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Helping women make peace with food, their body, and emotions. Registered Dietitian + Advanced EFT Practitioner. No rigid rules. No kale mandates.

No fads, no shame—just practical, nourishing support for real life. - Healing with kindness (and room to breathe, be, and begin again).💛 💛 About Jennifer Young | Women Who Nourish

Hello lovely—so glad you found your way here. I’m Jennifer Young, a Registered Dietitian and Advanced EFT Practitioner, and I help professional women make peace with food, their bodies, and the emotional rollercoaster that often comes with both. If you’ve ever Googled “how to stop eating biscuits at 11pm” while simultaneously swearing off carbs forever… you’re in the right place. If you’ve spent years stuck in the restriction/chaos cycle—exhausted by food guilt, body shame, and punishing routines that feel impossible to maintain—you’re not alone. The pressure to “get it right” is relentless, especially when diets promise miracles but more often deliver misery. This space is for women who are ready to ditch the drama and embrace something kinder, more sustainable, and actually doable. My work is rooted in compassion, collaboration, and emotional safety (with a healthy dose of humour—because healing doesn’t have to be grim). Together, we gently explore the deeper patterns behind emotional eating and build nourishing, flexible solutions that fit your busy, beautifully imperfect life. Just practical support that meets you where you are—and maybe even have a giggle or two along the way.

✨ What I offer:
• A holistic, trauma-informed approach that blends evidence-based nutrition with Gold Standard Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT/tapping)
• Practical, budget-friendly meal planning using real, family-friendly foods—no fads, no pills, no shame
• Support for women navigating emotional eating, disordered eating, IBS, and weight concerns, especially when past experiences feel tangled up in the present
• Resources and communities designed to honour autonomy, emotional readiness, and realistic progress

✨ What I believe:
• Emotional wellbeing is inseparable from physical wellbeing
• Diet culture and body dissatisfaction may be common, but they don’t have to be your norm
• Healing happens when you feel safe, seen, and supported—not judged or rushed
• You already have wisdom within you—we’ll build on that, together

This page is for women who want to nourish themselves with kindness, curiosity, and maybe a few giggles. If that sounds like you, I’d be honoured to walk alongside you. In joyful health (and occasional snack-based rebellion),

Jennifer 💛

01/01/2026

Happy New Year ✨

As we step into 2026, I truly hope the year ahead brings you

a little more calm,
a little more clarity,
and moments that feel genuinely nourishing — not pressured or performative.

I hope it brings less pressure to be anything other than yourself.

You don’t need to rush, fix, or reinvent who you are.
You’re allowed to move into this year at your own pace.

You don’t need big promises or dramatic changes.
Often, the most meaningful shifts happen quietly —
through care, consistency, and listening to yourself.

Here’s to a year of kindness.

A year that feels safe, supportive, and truly your own 💛

30/12/2025

🌿 A Different Kind of New Year List

I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions.

Not because goals are bad —
but because most resolutions fail for reasons that have nothing to do with willpower.

After years working in NHS weight-management services, and supporting women around food and eating, I’ve seen this again and again:
most resolutions ask you to add more effort, more discipline, more pressure to a nervous system that’s already exhausted.

So this year, instead of asking:
“What do I need to control or change to finally feel okay?”

try asking:
“What can I stop trying to control with force, pressure, and rules — and what could support me with more kindness instead?”

Here’s a calm alternative.
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✨ New Year’s Eliminations (Food + Body Edition)

❌ Believing you should be further along by now
➕ Try: starting from where you actually are — that’s the only place change can begin.

❌ Using shame as motivation
➕ Try: curiosity (“What was I needing there?” works much better than criticism)

❌ Believing willpower is the missing piece
➕ Try: eating regularly, keeping blood sugar steady, and tending to stress before it spills into food or emotional eating — responding with care rather than control

❌ Overcommitting in January and burning out by February
➕ Try: one small, repeatable habit at a time that fits your real life

❌ All-or-nothing thinking around food
➕ Try: regular, balanced eating with variety — carbs, veggies, protein, fats, and pleasure — instead of rigid rules, eliminations, or extremes

❌ Earning rest after being “good enough”
➕ Try: resting because your body needs it — sleep and recovery are essential for energy, mood, and eating well

❌ Ignoring emotional triggers and blaming yourself afterwards
➕ Try: noticing patterns without judgement — information, not failure

❌ Chasing fast results
➕ Try: small, doable steps repeated often — steady progress that builds momentum without burnout

❌ Starting over every Monday / January / tomorrow
➕ Try: continuing — imperfectly — from today

❌ Believing this year needs a brand-new you
➕ Try: releasing the idea that you need fixing — easing pressure so you can breathe as you are
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🌱 A Gentle Truth to Carry Forward

You don’t need a “new you.”
You never needed fixing.

Wanting things to feel easier, healthier, or calmer
doesn’t mean something was wrong with you.
It means you noticed something mattered.

You may have hopes, goals, and dreams
for yourself and your family —
and not reaching them yet doesn’t mean you failed.
It means you care.

When pressure eases, calm settles — and capacity grows.
And calm isn’t weakness —
it’s the foundation real change grows from.

You don’t need to do anything with this — just take what helps and leave the rest.

25/12/2025

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22/12/2025

🎄 A calm Christmas support kit (no perfection required)

Sending warm Christmas wishes your way — hoping it’s filled with warmth, joy, love, kindness, and above all, peace.

For many people, this time of year brings extra pressure and overwhelm —
food everywhere, complex family moments, high expectations, very little space to rest, and an unspoken pressure to hold it all together, stay cheerful, and keep everything moving.

If that sounds familiar, here are a few simple supports to keep up your sleeve:
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🧺 1. Prep what you can (external calm)
• Do a little organising early where possible — set the table, chop veg, jot a loose plan.
• Prep food the night before to ease pressure on the day.
• Share the load — involve family where you can.
• Let “good enough” be good enough.
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🧠 2. Pre-plan for triggers (internal calm)
Think ahead — not to worry, but to protect your peace.
If comments are directed at you
You might choose a calm, low-energy response like:
• “I’m focusing on enjoying the day.”
• “I’m giving myself a break today.”
• “I’m listening to my body just now.”
• “I’m keeping things simple today.”
• “I’m alright, thanks.”
If you want to gently redirect without engaging:
• “Let’s enjoy this time together.”
• “I’m just glad to be here.”
And if needed, an exit is always allowed:
• “I’m just going to grab a drink.”
• “Excuse me — I’ll be back in a minute.”
• “I need the loo — catch you later.”
Sometimes the kindest option is simply to smile, change the subject, or step away.
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If people comment on others’ bodies or food
• Remind yourself: this is about them — not a truth about you.
• You’re allowed to disengage, mentally or physically.
• If you do choose to say something, a neutral line can help:
“Bodies change for lots of reasons — we never know what someone’s dealing with.”
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If thinner people criticise their own bodies or eating
• That sting is real — and understandable.
• You don’t have to educate, agree, or absorb it.
• A quiet boundary counts: look away, breathe, leave the room.
If you can, letting one safe person know in advance what might help on the day can make a big difference.

🌿 A gentle reframe (not a rule)
You don’t owe explanations, clarity, or education.
Short, calm responses protect your energy — and that’s enough.
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🫁 3. Pause before you react
• Try the three-breath rule before responding.
• A few slow breaths can soften the urge to defend, explain, or escape into food.
• If things feel tense, slip away to the bathroom or another quiet space – tap through the EFT points or breathe slowly until the emotion settles.
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🍽️ 4. Give the food police a rest (inside and out)
• Regular meals and snacks help keep your nervous system steadier.
• If emotional eating ramps up, get curious — what’s being stirred?
• If guilt shows up about what or how much you’ve eaten, pause and tap.
• No words needed — just tap, breathe, and let the intensity ease.

Relief first. Understanding can come later.
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🛑 5. Release the pressure to be perfect
• You don’t need to enjoy every moment.
• You don’t need to feel calm all day.
• Showing up as you are is enough.
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🚪 6. Schedule mini disappearances
• Step outside.
• Sit quietly.
• Tap away frustration, annoyance, or upset.
• A few minutes counts — regulation doesn’t need a long window.
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🪑 7. Choose your proximity wisely
• Sit near people who feel safe and neutral.
• Create distance from food- and weight-focused conversations where possible.
• You’re allowed to protect your nervous system without explanation.
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⏰ 8. Keep familiar rhythms where you can
• Similar wake-up times.
• Regular meals.
• A consistent bedtime wind-down.

Routine can be deeply calming when everything else feels different.
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🌱 9. Be present, not perfect
• Christmas isn’t a performance.
• Your worth isn’t measured by hosting, restraint, or cheerfulness.
• “Good enough” really is enough.
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✨ 10. Look for small moments of ease
• A warm drink.
• A quiet song.
• A shared laugh.
• You don’t need to feel festive all day to be doing this “right.”
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💛 A gentle reminder
You’re not doing Christmas wrong if you need pauses, boundaries, or support.

This season asks a lot — and it makes sense to meet it with care rather than pressure.

Wishing you moments of ease, softness, and quiet relief wherever you can find them 🤍

18/12/2025

Many women come to this work wanting relief.
Relief from loud cravings.
Relief from constant food noise.
Relief from the feeling of being “on edge” around eating.
And calm really matters here.
Calm is often the first thing that helps your body feel safe enough
to pause…
to breathe…
to notice what’s actually going on beneath the urge to eat.
For many women, those moments of calm become the doorway
to understanding their relationship with food more fully —
not something that replaces deeper work,
but something that makes it possible.
This is why calm isn’t about fixing yourself.
It’s about creating safety.
And from safety, understanding can grow.
If you’re curious about what might sit underneath the patterns you’ve been living with —
and you want to explore that with compassion, science, and emotional support —
that next step is there when you’re ready.
🌿 You can begin (or continue) gently
inside my free 7-Day Healthy Habits Kick-Start.

💛 Link in first comment.

16/12/2025

I’ve written something that’s been sitting heavily with me.

It’s about poverty, nourishment, and mental health — and why blaming individuals for a system that makes survival harder misses the point entirely.

This isn’t theoretical for me.

I grew up in a single-parent household where money was tight. My mum worked relentlessly to keep things going, often going without herself so we didn’t. I started working at 13 to help bring in a little extra. We were helped along the way by the kindness of neighbours — small acts that made a big difference when the system didn’t.

That experience stays with you.

So when I hear narratives that suggest people are struggling because they’re lazy, irresponsible, or “making poor choices”, it jars deeply. Many families are working incredibly hard — often against the odds — just to get through the day.

This piece isn’t about politics.
It’s about humanity, context, and compassion.

If it resonates, I’d really welcome thoughtful conversation.

🌿 Link to blog in first comment

14/12/2025

Do your cravings feel louder when you’re tired, stressed, or overwhelmed?
You’re not imagining it.

For many women, cravings show up in the moments you’re running on empty —
when your body is searching for comfort, calm, or relief.

You don’t need stricter rules or more willpower.
You just need a way to pause long enough to feel steady again.

That’s why I created Calm the Craving — EFT Audio Pack 💛
A collection of soothing tap-along audios to help you ease chocolate and sweet-treat cravings in minutes — without guilt, pressure, or restriction.

Inside, you’ll get:
🎧 4 calming tap-along audios
📝 Printable tapping scripts
📘 Reflection workbook
🎥 Visual tapping guide
✨ Personalised tapping script-builder pack

If cravings have been feeling louder lately — especially heading into the festive season — this might be the compassionate, practical support you’ve been looking for.

👉 Link in the first comment
💛 You deserve calm and choice.

12/12/2025

You know that sinking feeling…
When you tell yourself “here we go again” — another Monday, another reset, another promise that this time will be different.

But here’s the truth no one ever told you:

👉 You’re not starting over.
You’ve never been “back at the beginning.”
You’ve been learning, trying, surviving, and navigating more than most people will ever see.

And if your attempts haven’t “stuck,” it’s not because you’ve failed.

It’s because the mainstream approach is built on:
• restriction
• pressure
• all-or-nothing rules
• and the myth that you just need more willpower

Yet if that approach really worked… you wouldn’t still be restarting.
In this week’s blog, I’m sharing why the old way keeps pulling you back into the cycle — and what actually works instead:

✨ approaches rooted in calm, not control
✨ habits built from understanding, not punishment
✨ a way forward that supports your whole self (mind, body, stress load, emotional world)

If you’re exhausted from “trying harder”…
If you’re tired of feeling like you should know how to fix this by now…
If you’re ready to step off the start–stop rollercoaster —

This one’s for you. 💛

👇 Read the full blog
(Link in first comment)

10/12/2025

If you’ve fallen out of your routine lately, please hear this:

You haven’t failed — you’re human.
Life gets full. Energy dips. Stress piles up.
And the habits you meant to keep can slide without you noticing.

But here’s the truth I wish more women heard:

✨ You’re never “behind.”
You’re never “starting over.”
You’re simply continuing — from where you are.

Every day offers a doorway back into caring for yourself.
Not through pressure.
Not through perfection.
But through one small choice that helps your body feel steadier.

If you’re longing to feel calmer, clearer, and more in control again,
you don’t need drastic changes.
Just a place to begin.

🌿 Inside my free 7-Day Healthy Habits Kick-Start,
you’ll rebuild simple habits that give you energy, ease, and confidence —
one day at a time, in a way that feels kind, not punishing.

💛 Link in first comment to join.

08/12/2025

💛 Imagine if cravings didn’t feel so loud.
Imagine if that familiar pull toward chocolate softened — not because you forced yourself to resist, but because your body finally felt calm again.

That’s exactly what the Calm the Craving – EFT Audio Pack was designed to help you do.

Here’s how life gets easier when you use these short, soothing tap-along audios:

✨ Cravings feel less urgent
Your body shifts out of stress mode, so the chocolate pull softens.

✨ You feel more in control
Not from “being good” — but from actually feeling calmer inside.

✨ Emotional triggers are easier to navigate
You start responding instead of reacting.

✨ You pause before acting
Just long enough to choose what you truly want.

✨ You stop relying on willpower
Because your nervous system is no longer overwhelmed.

If you’ve been wishing for a kinder, more supportive way to handle cravings — especially during busy, emotional seasons — this might be exactly what you’ve been needing.

🎧 Calm the Craving — EFT Audio Pack
💛 Instant access · £15
👉 Link in first comment.

07/12/2025

Why I Created Calm the Cravings 💛

I’ve lost count of the number of women who’ve said to me:
“I know what I should be eating… I just can’t seem to do it when I’m tired or stressed.”

In my NHS work and private practice, I kept seeing the same pattern:

• cravings spiking when women were exhausted, overwhelmed, or running on empty
• chocolate or sweet treats becoming the quickest way to feel better
• shame and self-blame creeping in afterwards – “I have no willpower”

But what I saw, again and again, is that cravings weren’t a character flaw.
They were a stress response – the body asking for calm, comfort, or relief.

I created Calm the Cravings – EFT Audio Pack as a way to support those moments in real life:
short, soothing tap-along audios you can use when cravings feel loud,
so you can pause, breathe, and feel more in control without relying on more rules.

If you’ve been wishing for a kinder way to handle chocolate and sweet-treat cravings,
this might be a helpful next step.

💛 Calm the Craving – EFT Audio Pack
🎧 Instant access · £15
👉 Link in bio

05/12/2025

Why does change feel so hard — even when you want it so much?

This week’s blog takes you behind the scenes of the work I do with women, and into the real reasons habits, routines, and “motivation” can feel impossible when you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and running on emotional empty.

Here’s the truth most women never hear:

✨ You’re not lacking discipline.
✨ You’re not “starting over” again because you’re weak.
✨ You’re not struggling because you don’t want it enough.

You’re human — and your system has been stretched thin for a long time.
In this new blog, I share:

🪶 Why women who care deeply still find habits hard
🪶 The quiet emotional burdens that make change feel heavier
🪶 How your body protects you (not sabotages you) during stress
🪶 The philosophy behind my 7-Day Healthy Habits Kick-Start
🪶 And why calm, not control, is where transformation actually begins

If you need a moment of reassurance, understanding, and clarity — this one’s for you.

👉 Read the full blog here (link in first comment)

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My passion is supporting women who get so down on themselves and at the end of their rope because they’ve followed one diet after another and still haven’t achieved the long term weight loss they’re looking for to reach a body weight they are truly happy with while enjoying real, nutritious, family-friendly foods. Transforming the way your body looks, feels and performs; body, mind and spirit. To live a life filled with energy and vitality to be fully involved in everything they love to do. Achieved from a renewed healthy relationship with food that allows your body to arrive at its natural weight, able to better fight off diseases like cancer, strokes, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. My approach to food comes from a place of enjoyment, creativity and simplicity; not a place of lack, starvation and deprivation like so many current, often expensive, dietary trends. I support you to adopt a balanced diet using real family friendly foods that produce steady weight loss that you can maintain over the long term. No expensive fad foods, drinks or pills As part of your unique solution, I want to understand your personal situation, lifestyle and preferences. Truly understand the difficulties and complexity of putting what you know about healthy eating into practice; for many, a lifetime of emotions and habits tripping them up along the way. My relaxed, professional style allows you to tell your story safely, building on your existing skills and knowledge to achieve your health and wellbeing goals. Together, we develop a practical, behavioural and nutritional approach that is tailored to your specific goals. I’m a HCPC registered Dietitian and advanced certified practitioner in Gold Standard Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT/tapping); a combination that gets results fast.