Eating well is one of life's great pleasures

...and YOU have the right to a healthy relationship with food without the dieting madness that locks you into a struggle to change your body.

At Freedom from Dieting, I base my approach on the belief that diets do not work and that people can regain the wisdom about eating they once had. Diets teach people to place their trust in an outside authority to tell them when and what to eat. This distances people from their intuitive knowing, causing them to stop hearing the body's inner voice.

People can learn, again, to eat from internal signals of hunger and satisfaction. With exhilaration and trepidation, they take steps to throw out external food rules and to give themselves permission to make their own food choices. They learn to challenge societal standards of beauty and move toward self-acceptance. In a supportive atmosphere, they look under surface hungers and discover what it is they really want in life.

As they continue in their journey, people also refine life skills around dealing with emotions, setting boundaries and nurturing themselves so that food, weight and body image obsessions no longer occupy the place in their life that they once held.