Nancy Woo
she/her
Certified Nutritionist & Somatic Practitioner
Our bodies are wise, ancient, and abundant. They hold generations of stories rooted in resilience and interconnection. They are mighty and tender all at once.
I am here to witness your journey of coming home to your body; of healing and remembering your inherent worthiness. Together, we'll interrogate how oppression and trauma get stuck in our body and untangle from emotional, spiritual, and behavioral patterns that keep you from embodying liberation.
My path to nutrition counseling and eating disorder recovery included several detours through community gardening, food sovereignty movements, and decolonized conservation. Building relationships with Coast Salish lands and waters while studying my ancestral knowledge systems expanded my understanding of how interconnected personal healing and ecological restoration are. As such, we'll work together to weave the wisdom of the earth into your practices of embodiment.
I am also keenly attuned to the ways colonialism shapes nutrition as an industry and am here to dismantle harmful constructs that impact body image, eating patterns, and self-worth. I am a queer, fat positive, weight-neutral, and anti-diet practitioner with particular interest in integrating ancestral wisdom and healing modalities into our everyday lives.
As a somatic practitioner, I am committed to continuously deepening and expanding my practices and frameworks in body-based healing through both professional development and personal practice. I experience somatics as an anti-colonial way of being that we all have inherent skills and wisdom in.
There is no greater gift than to hold space for folks to come alive in their bodies. Thank you for considering me as a trustworthy companion on your path to healing. Let's find the magic in you!
Credentials, Trainings, & Approaches
Certified Nutritionist, Washington State Department of Health #NU60723861
Master of Public Health Nutrition, University of Washington, 2016
Bachelor of Science, Nutrition, Bastyr University, 2012
Our work together is informed by:
Weight-neutral, fat positive, & anti-diet paradigms
Somatic experiencing
Generative Somatics
Parts work/Internal Family Systems
Decolonized nonviolent communication
Trauma-informed mindfulness
Zen Buddhism
Motivational interviewing
Health at Every Size (HAES) Paradigm
Intuitive eating frameworks
Decolonization and anti-oppression frameworks
Acceptance and commitment therapy
I currently maintain a small caseload to prioritize the quality of my offerings and allow me to engage in continuing education on a regular basis. I approach this work as a life-long learner and am dedicated to embodying the liberatory practices I companion my clients toward.
I am committed to building intersectional, anti-oppressive spaces that (1) affirm all body types and genders (2) are fat-positive, pro-black, queer affirming, anti-ableist, neurodiverse-friendly, and sex-positive.