Intuitive Eating is a self-care eating framework that integrates instinct, emotion, and rational thought. The goal is to help you learn (or maybe re-learn) how to listen to your body’s natural hunger, fullness, and satisfaction goals, and how to best honor those cues. During this process, we also want to remove anything that takes away from your attunement to your body—like diets you’ve tried, food rules you’ve carried with you over the years, and negative body image.

Intuitive eating is NOT only eating french fries and brownies. It’s about trusting, respecting, and honoring what your body is telling you in your actions. This is not something that happens overnight; it’s more like a roller coaster, filled with ups and downs, twists and turns, and even a 180° flip upside down now and then. But sticking along for the whole ride leads to a life of freedom, body respect, and lifelong health + happiness.

Showing respect for our bodies will look different for every body, but the principle remains the same. When we are acting out of body respect, our habits and routines are supportive and sustainable for our lifelong health and happiness. This can look like honoring our hunger, practicing self-care, prioritizing rest, and doing activities we enjoy.

Body respect is different because it does not associate happiness or value with our body image. Diet culture tells us that weight loss is the key to improved body image, which is the key to happiness. But this is rarely the case.

You don’t have to like your body to respect your body. Having body respect means you do not place your value as a human, or your happiness and fulfillment, on positive body image, or the way your body looks. Bad body image days will happen (you are human, after all!) but instead of running back to the diets that continuously fail you, we empower you how to navigate those days in a healthy way. You’ll walk away from our 12 weeks together with the ability to respect and nourish your body for what it is and how it supports you, no matter how it looks.

Yes, it does! It’s worked for hundreds of our clients—women like you—and it can work for you, too.

You may feel alone in your struggles, and it may feel like a life of food freedom + body freedom are way out of reach… but I promise it is totally possible, friend.

Healing is hard. Healing can feel impossible. And, healing is SO freeing and SO rewarding.

Intuitive eating is a lifelong journey. Doing the hard work to learn to respect and love your body is so brave, and one that will ebb + flow, and grow + evolve as you do.

Healing is not linear. It’s not a straight, simple path—and that’s normal.

There is no set time frame for how long it will take for you to learn how to honor your hunger + fullness cues, and to fully embrace and follow intuitive eating; however, it certainly can happen a lot faster with guidance and support from the team and other like-minded women inside of Free Method: Academy!

But keep in mind: what matters most is your commitment to leading a healthier, more fulfilling life for you, that aligns with your values as a human.

The core purpose of Free Method: Academy and intuitive eating is not weight loss. While some of our clients do experience weight loss, this is not the ultimate goal and may not be your experience.

We understand that you may currently be feeling uncomfortable in your body and may truly desire weight loss, which is COMPLETELY valid. We will meet you where you’re at to help you work through these feelings of negative body image. Ultimately, our goal is for you to move forward in life with more of a focus on your whole-body health, rather than being so focused on the number on the scale or the size of your clothes.

A lot of our clients think by adopting intuitive eating, their health and self-control will be thrown out the window. We understand why you may believe this to be true.

The short answer is NO, but if you need more convincing, consider this example:

Think about a time you bought a new shirt that you absolutely LOVED. When you first bought it, you were head-over-heels for this shirt, and wanted to wear it 24/7. You probably wore it a few times a week for the first couple weeks of owning that shirt, but eventually, it lost its appeal.

You still love that shirt, and wear it from time to time, but it’s not all you want to wear anymore. It’s not all you think about.

The same principles apply here!

In the beginning of your intuitive eating journey, you may feel liberated and compelled to eat many of the “fun” foods you’re so used to seeing as off limits from years of “clean eating” and following diet culture. But soon enough, eating ice cream all the time won’t sound fun anymore, and it won’t FEEL good, either. This is intuitive eating at work.

Not a problem! If you can’t make it, a recording of each call will be in the client portal for you to watch + replay whenever!