The Fat Nutritionist
I had a friend share a something I made on instagram to her Instagram and someone came into her inbox basically saying “how could you take health advice from someone who looks so unhealthy?!” (Picture 2). She went on to say that I was obese and therefore should never be giving health advice. (Not pictured).
These moments are never fun and still sting a bit but I always take them as an opportunity to clarify myself and my work.
I love to take the “negative” energy in and transmute it into something that feeds and nourishes me and my community. I am an alchemist after all.
So I thought I would use this as a teaching moment and as a way to clarify a little more deeply what it is that I am offering here in my space.
I do not offer only “nutritional advice” and I am not a “nutritional coach” so if you are looking for solely that, that is not what I’m here sharing. Yes, I do share some certain pieces of nutrition information from time to time but I am deeply in service to nourishment on all levels; physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
I am here sharing about how to nourish your body, work with your body, and be gentle and loving toward your body within the landscape and context of bio-energetics, eating ancestrally; and spiritual energetic principles. I am only here for the deep stuff. I’m not interested in the reductionist ideas of health.
I am personally on a journey with my own health and body and I share very generously about it here. I do not hide where I struggle. In fact, I intentionally share those pieces more because one of the guiding principles of my life is that the world doesn’t need more “good” people; it needs more real people.
I have a history of disordered eating and disordered exercising and I have been healing this for about 10 years.
The last 3 years have been the final straw for healing it and I feel completely free around food and movement now.
However, my body still does not feel completely safe and it still has lingering health conditions related to quite literally over a decade of abuse.
Plus I had two babies in two years and had a lot of hormonal changes and I really feel my body is just in a phase of really trying to ground itself through a lot of change.
I believe weight is not a good indicator of health.
And I believe real excess weight is far more related to trauma than to what or how we eat.
Key indicators of true health are:
feeling warm most of time and having a body temp of at least 98 degrees
feeling hungry in the morning
having a relatively stable mood
having a high libido
healthy hair, skin and nails
sleeping through the night
no extreme cravings for certain types of foods
pooping at least once a day
I have most of these, not all and I am working diligently on assisting my body to come back into a place where she feels safe.
I am not ashamed of my body. I am not available to be hooked into any kind of body shame or body hate.
My body is doing her best. My body is a miracle. My body is my home. I take good care of her. And I don’t speak meanly, or use derogatory language with things or people I love.
And because so much of my personal healing journey has been around getting to this place of intimacy with my body I have unique and embodied teachings to share with those who feel the resonance with my process.
So if you feel what I am holding and offering here and you want to connect into this field of body reverence, body intimacy, true nourishment and the mature feminine that is cultivated with those things.
You are so welcome.
If not, or you believe because I have a bigger body I cannot possibly know what is healthy or you can’t fathom someone my size understanding what nourishes a body, you may leave at any time.
If you’d like to come step into the field of body reverence and intimacy more deeply, come join us for HOME BODY on May 3, 2-3:30pm PST, $44.
It’s like a yoga class for your relationship to your body. Come practice tapping into your body as your home with guided self massage, a shamanic journey and connection.
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Thank you for sharing yourself so Wholly. I wonder sometimes, how our world deviated from nourishment SO drastically. I look at photos of my German ancestors - women with full shapely beautiful bodies, nourished through farm to table organic cooking. Not because that was a trend, simply because that was life. You grew food, butchered you own meat, canned, traded, stored things in a cellar, spent a majority of time outside tending your Home, sleeping when it was dark and embracing responsibility for all you were committed to. Every single woman in these priceless photos looks strong, resourced, soft, loving and with the edge of don't cross me in their eyes. Very different than the instagram feeds of today.