to cope and can enjoy it more and worry about it less. 

I tend to give up very easily when I feel I’m not doing everything perfectly and feel ashamed if I haven’t done what I think I’m supposed to be doing. Natalie is very understanding and creates a safe space for this with no judgement. She is a very caring and compassionate coach and is very present. Natalie provided a mindset shift for me. It helped make emotional eating “something I’m working on” instead of “something that is controlling me, and running my life, and I’m a terrible person because I have this problem. It has shown me that I used food to cope and now I don’t need to shame myself.

Thank you for everything Natalie

Anne E

Natalie's approach to achieving a healthy(ier) way to deal with food issues and body image was everything.

Learning how to change my relationship with myself and food allowed me to find peace and self-acceptance. Focusing on mental, emotional and physical health is more productive than trying to quit overeating, binge eating or secret eating.

Natalie is educated about the root causes of food issues as well as the things that help us learn to handle emotional and physical situations/perspectives/problems and circumstances.

Natalie helped me to be more honest with myself and others and it has helped me see myself more kindly and less distorted than my broken opinion of myself.

I felt shame and inferiority over my weight for decades, but this work became my place for healing and understanding...and personal growth too. 

Thank you Natalie

Rikka

Previously, I looked at emotional eating more from a hormonal imbalance view. I have been curious how to approach food from a more holistic view. Natalie answered many questions. 

After working with her, I am approaching my food intake with much more compassion than before. The biggest take away for me was to see how I was feeding my younger self. I have much compassion for her and I am finally hearing her. 

 I love Natalie’s visualization exercises. They have made big shifts in me as a person, but also as a mom. 

Natalie is a teacher, educator, therapist and an exceptional coach who creates a safe space for me to come to her and feel welcomed. This is an exceptionally sensitive topic and Natalie is a gifted coach and therapist who understands when to listen, when to guide and when to lift people up.

Natalie has a huge heart and you feel safe to explore your own history and how your story has influenced you to cover up emotions with food.

Thank you Natalie!

Camelina

Before I met Natalie, I had a lot of trauma that I hadn't worked through that was being reflected in the way I was eating. I couldn't stop myself from binging daily. After thinking about it for awhile I scoured up the courage to see a naturopath, thinking that it was just my eating habits and she quickly realized I was emotionally eating and directly me to Natalie. 

I have been working with Natalie for over a year now and I can comfortly say that I am in a much better headspace than I was before. She helped me to confront my past and help me sit with the uncomfortable feelings that I had masked behind food. We had worked through childhood traumatic experiences to daily confrontations. I went from binging everyday, twice a day to maybe noticing I overate at my last meal. She really does make the journey comfortable and progressive.

I would be nowhere near where I am now if not for her help. 

Thank you. 

Rachel N

"I have used several counselors and coaches over the years, and Natalie is truly unique in that my work with her moves me to action.  We don't just talk and then wait until the next week to talk some more.  Natalie has strategies, tools, and solutions that I can try between our appointments. All of her advice is totally catered to me and my situations, and she is an incredible listener--so empathetic but also offering tools so I feel empowered after the appointments.  She is awesome and has become a treasured mentor in my life!  Can't recommend her enough!"

Candi

I went on my first diet when I was 7.   I’ve been on many diets in the 20 years since then.  Maybe I could say I’ve been on every diet since then.  I’ve gone to groups, and dieticians and the internet and books.  Every one offering me a way to eat but no one addressing why I was eating in the first place. 

No one suggesting that maybe it wasn’t a lack of discipline (after all, I’m disciplined in every other aspect of my life) but maybe it was more.

Maybe it was because instead of sitting with the feelings of rejection and supporting myself after my college boyfriend broke up with me- I practically ate the college cafeteria

Maybe it was because instead of using my voice at work and standing up for myself when I was mistreated I acted like it wasn’t a big deal and ate a sleeve of Oreos on the way home. 

And Instead of grieving when they told me my baby was going to pass away I ate a hamburger, and recess peanut butter cups and anything else I could push those feeling down with.

Perhaps I just needed someone to show me another way.

Lately, I’ve been doing things differently.  I support myself, honor myself and I feel different- I am different, I feel more grounded, more connected. I am healing.

Thank you, Natalie, for showing me that maybe food wasn't the real problem after all....