Exploring Body Trust
We are living in a time of great uncertainty, but there are some things that are certain- your body is your home. You are in a relationship with your body. That relationship is the only relationship that will be with you your whole life.
What do you want it to look like? Feel like? How do you want to relate to your body?
Your body holds your stories. There is deep knowing and wisdom right there in your own body.
Exploring Body Trust® is a 14 week online course, led by therapist Amber and nutrition therapist Virginia Newman, where we will explore the concept of body trust, what engaging a body trust path looks like, and meet in a community of others who are committed to knowing this path, and leaving body hatred, weight stigma, diet culture and healthism behind.
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Meet Virginia
A white, straight sized, neurodivergent, recovered, cis-hetero female survivor and thriver, Virginia has worked within the food realm for most of her adult life, from food service to farming to teaching cooking classes to getting her masters degree in nutrition and dietetics and becoming a nutrition therapist and clinician.
It wasn’t until she started her certification work with Body Trust® where-in she deepened her own relationship to her body and healed from her Orthorexia. In this process she found liberation and grounding that steers her in her work with clients, in her own continued healing, and in her writing and speaking and group work.
Virginia loves the power of food as a force for connection to ourselves and others, and enjoys using this as an inroad to help people deepen into their connection with their bodies, souls, and true paths in this life. She has a cat named Bug who she enjoys spending time with, and also enjoys playing Super Mario World, cooking in the instapot, taking baths, kayaking, crafting, scented candles, fires in the woodstove and being near water. She has an all virtual practice where she supports clients struggling with their relationship to food and their bodies.
Meet Amber
A cis-femme, white, fat, mostly-able bodied person with a great deal of unearned privilege, Amber has been a mental health provider for over 20 years. For most of her career, Amber has worked in non-profit, community-based agencies as a therapist, clinical director, educator and trainer, and she now provides individual therapy to clients in her private practice. Her role as a social worker and therapist listening to people in oppressed communities led her to question the traditional models of care that were predominant in the counseling field. This eventually drew her to the ideas of Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating, where she then began to address her own trauma of living in a fat body that had been unnamed for 40 years. Excited about the freedom that divesting from diet culture brought to her, she enrolled in Be Nourished's Body Trust® Provider certification where she found a rich community of providers and fat liberation activists who continue to inspire and educate her.
Amber loves supporting folks in untangling themselves from the tyranny of diet culture through the use of psychotherapy. She is committed to liberation for all bodies, knowing that no one is free until everyone is free. She is a Single Mother By Choice to a 14-year old gamer who gets very embarrassed by her TikTok videos. She enjoys cooking, crafting, taking long baths, thrift store shopping, long island iced teas, cheese, and karaoke. She lives in Bothell, WA where she spends a lot of time talking to the trees and to her cats. She has an all virtual practice where she supports clients struggling with their relationship to food and their bodies.