HELLO, and welcome.
I'm Mary Ellen Banevedes, (she/her): a trauma-informed, non-diet Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and body image coach.
I am also a PCOS and Food Peace Approved Provider and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist. I'm devoted to helping people make peace with food and their bodies so they can live liberated lives with presence and purpose.
I do this work because I personally know the pain of never feeling good enough or attractive enough. For the longest time, I believed that my worth was my body. Since delving deeply into my own Intuitive Eating journey, my body has changed, but/and I love myself more, my relationships have improved, my anxiety has diminished, and I am more passionate than ever about this work.
If you are desperate to break free from food obsession and body shame, you are welcome here.
I will support you as you break down the barriers keeping you from experiencing peace with food and your body.
I will remind you that you deserve to take up space, and guide you in breaking free from society’s unattainable beauty standards.
I will guide you in discovering your own liberated, purposeful, values-aligned life.
TOGETHER, we'll create a WAY OF EATING and LIVING that works for you.
We’ll explore diet culture’s impact on your body and life. Move away from dieting, and focus on reconnecting you to your own wisdom about your needs - physical, mental, and emotional – so you can learn to nourish yourself. Uncover what is most important to you, so that you can live a life rooted in your values, all while feeling at ease in your body.
Work With Me To:
Break the desperation-guilt cycle.
Connect with your body’s wisdom.
Rediscover the pleasure of eating.
Define what health means to you.
Be nourished from the inside out.