Valery Kallen, MS, RD

Valery Kallen, MS, RD · eating disorder recovery
· intuitive eating coaching
· weight-inclusive nutrition therapy
? We will never put you on a weight loss diet.

As weight-inclusive nutrition therapists, our mission is to help people unlearn diet culture, reconnect with their body’s innate wisdom, and rediscover the joys of eating. At Nourished Nutrition Therapy, we believe that everyone has the ability to heal their relationship with food and body, and we gently guide and support our clients through this process. We are strong allies of the fat positive movement and are aligned with Health At Every Size® (HAES) and Intuitive Eating frameworks.

Kids should be spending their summer playing, not sitting in a cage. PLEASE HELP 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 The organizations below are doin...
06/20/2018

Kids should be spending their summer playing, not sitting in a cage. PLEASE HELP 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 The organizations below are doing incredible work but they need money in order to fix this situation. Every dollar helps. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE.

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THERE IS A HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
HERE ARE WAYS TO HELP
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It’s been nearly two months since the Trump administration announced its new “zero tolerance” policy regarding illegal immigration, which federal officials say has led to over 2,000 immigrant children in government custody separated from their parents. Some families have been separated for months. Some parents have been deported without their children.

Here's a list of organizations helping children who've been separated from their families at the Texas-Mexico border:
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🌿RAICES
Free & low-cost legal services to immigrant children, families and refugees in Texas.
Accepting donations & volunteers. In addition campaign will donate $5 to RAICES for every postcard kids write to help separated immigrant children.
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🌿Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Raising money to provide immigrant children immediate shelter and beds, medical services, counseling & therapy to help them deal with the trauma of family separation.
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🌿Together Rising .rising
Raising money for advocacy groups working to reunify immigrant children & families.
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🌿Comfort Cases
Rraising money to provide backpacks to separated immigrant children containing blankets, pajamas, toiletries, stuffed animal, books, journals & art supplies.
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🌿The CARA Project
Recruiting attorneys, law students & paralegals with asylum work experience.
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🌿The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights
Looking for more child advocates to visit the immigrant kids inside detention centers weekly & accompany them to immigration proceedings. Also provides training to adults to become child advocates.
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🌿Kids In Need of Defense
Nationwide pro bono network to represent unaccompanied children through their immigration proceedings. No immigration law experience required.

Can you remember the first time you had a negative thought about your body?The first time you took a look at your stomac...
06/15/2018

Can you remember the first time you had a negative thought about your body?
The first time you took a look at your stomach, legs, arms and thought they weren’t good enough?
Recent research has shown that kids as young as 5 years old can become concerned with body image and start associating a thinner body as better. This increases if family members (esp. moms) have their own body image issues. 👉🏼Kids are hella perceptive.
I was a very skinny kid and didn’t hit puberty until I was about 15, so I was glaringly aware that my body wasn’t like the women on the magazine covers with hips and breasts. I barely even filled out a training bra - and was immensely self-conscious about it. Then came puberty and weight gain but not in the “right places” - suddenly I found myself thinking about why my pants from sophomore year weren’t fitting me.
No one told me this was normal.
Instead, I was told that I needed to start exercising because now I was becoming a woman and had to “watch my figure.”
That was womanhood, I supposed.
Junior year. I remember waking up and doing crunches every morning making me late for homeroom damn near every day. After school I would run laps around our yard like a maniac.
Senior year. I remember standing in front of the mirror and pinching. Posing. Pinching. Changing clothes 10 times, wishing I could just disappear.
It never crossed my mind that maybe my body wasn’t the problem. Maybe I didn’t have to devote all of my energy trying desperately to change it. Maybe I could just work on changing my thoughts.
I wish someone had told me.

Couple things...1. This is my new favorite lunch: avocado “huevos rancheros” on a thick toast 🥑🍞🥚🍅🧀2. Sunny ☀️ days wher...
05/30/2018

Couple things...
1. This is my new favorite lunch: avocado “huevos rancheros” on a thick toast 🥑🍞🥚🍅🧀
2. Sunny ☀️ days where I can eat outdoors and read for an hour are the best 📚
3. Please read anything that has written. Jes poured her soul out into and it brought me to tears several times. Her recent interview on podcast did as well. I’m just a puddle 😭
4. Read books by people in larger bodies who share their struggle. Fat stigma and discrimination are very real. The oppression that people in larger bodies face on a daily basis is very real - and no one deserves to be treated this way. It has to stop. And no, it’s not “their fault” - a common retort I hear from fat shamers. 📣Being fat isn’t a fault.
📣Being fat isn’t a problem.
People’s attitudes towards fatness, people’s assumptions about fatness, people’s judgements about fatness - these things are the problems. These things need to change. And we start to change by *LISTENING* to people in larger bodies and trusting them and their lived experience.
Jes, thank you for this book, for your other book and past writing, and for sharing your story with us for years. I’m thankful for you and your voice. You make a tremendous difference in people’s lives. ❤️🙏🏼

Love this artwork and post from and .nutrition 👌🏼👏🏼❤️ ・・・This doodle was inspired by a caption posted by the everso in...
05/30/2018

Love this artwork and post from and .nutrition 👌🏼👏🏼❤️

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This doodle was inspired by a caption posted by the everso insightful Amy (.nutrition):
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“I did some math yesterday - & if you are spending January through June trying to manipulate your body size/appearance for a 1wk beach vacation, you spend 50% of your year stressed out about a trip that is about 2% of your year - and let me tell you, you are worth self-care 100% of the time.” 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
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If we take a look at how we treat ourselves over the course of a year, we spend roughly half of the year trying to change ourselves, and the remainder feeling guilty for “falling off the wagon” & “overindulging” in all of the “temptations” of the holidays.
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So all-in-all, 1 year can become one big cycle of restricting and bingeing, with a sprinkle of dieter’s remorse...
However, there are small steps we can take to start slowing the cycle, and it begins with a little reflection, awareness, & forgiveness☀️
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Today’s challenge: take a minute to get deep & do a little self-reflecting 🤔
1) What are your priorities in life?
2) How do you plan to truly live to the fullest?
3) Most importantly, what kind of memories do you wish to create?

Breaking out of your comfort zone is never easy, but it’s even more difficult for anyone dealing with disordered eating/...
05/25/2018

Breaking out of your comfort zone is never easy, but it’s even more difficult for anyone dealing with disordered eating/an eating disorder.
Our ED brains hold us hostage with food rules and food fears, leaving little room for variety and spontaneity. And when we do forgo a rule and follow our cravings, the guilt and shame of going against our ED voice is overwhelming.
One thing I do with my clients is help them brainstorm Food Challenges - small ways to go outside their comfort zone and challenge their eating disorder’s rules. We usually come up with a handful for the week ahead.
Here are some examples, with varying levels of difficulty since everyone is coming from a different place in their recovery.
• Order regular fries instead of sweet potato fries 🍟
• Add a chocolate or candy topping to your fro-yo 🍬
• Have a candy bar (ie: Kit Kat, M&M’s) as a snack 🍫
• Use a creamy dressing on your salad 🥗
• Try a flavored yogurt instead of plain/adding your own fruit
• Buy a milk chocolate bar instead of the dark chocolate one that you force yourself to enjoy 😉
• Add a bag of potato chips to your lunch
• Eat something that you only allow yourself on weekends during the week (ie: a bagel for breakfast during the week)
What food rules has your eating disorder created?
How can you challenge just one of those rules today?
Remember that recovery is a series of
SMALL 🌻
BRAVE 💪🏼💕
CHOICES ✨
repeated over and over and over again.
What is one brave choice you can make today? 👊🏼💕🔥

📣PSA: You don't win a prize for eating the least amount of food groups. Unless the prize is LESS OPTIONS. 🏆☹️The prize i...
05/22/2018

📣PSA: You don't win a prize for eating the least amount of food groups.
Unless the prize is LESS OPTIONS. 🏆☹️
The prize is certainly NOT "more healthy" - because our bodies actually THRIVE on a variety of foods. 🥐🍌🥗🧀🍗🍟🍎🍩
I've been seeing WAY TOO MUCH of this bu****it:
"Check out my gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free, paleo, FODMAP-friendly ______ recipe." 🤯
I mean, C'MON. 🤦🏻‍♀️
Do we really need to qualify our recipes with THIS MANY EXCEPTIONS?
If you have even one 👆🏼medically necessary food exception due to a food allergy, that is already super limiting. But adding 3 more to the list, just because of "diet fads" is crazy restrictive - not to mention dangerous and unnecessary.
What this means is that you are likely...
- preparing all your own food
- buying all sorts of pricey ingredients
- avoiding social situations or having to bring your own meals to places
- feeling guilty whenever you crave foods that fall out of your self-imposed rules
- probably not meeting your energy needs and feeling hungry more often throughout the day
- possibly bingeing/feeling out of control around food on the regular
If any of the above resonates, hear me out:
You don't need to eliminate tons of food groups to obtain some sort of superior health status. THAT'S NOT HOW HEALTH WORKS. That's how driving yourself crazy or into an eating disorder works.
📣Less food groups just = less options, NOT better health.
If you want to be healthy, eat more foods, eat the foods your body is craving and enjoys. Eat foods that are satisfying and allow you to fully participate in LIFE! Don’t deprive yourself unnecessarily in the name of fake wellness. 🙅🏻‍♀️ YES I SAID IT: FAKE WELLNESS. FAKE AF.

I see so many so-called influencers peddling these bu****it products and it’s not only infuriating but insulting to my a...
05/22/2018

I see so many so-called influencers peddling these bu****it products and it’s not only infuriating but insulting to my and YOUR intelligence.
You do not need to suppress your appetite - you are a human and you are literally BY DESIGN required to eat in order to sustain life. And eat PLENTY.
You do not need to shrink down, down, down, disappear... in order to make these companies RICH.
Resist these cheap and dirty attempts to rob you of your sanity, your dollar, your worth. You’re better than that.
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YESSS 100% AGREED!👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼 ・・・I’m irritated that I’m writing ANYTHING in response to a Kardashian, but this matters: appe...
05/21/2018

YESSS 100% AGREED!
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I’m irritated that I’m writing ANYTHING in response to a Kardashian, but this matters: appetite suppression is life suppression.
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Our bodies tell us what they need. We need to be able to listen - even though would tell us not to.
A useful rule of thumb:
If diet culture suggests a ‘solution,’ give them a big thumbs down.👎
Choose something else to focus on. Practice being IN your body. Be a rebel. Don’t make your life small - take up space, make noise, know that you’re in good company.💛
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Happy Mother's Day to my Mama!! 💐❤️🌸☀️My mom always tells me the story of how she wanted a son... but instead got me. A...
05/13/2018

Happy Mother's Day to my Mama!! 💐❤️🌸☀️
My mom always tells me the story of how she wanted a son... but instead got me. And so it began, me never quite giving her what she wants, and her loving me anyway!
Over the years, if mama wanted me to go left, I would most certainly go right. I have always been an independent spirit, paving my own way. I am my mother's daughter.
It was my mama who decided to leave her entire life behind at 24, because she wanted a better life for our family. Her parents thought she was crazy. No one thought she would succeed. She did it anyway.
She left the Soviet Union with 4 year old me and my dad in tow, and somehow got us to the US. She didn't know the language. She didn't come from money. But she was a hard worker, an optimist, and a people person. I am my mother's daughter.
We are only 20 years apart. For most of my life, people thought she was my sister. She was the cool, young mom. She worked in fashion and watched Dawson's Creek with me and taught me how to apply eyeliner. I smoked my first and last cigarette with her.
But she was also the one person I could always always depend on, the glue who held our family together, sometimes working 3 jobs to pay the bills, commuting 4 hours each day so that I could live in a nice house with a yard.
There was never a problem she couldn't solve and I still call her first whenever I have a question, whether it's how to get a stain out, how to file my taxes, or just to vent about my life for an obscene amount of time. She always listens.
We are a Leo and a Scorpio. We are fiercely protective over each other and also have the unique ability to drive each other absolutely crazy. We love hard, we laugh a lot, we know how to push each others' buttons. We are a mother and daughter.
Thank you, mama, for always being my #1 supporter, shoulder to cry on, hand to hold, fellow dessert and fry lover, and beautiful person inside and out. I am SO lucky that you are mine and I LOVE YOU more than anything.
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perfectly captured everything I’ve been thinking about today.❤️ 👇🏼・・・It's Mother's Day here in the good ol' USA! Gentle...
05/13/2018

perfectly captured everything I’ve been thinking about today.❤️
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It's Mother's Day here in the good ol' USA! Gentle reminder that today can and will be a wonderful day for many, AND many others will struggle immensely.
If you struggle with this day, for any reason-I am thinking of you.
~If you lost your mother.
~If you don't have the hallmark relationship with your mother.
~If you lost a child.
~If you are struggling with infertility.
~If you have chosen not to be a mother and feel judged for that choice.
~If wanting to be a mom is one of your reasons to strive for recovery, but you are not there yet.
~If your mental illness makes you feel like a "bad mom."
~If your mental illness makes you feel like a "bad kid."
Breathe and remind yourself: You are worthy, you are seen. You are enough.
Thinking of you all today🌺🌸🌷🌼🌻🌹

Enjoying a much needed restful Saturday after a hectic week and was in the mood for pizza but not in the mood for leavin...
05/12/2018

Enjoying a much needed restful Saturday after a hectic week and was in the mood for pizza but not in the mood for leaving my apartment or changing out of my pajamas. Thankful that my favorite pizza spot delivers ❤️🍕 This is the Van Dammer: Brussels sprout, mozzarella, eggs, black pepper and truffle oil. Not pictured, side of shish*to peppers.👌🏼
Taking this day to relax, recharge, and process thoughts and feelings. Will probably take a walk at some point. Will probably also cry at some point. And all of this is ok.
Sending love to anyone having a rough time with life. These are the ebbs and flows. We can do this. ❤️

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