Hi there! I’m Lindsay – integrative dietitian, digestive health expert and wellness coach.

While I haven’t always been a nutritionist, I have always loved food. I was born on a farm in Kentucky, surrounded by a community of women whose gardens and kitchens bubbled with creativity, connection, and nourishment. I guess you could say it’s in my DNA.

However, I also had another love: design. For many years, I was a graphic designer and art director for companies like Wired Magazine and The Gap. It was a fast-paced career that fed my creativity but kept me on the go, sleeping too little and working too much. 

Unfortunately, I was also cursed with a dangerous combination of a “weak stomach” and a serious type-A personality. As you may have guessed, it wasn’t long before I hit my first speed bump…

Inflammatory Bowel Disease was the diagnosis – and it radically changed my life.

I lost 25 pounds. I started taking powerful medications. My relationship hit the rocks. I had to take a leave from my job. I couldn’t even leave the house for several months.

I was in my early twenties, and my life sang like a bad country song. I knew there had to be more that I could do to take charge of my health.

I enrolled at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition to try to better understand how my food and lifestyle choices might be contributing to my situation. Through personal experimentation, I began to see the power my choices had to either aggravate or alleviate my symptoms. I discovered that food is not only delicious: it’s also powerful.

Once I had a taste for what was possible, I knew I had to dig deeper. In true Lindsay fashion, I dug WAY deeper: tackling a post-bac pre-med program and ultimately completing a master’s degree in clinical nutrition and becoming an RDN (Registered Dietitian Nutritionist.)

I learned about the healing power of food – and also that it’s not just about the food.

What did I discover? That there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to wellness, and that small changes have the power to create huge transformation.

Would I say I’ve “cured” myself? Nope. Sometimes all of my self-care strategies are still no match for my disease. For me, wellness is a balancing act and constantly evolving process. What I eat and how I digest is influenced by my emotional state, life events (sometimes out of anyone’s control), how active I am, sleep, stress levels, and more.

But over time, I have developed a boatload of strategies, recipes, and tools that keep me feeling great most of the time, and help me back on the road to wellness more quickly when I do get sick.

Most of all, I have learned to always come home to my body as a trusted friend and powerful resource, and to ask her what she needs each day rather than relying on a rigid or prescribed set of practices or foods.

And I’m constantly learning – devouring the latest research, collaborating with other healthcare practitioners, attending and speaking at conferences, and noting what works (and what doesn’t) for me and for my clients. Trust me, if you’ve heard of it, I’ve either tried it personally or researched it extensively.

Over the course of this journey, I have worked in a myriad of settings, from integrative concierge medical practices to one of the top integrative medicine and research institutions in the world. Along the way I even ran the nutrition department at a large community nutrition non-profit. I have relocated from the Bay Area to Boston, worked through new health-crises and ongoing fertility and pregnancy-loss struggles, and had an incredible little boy and girl.

Through all of this, I have held a special place for Feed Health. This practice is also my baby — what started as a health-coaching practice over 15 years ago in San Francisco has evolved into so much more.

It truly has been an incredible road.

With my five Feed Health principles, I can help you take charge of your health, learn to listen to, trust, and feel at home in your body, and create a nourishing lifestyle that feeds and fuels you completely; body, mind, and soul.

So now my only question is: how can I help you?