Bodyish is here to support individuals and communities in questioning diet-culture’s harmful narratives. Through education, conversation, and reflection, we invite people to explore
a more peaceful relationship with food, movement, and their bodies.
Our mission goes beyond individual healing to challenge the societal norms that shape how we relate to food, movement, and our bodies, to create a more just and equitable world for every body.
who we are
Janelle Zwarych is an Intuitive Eating and anti-diet culture educator whose work is rooted in her own journey of healing from diet culture. With a background in psychology and nonprofit leadership, she is passionate about supporting people in building a more peaceful relationship with food, movement, and their bodies.
Selma van Halder is an educator, chef, and anthropologist with a background in food systems education for both children and adults. She’s spent the past decade building capacity in small businesses and non-profits. She firmly believes that food serves as a powerful vehicle for joy, connection, and learning.
“Making peace with your body is your
mighty act of revolution.
It is your contribution to a changed planet where we might all live unapologetically
in the bodies we have."
-Sonya Renée Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love.
WORK WITH US
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Are you ready to lift the veil of diet culture and learn more about all the -isms at its base? Have you noticed that “thin is in” again, and do you have questions? We offer tailor made anti-diet culture education for individual or group settings, and for all ages.
Example of our offerings for your brain:
From Restriction to Resistance: Building a Peaceful Relationship with Food Through Intuitive Eating
This 1.5 hour group session offers valuable insights for anyone interested in pushing back against the systems that profit from body insecurities and equate thinness and food choices with virtue. The principles of intuitive eating provide not just a personal path to a peaceful relationship with food and the body, but a lens through which we can critically examine and resist the harmful narratives imposed upon us by diet culture.
Chat with us if from Restriction to Resistance sounds like a good fit for your next community event.
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Our individual offerings are for those of you looking to forge a path toward a peaceful relationship with food and with your body. If you feel like you can’t trust your body, like the messages around health are conflicting, or if you’re feeling burnt out by diet culture, this is the place for you.
Our offerings for you include:
1-1 Intuitive Eating and body image coaching
Cohort work
Bodyish Retreats
Reach out for information around coaching package pricing, and to schedule a 15min introductory chat!
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Do you spend time in medical, educational, or wellness spaces? Have you wondered how those spaces could be more welcoming to all bodies? We offer services for these spaces, from small fitness businesses to big universities. We can help you navigate the road to a weight neutral approach.
Our offerings for your business or institution include:
Professional development courses
Weight neutral space scans & consulting
Inclusive food policy creation
Lunch & Learns
We build each engagement around your space, people, and goals. Get in touch to learn what that looks like for you.
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"Instead of seeing my body as something to be fixed and food as something to be earned, I now appreciate my body for its strength and capability, and enjoy food for the nourishment and joy it provides.
—Coaching Client
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"You’ve changed the way I see the world, and taught me so much about the fat phobic messages that we don’t even realize we’re carrying."
—Client
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“The most valuable part of the workshop was learning about the role of the patriarchal misogynistic economic complex that created diet culture and how it has negatively impacted our ability to eat intuitively.”
—Workshop Participant