Come home to your body.

Heal your relationship with food through compassionate, evidence-based nutrition.

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Intuitive Eating Coaching, Body Image Healing, & Personalized Nutrition Therapy.

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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 offer 1:1 virtual nutrition counseling sessions and body image coaching to men and women who struggle with intrusive food thoughts and a negative body image. I am based out of Little Rock, Arkansas, but can see clients remotely in any part of the world.

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.

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 collateral damage from dieting is real.

Dieting is the most surefire way to develop disordered eating habits, food obsession, a negative body image, a lowered metabolism, a decreased sex drive, adverse hormonal changes, and so much more. The list is long, folks. And as we stated previously, it also doesn’t help with long term weight loss.

Your body size is not a valid measure of your worth.

Every single body deserves unconditional respect. The fact that you exist means you have value, regardless of the size of your waistline. You do not need to prove your worth by shrinking your body.

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What Clients Say

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"I've struggled with weight and proper nutrition all my life. Over the past year, with Annette's help and guidance, I've really been working on living a healthier lifestyle. Annette has been tremendously helpful and influential in my journey. She's helped me realign my relationship with food, as opposed to controlling it or having it control me. Though weight loss has been a welcomed result, it's been a byproduct of simply understanding food better and forming a healthier relationship with it."

"Annette is awesome to work with. She is so knowledgeable, empathetic, creative, and patient! She was able to individualize her approach to meet my needs and make adjustments as those needs changed. I struggled with frustration, shame, and body dysmorphia for so long and working with Annette was a Godsend! I recommend her 100%!"

“Annette helped me so much! She helped me have a healthier mentality with food. Intuitive eating is helping me break the diets and learn to listen to what my body needs. I’ve been eating healthier and meal planning regularly…..not because I have to, but because it’s making me feel better and it’s what I’m craving.”

Frequently Asked Questions

  • You and I will start out with a no cost 15 minute consult to determine if my services are a good match for your needs. Schedule call here.

  • 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.

  • Yes! See blog post here.

  • 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.

  • Maybe, but maybe not. If you are currently at a weight that your body is most comfortable at, you will likely not lose any weight.

    On the other hand, if you are oftentimes eating beyond your fullness level, eat for emotional reasons regularly, or struggle with binge-like behaviors, you might lose weight by reconnecting with your body’s cues.

    In order to make progress with intuitive eating, weight loss has to be put on the back burner and cannot be a primary goal.

  • 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.

  • Check out my services page here for a list of prices.

  • 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.

    By choice, I have opted to not work with insurance companies as I believe it can alter the quality and integrity of our sessions. As a result, you and I are free to work on any type of nutrition issues you and I see fit. We do not need to abide by what insurance companies deem reimbursable, and as a result are able to make progress much more quickly, without making any concessions.

    If you are in need of nutrition therapy and my fees are out of reach, I can try to help you find a nutrition therapist who is able to offer a lower rate, or who accepts your insurance.

  • As of now, all of my sessions are done virtually using either phone or video. All platforms I use are HIPAA compliant. If you live in Little Rock, AR, I am able to meet in person.

  • Contact me here!