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Alana Van Der Sluys  

Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, CEO/Entrepreneur, Author of "Freedom with Food and Fitness: How Intuitive Eating is the Key to Becoming Your Happiest, Happiest Self"

Alana is a TedX speaker, entrepreneur, author, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and the founder of Freedom with Food and Fitness. As a personal survivor of eating disorders, she is dedicated to empowering women to heal their relationship with food and their bodies to step into their potential, take up space, and improve their lives. Her debut book, "Freedom with Food and Fitness: How Intuitive Eating is the Key to Becoming Your Happiest, Happiest Self," releases on November 7, 2023 with Urano World USA, Inc. She is a contributing writer for several national publications, including the National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) and Best Holistic Life Magazine.

Through her online business and coaching experience, Alana has built a community of women who are working together to build lives full of gratitude, purpose, and self-worth beyond how they look. In January 2023, she spoke at TedXRutgersCamden on "Making Health and Wellness Accessible to All,” pushing her audience to rethink the stereotypical picture of health and challenge its ableist, racist, and misogynistic roots. Rather than reserve health for white, thin, able bodied, wealthy white people, Alana’s talk outlined real ways to open the door for all bodies and all people to pursue true health - mentally and physically.

Speech Topics

Stop Playing Small (Literally and in Your Business)

A tangible, inspiring talk aimed towards high-performing women entrepreneurs, Alana pushes her audience to identify diet culture and its racist, ableist and misogynistic roots, and how it harms them and their businesses. Alana gives tools to incorporate healthy habits rooted in compassion and empowerment in their own lives, both in food and movement, to get their valuable time back to live their fullest, unapologetic selves as leaders and changemakers.

At the end of this session, attendees will be able to:

  1. Identify how diet culture harms all people, women in particular, its patriarchal & racist roots, and how it’s designed to keep women playing small (literally and in their businesses)

  2. How to incorporate healthy habits rooted in compassion and empowerment in their own lives, both in food and movement

  3. How to get valuable time back that was stolen by diet culture, and divert it towards their personal and business goals

  4. Tangible ways to live their fullest, unapologetic selves as leaders and changemakers by ditching diets & unrealistic expectations

SMASH THE SCALE: PURSUING HEALTH WITHOUT DIETING

If you’ve been unsuccessful in keeping those pounds off in an effort to get healthier, this workshop is for you! Join Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Alana Van Der Sluys as explains why dieting is actually the worst thing you can do for your health—and learn the science-backed alternative that has made her more fit, healthy, happy, and successful in her 30's–post baby– than she ever was in her 20's when she was suffering with disordered eating and chronic dieting.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: CONQUERING EMOTIONAL EATING

Has your emotionally-charged relationship with food left you avoiding the scale? Can’t seem to put down the family-sized bag of chips at night? Join Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Alana Van Der Sluys as she walks you through why so many of us suffer from emotional eating and strategies to beat the binge, so you can nourish your body and thrive at your natural weight!

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