Parental Support & Guidance

Parents (loved one), since you have found me, I already know you have concerns. Helping your​ child, teenager, or young-adult daughter with body image issues and food challenges can be an intimidating​ task. You may feel as though ​whatever you do is neither working nor ​good enough. For most parents, the thought of being helpless can be so frustrating and scary. I, too, am a parent and would do just about anything to help my son. This is why I knew I needed to also ​offer support to parents early on in my coaching practice.

I am here to help you with resources, tools, an understanding of different eating disorder treatment options, finding potential funding and with what to say when she says, “____ (fill in the blank).”

Eating Disorders do not discriminate!​ However, our daughters, five years old to twenty-five years old, are the most vulnerable to the environment in which we live due to the messages shadowing food and body. This is why I am a coach and ​want to help your daughter and you.
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Our diet-fueled, thin-obsessed, and surface-driven culture, body dissatisfaction and disordered relationships with food continue to produce stunning and alarming​ statistics. We are bombarded with mixed messages regarding nutrition, coupled​ with the false​ belief that exercise equals punishment:​ constantly ​being ​told that we must fix ourselves to be beautiful, accepted, loved, and successful. The problem is that this​ pursuit is endless​, t​he target is fiction​, making the beauty and weight loss industry ​hundreds of ​millions of dollars ​a year​​. Y​et obesity and eating disorders are at an all-time high. So, something is​ not working and very wrong​! I tend to be an ​optimist and do not believe the beauty or diet industry is out to harm people just to make a buck. I also do not ​believe there is anything wrong with wanting to feel and look your best. What I do believe​, however,​ is that we can do a much better job of raising our consciousness, grounding ourselves in what is most important and celebrating what is within.