Hi, my name is Jodi Katzin and I am a Certified Mind Body Eating/Eating Psychology Coach, Occupational Therapist and Case Manager. I am also a mom to three amazing, active, high energy, loving, hockey playing boys, and a wife to my wonderful and supportive husband. I love reading, watching mindless reality TV shows, walking, my Peloton, yoga, attending retreats, connecting with friends and other like-minded women, drinking wine and eating chocolate.

Looking back, while I have never had an official eating disorder, I have definitely struggled for many years with disordered eating. This manifested in many behaviours such as periods of strict food restriction, trying different diets and cleanses, keeping food diaries and being fixated on reaching a specific number on the scale. Although my weight was not a concern growing up, I always struggled with a negative body image and felt very uncomfortable in my own skin. This insecurity was heightened after each of my pregnancies and more so after the birth of my last son.

In 2018 I started feeling a restlessness in my career and that I had a story inside me that I wanted to share.  I was tired of being at war with my body and searching for the "perfect" diet and binge eating, I also started to realize something...that the journey I truly needed was from the inside out and that there was no magical external fix to be found. And that berating and hating on myself was not getting me closer to ANY of my goals.  

As I realized that my obsession with food and weight loss had little to do with food itself, I started to immerse myself in small group retreats, podcasts, and self-care practices such as mindfulness and meditation. I also decided to turn my pain into my purpose and became certified as a Mind Body Eating/Eating Psychology Coach through the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, in addition to my degree as an Occupational Therapist. To me this program was the missing piece that I was looking for. I had worked with naturopaths, nutritionists, macronutrient coaches, therapists, and tried every diet and cleanse under the sun. Yet none of these approaches truly touched on my deeply ingrained disordered eating patterns to pull it together.

As my journey continues, I have also learned the importance of healing trauma, having a regulated nervous system and feeling ALL emotions and I was inspired to create Just Be Coaching. I realized that food for me, as well as hating my body, had become my coping mechanisms and numbing tools for dysregulated emotions and unmanaged stress. 

Today I work with women who are in the throes of emotional eating, binge eating, chronic dieting, or other disordered eating patterns and struggling with body image. I help them peel back the layers behind their ongoing struggle with food to finally make peace with it. And to end calorie and macronutrient counting, weighing food, obsessively stepping on the scale and learn to JUST BE. While still nourishing themselves from the inside out, and emphasizing the importance of nervous system regulation and managing their stress response.  

I help my clients realize that they should not be ashamed of their habits or feel that they are broken and need to be fixed. I also illuminate to them that their struggles can be seen in a positive light as a message that another area of their life needs to be tended to. As well, I emphasize in my work how withholding love from ourselves until we reach a certain goal will always be counter-productive. We must all accept ourselves at this moment and know that we are completely whole and worthy of love as we are. On this journey together, I teach my clients the importance of embracing the journey, rather than a specific destination and learn to JUST BE.