You Don’t Need Fixing - You Need Freedom
By the time most people land on my clinic couch, they’re carrying a heavy, silent belief: I’m broken.
They’ve been living with it for years—sometimes decades.
The belief that they should have figured it out by now. That their inability to stop bingeing, their constant need to control, or their overwhelming thoughts about food, mean there’s something deeply wrong with them.
That if they could just. try. harder… be better… be less… they’d finally feel okay.
And no matter how accomplished, capable, or “together” they appear on the outside, inside they feel like a failure.
You Are Not the Problem
But what if the ways you eat - the bingeing, the restriction, the constant thoughts about food - aren’t evidence of failure… but of protection?
What if these patterns aren’t signs that you’re broken, but signs that your body has been trying to keep you safe in the only ways it knew how?
You don’t need fixing.
You need freedom.
Freedom to return to your body’s wisdom.
To lay down the shame that was never yours to carry.
To step into your sovereignty—fully and gently, in your own time.
Because that wisdom, that aliveness, that capacity for joy around food?
It’s still in you.
It didn’t disappear. It just got buried beneath years of fear, conditioning, and disconnection.
But it can be remembered.
The Body’s Original Blueprint
Before the world told you what food should mean, your body already knew.
As infants, we come into this world with a simple, sacred rhythm:
Hunger rises - we cry - we are fed - and we settle.
Warmth floods in, our bellies are filled, and we feel safe, soothed, connected.
These are our earliest stories about food. Not shame. Not control. Not guilt. Just need and nurture. Hunger and relief. Connection and delight.
Our bodies learned that food meant safety; meant love; reassured us “I’ve got you”.
That wisdom lives deep in your cells.
It was your body’s original blueprint—before anyone taught you otherwise.
The Stories That Buried the Wisdom
But as we grow, something begins to shift. We start to gather stories—sometimes spoken, sometimes silent.
Maybe someone commented on how much food was on your plate.
Maybe a parent gently praised your “willpower,” or tightly controlled what you were allowed to eat.
Maybe your body changed, and others noticed… and the noticing didn’t feel safe.
Maybe you were called greedy. Or dramatic. Or told to finish your meal while also being told you were “getting too big.”
Maybe you learned that hunger was shameful; that appetite needed managing; that your body was a problem to be fixed.
These stories don’t just live in memory. They settle into the body.
They shape the way you sit at the table, the way you count calories in your head, the way your chest tightens when you feel full.
And over time, they bury the wisdom you were born with.
The joy. The safety. The knowing.
But here’s the thing:
Just because those stories took root doesn’t mean they are true; doesn’t mean they have to stay.
Reclaiming What Was Always Yours
Healing doesn’t mean starting from scratch.
It means remembering.
Underneath the shame, beneath the conditioning, beyond the coping strategies… your body is still there. Waiting.
Still wise.
Still worthy.
Still holding the blueprint you were born with.
Reclaiming your relationship with food isn’t about rigid plans or perfect choices. It’s about learning to listen again—to the quiet hum of your hunger, the warmth of fullness, the moments when eating brings relief or joy or ease.
It’s about creating safety in your body so you can begin to trust it again.
In somatic nutrition therapy, we don’t override or control the body—we come into relationship with it.
We meet the parts of you that are trying to protect you.
We bring curiosity where there’s been criticism.
And we build capacity - little by little - for you to feel safe, nourished, and whole.
This isn’t fixing.
It’s freedom.
Coming Home to Yourself
Because you don’t need to be fixed.
You never did.
You needed safety. You needed softness.
You needed space to feel, to grieve, to relearn trust at your own pace.
You needed freedom - the kind that lets you return to your body without fear.
This is the work we do together.
A gentle unraveling of the stories that no longer serve you.
A returning to the wisdom that has always lived within you.
You are not too far gone.
You are not broken.
You are already worthy of peace with food, with your body, and with yourself.
Whenever you’re ready—
Let’s begin, together.
Ready to reclaim your freedom & return to your sovereign blueprint?
This is exactly the work we do in nutrition therapy: rewiring your nervous system so you can feel safe, empowered, and peaceful around food—rather than overwhelmed, guilty, and anxious.