Come home to your body.
Heal your relationship with food and your body through compassionate, evidence-based nutrition.
Personalized Nutrition Therapy, Body Image Healing, & Intuitive Eating Coaching
Hi! I’m Annette.
Welcome. I am so glad you are here.
I am a registered dietitian who specializes in not putting you on a diet.
Instead, I help you heal your relationship with food and come home to your body.
I help you start living in your body, as opposed to living to change your body.
There will be no weighing your food, no death by restriction, no counting macros, no soulless meal plans, and no judging your health and worth by how much you can painstakingly budge the scale in a downwards trajectory. No scales, period.
Specifically, I help people who are tired of nutrition feeling so complicated—whether you're struggling with your relationship with food or your body, trying to manage a health condition without falling back into dieting, or simply trying to feed yourself and your family in the middle of real life.
Using the evidenced-based frameworks of Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size©, you and I work together to unlearn the lies told to you by diet culture, removing the barriers to healthy behaviors and learning to tune into the messages your body gives you. This process allows you to make peace with food and your body so you can focus on living your fullest life possible and finally come home to your body.
“Your body knows what it needs, you just have to learn how to listen.”
What I believe
Diets fail 95% of the time.
95% of people who go on a diet regain all or most of that weight back within 3-5 years, many much sooner. Of those 95%, 40% of those folks end up weighing more after the diet than before the diet. Those who diet are also at a much higher risk for eating disorders, a negative body image, a lowered metabolism, adverse hormonal changes, malnutrition, and so much more.
You don’t need to be thin to be healthy.
Body size is not a credible indicator of health. You can exist in a large body and have a perfect bill of health, and you can live in a thin body and have very poor health. The way we achieve good health is through our behaviors, not the number on the scale.
Your nutrition fingerprint is unique.
Because your biology, desires, goals, values, and life are all unique. General nutrition recommendations or prescriptive diets usually miss the mark because they don’t know you. It is important to do the work to figure out what works for YOU.
Nutrition is important.
And also, not the end all be all. The key is to strike a balance between giving your health and nutrition the time and energy it deserves, while not allowing it to take over and become your whole personality.
What Clients Say
Frequently Asked Questions
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Intuitive Eating is a self-care eating framework, created by the dietitians Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole, that includes 10 principles and is essentially a “how-to” guide for increasing interoceptive awareness, which is the ability to understand and respond to our body’s messages. It is a self-empowerment tool that puts you back in the driver’s seat of your own body and mind.
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Yes! See blog post here.
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Yes, there is a version of life that exists for each of us that is free from these things. You just have to be brave and vulnerable enough to do the work.
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I don't know—and weight loss isn't a goal of our work. Your body may change, or it may not. Rather than trying to manipulate your weight, we'll focus on behaviors that support your nutrition, health, relationship with food, and quality of life.
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It depends! Some folks see progress in a matter of weeks, but for others it can take longer. Intuitive eating is a lifelong practice and you will go through many ups and downs on your journey. It is not a quick-fix, but will instead set you up for a lifetime free from food fears and body shame. It takes work, but is well worth it.
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Check out my services page here for a list of prices.
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I am an out-of-network provider for insurance plans. This means that you pay the full fee directly to me, and, if requested by you, I can provide a statement that contains information about our sessions so that you may apply for reimbursement. If your insurance company requires that some other form be filled out, please have that form available for me to complete. Reimbursement depends on your insurance plan and level of coverage. I recommend that you call and ask if your insurance will reimburse for out-of-network Registered Dietitian services, and what the reimbursement rate might be.
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If you live in Little Rock, AR, I am able to meet in person. Otherwise, all of my sessions are done virtually using either phone, video, or messaging. All platforms I use are HIPAA compliant.
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