Food is part of life. Stressing over it doesn't have to be.
Hi, I’m Meg––and I am so glad that you are here.
At Nourished + Strong, we believe caring for yourself should feel more intuitive. But when food feels complicated, your body feels unfamiliar, or you’re so used to putting everyone else’s needs first that you’ve lost touch with your own, knowing how to care for yourself isn’t always easy.
Through compassionate nutrition counseling and Somatic Experiencing, we help you make sense of what’s getting in the way, reconnect with your body, and find ways of caring for yourself that feel more natural, supportive, and sustainable.
As a Registered Dietitian with a clinical background, I founded Nourished + Strong in 2018 to offer evidence-based, anti-diet, trauma-informed nutrition counseling. Over time, my work has grown to include a deeper understanding of how our nervous system and experiences shape the way we relate to food, our bodies, and ourselves. What does that mean for you?
- We bring clinical expertise, but recognize that you are the expert on your own lived experience.
- We won’t give you more food rules, restrictive diets, or a list of things to fix about yourself.
- We help you build trust in your body, explore patterns with curiosity, and find approaches that honor your individual needs.
- We prioritize collaboration, inclusivity, and creating space where you can feel safe enough to explore what support looks like for you.
Our approach looks beyond symptoms or surface-level solutions to consider the whole person. Through nutrition counseling, Somatic Experiencing, self-paced learning, and community offerings, we create opportunities to explore nourishment, body connection, and resilience in ways that meet you where you are.
Our Pillars of Health
- Mind – Body Connection
- Nourishment
- Intuitive movement
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Our Team
Meg Carber, RD LDN sep (she/her)
- Registered Dietitian, Founder of Nourished + Strong
- Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
- Student of the Embodied Recovery Institute for Eating Disorders (Level 2 and Sensory training)
- Location: Huntersville & Virtual
…far more personal healing than I could have imagined. I was initially drawn to the field of dietetics to help people– and while that has remained a constant for the last 12+ years, how I help people has dramatically shifted.
My personal trauma healing journey was filled with synchronicities that paralleled my work as a Dietitian and Founder of Nourished + Strong. For all of the personal growth, I still felt stuck and like something was missing from my healing. As a clinician, despite following all of the ‘gold standard’ conventional eating disorder treatments, many of my clients felt like their healing was ‘incomplete’ as well.
These personal and professional experiences highlighted for me the importance of trauma-informed mind-body modalities, often absent from conventional treatments and Dietitian training. Recognizing this gap and deepening my own embodiment, inspired me to grow professionally, bringing the same wisdom to Nourished + Strong.
I have come to appreciate that true healing extends beyond individual behavior change. Deep transformation involves community, connection, authentic self-expression, and feeling safe with food, your body, and your needs.
The short answer is: My approach includes an eclectic mix of education, nervous system support, collaboration and curiosity– all informed by my advanced training, decade + of nutrition counseling, innate curiosity, and lived experiences.
The long answer: I start by building trust and safety in our relationship. Many clients I’ve worked with have experienced relational ruptures that impact their ability to trust others, themselves and their bodies. By prioritizing a collaborative relationship built on trust and safety, we are nurturing the neural networks in your brain that lay the groundwork for meaningful work and lasting change.
Beyond that, I include the ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of nourishing yourself. While conventional nutrition counseling primarily focuses on ‘what’ to eat, we’ll also explore the ‘why’ behind your beliefs and behaviors, uncovering your authentic relationship with food underneath.
My advanced training in trauma-informed care and Somatic Experiencing allows us to deeply examine the ‘how’ of your eating habits, considering factors like your nervous system responses, attachment style, sensory preferences, and unique physiology.
- Humans who feel like their current relationship with food and their body has roots in childhood experiences (what did or didn’t happen)
- Neurodivergent individuals, especially those diagnosed later in life and/or interested in exploring how their neurotype has influenced their eating habits, sensory preferences, movement, regulation, and sense of self
- Anyone who wants to learn about how nervous system support and somatic experiencing could improve digestion, health and wellbeing
- Athletes (current or former) and active individuals seeking to understand how to nourish their bodies without following a diet
- Mothers, caregivers and healers who are learning to identify and prioritize their own needs
- Those who feel that despite investing significant time, money, and energy into healing, something is still missing
- Those who have primarily approached their healing journey ‘from their mind’ (intellectually) and are interested in exploring an embodiment approach
- Use my own neurodivergent superpowers of pattern recognition and problem-solving to help bring clarity to previously confusing situations
- Support them in developing compassion, understanding nuance, and realizing that their body is not a problem to be fixed
- Show up authentically, which encourages them to show up authentically themselves
- Spending time with my husband and our two young kids
- CrossFit, spending time outdoors and moving my body joyfully
- Learning and reading– I’m currently enjoying diving into Human Design and Neuroscience
- Acting as a driver coach and sports Dietitian for my 6 year old as he begins racing
- Honestly, I’m at the point in my own journey where I continue to (re)discover what Meg actually enjoys– not just ‘mom Meg’ or ‘Dietitian Meg’
Ways to work with Meg:
– Individual Nutrition Counseling
– Somatic Experiencing
– Inner Child Course
– Hire her for workshops!
Ready to see how I can support you? Request a discovery call to discover how we can work together to empower your relationship with food and self.
Christin “Chrissy” Dow, MS RD LDN CSSD sep(she/her)
- Registered Dietitian, Certified Sports Dietitian
- Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
- Student of the Embodied Recovery Institute for Eating Disorders (Level 2 and Seeds of Attachment training)
- Location: Huntersville & Virtual
This is a three part answer as I have been a dietitian since 2008. Originally I became a dietitian because I was “really good” at losing weight and exercising compulsively. My eating disorder was welcomed in the field of dietetics where o*****y is pathologized and willpower is over celebrated. I became a weight neutral dietitian as my oldest child was entering puberty, I noticed I wanted to support our relationship around food and body in a more nurturing manner. Simultaneously, I decided that intentional weight loss was not giving me the safety in life I craved. In addition, I was consulting with college athletics. In my role as a Sports RD and an adjunct professor I was able to connect with young adults about what shaped their experiences with food and body. I quickly noticed the untruths that many had been told about their body and how it functioned. When COVID hit I went into private practice with eating disorders and found my home.
Relationship first approach. Most eating disorder behaviors are used to facilitate a faux window of safety in this world when relationships have failed. I use somatic experiencing techniques to feel into the body and explore. We might dance, stretch, color, explore textures of fabric, connect with a yoga strap or feel into our feet as we stand/sit.
- Clients who want to try something different and need relational safety as the foundation to our work together.
- Clients who feel they have not been seen/heard/supported in other treatment modalities or life.
- Clients who have trauma, neurodiversity, larger bodies, pelvic floor issues, athletes, celiac disease are all interests of mine due to personal experience and training.
- Clients who are triggered by talking about food and body so they might need someone skilled at seeing how the narrative around these behaviors can be explored in multiple different lenses.
- Clients have felt less overwhelmed by my ability to weave in what they are working on in therapy with how it presents in their relationship with food and body.
- Clients appreciate my ability to see the wound below the food and body behavior.
- Spending time with my partner and three kids.
- I love to dance, read, stretch and learn.
Ways to work with Chrissy:
– Individual Nutrition Counseling
– Somatic Experiencing
– Hire her for workshops!
Would you like to work with Chrissy? Request a discovery call here, be sure to select her when booking!