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Hebe Valiant Nutrition, Peckham, London (2025)

08/01/2024

Towards the end of 2023 I had the privilege of presenting to all about the harms of non evidence-based nutrition in a wellness space. A workshop which combined my experiences as a nutritionist, wellbeing professional and a service user.
Thanks to the onslaught of diet culture in January, nutrition is making headlines a lot this month. It's also the subject of many conversations in wellness spaces. It can be difficult to know how to navigate these conversations as a wellness pro. But it's important to recognise the impact that you have as someone who works in wellbeing when talking about nutrition. Your words have power and influence so it's extremely important that if nutrition comes up, it's always evidence based.
So often nutrition information is shared without consent in theses spaces. As wellness pros, we have no idea why someone has come into our space. For so many people, talking about nutrition can be harmful and act as a barrier to coming into these spaces. By keeping nutrition out of the space and sticking to your own scope of practice you can create a more inclusive environment to people accessing your services.
I put together a couple of ideas for best practice when thinking about nutrition in a wellness space:
- Set boundaries when asked nutrition questions 'e.g that's not my area of expertise'
- Signpost towards registered nutrition professionals and dietitians.
- If you share something, check your sources, is it evidence based or just an anecdote?
- Keep nutrition out of the space; by sharing info, you could be perpetuating harms such as diet culture and weight stigma. Ask yourself if it's neccisary to share and it so why? examine your biases. Reflect on the potential harms of sharing information.
#2024

03/01/2024

The idea of setting a resolution to me always seems clouded in diet culture. At this time of year particularly the internet is teaming with 'new year new me' diet chat that I personally would love to get away from.
Saying that, the only thing I would like to take with me into 2024 is kindness and compassion. Less of the berating ourselves, the onslaught of guilt, or the setting up of targets which are too hard to meet.
To more softness, sillyness and doing the things we really want in 2024.
#2024 love

31/12/2023

After some reflection, a completely non-exhaustive list of nutrition/wellbeing ins and outs for 2024.
#2024

01/03/2023

There are many nuances to food that are easy to brush over (and equally difficult to get across on instagram), and the narrative around emotional eating can so often one of these. When we talk about emotional eating it frequently becomes a binary conversation (good vs bad emotions and good vs bad food). Especially where we relate feeling sad, angry or lonely with eating food.
In reality our emotions are complex and and so is emotional eating. In the many (many) nuances that exist here, sometimes, when these emotions hit, food is the only nice thing.
Lots of things can bring us comfort, joy and relief in our most challenging times. But there is something about the consistency of food that we don’t have with other things, and trying to take that away, or shame and guilt ourselves for experiencing that feels so cruel for something that’s so inherently human.

01/03/2023

I'm in February's issue of Happiful Magazine! Check out my happiful hacks feature "5 top tips for navigating unwanted diet and nutrition advice".

Very excited to see this in print as this is an article very much informed by real life conversations I have in clinic. I've noticed how often those exploring and repairing their relationship with food have to navigate these situations, and how challenging this is.

It has to be said that there is absolutely no right or wrong way to navigate this, and can be something which is incredibly hard to know how to respond to, but my aim was to provide a few tools to have in the back of your mind.

You can pick up Happiful in print now or subscribe to their online issue!

https://happiful.com/5-effective-ways-to-navigate-unwanted-diet-and-nutrition-advice/

10/01/2023

A very late new year post for the algorithm. I'm not a big new years fan, and my January so far has been less than smooth.
Yearly wrap-ups and reviews give me a bit of an ick as it feels like a lot of pressure at one point in time. But saying that, here's a throwback to a giggly silly moment and one of my happiest from 2022. These silly moments, as well as getting a fringe, spending a lot of time with cats, and starting one of the hardest courses I've ever done probably highlight some of the 'bigger' moments of my 2022.
I don't tend to set resolutions, but honestly, I'd love to spend more of 2023 taking care of myself, indulging in the silly things and giving less of a s**t.

17/12/2022

Christmas is a testing time, especially when it comes to food. It’s also a time when you can come face to face with friends and family you haven’t seen in a while.
Batting away unwanted comments about food and bodies is a common occurrence during December. Although It would be great to just tell people to ‘do one’, I appreciate it’s not a viable option most of the time.
I’ve coupled together a few suggestions of ways to set some boundaries around food with friends and family. Adding a small caveat that setting a boundary is by no means easy, and can often involve it feeling safe and secure enough for you to do so.
If you’re feeling in a space to exercise some boundary setting over the festive period here are a few responses you could try to unwanted and unsolicited comments about food and bodies.
👉“Christmas is about more than food for me." A useful reminder for them (and you) that although food is central to Christmas, it can be about more than food.
👉“This conversation is a bit boring, can we talk about something else?” This is my polite way of telling someone to 'do one' 🤫
👉Exercising your right to say “no”. It can be difficult to do this, especially in unfamiliar situations. But it's useful to remember you have the right to say no.
👉“These type of comments take the joy out of Christmas for me”. Sharing food with people you love can be a joyful experience, unsolicited food comments do nothing but try and derail that.
It’s worth noting, we have no control over how someone can react or respond to a boundary. Remember that ignoring someone, leaving or saying nothing are all also viable options.

07/12/2022

Unfortunately, tomorrow's class at the telegraph hill centre has been cancelled due to teacher illness. See you at our next class (and last one of term) on the 15th!

01/12/2022

I’ve had this conversation often enough that I’m giving it a permanent place here. To remind you, now and always, you’re doing the best you can. Even if you don’t always feel like it.
This time of year is tough, especially if you are working on your relationship to food and you’re body. There’s often more people, more food and more interactions. Be flexible and kind to yourself, give yourself permission to enjoy and celebrate food over this time of year.
Also a quick reminder for you that if being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked already

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23/11/2022

So, in the blink of an eye I realised it has been over 2 years since I started working as a nutrition counsellor (where the heck did that time go?!) In honour of this (slightly delayed) anniversary, I felt it apt to tell you a little bit more of what I do.
In a nutshell, I work as a nutrition counsellor in clinic. I work with individuals 1-1, integrating my training in nutrition with my training in counselling & psychotherapy. I support a variety of individuals who are struggling with their relationship to food in one form or another. You may be struggling with your relationship to your body, disordered eating or want more support understanding emotional eating or gut health. We work together to build trust, understanding and compassion in a collaborative way. All from a weight-inclusive and non-diet lens.
It feels challenging to try and squeeze all of this into a caption. As truthfully, what I do and how I work varies so much from person to person. One of the biggest myths for me, which I learnt very quickly when starting to work in clinic, was that there is no one perfect way to do things. Which is why my training in counselling & psychotherapy slots in so beautifully with clinically work. We look at you as a whole person, exploring your relationship to food, body image, and yourself with curiosity and kindness.
I have availability for sessions on Thursday/Friday/Saturday. Follow the link in my bio to book a discovery call & find out more.

16/11/2022

Have you ever seen those ‘wellness’ channels where every dish, every photo, every glass of water looks perfect? There’s a plain white background, not a single stain, or strand of spaghetti out of place? Everything looking neat, tidy and perfectly proportioned. All framed as the “perfect” image of health.

Well, I call bulls**t. Unrealistically, over-edited, performative, bulls**t.

Not only does this add to the idea that there is a right or wrong way to take care of ourselves. It leaves us reaching for the unattainable. Ignoring how health is complex, dynamic and flexible. And that day to day, eating is actually pretty messy.

There are no perfect pictures here. There is no one right way to do things, especially when it comes to food and nutrition.

I would go as far as to say that if the image of health presented isn’t a flexible one, it’s not a healthy one. On that note, long live messy eating.

22/08/2022

🍕YOGA PIZZA PALS IS BACK BABYYYY🍕

Join us for a bloody brilliant evening of class, carbs and community.

The first one filled out hearts with joy and this one is going to be even lovelier (if you can believe it!)

Join us for an extended practice followed by Pizza from the amazing , some bevs and a chance to hang out and connect followed by Pizza from the amazing , some bevs and a chance to hang out and connect.

1st of October 6.15-10pm

Price include welcome snack, practice and pizza. This event is B.Y.O beverages so bring along any alcoholic and non alcoholic bevs you like.

Sliding scale pricing and all levels welcome.

Link to book in bio!

Hit us up if you have any questions.

Can’t wait to practice and hang with you all!

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