Providing nutrition counseling in the High Country for eating disorders and concerns, chronic dieters, chronic disease, and general wellness.
fuel, explore, rest, nurture
Welcome to Fern Nutrition
We are so glad you’re here! Reaching out for help can be a scary step, but we hope to cultivate a safe and honest space to explore the ins and outs of your relationship with food and body. Food is just one way to practice self-care, and we hope to encourage mealtimes as such. There is so much misinformation in social media, television and movies, and amongst friends and family about sustainable, adequate nutrition. We hope to provide both science based resources and evidence to help YOU find what fits best in your life, with your budget, time constraints, taste preferences, and needs.
Finding a provider that aligns with you is an important part of the process. Book a free 15 min discovery call today below.
Fern Nutrition’s core values and approaches
HAES® (health at every size) aligned
Intuitive eating approaches
Anti-diet
Weight inclusive
Culturally competent
Client centered care
Trauma informed
LGBTQIA+ friendly
I find a lot of symbolism between recovering from an eating disorder and nature. Ferns are one of the oldest plants on the planet, has thousands of species, and can survive all over the world. In fact, the fern can be used as a study of life, death, and rebirth in the natural world. The leaves die each year, and regrow in the spring. Letting go of an eating disorder can feel like letting an important part of yourself go, but with letting go of a coping mechanism that does more harm than good comes regrowth and opportunity to plant the seeds we hope to grow instead.
The fern shows us that no matter how badly things may go in our lives, there is always hope that things will get better.
Fern is also an acronym standing for fuel, explore, rest, and nurture, all important parts of the process of recovering from an ED and diet culture.
Fuel: Eating enough meals and snacks to carry you through space and time.
Explore: Finding foods that you individually enjoy, aside from what others say you are “supposed” to eat. Exploring thoughts and feeling surrounding food and body, and what it might be like to stand up to diet culture. Exploring the beautiful Appalachian mountains we call home and reconnecting to your body through nature can also be an empowering process.
Rest: is essential to life. Whether this means decreasing or balancing exercise alongside food, finding a hobby to relax and be mindful with, or even prioritizing sleep, rest will certainly come up in any healing work.
Nurture: Nurturing relationships with body, food, self, and community is an integral parts of the healing process.
Why Fern?
