Ditch Dieting & Reconnect to Your Body's Wisdom
Nourished + Strong Foundations is a small group coaching program designed to improve health & mindset. In this intimate support group, you’ll rebuild trust in your body & learn to improve your physical & mental health – without another diet.
Our next round of group coaching kicks off Monday, April 3rd at noon. Spots are limited – enrollment closes 4/2/23 or when all seats are filled.
Our method goes beyond intuitive eating...
Most people come to us in a similar situation– done with dieting, but unsure what to “do” next. Nourished + Strong Foundations is a 12-week group coaching program designed to bridge the gap between doing and a deeper state of being.
Diets and diet culture keep us externally focused– we feel disembodied, disconnected, and unable to trust ourselves. Even the “anti-diet” space can feel black-or-white, like there is a “right” or “wrong” way to eat, move and manage your health.
You may have stopped dieting and tried intuitive eating, but felt unsure how to move forward and truly reconnect with your body. Diets feel safe because they have very clear rules, while intuitive eating can feel a little… vague. How do you actually “make peace with food” and improve health without it feeling like another restrictive diet?
Since 2018, the Nourished + Strong method has helped hundreds of clients feel more empowered, embodied and confident. We bring the same trauma and nervous system informed approach to 12 weeks of interactive group coaching. Enrollment also gets you access to our Pillars of Health Signature Course with lessons to help you dive deeper into the art and science of anti-diet nutrition, joyful movement and mind-body connection.
You will be unlearning past food rules, negative self-talk, and body distrust. Physical health doesn’t have to come at the expense of mental health. If you feel aimless without the external structure of a diet, we’re here to help you (re)build your strength from within– cultivating mindfulness, trust and understanding that transcends the next wave of diet or health trends.
Our Nourished + Strong Foundations is a virtual group coaching program to help jumpstart your escape from diet culture!
During our 12 weeks together, you'll...
- Dig into your earliest memories with food so you can unlearn old patterns that have kept you feeling stuck.
- Begin to reestablish trust & safety in your body so you no longer have to turn to diets to feel safe & in control.
- Reconnect with your body cues, your values, and your own self worth.
- Understand how to regulate your nervous system's response to stress for better overall health.
- Learn skills to improve your whole health, not just parts of you.
- Discover the type of movements that bring you joy.
- Learn to trust yourself more than you trust diet culture.
Do you feel like you have to choose between pursuing health goals or improving your relationship with food?
Have you ever felt like "intuitive eating sounds great for others but not for me"?
Does it feel like diet culture has broken your confidence and self trust?
Do you want to learn more about nutrition and health through a non-diet lens?
Do you have a history of disordered eating or trauma and want to grow in a safe space?
Do you want to feel more confident in working towards a healthier you without sacrificing your mental health?
Then Nourished + Strong Foundations Group Coaching is for you.
The 12-week Nourished + Strong Foundations program includes:
12 one-hour live group coaching sessions where you'll dig into your relationship with food + body, receive education on non-diet nutrition + holistic health, + ask questions.
Program workbook with lesson review, journal prompts & activities to help you continue to process & integrate the concepts you'll be exploring during each session.
On demand access to our Nourished + Strong Pillars of Health Signature Course ($500 value). Watch at your own pace, these modules will inform group discussions.
Secure members-only group messaging through Practice Better so you can connect with our Dietitians + your fellow group members in a safe and private space.
Lifetime access to our private clients-only Facebook group for a built in support network of likeminded individuals who "get it" and are actively doing the work.
Priority scheduling & a discount on Level 2 Coaching if you would like to continue working with Nourished + Strong (one-on-one or group).
Healing our relationship with food by healing our inner child
Lessons and workbook include:
- Sphere of influence: who impacted your food-body story?
- Diet culture 101: improving relationship with food in a culture obsessed with dieting
- Attachment and attunement: how your attachment style could be influencing your relationship with food/body
- Timeline activity: evaluating your inner child’s story about food, body and exercise
- Bonus: Guided meditation to reconnect with your inner child
Stress and embodiment: how the nervous system and sensory systems influence health and habits
Lessons and workbook include:
- Polyvagal theory: an introduction to your nervous system
- How stress and trauma impact your brain-body-health
- How your sensory systems inform your nervous system, body image, eating and exercise
- Self-care through nervous system and sensory regulation
Anti-Diet deep dive: taking the core concepts of nutrition back from diet culture
Lessons and workbook include:
- The history of calories, diets and bodies in our society
- The pyramid of nutrition priorities: adequacy, balance, variety and attunement
- An anti-diet understanding of macronutrients, micronutrients, supplements and meal prep
- Mind-body (dis)connect: trusting and understanding your body needs and preferences
- An introduction to Intuitive Eating
- Bonus: Reframing self talk (CBT intro)
Intuitive movement: reconnecting with the joy of movement
Lessons and workbook include:
- The benefits of exercise (that have nothing to do with weight)
- Exploring your relationship with movement– then and now
- The basics of intuitive movement
- Setting realistic goals for movement
Sleep and rest: burnout recovery and improving mood, concentration and health
Lessons and workbook include:
- Sleep physiology: how it impacts eating, exercise and health
- Developing a neuroscience backed sleep routine
- Recovery from burnout: reconnecting with rest and play
- Improving focus and concentration (especially for neurodivergence)
Better body image: the see, feel, think method to reconnect with our core self
Lessons and workbook include:
- A cultural understanding of body image and beauty standards
- Moving from self objectification to deeper embodiment
- The see-feel-think method for improving body image
- Building body trust as a gateway to body acceptance and love
See what our clients are saying about Nourished + Strong
Meet Your Coach
Taryn Cullen is a dietitian always looking to better understand how to help people from a place of empathy. After working in the sports world she joined Nourished + Strong in 2020 to help try and fill a growing gap – culture and healthism pushing people to develop unhealthy relationships with their food and body. She thinks that science is cool and diet culture is not. Her style includes lots of biology, questions, and bluntness to help people move forward in finding peace with food and their bodies.
A message from Meg:
“I am so passionate about helping people reconnect with, understand and trust their bodies because I have had to do the same.
As someone whose ADHD and sensory processing issues were overlooked in childhood, I spent 20+ years feeling like the world didn’t make sense. Except, like many, I internalized this as “I don’t make sense”.
I thought if I just learned enough about physical and mental health, I could “solve the problems” that were my brain and body. Young Meg couldn’t comprehend that she was already enough and not a problem to be solved (much in the way that diet culture keeps you from seeing your inherent worth).
I spent years acquiring knowledge, only to feel more disconnected, unhealthier and unhappier (just like a lot of my clients after years of dieting). All of these “solutions” I found kept me IN my head and externally focused.
This is because I was approaching it all from the “top-down” – imposing external rules and trying to reframe my thoughts to conform to the systems around me that were/are broken. While a top-down approach provides value because we all need to “know better to do better”, it also kept me OUT of my body, seeking answers from everywhere but within.
This is also the case for many clients I have worked with over the years– when the body is viewed as “bad” or “wrong”, we find safety in the external rules of a diet that promise to “fix what is broken.”
If you ask me about my journey as a Dietitian, I often say that an anti-diet and intuitive approach found me. It wasn’t mainstream or touched upon too deeply in my education or internship – but when I found it, it aligned in ways I couldn’t ignore and served as a catalyst in my healing journey.
Instead of continuing to approach my health from only the “top-down”, I also began to explore from the “bottom up” – softening “What the f*%k is wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”. I found true healing and peace by meeting myself in the middle, hence the Venn Diagram logo of Nourished + Strong. With knowledge and embodiment work, I finally had an approach that healed all of me, not just parts of me.
This is exactly why the Nourished + Strong method is a way of finding harmony and health where the external world and your internal landscape collide– we can heal from trauma around food and body image with both “top down” and “bottom up” work.
We provide you with “top-down” education on the science of how your brain and body, nutrition and exercise work together to impact health– by doing this you can more deeply understand the nuance of health and that you are not “broken”.
But if we don’t get to the root of what caused our relationship with food or body to become disordered, we risk repeating the same patterns. That’s why we also work from the “bottom up” to explore the origins of your relationship with food and your body. This helps us reestablish trust, deepen embodiment, and learn to resource your body instead of running from it.”
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Our next cohort starts Monday 4/3/23 at noon EST. Enrollment closes when all spots are filled or 4/2/23 at 11:59pm EST.
How much longer will you live apart from your body?
We’re all born with a deep connection to our bodies – without it, we wouldn’t survive early childhood where we have yet to develop the language to communicate our needs. But as we age, exposure to diet culture and other systems of oppression start to erode away this connection. Eventually, we’re so out of touch with our bodies that we can’t tell when we’re hungry or full, what we need or prefer to eat, or when we need to rest. Most choices are made at the cognitive (or external) level – it’s time to eat, I had a serving size, I like that but it’s not good for me…
Without repairing this connection, we can spend years (and thousands of dollars) repeating the same old patterns:
- Feeling like you can’t be trusted around food
- Feeling like you need a diet to tell you what to eat
- Worrying about every bite you eat (or don’t)
- Obsessing over your weight and trying to shrink yourself
- Losing control and binging after a period of restriction
- Avoiding experiences because of your body size or fear foods
- Putting things off until your body looks the “right way”
- Spinning your wheels trying to improve health, only to see bio health markers worsen
The good news is – how it’s been is not how it always has to be. You CAN break the cycle and learn to work with your body instead of against it. With focused work in key areas, community support and expert guidance from our team of non-diet Registered Dietitians, you can feel more empowered and embodied in 12 weeks.
FAQs
Individual nutrition counseling is for you if...
- You are newly diagnosed or currently engaging in eating disorder behaviors
- You are looking for individualized treatment for a medical condition
- You prefer to receive support in a one-on-one dynamic
- You hope to utilize insurance benefits for counseling costs
- You are ready for a longer commitment (at least 6 months)
The idea of opening up to a group of strangers can be intimidating, but with the right group, you can look forward to an experience that you can’t match by yourself! Healing happens in safe community and at your own pace – you will not be asked to share more than you are comfortable with and can always opt to leave your Zoom camera off.
We carefully screen all applicants to make sure that everyone is truly ready to ditch dieting, so you’ll be with a small group of people who are in the same place as you. Having a support network is essential because diet culture and body trauma can be very isolating. It’s common to feel like you’re the only one with these thoughts and feelings. You may even feel ashamed that you’re thinking of “giving up” (*psst* it’s NOT giving up).
Once you start talking to a group of like minded people, you’ll find that it is very common to struggle with these thoughts, and knowing that you’re not alone is POWERFUL! By sharing your experiences with the group – and listening to everybody else do the same – you’ll be part of a focused community effort led by an expert dietitian, all with the goal of making peace with your body and breaking free of diet culture!
Our Dietitians will prioritize making sure that each group member feels seen and heard and gets enough attention and assistance for their specific needs. Prior to each week’s session, you’ll be able to submit questions about the material. You’ll also have access to our team of Registered Dietitians between sessions via messaging - you can ask questions to us directly, or post them in the group for everyone to see. After each session, we’ll debrief about your key takeaways and any unanswered questions.
Our goal is to provide you with the knowledge and guidance you need, along with a tight-knit support system of peers, so we can walk this journey together.
While we accept certain insurances for individual nutrition counseling, our group coaching and curriculum is not billable to insurance. You can pay for the group using your HSA/FSA accounts, or any major credit/debit card.
Foundations is a virtual group coaching experience within our HIPAA secure client portal, Practice Better. There are a total of twelve one-hour live and interactive sessions that begin on Monday 4/3/23 at 12:00pm EST. If you are unable to attend a live session, you can still receive support in the group chat and office hours.
Within Practice Better, you will be able to connect with other group members. To provide a layer of privacy, only your first name and last initial will be displayed to the group.
We cap enrollment at 10 people per group to keep the atmosphere intimate and ensure that everyone has time to ask questions.
Yes, we would love to have you! If you've been looking for group support alongside your individual nutrition counseling, this is your opportunity. Some of the curriculum may be review, but it is the type of material that you can gain something new from each time you go through it.
This program is not meant to intentionally result in weight loss. Weight is just one data point that does not give an accurate picture of a person’s whole health. Instead, we focus on holistic health, looking at ways to promote your overall health through behaviors like balancing blood sugar, managing stress, adding in nutrients, improving sleep quality, incorporating joyful movement, and others.
This is a one-time investment of $1,200 or just $100/week. This includes:
- 12 one-hour sessions with your Registered Dietitian Coach and small group
- Access to our Nourished + Strong Pillars of Health Signature Course ($500 value)
- Our exclusive workbook, yours to keep forever ($50 value)
- Messaging support from N+S RDs during the 12-week program ($360 value)
- Total value: $2,100. Your price: just $1,200!
First off, thank you! If you've already purchased the Nourished + Strong Pillars of Health Signature Course and realize that you want more personalized support in group coaching, we are happy to have you!
It's simple– your Foundations Group Coaching enrollment will be discounted the amount you already paid.
For example, if you purchased the course for the full price of $500, your Group Coaching enrollment will be $700. If you purchased the course on sale for $350, your Group Coaching enrollment will be $850, etc.
To enroll, please email [email protected] to get a discount code.
It's important to us that each program participant is fully aligned. If you have additional questions not listed here, please request a discovery call so we can chat more.
