Nourish: How to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Self

“Food is Love (But Don’t Eat Too Much!)”

Eat less. Eat clean. Avoid these foods. Eating is a life-giving pleasure, but confusing messages from the diet and nutrition industries may leave you wondering what to eat. Do you find yourself:

• Eating food that doesn’t nourish or energize you?


• Munching mindlessly or emotionally?


• Flipping between feeling "good" and "bad" about your eating?


• Thinking about food and your body more than you’d like?

Discover how to trust your body, and to eat with love and common sense:

• Eat without deprivation or overeating


• Accept your body and trust its wisdom


• Deal with setbacks, destructive thoughts, and self-defeating attitudes


• Create healthy habits to nurture yourself


• Ditch dieting so you free yourself to live a life you love.

Nourish will guide you to transform your eating from self-control to self-love, using a 10-step healing process. In this book, Heidi Schauster, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, founder of Nourishing Words Nutrition Therapy, shares 20 years of wisdom from her Boston-area practice treating disordered and emotional eating