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About Whole Self Nutrition
Whole Self Nutrition was born from a simple but powerful belief: healing your relationship with food and body begins with healing your relationship with yourself. Our founder, Caroline Young, spent years navigating her own struggles with food and exercise, which brought her to finally do the the deep healing work that allows her to live with freedom today. Those experiences shaped her—not only personally, but professionally. After beginning her career as a journalist and yoga teacher, she felt called to learn about nutrition science, so she returned to graduate school to become a dietitian. Her path allowed her to blend her love of communication with a deep desire to help others find peace with food and their bodies.
In 2018, Whole Self Nutrition came to life as a safe, compassionate space for people who feel overwhelmed by dieting or eating disorders, disconnected from their bodies, and stuck in patterns of stress and shame around eating and exercise. Our online practice of four dietitians offers nutrition counseling that's trauma-informed and weight-inclusive, and rooted in mindfulness and self-compassion. We believe true wellness involves more than just nutrition — it encompasses emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
We support our clients in rebuilding trust and safety within their bodies and developing and nurturing sustainable nutrition and lifestyle habits, so they can live authentically and in alignment with their core values. There's no one-size-fits-all plan here. Instead, we meet you exactly where you are, honoring your story, your autonomy, and your lived experience.
At Whole Self Nutrition, our mission is to help you step out of cycles of restriction, guilt, obsession, and anxiety—and step into a life where food feels nourishing, movement feels joyful, and your relationship to your body feels peaceful.
We believe you deserve to feel at home in your body.
We believe freedom is possible.
And we’re here to walk alongside you every step of the way.
Media
At Whole Self Nutrition, we believe in expanding healing beyond one-on-one work by sharing accessible, compassionate, and evidence-informed nutrition and wellness education. Through our media work, we bring the Whole Self philosophy to broader audiences who are seeking clarity, support, and a more balanced approach to health.
Caroline, our founder, blends her background in journalism with her clinical experience as a dietitian to create thoughtful, non-diet, and trauma-informed content for publications, podcasts, webinars, and other media platforms. Her writing and speaking explore topics such as eating disorder recovery, intuitive eating, self-compassion, body image, mindfulness, and healing from diet culture — always with the mission to expose the truth, explain the science, and offer practical guidance and genuine encouragement.
Whether contributing to national media, partnering with brands and organizations, or providing expert commentary, our media work aims to inspire people to rethink wellness through a lens of curiosity, freedom, compassion, and whole-self care.
Yoga
We believe in the healing power of yoga and often integrate yoga and mindfulness tools and philosophy into nutrition counseling. Caroline also offers occasional yoga services—her offerings provide a gentle, trauma-informed space to reconnect with your body and calm your mind. Through mindful movement, breathwork, and grounding practices, she helps you cultivate body trust, inner safety, and self-compassion.
Depending on the season, she offers group classes, private sessions, and private group sessions—designed for all bodies and all experience levels. Each practice supports stress relief, nervous system regulation, and an intuitive relationship with movement.
