Natalie Anastasio Pescetti is a Certified Nutritionist and Nutrition Educator who specializes in helping her clients lead harmonious lifestyles with a intuitive eating based, whole, natural diet. Natalie works to bring her clients back to their ‘roots’ where they can draw upon the unlimited resources and internal energy that is available within them to achieve their health goals and their dreams. She wants clients to understand that they are not the failures - it is using a system of restrictive dieting and disempowering rules and regulations that is at the root of their challenges.
Natalie began her career in nutrition when she was 18, and first met the woman who would become her first nutrition mentor. She completed her 4 year internship underneath Sharon Reynolds, at her healing retreat The Luahuano Healing Center where she learned and implemented Sharon’s exclusive program for detoxification, emotional counseling and nutrition therapy with clients. It was here that she first began to understand that anything is possible, anything, including the healing of numerous diseases through lifestyle shifts and dietary awareness.
Her path then led her to Bauman College, where she studied with Dr. Bauman and his faculty. Her focus and specialty during this time was nutritional protocol for cardiovascular health and sexual health and developing programs for those with decreased vitality and desire. It was here that she adopted the Eating 4 Health model developed by Dr. Bauman in the 30 years of running his nutrition therapy clinic in the Bay Area. Natalie found it refreshing to find a accessible, inspiring, and exciting method of eating and educating that was free from corporate profit, food industry agenda or hippie dogma.
Natalie herself suffered from years of urinary tract infections, kidney infections, rashes, acne, and eventually an autoimmune disease of the bladder, Interstitial Cystitis. She also struggled with her weight, eating disorders and severe anxiety as a child and teenager. She found little relief from conventional treatment and modalities. Through her own research and avid rejection of surgery or prescription medications she found a way to be symptom free through nutritional therapy and lifestyle changes.
Natalie did not achieve a healthy and sculpted body by crunching numbers or becoming a nutrition fanatic. Nutrition helped but only got her so far. The missing puzzle piece was discovered when she began studying Intuitive Eating with Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD and Elyse Resch, MS, RD, FADA. As a result Natalie has coupled gentle nutrition with intuitive or awake eating to achieve a balanced lifestyle full of joy and confidence.
Natalie’s view of nutrition is not dogmatic. She is not a raw foodist, vegetarian, vegan, macrobiotic, or blood typing aficionado (although all of those perspectives can reap benefits, both health-wise and morally). She appreciates an open-minded, flowing form of intuitive eating, based on our own innate rooted knowing of what is best for us, and when. Her philosophy is one that is rooted in a holistic perspective, distinguishing what whole food, as close to nature as possible, is versus its common counterpart, processed food. She focuses on the investigation of our emotional make-up and how this may be contributing to underlying food issues and eating habits. Herein lies the magic of Natalie’s well-rounded nutritional programs. This holistic nutrition perspective applies current nutritional science and research, clinical application and voracious reading to stay up-to-date on the ever changing perspectives in the mainstream world, while never losing touch with the foundation - eating as nature intended, and acknowledging the power of our own internal experience.
Learn more about Natalie's Nutrition philosophy, and the base of her program here...