We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Natalie Katz a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Natalie, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
I found my purpose by hearing other peoples’ food and body stories and being deeply impacted by what I was hearing. So many experiences of harm, discrimination, judgement, and criticism. I instinctively knew that I wanted to be a part of their healing journey and a part of a more major paradigm shift towards creating a world in which all people in all body shapes and sizes can experience supportive, inclusive, respectful care in this world.
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
Feeding Your Soul Nutrition is an insurance-based nutrition outpatient practice local to Montrose and providing virtual care throughout California! We believe that a person’s relationship with food, movement, and their bodies is an integral part of their overall life and well-being. We also believe that these relationships are complex, individualized, ever evolving, and do not exist in a vacuum. We believe in an expansive and unique-to-you definition of health, and one that absolutely acknowledges the systemic barriers to accessing health. We believe that health is not dependent on body shape or size, rather rooted in how we care for ourselves while honoring our individual circumstances. We work collaboratively with our clients to rebuild and redefine their relationships with food, body and movement to work for them in a way that ideally provides support, trust, flexibility, ease, and joy! We support clients with all sorts of nutrition-related challenges including eating disorders, disordered eating, diabetes, PCOS, GI disorders, pregnancy/postpartum, child and family feeding, sports performance, and much more. Our hope is that your relationship with food and your body allows you to build the life you dream of, rather than be a source of guilt, shame, and confusion that compromises the full and beautiful life you deserve. We are currently in-network with Blue Shield, United and Aetna and accept private pay for those with a different insurance. We are also in the process of creating our new support community space, extendED, for those seeking connection as they navigate food and body healing in the real world!
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
The three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that have been most impactful in my journey as an inclusive dietitian are:
1) Believing my clients’ lived food and body experiences
2) Unlearning and dismantling traditional Euro-centric ideologies around food, body and health
3) Understanding that everyone’s food, body and health journey’s are individualized and greatly impacted by social determinants of health
My advice for people early on in your journey is to zoom out and look at the bigger systems at play in the development and learned beliefs/behaviors in your relationship with food, body, movement, and health.
How would you describe your ideal client?
Our ideal client is truly anyone seeking support around their relationship with food, nutrition, body image, movement, and overall health and well-being. Particularly, folks who are interested in a unique, non-traditional approach that will really take a deep dive into the core learned beliefs about these things and how to rebuild these relationships in a way that truly and fully supports all parts of you without compromising your mental, physical, emotional, or social wellbeing.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.feedingyoursoulnutrition.com
- Instagram: @feedingyoursoulnutrition
