Let's find optimal health and food and body peace.
Somatic Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist
Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, & Eating Disorder Dietitian
Home of the LIBERATE: Food and Body Peace Program
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Virtual appointments across the United States. Please check out the States Served. We are an out of network provider, but learn more about potential insurance reimbursement in our Step-by-Step Guide.
Food Peace and Nutrition Support for all your Health Concerns
Joanna Pustilnik MS RDN CDCES CIEC
Hi! I'm Joanna. I'm super passionate about people.
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I remember contemplating what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I always had the same thought, "I'm just interested in being with people, learning about them, and helping them. What can you do with that?"
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Being a dietitian has been a dream. I get to sit and be with, witness, and collaborate with clients to support and guide them as they awaken to their own inner wisdom about how to best care for their bodies and souls.
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Nutrition is so much more than food- ok, it IS about food! But it's also about our journeys, the messages we've integrated into our nervous systems, the expectations we hold of ourselves, the emotions we avoid and hide from, and the ways in which we've learned to soothe and communicate with ourselves.
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It's about love and connection and a sense of worthiness.
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As a somatic dietitian and Intuitive Eating counselor, I help clients go deep into what is holding them back, or driving them, or making them feel confused or anxious. Together, we identify and build a system of embodied self-care, and we use embodiment and food/body relationship healing tools so that food and body anxiety dissipate and optimal health emerges.
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I'd love to learn more about you.
What sets us apart?
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Both a weight-neutral/Intuitive Eating dietitian and hormone/metabolic dietitian- a rare combination
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15 years of experience as an RD + over 1,000 1 on 1 sessions
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Master's level clinician
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Advanced counseling skills and knowledge
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Somatically trained- working on completion of Feminine Embodiment Coaching Certification
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Advanced education in healing body image
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20 years of experience as a plant-based/plant-forward eater
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A mom of 3- so fully understands the importance of finding self-care and nutrition that fits in a busy and full life!
Choosing Your Coaching Journey
At Bodacious Nutrition, we offer 3 Nutrition Therapy/Coaching Journey options.
We have a bunch of tools and somatic skills we could utilize- so it's helpful to clarify the container you'd like to be in with your clinician. We can discuss this more during a free discovery call.
Note: All sessions are pay and schedule as you go. We require no upfront package payments, but we do suggest how many sessions we believe might be useful based on your unique concerns.
1. Straight-up Nutrition Therapy/Coaching: For those with no need for food/body relationship or embodiment work. This might be useful for:
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A client seeking to transition to a plant-forward diet for heart health
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A client with a GI-related concern
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A client with prediabetes and no food relationship concerns
2. Nutrition Therapy/Coaching + LIBERATE Food and Body Peace work: For those with nutrition-related concerns and a food anxiety or body image issues. This includes some somatic work and the LIBERATE protocol throughout as needed. This might be useful for:
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A client with PCOS and disordered eating
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A client on a GLP-1 who is struggling with fear of weight gain and food anxiety
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A client with a history of body image concerns and dieting who needs a heart healthy dietary pattern
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3. Straight-up LIBERATE Food and Body Peace work: For those seeking food and body peace with no other nutrition-related concern. This includes some somatic work and the LIBERATE protocol. This approach is good for:
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Clients with eating disorders
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Clients struggling with emotional eating
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Clients struggling with a negative body image and/or food anxiety​
The LIBERATE: Food and Body Peace Program
What is the LIBERATE: Food and Body Peace Program?
The LIBERATE program was born of 8 years of experience working with the food relationship, and 15 years of experience working with clients for behavioral change, generally. It is grounded in the Intuitive Eating Framework, but also draws on aspects of Internal Family Systems (IFS), embodiment, body image healing, and involves a collaboration between clinician and client to help bring to light the drivers and root causes of the food or body disturbance.
The "seats at the table" represent the important tools and topics we delve into together on your healing journey.
Every client has a unique and powerful life history and story, and there is no one right path or approach. For each client, we move fluidly between the seats, depending on what may be calling us to explore it first. The only exception is that we do typically normalize eating first to ensure adequacy and support progress in terms of nutrition status.
Questions? Let's chat.
Nutrition Therapy: States Served
We provide Intuitive Eating and Embodiment coaching worldwide, but due to licensure, we can only provide insurance superbills for clients in the highlighted states ( and Washington DC):
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Values
Vulnerability
Willingness to come in contact with our pain and shame, honoring the feminine depth necessary for healing.
Connection
Fostering healing and growth through virtual support groups and 1 on 1 collaborative relationships
Inclusion
Offering inclusive pricing, rejecting all forms of oppression, acknowledging our own privilege, and valuing diversity in all forms
Sustainability
Offering a virtual, zero-waste model of sustainable care, and working to support plant-forward, environmentally-friendly dietary patterns
Collaborative
Working with clients to optimize care and collaborating with client to access own body wisdom and lived experiences to guide treatment process
Curiousity
Offering kind, non-judgemental and transparent care with openness to whatever comes up
Uniqueness
Honoring the individual histories and the essence that makes us the one and only of our kind. We are all experts of our own needs and desires.
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