Body Image & Eating Disorder Therapy
for Moms
You are growing, feeding, and raising a human being, while managing a career and carrying the mental load for your entire family.
Yet, somehow, the world still expects you to "bounce back" as if nothing happened. Let’s rewrite those rules.
The pressure to "bounce back" is exhausting.
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. When you are constantly bombarded with messages about "getting your pre-baby body back" or watching colleagues perfectly manage their diets while you barely have time to eat lunch, it is incredibly easy to feel like you are failing.
You might feel deep shame for grieving the body you had before kids. You might feel guilty that you care about your weight when you "should" just be grateful for a healthy baby.
Please hear this: Grieving your pre-baby body does not make you shallow, and it does not mean you don’t love your child. It makes you human.
How Motherhood, Burnout, and Food Collide
As an Eating Disorder Specialist, I know that your relationship with food and your body rarely exists in a vacuum. When the invisible mental load of motherhood and your career becomes too heavy, food often becomes a coping mechanism.
Does any of this sound familiar?
The Illusion of Control
Your toddler’s tantrums, your boss’s demands, and your massive to-do list feel completely out of your control. Restricting your food or obsessing over your workouts feels like the only thing you can control.
Numbing the Burnout
You skip lunch because you are back-to-back in Zoom meetings or chasing a baby all day. By 9 PM, when the house is finally quiet, you find yourself binge eating in the pantry just to numb the exhaustion.
Medical Triggering
The constant, anxiety-inducing weigh-ins at the OBGYN, the physical toll of fertility treatments, or the sudden loss of bodily autonomy during birth reignited an old eating disorder you thought you had moved past.
The Generational Fear
You are terrified of passing your body image issues and chronic dieting habits down to your children, but you don’t know how to stop the cycle.
You don't have to fight your body anymore.
At Nourish Mental Health, I specialize in helping women navigate the complex intersection of matrescence (the transition to motherhood), career burnout, and disordered eating.
This is a weight-inclusive, anti-diet, and deeply compassionate space. We won't focus on shrinking your body; we will focus on expanding your life.
Together, we will work to:
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Rebuild a peaceful, flexible relationship with food so it no longer consumes your mental energy.
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Process the grief and identity shift of your changing, postpartum body.
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Develop real, sustainable ways to cope with the mental load of working motherhood that don't involve the pantry.
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Help you find solid ground so you can show up fully for your career, your family, and yourself.
