Collaborative Care Stipulations Resource
You deserve respectful care, free of weight stigma. I have heard countless stories of weight discrimination perpetuated by medical professionals. No one, not even medical professionals, is free of bias. There is something we can do to advocate for ourselves. We can be...
Local News Appearance
I recently met a goal of getting on the local news to talk about intuitive eating, rejecting diets, trusting your body and making peace with food! A local news crew visited my office in East Town to interview me. I am proud of the work I do and the incredible people I...
Emotions and the Body
Emotions show up in the body. I created these visuals below diving into several core emotions and their bodily expressions, inspired by my work as a holistic psychotherapist. I have a commitment to move beyond the intellectual and bring bodily sensations and emotional...
Podcast Interview: Taking the Middle Seat
I had the absolute honor of sitting down with Andrea Beck-Lundskow. Her podcast Taking the Middle Seat is an inspiration. She calls herself a connector on her website, I certainly experienced her as that. I would also say she is a really good question-asker. She...
Intuitive Eating Myths
Day #1 In January on my social media platforms, I ran a 6 day intuitive eating myth busting project. The research on weight bullying fueled the project! I am an advocate for intuitive eating and trusting your body because these approaches actually promote healing and...
Podcast Interview with Compassionately Bri and Body Compassion Practice
Self-Compassion is foundational to healing work. For years I have studied the work of two experts in the field whose books I highly recommend, Kristin Neff author of Self-Compassion and Tara Brach author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. I am passionate about...
Quinoa is not Evil (Neither is Sugar)
No food is inherently evil in and of itself. As a certified intuitive eating counselor, one of the key things I often work on with clients is releasing various foods from the morally drenched labels our culture piles on them. Sugar, gluten, and dairy are...
Diet Culture Trauma
To explore Diet Culture Trauma, let me first explain a bit about diet culture and then trauma... Belief System* + Diet Industry* = Diet Culture Belief System: bodies are unruly and not to be trusted...and we should spend our time and energy trying to control them Diet...
Podcast Interview: Founding Nourished Energy
I had the great honor of being a guest on the popular podcast Practice of the Practice where I got to talk about my journey to becoming a psychotherapist and how Nourished Energy began. It is about 20 minutes long. It is more about the business side of being a private...
Intersection of Emotions and Eating
Emotional eating is a hot topic. I do not really care for the phrase, it has been overused and no one really knows what it means. People have emotions and people eat, naturally these two things intersect and they should! When people use eating behaviors to manage...
Jennifer DiGennaro MA LPC
616.446.6728
Jen@NourishedEnergy.com
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Jennifer DiGennaro MA LPC 1324 Lake Drive Suite 8 Grand Rapids, Michigan 49506
Tel: 616.446.6728
E-mail: Jen@NourishedEnergy.com