We help you build your internal food compass to become confident, empowered, and graceful in your nourishing food choices. You’ll FEEL the difference within a matter of days; and we don't involve the scale. Scales are for fish.
We believe in health-enhancing food and nutrition behaviors and choices, Intuitive Eating (TM), Mindful Eating, and pursuing nutrition and health changes in ways that are joyous and meaningful for YOU.
Meet the Essence Team
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Monica Auslander Moreno
MS, RD, LD/N
@eatlikemonica
Michele Alonso
MS, RDN, CSOWM
@eatlikemichele
Beatriz Pola Rabassa
MS, RDN, CEDS
Your Essence Experience
Our hospital-trained dietitians have helped thousands of people enjoy an approach to wellness and health that creates nutritious and joyous eating habits to provide you with tools and strategies to help you create a healthy, positive, confident, and sustainable approach to food, nutrition, and your own body.
The best way to get started is by booking an initial nutrition assessment with a team dietitian. We also have psychotherapists on staff trained in various modalities related to nutrition we find are very helpful for our clientele and produce more meaningful outcomes. You can work with them alongside or independently from your Essence dietitian. They work with clients on everything from general mental wellness to anxiety, depression, trauma, and eating disorders.
After each visit, you’ll receive a detailed customized visit summary and have the opportunity to log photos and descriptions of your daily meals with your dietitian’s daily support in between sessions in our secure mobile application. This service is complimentary for two weeks with your initial assessment, and is a monthly a la carte service thereafter.
Praise
“LOVE LOVE LOVE! The Essence Team approaches nutrition in a holistic yet researched based way. Say goodbye to dieting and hello to nurturing your body and soul. After my consultation, Monica sent me a recap of everything we went over and included like 20 recipes !!! I fully recommend the Essence Team”
“Essence Nutrition is the best!! They helped me establish a healthy relationship with food and gave me the tools I needed to achieve my goals without crazy, restrictive diets. Much more sustainable than any other approach I’ve tried!“
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Why Essence Nutrition?
We understand that you may feel overwhelmed and confused with so much food-related information. Sometimes it is quite difficult to know where to begin. At Essence Nutrition, we will provide you with a customized and concierge nutritional experience that moves at your pace and honors your body and lifestyle. We know food is sacred and means different things to different people; we’ll honor that. Out dietitians and psychotherapists are meticulous, compassionate, motivating, caring, and a lot of fun!
We can't wait to work with you!
Corporate Nutrition
Wellness Wonders. The dietitians are IN…. the office! Our corporate nutrition philosophy honors the individual’s right to pursue health in a way that is joyous and meaningful to who they are (their *essence*) as guided by our clinical prowess as we engage clients both in a physical and mental metamorphosis to feed their essence™. While we treasure our private clients and the life-changing work we do with them in our offices, and virtually, we wanted to disseminate our passion, philosophies, and strategies for nutrition change to companies and organizations to educate, empower, and inspire working professionals en masse to nourish and transform their lives through food.
IDENTIFY PAIN POINTS
Locate the endemic problems in the organization with respect to nutrition.
TAILOR PROTOCOLS
Enter the nutrition SWAT team hatching dynamic programming for sustainable, customized, scaleable and enjoyable nutrition change that honors your company’s size, demographics, culture, and specific needs/requests.
STAY AGILE
Respond with flexibility to stay current and valuable to your company with programs that transcend time, management changes, and a thousand packets of artificial sweeteners that will no longer be in the office pantry.
Menu Consulting
Menu Magic.
Essence Nutrition is pleased to offer restaurant and meal delivery nutrition consulting services as well. There is tremendous pressure for restaurant establishments to accommodate guest demands for nutrition while dining out. Investing in a dietitian in order to build menus that offer healthy options, cater to dietary restrictions, accommodate food allergies, and still taste delicious allows organizations to fulfill and stay one step ahead of the dynamic consumer demand landscape. Many states are even moving toward mandatory nutrition fact labeling on menus.
Essence Nutrition for Schools
Monica principally meets with stakeholders in the program to develop pillars and themes that represent the essence of the school in order to design a custom curriculum. Monica recommends separate faculty, parent, student modules. Student modules are divided into younger elementary (grades K-2) and older elementary (grades 3-5). Middle and high school-appropriate content is available as well. Each younger student seminar (K-8) involves a hands-on activity as well as a didactic presentation. All work focuses on ptimizing growth and development from belly to brain, fostering confident attitudes in relationships with food, and building a lifetime healthy relationship with food with a natural inclination towards nutrient-dense choices.
Sample themes include:
- Body Kindness and Respect
- Cultural Nutrition Appreciation and Food Competence
- Nutrient Density
- Sustainability and Environmental Kindness
- Physiological and Psychological Growth and Development
Essential Living
from the blog
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Real Recipes
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