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It's time to find true body acceptance

I believe that TRUE BODY IMAGE HEALING happens in the mind and heart....not on the scale. I invite you to have a look around at the programs I’m offering, and let's get started together!

Client Love

"With Vanessa's kind, gentle and compassionate guidance, learning to come back to listening to my body, without judgement or rules, has been a truly wonderful experience (although at times challenging! There are many years to unravel!)"

Student of BFF: Body Image Edition

"Having a group of women show up every week and be vulnerable and fierce and supportive is something I will always cherish. That safety net was everything for me, while I was trying to change years of beliefs and rules."

BFF: Body Image Client

Ready to befriend your body?

In my body and food programs, I MEET YOU WHERE YOU ARE with compassion and curiosity. 

I’m not selling some self-help BS solution that’s quick and easy. I'm not selling a coaching program all about "just changing your thoughts". I don’t believe simply changing your thoughts is enough for true body image healing. It is a total mind, body and heart healing process.

My programs are trauma-informed where we gradually work towards:

A gentle kindness for your body at any size

Courage to be seen and engage in this one life

A stronger understanding of what sits beneath the body image distress and eating behaviours (anxiety, depression, trauma)

Creating safety in your body 

Helping you understand and engage in what a meaningful life looks like to you

Perhaps that's:

Going out with friends and enjoying the moment 

Moving your body in ways that bring joy like trying the new dance class

Learning to reconnect with your loved ones- whether physically or emotionally

Finally doing that thing that feels scary in your NOW body like a pottery class or that holiday you've been wanting

Finding peace with food without guilt, shame, rules and restriction 

Eating at a restaurant without anxiety about calories or macros

Finding courage to set boundaries in your life that serve you and your body


BFF: Body Image Edition

This is a DEEPER body image dive that equips you to make changes long after the program ends. In this 12-week program, you learn about self-compassion, shame resilience, connecting to your deeper self and your values and learn radical self-acceptance and unconditional kindness for your body AT ANY SIZE. This truly is the program I wish I had in my own healing, and I would feel privileged to have you join us.

BFF: Intuitive Eating Edition

Learn intuitive eating from 6 amazing experts in this online program! Intuitive eating is an evidence-based framework that has been shown to decrease negative self-talk, increase body satisfaction and decrease certain food behaviours, including binge eating. Start your journey towards less stress, MORE PEACE and more freedom with food!

Curious Method Masterclass

In this one-hour workshop, I teach my C-U-R-I-O-U-S acronym that I believe are necessary parts of finding peace with food and our bodies. I teach about the inner body critic, where this comes from and a 4-step process you can start implementing TODAY to shift from self-criticism to self-compassion. This lays the important foundation for further body image work and I would be honoured to have you join!

Cultivating Self Compassion Workshop

In my therapy and group work, I constantly hear women be cruel to themselves. This negative self-talk can lead to shame, avoiding people and places, physical discomfort, activating our stress response and keeping us in a loop of self-sabotaging behaviours. This is where self-compassion comes in and in my experience has been the most transformational practice for me and many of my clients, especially in moments of suffering and heartache. now more than ever, self-compassion is needed everywhere. And if you’re trying to make changes with food and your body image, this is imperative to your healing process.

HI THERE, I'M VANESSA PRESTON —

Girl, I’m sick of the world demanding that women shrink their bodies, take up less space and not be “too much”. I’m sick of a coaching space that offers these women toxic positivity or the idea that healing is a linear, quick process. As a down-to-earth therapist of 15 years, with lived experience with an eating disorder and body shame, I understand the complexities of healing. I know the process of body liberation requires more than just changing your thoughts. So I've created programs that understand this complexity to help women find true body acceptance and more peace with food.

Learn more about me here.