Providing nutrition counseling in the heart of Downtown Boone, NC
Welcome to Fern Nutrition!
We are so glad you’re here! Nutrition counseling is becoming more and more necessary in a world filled to the brim with nutrition advice that can feel impossible to sort through. Food is just one way to practice self-care, and we hope to encourage mealtimes as such. There is so much misinformation in social media, television and movies, and amongst friends and family about sustainable, adequate nutrition. We hope to provide both science based resources and evidence to help YOU find what fits best in your life, with your budget, time constraints, taste preferences, and needs.
Finding a provider that aligns with you is an important part of the process. Please click below to inquire if counesling would be a good fit for you.
Fern Nutrition’s core values and approaches
HAES® (health at every size) aligned
Intuitive eating approaches
Trauma informed
Client centered care
Sustainable change
Evidence based
I find a lot of symbolism between beginning to make changes in ones life and nature. Ferns are one of the oldest plants on the planet, has thousands of species, and can survive all over the world. In fact, the fern can be used as a study of life, death, and rebirth in the natural world. The leaves die each year, and regrow in the spring. Shifting behaviors, perspectives, and beliefs about food and body that are holding you back creates fertile soil that can then encourage regrowth and opportunity to plant the seeds we hope to grow instead.
The fern shows us that no matter how badly things may go in our lives, there is always hope that things will get better.
Fern is also an acronym standing for fuel, explore, rest, and nurture, all important parts of the process of our lives that are often overlooked in a busy world.
Fuel: Eating enough meals and snacks to carry you through space and time.
Explore: Finding foods that you individually enjoy, aside from what others say you are “supposed” to eat. Exploring thoughts and feeling surrounding food and body, and what it might be like to stand up to diet culture. Exploring the beautiful Appalachian mountains we call home and reconnecting to your body through nature can also be an empowering process.
Rest: is essential to life. Whether this means decreasing or balancing exercise alongside food, finding a hobby to relax and be mindful with, or even prioritizing sleep, rest will certainly come up in any healing work.
Nurture: Nurturing relationships with body, food, self, and community is an integral part of living a well rounded life. I encourage a holistic approach that explores all parts of an individual rather than just focusing specifically on food and movement habits.
Why Fern?
