I have been working on a pretty big and secret project for the past few months and I’m finally ready to share it with you! I am creating a non-diet PCOS membership. And if you are reading this when this podcast episode goes live on April 3rd then you have the opportunity right now to enroll as a founding member!
Before we jump into details, a few things you should know:
- Enrollment information is up everywhere (website, IG, Show notes)
- Enrollment for founding members is open from April 2-11, 2024.
- These show notes include what it means to be a founding member.
This membership is called the Nourished with PCOS Collective. Click here to join!
About The Nourished with PCOS Collective
The Nourished Collective is a non-diet membership that will help you reduce PCOS symptoms through gentle nutrition without restrictive diets or food noise.
It can be really hard to find resources to help you manage PCOS without dieting while protecting your relationship with food. Especially if you either don’t want to focus on shrinking your body OR you wish that you didn’t focus so much on your weight.
You’ve probably experienced these scenarios:
- Your doctor is just telling you to lose weight or come back when you want to get pregnant
- You pop into reddit or a Facebook group and it’s just all dieting and people complaining about things
- Even looking at recipes or meal ideas for PCOS, they are usually full of diet culture language or they’re all about how to lose weight
- Maybe even your friends or family don’t really understand what PCOS is, or how to manage it, and they’re kind of stuck in diet culture too
It can feel really lonely!
And that is exactly why I am creating this membership!
This membership is going to be a place where…
- A place where you can come and have a community that isn’t full of restrictive nutrition advice and diet culture.
- A place where you can learn practical tips on how to apply gentle nutrition to your eating habits with PCOS.
- A place where you feel supported if you want to manage PCOS but you also want to protect your relationship with food, you want to quiet that food voice in your head, you want to be able to enjoy food and enjoy baking and things like that.
- A place where not every single thing is about dieting and weight loss.
Let’s talk about the logistics of what is included in the membership and what it means to be a founding member!
The Nourished with PCOS Collective is a monthly membership. That means that you can join on a monthly basis and cancel at any time. There’s no long-term commitment. There’s an option to join on an annual basis as well for a bit of a discount if you know you want that long-term support.
Here is what is included in the membership:
#1 A non-diet virtual PCOS Community – NOT on facebook.
This is where you can come in and get support for your PCOS. The group is moderated by me and my team. We are here to answer your PCOS wellness or nutrition questions and to just support you. You can also use this community to connect with and chat with other people with PCOS who want to improve their PCOS symptoms without dieting.
#2 My non-diet framework for managing PCOS without restricting food.
So I think there are a lot of great non-diet resources out there and the intuitive eating book is great as well, but these types of resources don’t specifically address PCOS and nutrition for PCOS. So that leaves you feeling like – okay this is great, but how do I apply this non-diet information in a practical way to ALSO improve my insulin resistance, or reduce fatigue, or lower my A1c, or improve my fertility? So when you join, that is the first thing you’re going to learn.
I also find that when we’re working on letting go of dieting, but you’re kind of doing it on your own without someone who is trained in this area, sometimes we just kind of skim the surface of letting go of that diet mentality. And that makes sense because this work involves A LOT of undoing, and that’s hard to do by yourself. And it leaves you in this place where you wish that weight loss wasn’t as important to you but you keep finding yourself coming back to that headspace. Or you can’t wrap your head around how to focus on things like managing blood sugar or getting your period back without focusing on weight loss. And this membership is going to help you work through all of that!
So when you join, you are going to be guided through my framework that teaches you how you can reduce symptoms without that diet mentality, without restricting food, and without all of that food noise that goes on when you’re dieting.
#3 PCOS Nutrition Library
This is your one stop shop for resources for all things related to PCOS and nutrition or wellness. So you can search the library for whatever it is you feel like you need.
Maybe you’ve listened to podcasts or your favorite social media person has given you information like pairing carbohydrates with fat and protein, or adding fiber, but you’re not quite sure what that means. Or that feels kind of ambitious. Or you don’t really know how to implement that. This is what this library is for. It’s giving you tangible tools. So if you need to eat cereal in the morning but you want to balance blood sugar also, that’s there for you. If you’re looking for ideas of how to pair certain foods, that’s there for you. If you have a question about supplements, or how to eat regularly if you also have ADHD, that info is there for you.
#4 Live calls
This is something that we are going to be experimenting with in the beginning with our founding members to see what you want and like, but in the beginning, we’re going to be varying offering a few different types of calls. One is a support call with me where you can ask questions, or if you don’t have a question specifically then you can listen to other questions or the discussion going on in the live chat.
And then the other types of calls that we’ll be trying out are masterclasses where you’ll be learning about specific topics. I would love to bring in guest speakers if that is of interest to you, to talk about topics like mental health, or body image, or whatever you request. And all of these calls will be recorded if you can’t make it live.
This membership offers SO much value and I’m so excited that enrollment for founding members is open.
What does it mean to be a founding member?
Right now I’m offering a special founding member’s rate and this will be the lowest enrollment price that the membership will ever be. This will also be your price forever. So when I increase the price in the future, you’re still always going to get this founding member rate.
A founding member means that you’re going to have the VERY FIRST opportunity to see the membership material as it’s released and give individualized feedback. So if there’s something specific that YOU want to see, whether it’s a specific food example or a topic that you want covered, I will be happy to add it for you (as long as it falls under the non-diet umbrella).
So again enrollment for founding members is only open until Thursday, April 11th.
Who this membership is for and who it’s not for?
This membership is for you if:
- You want to learn how to reduce PCOS symptoms and lower labs without diet culture or restricting foods.
- You want to feel more at peace with having PCOS and feel more at peace with food and nutrition.
- You want to work towards having more acceptance of yourself and your body, and you want to treat yourself with more compassion.
- You would love a community where conversations aren’t around dieting and weight loss.
Who is this membership NOT for you if:
- You’re a professional who is looking to gain more knowledge working with PCOS clients and patients. This is actually written in the terms and conditions of the program that you agree to when you join. And I do offer pcos supervision so please feel free to reach out to me.
- You want to diet and you do not have a desire to move away from dieting or if your goal right now is to actively pursue intentional weight loss.
- You have another health condition outside of PCOS and what you’re looking for is support primarily with that other health condition.
- You’re not open to using weight inclusive and gender inclusive language.
- Hearing other people talk about nutrition or health would be triggering or distressing to you.
So those are all of the deets. I’m so excited! I’m pouring my heart into this membership right now so it is the way to work with me for nutrition. If you were thinking about joining my group coaching or blood sugar then this membership is especially for you because I don’t have plans to offer group programs or courses this year.
IF you’re interested in joining, again the founding members’ enrollment is open from April 2-11, 2024. You can click here to join. Thank you for being part of this community and I hope to see you inside of the Collective!
