Ivy, The Body Relationship Coach.

Ivy, The Body Relationship Coach. I help you make PEACE with your BODY so you can THRIVE in your life. EVERY PERSON DESERVES TO BE AT PEACE IN THEIR OWN BODY. YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

If you are frustrated with society dictating what the ideal body is. If you know that you want to embrace your own body and learn to love it on your own terms. If your well-being is important to you, but you refuse to starve yourself on diet plans or punish yourself through exercises you hate. If you are eager to begin your journey to thrive in life, rather than just survive. I'M HERE TO HELP.

09/23/2026

How many decisions about your body have you made this week without realizing they were part of a relationship?

Whether to keep your plans during a flare, or cancel and slow down.
What to put on your body this morning, and how much energy adornment gets today. Whether to take a walk, move to a song you love, or stay still.

If you are living with chronic illness, living in a larger body, or moving through the world with a marginalized identity, these everyday decisions carry real weight.

Each one shapes your relationship with your body, and that relationship was there long before anyone told you what to eat, how much to move, or what size you should be.

Every day, in small ways, you decide whether your body is worth listening to.
The tired signal.
The thirst.
The chill that asks you to reach for a sweater.

The Body Relationship® Method was built to help you tend that relationship through weight-neutral, capacity-aware care, with your body wisdom leading. It is made for the body you are in today, at the capacity you actually have.

If you are looking for tools and support, you can find them through the link in bio.

What has your body been asking you for this week?

BodyImage

Has today already asked more of your body than you had to give?Some days arrive with their own weather. Something person...
09/22/2026

Has today already asked more of your body than you had to give?

Some days arrive with their own weather. Something personal takes over, or a flare settles in without warning, and the plan you made in the morning goes quiet. By afternoon the list you wrote is just a list.

Those days are allowed. Your body does not owe anyone a productive version of itself, and nothing you set down today has to be earned back tomorrow.

With chronic illness, this happens often enough that it stops feeling like an exception and starts feeling like a failure. It is neither. A plan that only works on your strongest days was never built for the life you are living.

Living in a body of size, or in a body carrying a marginalized identity, adds a layer that rarely gets named. You spend energy managing how you are seen before the day's real demands even arrive. So when your body asks for less, it is often asking for rest from more than the task in front of you.

Holistic wellness can be small and still be real. Warmth on the part of your body that hurts. A few slow breaths while the kettle heats. Water within reach before you need to get up for it. Sunlight through the window when going outside is not happening today. Your hands resting on your own chest or belly for a minute, which is where a lot of Reiki practice begins anyway. One text to the person who does not need the backstory.

None of that requires money, mobility, or a good week. That accessibility is the point.

Tonight might look like dinner someone else made, the lamp instead of the overhead light, and the rest of it waiting until you have more to give it.

Weight-neutral care makes room for this, because it never asked your body to change shape before it could be cared for well. The Body Relationship® Method was built from low capacity days as the baseline. The Body Relationship® Circle is built the same way, with nothing to track and no streak to keep, so it can meet you in the weeks you have very little to give.

Link in bio.

Somewhere along the way, you may have been taught that your body was something to fix. Something to manage. Something to...
09/13/2026

Somewhere along the way, you may have been taught that your body was something to fix. Something to manage. Something to keep at a distance until it finally looked or felt acceptable enough to live in.

That framing wears on the body over time. It pulls you out of yourself. It keeps healing perpetually a few steps away, contingent on a version of you that has not arrived yet.

Healing rarely begins in opposition to your body. It begins in the slow return to it. The small moments of listening. The pause before you override what it is telling you. The quiet recognition that it has been here, with you, through everything.

Your body is not in the way of your healing. It is the ground beneath it. The place where care actually has somewhere to land. The relationship that, when tended to, changes how you move through everything else.

What might shift if you allowed your body to be the place where healing begins, rather than the thing you are healing from?

If you have been taught that your body needs to be fixed, you are not alone.You may have been told to correct the sympto...
09/12/2026

If you have been taught that your body needs to be fixed, you are not alone.

You may have been told to correct the symptoms.

Correct the weight.
Correct the fatigue.
Correct the appearance.

Over time, this can make you feel like your body is a problem that needs solving.

But what if your body is not asking to be fixed?
What if your body is asking to be considered?

If you are living with chronic illness, navigating body image struggles, or moving through wellness spaces that were never designed with bodies like yours in mind, your body may be asking for something different.

Consideration.

Consideration can look like slowing down long enough to listen to what your body is communicating.

It can look like honoring your lived experience instead of dismissing it.

It can look like noticing your capacity, your need for rest, your desire for nourishment, or your need for boundaries.

Inside the Body Relationship® Method, body image healing begins with a shift in the question you ask yourself.

Instead of asking:
“What is wrong with my body?”

You begin asking
“What might my body be asking me to consider?”

This shift can change how you approach inclusive wellness, chronic illness care, and self care.

Not from pressure.
From connection.

If this perspective resonates with you, the upcoming Affirming Wellness ebook explores this approach in greater depth and offers tools to help you reconnect with your body in a compassionate and weight neutral way.

You can join the waitlist through the link in bio.

What is one thing your body might be asking you to consider today?

09/09/2026

Have you ever wondered what your body size, your chronic illness, your disability, or your race has to do with your wellness?

For a long time, those parts of you might have felt like the reason wellness wasn't built for you. Something to manage before you could even begin. Or something used against you. The body you live in was never the problem.

Those same parts of you can actually be part of how you learn to tend to your needs, nourish your body, and build real body connection, exactly as you are.

Picture care that already knows how to hold the body you actually live in, cane and all. That is what weight-neutral, capacity-aware, inclusive wellness looks like when it is actually built with you in mind.

The Body Relationship® Method holds space for people with marginalized identities and people navigating chronic illness, who have spent years adapting themselves to fit spaces that asked them to arrive as someone else.

Redefining Wellness is a free, live conversation on September 17 at 8pm ET. I will share my perspective, tools, and resources, with real space for questions back and forth. It is live only, so being in the room is the way to catch it.
Come be in the room. Link in bio.

Have you ever caught yourself being harder on your body than anyone else has been?The judgment from other people is easi...
09/04/2026

Have you ever caught yourself being harder on your body than anyone else has been?

The judgment from other people is easier to spot.
You feel it land.
You know it isn't yours.

What's harder to see are the rules you've been holding yourself to.
The rest you decided you hadn't earned.
The plans you pushed through when your body was already asking you to stop.
The way you apologize in your own head when you cancel.

Living with chronic illness brings all of that up to the surface. Your body changed what it can do, and the old rules stopped fitting.

Noticing that is real work, and it's where body connection starts. You see where the judgment is coming from, and you stop handing it back to yourself.

Some days that looks like lying down in the middle of the afternoon without explaining to yourself why you needed to. That counts as self-care. So does letting your body set the pace for the day.

What's one rule you've been holding yourself to that your body has already outgrown?

09/01/2026

Do you remember when chronic illness changed the way you cared for and connected with your body?

It is PCOS/PMOS Awareness Month.
This month has always held a tender place for me. I was diagnosed at 17.

What I carry from that year is everything that came after it. My whole relationship with my body quietly rearranged itself while I was still trying to understand what was happening.

Before chronic illness, so much of body care just ran on default. You woke up, brushed your teeth, washed your face, got dressed, moved through your morning without doing math first.

Then something shifts.

And somewhere on the other side of that shift, you start making a decision, whether you ever say it out loud or not, about whether you are going to be at war with the body you live in.

I have been sitting with the memory and reality of that shift this month, and I would love to sit with it alongside you.

If you live with PCOS or PMOS, or with any chronic illness, come tell me. The diagnosis, or everything that came after it, or whatever part of it you want to share.

This work was built for people navigating chronic illness and marginalized identities, who have spent years adapting themselves to fit rooms that asked them to arrive as someone else. You do not have to do that here.

The full video is on YouTube. In the bio you will find the rest of what I have made, including weight-neutral, affirming resources for chronic illness.

When did that shift happen for you?

Your body is constantly changing.Not because you failed it.Because you are alive.Many people are taught that body peace ...
08/25/2026

Your body is constantly changing.
Not because you failed it.
Because you are alive.

Many people are taught that body peace will arrive once their body becomes predictable.
Once symptoms ease.
Once weight stabilizes.
Once they feel more like the version of themselves they remember.

But bodies are not designed to remain the same.

If you are living with chronic illness, navigating body image healing, or simply moving through different seasons of life, you already know this truth. Your body evolves.

Body peace begins when you stop waiting for your body to become stable enough to deserve care.

It begins when you allow yourself to live in relationship with change.
When your body shifts, your care can shift with it.

You can still experience joy.
You can still experience rest.
You can still experience softness and celebration right now.

The body you have today deserves your consideration.
Not comparison.
Not control.

This is the foundation of the Body Relationship® Method. Learning how to relate to your body with compassion, awareness, and respect as it moves through change.

If your body feels unfamiliar right now, you are not doing anything wrong.

You are learning how to meet yourself where you are.

Support for body image healing, chronic illness care, and inclusive wellness practices can be found through the resources linked in the bio whenever you are ready.

"My healthy" is not your healthy.And your healthy is not mine.That's a truth most wellness spaces never taught us to hon...
08/24/2026

"My healthy" is not your healthy.
And your healthy is not mine.

That's a truth most wellness spaces never taught us to honor that.

Our bodies carry different histories, different capacities, different needs.

And still, so many conversations about health assume there's one right way to eat, one right way to move, one right way to exist in a body.

So many people end up feeling like they're failing that standard. A standard built for one kind of body was never going to hold every body.

The Body Relationship® Method offers a different starting point.

• A shift from comparison to connection.
• A shift from external rules to Body-Led Guidance.
• A shift from pressure to partnership with your body.

When you begin to understand your body on its own terms, you create space for care that's sustainable, personal, and actually yours.
Not perfect. Just aligned.

If you're ready to begin or deepen this work, you'll find supportive tools waiting through the link in bio.

What changes when you define "healthy" for yourself?

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