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.
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Instead of labeling food as good or bad, we’ll learn how to track its effects in real time. We’ll also explore cravings and how to receive them as messengers.
Throughout the month, we will explore simple somatic practices that can be used as tools or resources in your journey with food, and support you as deeper stories may emerge, e.g. childhood patterns, family beliefs, addictive behaviors, shame.
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.
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You will get the chance to experiment with simple nutritional shifts that can help you feel more stable and less reactive.
As we experiment with different levels of stimulation, the body may experience what lives underneath it: exhaustion, old feelings, grief, emotional edges softened by food and urgency. These are natural responses. Your body is starting to speak more clearly.
This month is not about detoxing. It’s about tuning in.
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.
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This month continues with experimenting, and you’ll begin to ask: Which carbs support me in staying connected?
Rather than cutting carbs out, you’ll learn simple ways to slow down glucose spikes and help your meals feel more like a tide pool than a tsunami.
As your body comes into balance, you’ll start exploring what you’re actually reaching for when you crave carbs. From there, you may gently expand your options, offering the body new ways to feel nourished.
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.
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Fats are often what we reach for when we want to feel held. Creamy, rich foods create a soft, temporary landing for the nervous system. This month, we honor that impulse and then explore what else it might be pointing to.
At the same time, we gently untangle stories you might’ve inherited around body fat, softness, and shame. Many of us were taught to judge or fear comfort and to associate it with laziness or weakness. But your longing to be comforted is sacred. This month is an invitation to meet that longing with more kindness and care.
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.
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We’ll explore the difference between animal and plant proteins, how to combine foods for optimal support, and how to create balanced meals that stabilize rather than spike. Whether you eat animal products or follow a plant-based diet, this month offers flexible tools to help you find your own rhythm with nourishment.
Food can become a form of care that keeps you connected, not overstimulated or shut down. A new kind of sobriety begins to take shape here. One that supports our capacity to stay present even when it’s hard, and finding steadiness through nourishment instead of escape.
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.
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You may begin to sense what your body wants—not because it fits a plan, but because it feels right. A craving might sound less like a demand and more like a whisper.
We explore food as relationship. We’ll also practice digesting in a new way.
This final month is not about mastery. It’s about remembering that your body already knows. And now, after all this space and support, the body can be a friend.
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
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All sales are final, no refunds nor cancellations.
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The next group is planned for July 2025. Meetings in bold are group meetings, and others are noted as Q&A meetings are with Luis, and integration meetings are with Camille. (Dates subject to change).
July 8th @ 2pm
July 17th @ 3pm (Integration)
July 22nd @ 2pm
July 29th @ 2pm (Q&A)
Aug 5th @ 2pm
Aug 14th @ 10am (Integration)
Sep 2nd @ 2pm
Sep 9th @ 2pm (Q&A)
Sep 16th @ 2pm
Sep 19th @ 2pm (Integration)
Sep 23rd @ 2pm
Oct 7th @ 2pm (Q&A)
Oct 14th @ 2pm
Oct 23rd @ 10am (Integration)
Oct 28th @ 2pm
Oct 31st @ 12pm (Q&A)
Nov 11th @ 2pm
Nov 20th @ 10am (Integration)
Nov 25th @ 2pm
Dec 2nd @ 2pm (Q&A)
Dec 9th @ 2pm
Dec 16th @ 10am (Integration)
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No. This is about curiosity and education - and is not meant to diagnose or cure any illnesses.
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Please note that this program is a public program, meaning the material is not curated for any one individual, but can be applied to many. If you are seeking more direct attention, please consider working with someone 1:1 while taking this program.
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A blend of somatic experiencing, coaching, self-inquiry, and group sharing.
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Each meeting is recorded & everyone has access to replays.
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.