Beginning in July 2025, a 6 month mentorship to embrace….

Trauma-Informed Nutrition

This program marries somatics, self-connection, and food to deepen the relationship between nutrition, trauma recovery and health.

I can't imagine a greater gift than knowing how to navigate food.⁠

Food is a being. Food is the land. Eating is a relational, intimate experience.

Most of us with trauma know that we have ruptures with human relationships, but what about with the food we eat?

Seeing food as a powerful ally means experiencing how it can help us become embodied when experiencing stress or recovering from trauma, rather than as something we use to numb and avoid feelings.⁠

When you feed yourself…

Your body is learning about the land where that food comes from.⁠ It’s learning what nutrients it can use to support your life.⁠

And it’s learning what cannot be used, what you don’t need, or what might even harm you.⁠

Eating is a relational experience. It’s like a conversation between your body and the food.⁠

Notice this for yourself. Notice how it FEELS in your body when you haven't eaten, and then when you finally eat something that isn't steeped in sugar.⁠

Sometimes, managing stress and healing trauma is simply about maintaining healthy blood sugar levels.⁠ From there, your body will have more capacity to experience stress, disappointment, pain, and even joy.⁠

Instead of asking the questions: "What's wrong with me?" try to ask the question "When was the last time I ate?"

Over the course of this program, you will learn:

  • How your blood sugar, adrenaline, dopamine levels, and organ health are all impacted by your relationship to food.

  • To view nutrition through a somatic lens so you can use it as a tool to regulate your nervous system, emotions, and health.

  • To tell the difference between emotional cravings and the body's instinctual way to fill a nutritional need.⁠

  • Inflammation’s role in navigating your body’s NO and how to listen to it.

  • How trauma, culture, and family dynamics shape your eating patterns

6 months give us enough time to see and feel changes.

This group is for…

  • Anyone wanting to learn and practice how to stop soothing with food.

  • People who wish to gain or lose weight in a slow, sustainable, holistic way.

  • Individuals struggling with disordered eating who require a trauma-informed lens around nutrition that is non-dogmatic and non-judgmental.

  • Therapists and coaches who want to integrate nutrition into their trauma-informed work.

  • Nutritionists who wish to marry their practices with somatics and become more trauma-informed.

You don't need a lot of money to do this.

I don't obsess over superfoods or supplements.⁠

It’s the simplest choices and shifts in diet
which have the largest impacts.⁠

Monthly Overview…

Month 1:
The Somatics Of Food

We begin by slowing down, listening to the body, and learning how food impacts us. Not how it looks on a label, but how it feels once it lands.

You’ll be invited to notice how the body responds to the food you eat with curiosity and without judgment. This month invites you into a relationship with food that is more rooted in sensation rather than fear or control.

Month 2:
How Sugar & Caffeine Affect Your Adrenals & Nervous System

This month invites you to look at the ways we use stimulation like sugar & caffeine to keep moving when our bodies want to slow down. We’ll explore how these patterns impact sleep, mood, health, and capacity.

We’ll explore how these patterns shape your sleep, mood, and capacity, and introduce somatic practices that help you meet your body where it is, not where it “should” be.

Month 3:
Our Physical & Emotional Connection To Carbohydrates

Carbs carry more than calories. They often hold comfort, history, and a sense of safety. This month is about understanding how carbohydrates affect your blood sugar and emotions, while also exploring the deeper roles they play in your life such as soothing, anchoring, or distracting.

You’ll begin to relate to them in a new way, one grounded in clarity and care.

Month 4:
Fats, Oils, & Depressants

This month explores the way comfort lives in food, especially fats, and how that comfort can be nourishing or numbing.

You’ll learn how different types of fats influence inflammation, hormonal balance, blood sugar, and your ability to feel more stable over time. We’ll explore the contrast between whole, nutrient-rich fats that help the body repair and regulate, and processed fats that often create stress in the system.

Month 5:
Proteins & Balanced Meals

This month explores what it means to build meals that support emotional sobriety, not by removing pleasure, but by choosing what helps us stay.

You’ll learn how protein impacts your blood sugar, hormones, mood, and neurotransmitters, while also offering a deeper kind of structure: something to lean on when the emotional terrain gets tender or overwhelming.

Month 6:
Instinctive Eating

In this final month, structure softens and instinct begins to guide the way. After all the experimentation, reflection, and re-patterning, you’ll start to notice what your body reaches for—not from habit or fear, but from trust. Food becomes less of a system to manage and more of a relationship to tend.

July 8 - Dec 16

Program Calendar

6 months • 22 meetings

Most meetings are at 2pm EDT. You can view the full list of dates and times at the bottom of this page, in the FAQ section.

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I started working with Luis in 2014 after getting off of hormonal birth control and realizing my body was struggling to regulate naturally.

I am eternally grateful for all of the wisdom Luis shared at that time that has made me healthier, stronger and full of much more vitality.

A decade later, I know the foundation that he helped me lay keeps me feeling vibrant and healthier in my mid-40s than I ever did in my 20s. Having these habits and feeling so much more connected to my body and grounded has been transformational.”

— Holly Howard

You will receive:

  • 2 x 90-minute monthly meetings led by Luis

  • A monthly 1-hour Q&A w/ Luis

  • A monthly 1-hour integration session led by Camille

  • Weekly support on our private, online Circle forum.

  • Monthly, supportive video & written prompts.

  • Breakout time with other participants for more intimate, peer support.

  • a list of vetted 1:1 practitioners that apply somatics & nutrition to their practices.

  • Replays of all the sessions

6 Monthly Payments

$185

Pay in Full

$900

Who is Luis?

I once had a full-time private practice that was 100% nutrition based - way before I began studying and working with trauma.

I learned from this how biochemical our moods are and how much our blood sugar plays a part in our ability to think clearly, have capacity for difficult moments, and regulate after stressful events.⁠

In our house we have a rule that we discuss nothing of importance if we are hungry or tired.⁠

We see food as a powerful ally to help us become embodied when experiencing stress or recovering from trauma, rather than something we use to numb and avoid our feelings with.⁠

Working with Food Brings Resistance.

Fear of scarcity, rigidity with diets and guidelines, getting in touch with sensations that show up when we don’t soothe with food. All of this can be scary and hard. That’s why we’re doing it together, slowly.

I am a trained trauma therapist, and have personally recovered from a 15+ year eating disorder, so I know very well how triggering food can be. I will be holding this space with gentle care, compassion, and giving you lots of tools to hold yourself throughout.

Camille, our Community Manager, will be supporting you and answering your questions on Circle throughout the week. She’ll also be bringing some of those questions to the 1 hour Q&A.

FAQs

Rebuilding your relationship with food changes how your body experiences this Earth, this life, other people, and even itself.⁠

Understanding your food from a relational & somatic lens means you will learn the instinct of eating. You won’t need strict guidelines because your body will be your guide.

You won’t find yourself shaming or judging yourself into eating or not eating certain foods because you will truly understand the roots of your cravings and eating habits.

Together, we will begin repairing our relationship with food so we can see it for what it truly is: an ally, a friend, and a body that supports our bodies on this journey.