In 2017, Annie Beth Company, LLC was originally established as a personal training business. I had recently left a career in architecture to become a Certified Personal Trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. At the time, I was eager and excited to help athletes reach their goals. Specifically, I wanted to help female identifying persons build healthier relationships with exercise, food, and their bodies—I just didn’t know what that looked like yet. Although I would have considered myself “recovered” from an eating disorder at the time, I was still deeply entrenched in diet culture. Heck, I was competing in bodybuilding competitions in 2017! Still, I would have told you that I was “anti-diet” simply because I did not promote “fad diets” or “extreme” weight loss methods. Nevertheless, I had a long way to go.

To make a very long story short, years of dieting and pushing my body to the extreme eventually led to HPA-Axis Dysfunction and I was forced to finally make peace with food, exercise, and my body. Consequently, my views on health and nutrition began to change. In fact, it was during this time that I returned to the Nutrition Therapy Institute for an occupational degree in nutrition therapy, learned about the psychology of eating, discovered Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size (HAES®), and truly began to accept my own body. It was also during this time that the Triad Recovery Collective (formerly Triad Warriors) emerged.

Originally, the Triad Recovery Collective was a nutrition program designed to help female athletes overcome the same struggles that I had once overcome—The Female Athlete Triad. Essentially, the Female Athlete Triad (also known as Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport) is a condition defined by under-fueling, amenorrhea, and low bone density. And honestly, helping athletes heal from RED-S remains a goal of mine today. However, as I began to dive deeper, I also began to realize how much more was involved here.

As humans, we are embodied beings. We are minds, bodies, and spirits. Thus, health is about much more than just food and fitness. Health is a complex integration of our physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, environmental, and social wellbeing, and the ways in which we experience food, our bodies, and the world is a direct result of this complex cumulation of factors. As a result, I returned to school once again for a Master of Arts in Counseling in 2021 and my practice began to evolve. 

Today, I offer mental health counseling services using an integrated approach to health and eating disorder recovery. An approach that upholds the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of your being. An approach that seeks to bring individual freedom to those who are struggling in their relationship to food and body and justice to the larger systems of oppression that contribute to unhealth (i.e., weight stigma, sexism, racism, ableism, etc.).