Faye Shedletzky at Align Within Therapy

Intuitive Eating Counselling Services in Nanaimo, BC

Find A Path to Peace.

The Intuitive Eating counselling services at Align Within Therapy strive to help you develop and maintain a peaceful and pleasurable relationship with food and body image. We provide our Intuitive Eating counselling services both from my clinic in Nanaimo, BC, and via online sessions. Connect with me, Faye Shedletzky, to learn more about our Intuitive Eating counselling services or to schedule a consultation.

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What Is Intuitive Eating?

You are someone who most people would see as having their life together.  But instead of feeling good and enjoying your life, you find yourself spending a lot of your day thinking about food, eating (or not eating!), how you can change your body or feeling self-conscious. Strategies and plans work for a while (or so it seems), then you find yourself in a worse place than where you started.  You look around at others and think it’s so much easier for them and there must be something wrong with you for not being able to do this.    

 

For many of us who have done a lot of self-healing and internal work it can be extremely frustrating to still have lots of concerns about our body, weight, food and eating.  You make a commitment to take better care of yourself (again!) and very soon after you find yourself eating the things you promised yourself you wouldn’t. So confusing and frustrating!  A critical part of you shames you to do better and try again, a defeated part of you gives up for a while and indulges while you have the chance, or a ‘figuring it out’ part of you anxiously searches again for a better way to deal with all this.  

 

I want to tell you something that may feel hard to believe - this is not your fault.  There is nothing wrong with you.  You don’t lack will power.  You, like the rest of us, have grown up in a culture that tells you that being in a larger body is wrong and shameful. It makes sense that parts of you believe this.  You have seen people in larger bodies be judged harshly and discriminated against, so it makes sense that parts of you would want to avoid this at all costs.   And even if you know intellectually that diet culture and weight stigma are deeply flawed (and it might even make you really mad), parts of you may very much want to continue to try and fix your body and diet. I get that.  

 

About Our Intuitive Eating Counselling Services

In IFS therapy, you and I will  make space for you to turn toward and listen to all parts of you that have something to say about food and your body.  Parts of you have been burdened with beliefs (e..g,”I should do everything on my own” or “I need to look a certain way” ) or feelings (e.g., disappointment, shame).  When you begin to offer these parts of you attention and care and address their fears, they can release their burdens and transform into a resource for you. 

 

Intuitive Eating (IE) is a great resource for helping parts of you understand the impact of diet culture and weight stigma, help you learn how to reconnect with the needs of your body and make peace with food, to name a few of the guiding principles. It’s important to know that Intuitive Eating is not a “eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full” diet.  It’s a supportive framework for attuning to your body and caring for your body in a way that makes sense for you.  Together IFS and intuitive eating can help you move towards peace and inner ease, or at least some neutrality, around food, eating and your body.

 

I'm Faye Shedletzky, an Intuitive Eating counsellor providing compassionate services both in-person in Nanaimo, BC, Canada, and via online remote counselling sessions. Get in touch today to learn more and to schedule a consultation. I look forward to hearing from you!

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We would be a good fit to work together if 

 

  • you are willing and curious (or willing to be curious!)
  • you are ready to embrace the wisdom of your body
  • you have a longing to be seen as able and competent, instead of broken
  • you are open to the idea that you can become an agent of your own healing

 

For more information about my practice, my rates, and to find out if we'd be a good fit, visit my FAQ page.

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In particular, we’d be a great fit if:

 

  • You identify as a highly sensitive person or an empath.
  • You feel overwhelmed by anxiety or self-doubt too often.
  • You find yourself pleasing others and then feeling resentful that your needs are not being met.
  • You find yourself in a caregiving role and feel depleted and burnt out.
  • You get caught up in trying to get everything done perfectly and 'do good' or 'be good', even when you know you are holding yourself to an impossible standard. 
  • You are wanting to have stronger relationships, where you can be accepted for who you are.
  • You wonder if experiences from your past might be holding you back from living the life you want.
  • You have a deep longing to be heard and understood, and to understand yourself.
  • You have a complicated relationship with food and your body.
  • You find yourself using food to manage painful emotions. 
  • You have lots of good ideas of what might help you feel better and feel frustrated by self-sabotage.
  • You are seeking someone finely-attuned to support and accompany you in your transformative journey. 

What My Peers Say...

I am privileged to have known Faye Shedletzky for about 10 years and can witness to her beautiful Spirit and the extraordinary way she deeply connects with people.  She seems to know how to get right to the heart of what me or others are trying to express, and connects so beautifully with Love, unconditional acceptance, and deep wisdom.

 

ANNE MORRISON, MSW, RSW
THERAPIST, SUPERVISOR, AND TRAINER

Faye is a conscientious, compassionate and experienced practitioner that meets you where you are at and works from a holistic perspective. I highly recommend working with her!

CANDY WIDDIFIELD, M.ED,
REGISTERED CLINICAL COUNSELLOR & REGISTERED REIKI MASTER TEACHER

I have had the privilege of doing inner emotional work with Faye.  She is a gifted, intuitive guide who helps me sort my feelings.  Sacred listening is always evident as she skillfully supports me to follow a strand of energy I would otherwise have missed.  Faye has a wealth of tools in her tool belt including Tapping (EFT), Family Systems and much more.  I am so grateful for her inner wisdom.

Faye's gentle nature is so appreciated as she invites me to be curious about the feelings that show up.  I trust her implicitly.  I feel blessed and empowered after a session with Faye.  I am so grateful for every opportunity to work with her.  She is a exceptional guide.  I highly recommend her to any one ready to do their inner healing work.

JUDY M. EDUCATOR AND ENERGY WORKER

There is something about Faye, a kind of purity of heart, that never fails to stir greater kindness in me, and which stays with me long after we have talked. I am a better person through knowing Faye.

JANET BEGGS, REGISTERED CLINICAL COUNSELLOR

Faye has such a beautiful capacity to hold space in a grounded and caring way. She is understanding and wise, and can make sense of how things fit into the big picture. She also walks her talk. I appreciate being able to trust and rely on Faye as a competent, kind, and authentic professional!

GEMMA A., CANADIAN CERTIFIED COUNSELLOR



"IT IS ONLY WITH THE HEART...

"...that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the human eye." 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery