Statistically, 43% of marriages end in divorce with the average length of marriage lasting 8 years. 

 

At Post-Divorce Dietitian, we understand divorce is a major life change which can have a drastic impact on self-care.

 

Self-care in turn impacts our overall ability to find meaning and happiness and, ultimately, to show up as our best selves for our children and in our lives.

 

Self-care ​can mean different things to different people, and we support clients in finding their value-based, individualized and self-compassionate self-care routine and nutrition plan that promotes resilience, food peace, and overall health. 

 

Joanna is a child of divorce, so she is passionate about helping others through this life change. Her parents experienced a particularly high conflict uncoupling, and she is very familiar with the difficulty that accompanies the end of a marriage and the impact it can have on everyone involved for years to come. Her desire to work with individuals post-divorce grows from her lived experience but is informed by her work with clients struggling to find self-compassion, sustainable habits, and food and body peace.

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Ways in which divorce can impact self-care include: 

• causing unwanted weight gain

• increasing emotional or binge eating

• activating body image distress

• increasing harmful dieting

• promoting detachment from body cues and low body attunement

• throwing a hammer into our routines, rituals, and stability

• impacting our appetite and disconnecting us from hunger or fullness signals

• decreasing our immunity and physical resources

• increasing inflammation or insulin resistance

• causing us to turn to maladaptive coping-like substance use or restriction

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Ways in which a post-divorce dietitian can support you: 

 

When we work to care for ourselves during difficult life changes, it increases our ability to weather the storm and bounce back. This increased perseverance and resilience can bring about long-term positive health which can trickle down to having more resilient children and family systems. 

 

Joanna has helped hundreds of people heal their food and body relationships, find sustainable and self-compassionate self-care routines, and finally figure out a meal planning system that works for them. 

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When you work with Joanna, she partners with you in a virtual setting to:

• dig deep into your history with food, body image, movement, and self-care and bring awareness to what is driving your behaviors

• provide empathetic support yet truly compassionately challenge any unhelpful beliefs or habits 

• gently lead you back to your internal body wisdom and hunger and fullness so that this may be your long-term compass 

• identify values, work through barriers, and learn what food, movement, routines, and mindfulness practices would optimize your health and well-being

• support you in developing a meal planning system for your unique family

• guide you to the nutrition plan that supports your goals

• heal any body image or food relationship concerns and pull you away from damaging restriction or chronic dieting behaviors

• help you understand your reaction to stress and how to increase your window of tolerance through self-care behaviors and nutrition practices

• help you identify what drives any emotional or binge eating behaviors and learn adaptive coping and protective mindfulness

• support knowledge around what self-care or nutrition changes may benefit health concerns such as blood sugar management, hormone concerns, blood pressure issues, etc. 

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Together, you and Joanna will work through her 8-Step Process over at least a 2-month period- but can be longer depending on concerns and needs. 

 

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