A joyful relationship with food is possible for you.

For so long, I didn’t believe that.

Food felt like a constant struggle—something to manage, control, and fix. I spent years searching for the right diet, the right solution, the right way to eat, never realizing that the struggle itself was the problem. That I was looking outside of myself when the answers had always been within.

If food has felt like a battle—whether for yourself or your family—please know, I get it. I’ve been there. And I also know, deeply, how much better it can feel.

My Story: From Struggle to Understanding

I grew up in the 80s and 90s, surrounded by women who were always distinctly on or off a diet. It was the norm—food was something to be controlled, something to feel guilty about, something that needed fixing. I internalized so much of that, but there was more to it. I was a highly sensitive, deeply feeling person in an environment that didn’t fully make space for the emotions I carried.

I learned early on to hold things in, to keep the peace, to override what I felt in my body.

I didn’t have language for what I was experiencing in my body, and food became a stand-in for everything I couldn’t express. Food is a sensory, embodied experience, and when we don’t have the tools to process our emotions, it can become the place where those emotions live.

By my early teenage years, I had developed an eating disorder that lasted for over 15 years. At the same time, I was dealing with chronic health struggles—ongoing symptoms that seemed disconnected but never quite went away.

Even when I didn’t have the language for it yet, I knew deep down that everything was connected. My body was always sending me signals, but I didn’t know how to listen.

When my mother was diagnosed with cancer in my early 20s, I saw firsthand how much conventional medicine only parts, not the whole person.

Around the same time, my own chronic health symptoms were intensifying.

It was a turning point for me. I knew there had to be a deeper way to care for ourselves—one that honored the full picture of our lives, our emotions, and our bodies.

For so many years, food felt like a battle—something to control, something I couldn’t trust. But everything started to shift when I leaned into how food could support me rather than how I needed to manipulate it. Instead of constantly feeling like my body was betraying me, I began learning how to work with it.

• Food became an ally instead of a source of constant confusion.

• I stopped looking for the next diet, the next set of rules, and started exploring what actually felt good in my body.

• I immersed myself in understanding the emotional and physical connections to food.

That’s when I started to heal.

I later went on to study integrative and holistic health at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, deepening my knowledge of food, nourishment, and the many approaches to eating well. As someone who had always been fascinated by human behavior (I have two degrees in psychology), I also dove deep into eating psychology—why we crave what we crave, why we binge, why we restrict, and how our food behaviors are woven into our emotions, experiences, and nervous system.

But here’s what I know now:

When a mother feels strong, confident, and at ease in her own relationship with food, that positive ripple effect extends to her entire family. I’ve seen it firsthand.

Here’s what that looks like:

The way she nourishes herself changes.

The energy in her home changes.

Her children absorb the difference, not because she’s trying to control their eating, but because food is no longer a place of stress. It is now fueled by ease, trust, and confidence.

You are the anchor of nourishment in your family.

An invitation: Feeling Held & Supported

This is why I do the work I do.

Mothers are always holding others—but we also need to feel held.

It’s why I’m here—to support mothers in stepping into a more confident, embodied, and joyful relationship with food, for themselves and for their families.

When we honor that our children are our greatest teachers and provide a mirror far more meaningful than the one we’ve obsessed over for decades, we shift the narrative.

If you’d like to explore this together, you can learn more about coaching here.

I’m here to help you see this.

I’m here to help you find the beauty, joy, and peace in food.

A bit more about me

I live in Encinitas, CA with my husband, Gideon, and son, Zeke. We are an homeschooling family who value connection, fun, and a self-directed approach to learning.

I was born in Israel, grew up in Philadelphia, spent 10 years living in NYC (8 in Manhattan and 2 in BK), 2 months in Maine, a year and a half in Northampton, MA, and it’s been 10 years in SoCal. After moving around a lot, I’ve come to realize my home is me. All of the outgoing, empathic, highly sensitive, contemplative, funny, quirky, silly, ENFJ, Pisces Sun/Libra Moon, Vata Dosha, me.

I believe in talking about the hard stuff. Miscarriage, grief, marriage challenges, parenting woes, fertility, and real-talk on women’s health must all be shared so that we can remove the stigmas.

Creating common ground and just getting real can be so healing. The more open we are, the more we can relate so we don’t struggle in silence. Some major events in my life have really shaped who I am today and will inform what I bring to the table in our work together.

My Training

Really, it’s about fully living this life in this body and walking the walk every day, continually learning, stumbling, getting up again, and listening to the thousands of women who have let me in to support them over the years.

But here’s the “on paper” stuff: I went to Penn State for college and both NYU and The Institute for Integrative Nutrition for grad school. I hold a Bachelors and Masters degree in Psychology and understanding what motivates human behavior will always be a guiding light for me. I am a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. I have completed the seminar, "Transforming Your Relationship with Food" through the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, a course in Food as Medicine, and more workshops than I can count along the way on nutrition, intuitive eating, conscious parenting, marriage, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, gut health, grief, nervous system regulation, and more!

I am a Forever Learner and I’m here to bring a truly holistic approach to your healing.

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