Working with Nicole Eikenberry

Nicole is a non-Diet RDN specializing in healing relationships with food, body, and movement, using intuitive eating and mindfulness practices. Through her private practice, Mindful Food & Motion, she sees clients one-on-one, teaches classes, facilitates groups, speaks at events, and does advocacy work that is compassionate, HAES-aligned, trauma-informed, gender-affirming, and fat-positive.

Start healing your relationship with food and your body. Work with a Health at Every Size®️-aligned non-diet Registered Dietitian, Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Body Trust®️ Practitioner.

People come here because they’re having issues with food and their body. We find it’s a doorway to so much more...

This work is a process and everyone is unique! Nicole has researched, studied, and developed exercises, tools, and skills to approach the many common cycles and thought patterns that arise in the healing work of addressing problematic eating and activity behaviors and body dissatisfaction with non-judgmental and compassionate expertise.

This work includes the entire person and their whole health situation. Nicole does not advocate for any food plan or diet or anything you will “fail” at. Using thoughtful counseling modalities, we work together using intuitive eating, mindfulness practices, self-compassion, embodiment practices, and more, all in a HAES-aligned, trauma-informed, gender-affirming, and fat-positive lens.

Together, we can overcome barriers to reach a more peaceful relationship with food, body, and self.

What level of support would be helpful for you or the person/people you are helping? From private consultation, groups and classes, speaking, social media, and even the resources listed here in this website, Nicole can offer guidance to get you going on your own healing journey.

Does This Sound Familiar?

Here is how people describe their relationship with food and their body when they decide to work with Nicole.

Current Relationship with Food & Body

  • Don’t trust myself around food

  • Uncomfortable in my own skin

  • Still in the good food/bad food dichotomy

  • Choosing food based on calories or other qualifiers

  • Feeling disconnected from my body

  • Thinking about food constantly

  • Relationship to food feels like an emotional rollercoaster and is incredibly draining

  • Feels like I can never say “no” to food

  • Internalizing misogynistic diet culture

  • Food relationship described as: painful, arduous, hopeless, chaotic, heavy, a struggle, exhausting, fraught

  • Doing intuitive eating as the “hunger/fullness” diet

  • Using mostly food to self-soothe

  • Don’t trust my body signals

  • Stress over not knowing what I really want to eat

  • “Body checking” behaviors

  • Routinely eating until “stuffed” and uncomfortable

  • Anxiety about eating in restaurants or in social situations

  • Exercise obsession and/or guilt over not exercising

The above descriptions are very common, yet people so often feel like they are the only ones struggling, that there is something wrong with them and they just need to “pull themselves together” and “fix” this “problem” “once and for all”, and so the cycle of searching for the next “silver bullet” and striving and hustling continue (despite exhaustion), even if this has been going on for years or even decades.

It is possible to find more peace and ease with food and body, yes, even for you. Below are some descriptions of where people are going with this work. It’s an ongoing process and can take years of exploration and learning/unlearning. People might need guidance, accountability, some education, or a hand to hold to get going. There comes a point where people might not be totally there, but they can see it’s possible, that they are on the right track, and can say, “I’ve got this.”

Ideal Relationship with Food & Body

  • All foods fit and I can eat what sounds good to me.

  • I feel joy in choosing food that delights me and tastes good.

  • Feeling in tune with my hunger and body sensations

  • Trust myself to choose satisfying food

  • Food has its proper place; I enjoy it but don’t obsess about it.

  • Food relationship feels peaceful

  • My body feels comfortable and I feel more body-neutral

  • I can say “no” to food if I don’t feel like eating because I know I can have some later

  • Internalizing that diet culture is misogynistic and I deserve better

  • Food relationship described as peaceful, easy, enjoyable, neutral

  • Intuitive eating is flexible

  • I have lots of tools to self-soothe

  • I can trust my body to tell me what and when it wants food.

  • Deciding what to eat is low-stakes and easy.

There are countless barriers that block people moving from where they are now with food and body and where they want to be. What are they for you? There’s no doubt this all takes time and energy. Why are you showing up for it? What is a compelling reason for you to do this work?

READY TO IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD?

Set up a free, 30-minute consultation with Nicole to learn more about a non-diet approach to nutrition.