“I have a LOT of food allergies and don’t have much cooking talent, so I can never seem to get full in a day. I appreciate Maddy’s ability to hear my roadblocks (there feel like a million), and her help me find actual, do-able, things I can buy and prepare quickly.

Just a few days into trying her ideas, and I already have a bit more energy to be friendly to people.I also noticed feeling more playful in my body as I tried new things out at the gym. I am feeling grateful for these incremental changes that will help my body feel better.”

“Emily is the Founder of Embodied health and my perspective is her as my eating disorder dietitian while going through PHP treatment as well as out patient. Quite frankly, Emily saved my life. I was a long term yo yo dieter which turned into a binge eating disorder at a very young age and then as I got older, information fueled a year of orthorexia.

By the time I met Emily my BED had taken over my life and I was at a low, quite honestly not wanting to continue on. She was the first dietitian to see me and not my body. She was dedicated to my recovery at an early onset. I used recovery record with her and when I posted a difficult meal, she would respond quickly to encourage me. She made me feel safe while also helping me hold space for ED thoughts.

She's well-educated, emotionally intelligent, and passionate about what she does. Those of us in fat bodies, shamed by dietitians in the past, or fearing of being judged by being honest...that stops at Emily's practice. I highly recommend and can't thank her enough for what she's done for me!”

“Emily is a godsend, and one of the main reasons I've continued eating disorder recovery this long… She has answered my ridiculous, eating disorder motivated questions with scientifically backed answers, sat with me in uncomfortable silence when I didn't want to participate in sessions, and pushed me to consider why I held the beliefs about food/body/eating that I do.

What has most stood out to me is the way that Emily walks the line of what we should talk about to further my recovery whilst giving me agency in when I talk about those things. I made it clear at the onset of working with her that I do not trust dietitians, and she changed that. Do I enjoy talking about challenging things? No. Am I willing to do it with Emily? Yes, and it's pretty neat to have that space.

Emily cares about the work that she does and her clients' lives beyond the problems that bring them to her. She is responsive to messages and is willing to provide support in any way she can. I am incredibly thankful to have her on my treatment team.”

“I have nothing but appreciation and respect for Emily. She has been with me for basically the entirety of my ED recovery (almost 2 years now) and had been such a bright light is what can be a very scary and intimidating process.

She processes my feelings, experiences, behaviors with me without judgement and provides a safe space allowing me to feel seen and heard. She is able to meet me where I am at, every time. I can wholeheartedly say that she has been one of the key players in my transition down the right path and away from my ED.

I have referred many family and friends to her for both people looking for more basic nutrition and health consulting and for those with more involved disordered eating looking to heal their relationship with food and their body. If you need a push to reach out - let this be it! You won't regret it.”

Maddy has been one of the most impactful people on my journey to heal my relationship with food, and also through this process what has emerged as a deeper overarching journey to heal my relationship with myself.

Maddy has an incredible ability to communicate in a way where information and insights connect and resonate on several different levels, whether it’s in a way where my brain can put everything together intellectually, or in way where I can emotionally process everything from a more intuitive heart space. Finding that balance during our sessions is something that she excels so wonderfully at.

Through our sessions, I’ve been able to develop broader internal language and awareness to help me process what I am inwardly experiencing or intuitively feeling. Thoughtful questions help to challenge preconceived notions or previously held beliefs in regard to my relationship with food. She has helped to facilitate self-reflective questions that help me to go a little bit deeper, to ask the difficult questions or maybe just different questions that I hadn’t thought to ask, to give myself the honest answers, and to bring me back to a grounded sense of self that goes beyond how I had previously measured myself in the mirror or on the scale.

There are so many meaningful ways that she’s helped that really can’t be measured. In each of our sessions, she not only helped me to navigate challenges but also reminded me to celebrate the successes, and she was always there cheering me on even when I didn’t see or feel it from within.

When I look back on my time and experience working with Maddy I am always going to remember what an important role she played in helping me to build a more positive relationship with food and ultimately with myself, and I’ll always be grateful to her for that.

-ST