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I qualified in Nutritional Therapy in 2013 and entered private practice with a focus on helping people to improve their gut health and general health including weight by focussing on healthy eating and lifestyle. Like most conventionally trained nutrition professionals, I believed that I was offering a healthy alternative to dieting rooted in nutritional science. But, the more people with food and body struggles that I coached, the more I recognised the impact of a culture obsessed with weight, wellness and food on people’s sense of self, their emotional wellbeing and relationship with food. With an inner knowing that something felt very wrong about the approach I was taking, I started to question aspects of the way I’d been trained and in doing so I came across a very different philosophy of health and nutrition to the weight-centric mainstream paradigm. This was a liberating self-care eating framework called Intuitive Eating that empowers people to divest from dieting mentality and become the experts of their own bodies. This far better that aligned with my professional and personal values. Today my practice draws heavily on Intuitive Eating and I have centred my practice and approach to supporting people with their nutrition and eating behaviour around this. The best part of what I do is seeing people reclaim their freedom and joy around food and their bodies. I practice joyful, gentle movement through Yoga, tennis and Zumba.