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The work that I do is centered on three pillars of self-compassion, mindfulness, and gentle nutrition. But what does that mean? The 10 th principal of Intuitive Eating is to honour your health with gentle nutrition: “Make food choices that honor your health and taste buds while making you feel good. Remember that you don’t have to eat perfectly to be healthy. You will not suddenly get a nutrient deficiency or become unhealthy, from one snack, one meal, or one day of eating. It’s what you eat consistently over time that matters. Progress, not perfection, is what counts.” While I am not a certified Intuitive Eating facilitator (yet, it is in my future), I do incorporate the 10 principals in my work. I avoid hard and fast rules about what you eat and try to flip the script on “good” and “bad” foods. Food does not have moral value, what you eat does not make you a better (or worse) person than anyone else in the room. Diet culture has us believe that when we deprive ourselves of food that makes us happy, it somehow makes us a stronger, more valuable person. I work with my clients to try to smash those beliefs and make peace with food. In that space between nutrition information and what our bodies are telling us they want and need, we find gentle nutrition. When we use mindfulness techniques to be aware of what is going on in our bodies, and self-compassion replaces judgement and self-loathing in conjunction with gentle nutrition, MAGIC happens.