Shawn’s relationship with food has shifted from obsession and fear to freedom and curiosity. She once found herself constantly thinking about her next meal, influenced by early fears about “bad” ingredients and diet culture. In adolescence, she questioned what healthy really was, as she witnessed the silent pain of friends navigating eating disorders, in and out of treatment facilities.  

Working in restaurants, she saw how those serving beautiful meals often barely ate themselves, or shoved a bite in during the middle of dinner service.

Determined to find a new way, she took a deep dive into healing relationship with food. She slowed down and got curious, really curious.

She noticed how being lit up by life—through passion, purpose, intimacy—made food less obsessive. She learned to listen to her body instead of micromanage it, even experimenting with tools like glucose monitoring (and eventually ditching the stress of constant tracking). Today, she eats in a way that aligns with her body’s needs, but with freedom, not rigidity.  These practices, not only help in the process of “what to eat”, but “why.” 

Now, as a private chef, she’s rewritten the story- reclaiming food as nourishment, not punishment or perfection. She not only curates the highest quality ingredients, she also knows the food is better with the touch of love and care that she brings in the kitchen. 

At the retreat, Shawn brings her lived experience, mindfulness and body based practical tools, and a playful approach to movement and food that invites you to come home to yourself.

Bronwyn’s relationship with food as a child was one of constant overeating and confusion about when she was hungry. As a teenager she began to experiment with dieting, which led her to flirt with anorexia and binge eating. As a young woman, her lifelong autoimmune disease symptoms got so frightening that she took a deep dive into food as medicine, eventually healing herself through carnivore, GAPS, autoimmune-paleo diets, herbal protocols, and fasting. 

After years of extremely controlled eating for health, Bronwyn began to explore her emotional connection to food through somatic therapy and studying female experts on food-body-emotions. This was an entirely new paradigm of relaxing and slowing down around food that took immense patience and regular practice. She finally found food and body freedom after a lifelong journey of emotional eating and longing to be thin. 

Bronwyn loves the intersection of eating for health and eating for joy, and looks forward to sharing her story with women who are confused about what to eat. Her focus in on helping women connect with their intuition and their bodies’ wisdom to allow for peace and ease around food.