I feel incredibly lucky that I get to do what I do for a job. Somewhat by chance, I’ve ended up doing something that lets me use my strengths every day.

I love seeing the changes that clients can make. And this is especially true for those who living with and trying to battle against an eating disorder.

I recently finished up with a client called Kate. Below she details some of what she was going through and the place she is at now. As Kate explains, recovery is rarely easy or comfortable, and it is not a quick process. But her life is completely different now in comparison to before. 

“It’s hard to put into words the immense gratitude I feel towards Chris and our work together.

I imagine I was one of his clients who falls on the more severe end of the eating disorder spectrum and needed extra support, patience, and time for progress to be made.  I suffered from severe anorexia that eventually turned into orthorexia and over exercising for almost 10 years.

I had done treatment programs in the past but I was not successful for numerous reasons:

1. Me not trusting the practitioners I worked with
2. The practitioners not prioritizing the food and focusing mainly on the emotional aspect of recovery.

I listened to Chris’s podcast for months while I continued to overexercise and starve myself and his approach really blew my mind.  I could tell he knew what he was talking about.

It was clear he is okay with challenging the norms in the health and fitness industry when they don’t align with the research or the way bodies function.  The nutrition and health advice Chris discussed began poking tiny holes in my beliefs – I began to slowly realize my health was suffering despite all the “healthy” things I was doing.

The fact that he is receptive to updating his beliefs when he discovers new knowledge, research, and facts made it SO much easier to trust that he is doing right by his clients and not simply trying to sell them an idea of health that he is invested in for profit.  I would not have been willing to do any of the work I have done this year if I did not believe in Chris’ guidance.

There are not enough people doing what he is doing – prioritizing health over appearance and over the ability to make a profit by selling people ways to achieve the appearance they want.  Yes, working with Chris has cost a good deal of money, but he is selling a service that helps people discover the person they are underneath the body image, the eating disorder, the shame and disgust, the food rituals, and exercise obsessions.

When I met Chris I didn’t have my period, had just been diagnosed with osteoporosis, was underweight, and barely eating 1000 calories day.  I was peeing about 5 times a night and was struggling with waking up and wanting to eat in the middle of the night. I hated being alive.

Fast forward 10 months later and I have had my period for almost 10 months and am eating over 2400 calories a day.  Recovery has been ugly, messy, and painful.  It was not the sunshine and rainbow stories I had heard from others. 

I struggled with a lot of water retention and am still dealing with it but to a much lesser degree.  The first 6 months I felt like I had been hit by a train and was in a large amount of physical pain. Chris reassured me this was all normal and helped me ground me in the facts.

Eating disorders are tricky in the way they attach to logic and health, trying to fool you that actually eating food is responsible for your symptoms not the years of starvation. I wanted to quit every day – but I didn’t. 

Being able to reach out to Chris to ask questions and vent kept me on course.  He grounded me in what was true, that starvation had hurt my health, and I trusted him.  I still have a long way to go but I am not the same girl who met Chris in 2018.  I am starting to see that my body is capable of functioning normally.  I feel like a teenager again.  I am enjoying life, eating whatever I want, and having fun. 

Our work together these last 10 months is just the beginning for me and I am excited.  As time passes, my body and mind will continue to heal and I will be able to enjoy my life, pursue goals, and navigate stressors and emotions without using the eating disorder to keep myself distracted and numb.  I will have a life and a body capable of living. 

I was in such bad shape in 2018, I could have died if I didn’t throw myself fully into recover like Chris and I have done these past 10 months.  Our work together has both saved my life and created an opportunity for me to truly live.”

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