My name is Kari, and I can help you feel normal around food.
My philosophy, Psycho-Spiritual Wellness, is rooted purely in psychology and spirituality, not dieting.
On my website, you can find blog posts about eating psychology and stopping compulsive eating that are well-researched and top-notch. You can also find my services like Feel Normal Around Food Coaching and my premium digital products like my books, workbooks, and online courses.
If you’re new, I highly recommend signing up for my newsletter, which contains my most soulful content. The articles that I write for my blog are more technical and ‘how-to’ in nature. What I send via email is much more personable, because that’s what email is!
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What I Do: I Help Heart-Centered, Open-Minded People Stop Compulsive Eating
You’re a great fit for my content if you relate to any or all of the following:
Perhaps you struggle with…
- Feeling crazy around food: This includes but is not limited to thinking about food 24/7, planning dinner while you’re eating lunch, constantly feeling tempted by sweets in the pantry even while you’re busy doing other things.
- Yo-yo dieting: Feeling excited and motivated one day and completely ‘falling off the wagon’ shortly after — often gaining back even more weight than you originally lost.
- Decades lost to dieting: Anyone who has spent decades of their life dieting, tracking calories, and feeling otherwise out of control, crazy, or obsessive about food will benefit from Psycho-Spiritual Wellness.
- Eating based on the clock: not based on hunger.
- Weight loss or food obsession: My philosophy can help anyone who is above their natural weight and wants to lose weight or anyone who is their natural weight but still feels obsessive around food.
- All-or-nothing mindset: Setting out to eat ‘perfectly’ and the moment you eat something off-limits, it sets off a full-on binge.
- Feeling out of control: Worried and even terrified that giving up the food rules and living without boundaries will result in a feeding free-for-all followed by weight gain.
If this list practically feels like a resume to you, you’re not alone. Those bullet points listed above used to describe me, and they also describe the average person just trying to get by in this diet- and image-obsessed world.
If you want to break-free from these patterns, get food off your mind, and stop dieting all while heading towards your natural weight, I can help.
My Mission:
Audacious
Authenticity
Audacious authenticity is my #1 mission in life. And on the path to feeling normal around food, authenticity is a natural byproduct.
The work that we do here with the Stop, Drop, & Feel opens your eyes to the uncomfortable things that were once buffered with food. While this opens you up to discomfort, it also opens you up to audacious authenticity.
That’s why I pour my heart and soul into my newsletters, frequently sharing how I get through the lows in my life (as they relate to my relationship with food, which means everything is fair game because the way we do one thing is the way we do everything).
Owning my story helps me avoid shame and imposter syndrome, and it also helps me find compassion for myself and others. When people reply to my newsletter saying ‘yeah, me too’ it is the most validating and compassionate experience ever — for both of us.
After all, a pillar of self-compassion is shared humanity: knowing that you’re not the only one. This is one reason why I’m always harping to ‘hit reply’ in my newsletters. It is just as therapeutic for me to hear from you as it is (hopefully) for you to hear from me.
Audacious authenticity. Vulnerability. Validation that you’re not the only one losing your mind over food… that’s what it’s all about. In my book, that’s where true healing comes from.
Where Did I Learn Everything?
Psycho-Spiritual Wellness is all about psychology and spirituality. I don’t talk about the food-stuff because I am not a medical professional. I am not a doctor. I am not a dietitian. And I will never pretend like I have all the answers.
What I can promise you is that I’ve been there.
I know what it’s like to ‘eat well’ all day and even make it into bed feeling accomplished, only to compulsively get out of bed at midnight and shovel snacks into your face while hating yourself every minute and wishing you would stop with each bite…
It wasn’t until I stopped dieting that I finally stopped binge eating and compulsive eating. And it wasn’t until I addressed my psychology that I finally broke ground and climbed out of the hole of compulsive eating.
I’ve also spent 8 years of my career as a medical writer, working side-by-side with clinicians to make sure content is well-researched and water-tight. They taught me to question everything and fact-check absolutely everything.
When you read my blog posts, pay attention to the links. I make sure I use highly credible sources, like scientific journals from PubMed, and I make sure those sources are recent, not outdated. (I read these dense, technical, jargon-filled journals so that you don’t have to.)
How Did Everything Get Started?
Care to take a ride with me down memory lane?
My Presence on Social Media (Or Rather: Lack Thereof)
I don’t use Facebook, Instagram, or any other social media besides YouTube and Pinterest. Though, I don’t really consider those last two ‘social.’ They’re more like search engines that allow people to discover useful content.
In fact, I owe a lot to Pinterest in particular! It was Pinterest that helped me stumble upon an article with a list of books — one of which was Women, Food, and God by Geneen Roth. That book is what started it all. It was the first book that introduced me to the idea that dieting is what makes us feel crazy.
I am really grateful for Pinterest. Not only because it helped me discover content that changed my life, but it also gives me the opportunity to do the same for others. At the time of writing, my Pinterest account has over 1M+ monthly views. I am so grateful that I can grow my reach to help show others how to feel normal around food.