The Nurtured Recovery Journey.
Find freedom and joy through nutrition, nurturance and neuroscience
Are you ready to explore and nurture your relationship with food, eating and your body?
You are in the right place if you ...
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Want to model nurturing eating and food behaviours for your family
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Emotionally eat or binge eat and can't seem to stop
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Feel like you have been on a life long diet
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Have extreme food rules or food restrictions
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Struggle to respect or nurture your body
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Feel addicted to calorie counting, exercise or the desire to be smaller
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Are always thinking about food, eating or your body image
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Want to explore the role food or restriction plays in your life
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Feel your eating behaviours could be healthier
Breathe ... it's a safe space here
As a Clinical Dietitian, Therapist and Personal Trainer, Rachel is one of the only tri-trained professionals to work within the nutrition, fitness and body image field, this enables her to offer a unique and specialised approach to healing through The Nurtured Recovery Journey.
The Nurtured Recovery Journey is not just about improving your relationship with your body and food or healing from an eating disorder, although this is an important part of this journey; it is also about supporting you to get to know yourself, overcome trauma and guide you to nurture yourself.
Rachel works integratively with mind, body and spirit and draws on different theories and and strategies to meet you where you are at and support you to take the next steps. She understands life can feel full so she condenses the research, science and her experience into gentle, actionable steps to support immediate change.
Are you ready to enjoy your body, your eating and your life? Are you ready to truly nurture yourself?
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We offer a sliding scale so please ask about this if are standard fees are inaccessible.
The way we eat reflects the way we live
Rachel uses a three stage model in The Nurtured Recovery; firstly creating safety, stability and symptom management; moving into deeper exploration and compassionate acceptance; and finally, integration and reconnection to yourself and the world around you.
Alongside Rachel's qualifications and 15 years of industry wisdom she has a lived recovery experience.
Rachel understands what it is like to live in fear of food and eating, of what would happen if you start to nourish, love and care for yourself. She knows what it is like to deprive yourself not only of food, but also joy, pleasure and freedom.
She also understands what it is like to overcome those things, to heal the war with food and truly start to respect and nurture yourself.
The Nurtured Recovery Journey is for you if you relate to any of the following ...
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You want to understand and improve your relationship with food, eating and your body.
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You engage in disordered eating behaviours or have a diagnosed eating disorder.
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You would like explore nervous system regulation and learn how to decrease stress and find more presence in life.
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You are fed up of using emotional eating as your only coping skill
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You would like to understand how to build meals and snacks that are nutritious and delicious.
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You want to learn how to overcome fear foods, keep all foods in the house and stop obsessively counting calories or exercising.
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You want to learn how to feel safe and comfortable in your body.
Nurture
Therapy
You speak with Rachel biweekly over the course of The Nurtured Recovery Journey + (and beyond if that feels right for you) via Nurture Therapy.
Nurture Therapy combines personal dietetic counselling and coaching, meal planning, supplement prescriptions, integrative therapy and movement guidance and is a safe place for you to explore your emotional, physical and mental challenges and struggles … and of course success’ .
Nurture Therapy is a form of E-therapy or "written check in/reflection", this means that you use email to respond to our prompts and share your thoughts, concerns, questions and struggles with Rachel, as well as any blood results, nutrition diaries, menstrual cycle information and/or any other agreed relevant information; you then receive your personal feedback, support, guidance, alterations, goals and resources in response.
Rachel may also be able to offer Nurture Therapy in the form of audio or video calls if this is preferred, Cory, The Nurture Circle's Food Freedom Coach will also be able to guide you through your Nurtured Recovery Journey +
Recovery Record membership
For some individuals we might recommend bringing awareness to eating patterns, behaviours, thoughts and feelings to notice triggers and maintain gentle accountability to learning new skills and coping behaviours so we include membership to the Recovery Record app with our Nurtured Recovery +; Rachel will also be able to access your records on this so she will see how your journey has been day to day.
The Nurtured Recovery Journey consists of 24 steps ...
Our framework has been designed based on the latest evidence and Rachel's experience of working with thousands of individuals over the last 15 years. Each step is designed from a therapeutic and coaching lens to educate you and provide you with support, confidence and guidance to make gentle changes in daily life.
You get introduced to a new step each week via our online portal and we pop you a gentle reminder via email too. We know life can be busy so we give you the most important information to read, listen or watch with additional resources if you want to explore more.
Bonus guidance and support ...
Understanding and exploring eating disorders and disordered eating
Learn what a healthy relationship with food actually is as well as the signs and symptoms of eating disorders and why people experience disordered eating and diagnosed eating disorders.
Learn our six step framework to worry less about your appereance if the way you look is taking up too much space in your thoughts or it is stopping you from enjoying life to the fullest.
Worrying Less About Your Looks
Healing Binge Eating
Many people think binge eating is about willpower, but it has nothing to do with "strength". Learn why food feels out of control and how to overcome this safely and from a place of empowerment.
Stopping Calorie Counting
Calorie counting apps can be a great tool for increasing knowledge of food and awareness of eating behaviours, but if they become obsessive this can have a negative impact on life. Learn how to be free of calorie counting through this step by step short course.
The psychological impact of dieting and food restriction
Often people think that dieting just impacts the body, but it also impacts the brain and nervous system and this has an effect on hormones, neurotransmmiers mood and more.
Restricting the type of food eaten is a common disordered eating behaviour, perhaps you ban chocolate from the house or avoid carbohydrates; learn how to overcome fears and find freedom and peace with all foods.