Success Stories

Since working with Summer, food has lost its power. I can eat previous foods that I had labeled as trigger foods or off-limits and not have a second thought about them. I can have foods in the house and not binge on them.

The permission to truly eat whatever I want whenever I want has allowed me to listen to my body and its cues. I don’t have the attitude that now is my chance to eat “X” food so I better eat before I lose my chance. I know if I want it I can have it. It is my choice.

I didn’t know before I started working with her how often I had negative or shameful thoughts about my body. I knew that I didn’t care for my stomach but I didn’t know I looked at it daily and criticized it. I don’t think I have gotten to the point where I love my body but I am learning to accept it.

I am seeing my body for its strengths, uniqueness. My weight does not define me. I am so much more. I am me. I am strong, capable, kind, funny and worthy.

I love and appreciated everything about Summer’s approach. She tells the truth about dieting, when no one else will. She opened my eyes to body diversity.

This process was inspiring, empowering and loving!

I eat what I want, when I want it and never have a negative thought about myself based on what I’ve eaten. I feel so much more relaxed around food! Friends have commented that I seem much more peaceful than I ever have.

I liked that what we did together was so tailored to what was going on for me. The specific exercises and discussions we had in each session felt so effective with my time and energy. It was difficult diving into the ‘why’ of my thoughts and behaviours and I know without her guidance I wouldn’t have done the hard work around it.

This has brought me so much peace around food and my body. I was really unsure on what this could do for me and the results have exceeded my wildest expectation.

I had a huge doubt in my mind that this was going to make any difference after being continuously on a diet for 25 years. Within weeks I could feel myself relaxing around food and feeling more confident in myself. Summer’s coaching has set me free from dieting and left me with the mental space to really enjoy my life with some new-found confidence.

It was transformative, cathartic and liberating!

I loved that she made me feel comfortable and that I could be totally honest with her. I never felt judged and you made this journey more fun.

I would definitely recommend Summer! She really made a difference in how I look at my body and how I approach my food.

This process was enlightening and life-changing!

Summer came into my life at exactly the right time! I love her unique approach: tons of humour, no bull*#t, and an absolutely fearless attitude. She has truly changed my life, and has given me the wake-up call that I desperately needed!

Through her personally designed weekly missions, Summer helped me realize that my issues with my body and food were about something much deeper.

Since working with her, I am a new person. I love and respect my body, have broken free from the calorie counting, fitspo prison I was in, and have genuinely fallen in love with exercise again, instead of using it as a vehicle to burn calories.

If you are ready to TAKE A STAND against ridiculous beauty standards and ideals, to LOVE AND ACCEPT yourself without apology, and to ACHIEVE a higher level of self-understanding and compassion, then SUMMER WILL HELP YOU GET THERE!

Smart, empowering, and so much fun to work with… Summer will change your life!

I feel like a HUGE weight has lifted…And now I have more time to work on my goals and live the life that I have always wanted. I have more willpower and brain space to work towards building the life of my dreams now that I am not obsessing about food and my body.

I have no idea what will happen in the future, but every day I feel more alive and closer to the life I’ve always wanted…I still have bad days but I now have the tools to work with to get through them without self hatred and sabotage.

I had no idea, none at all, that my own anxieties over losing control of what I ate and what the ramifications of that loss of control may be on my body was actually what was causing SO much of my digestive distress. To me they were completely separate issues.

I had already had treatment for bulimia in my past, “of course I’d tackled self acceptance back them…” This was different to me…it was not an emotional issue, it was a physical digestive issue, one I could and should be able to tackle systematically to “feel perfectly fine”.

Overcoming Food Sensitivities & Disordered Eating

In truth…I learned through my work with Summer that I was simply seeking that…to feel perfect….and it was my inability to accept anything less than my illusion of perfect that was in fact making me feel so miserable.

Since working with Summer, I no longer put on a pair of jeans simply to gauge if I’ve gained or lost weight or if my stomach is bloating out from a food. Truth be told, I have NEVER in my life enjoyed wearing jeans, but I have always owned them for fear that if I didn’t I’d simple balloon up and look and feel miserable, so I “needed” the jeans to “reign me in” per say. Now? Now I own the cutest array of yoga pants and tights and tunic dresses and maxi skirts and believe it or not, now that I’m NOT always obsessing over my gut….it is rarely EVER bloated!

Most days I feel ready to move and embrace the day….and on those random days that I don’t, that I actually instead feel tired or “rough” and just not quite the top of it all….and this was the game changer for me….I simply move on and embrace the day as a somewhat less productive day and let myself read a book instead of cleaning a closet and have a family movie night instead of whipping up a three course meal off Pinterest…..I let myself be human and not apologize.

I trust that the feeling of “ugh” won’t last….that it’s actually needed. If ALL days were rock star days, I’ve learned that my personality would be to “want more” and no longer consider feeling rock star every day “enough”. I think in many ways the somewhat off days and my new found appreciation for them have been one of my greatest gifts from working with Summer.

Through them I’ve learned perspective and appreciation and humble thankfulness. A blessing for me and for me to be able to live out for our daughter. She has no need to learn that perfectionist drive I’ve carried so long, no need at all.

Learning to Move The Hell On

I never swear, I just don’t, so I can’t even type it verbatim, but I tell you, I heard Summer’s voice in my head nearly daily telling me, “It’s ok! Just move the H on!” It makes me giggle to even think of, but I tell you what, it shook me out of my funk so often.

It would happen when I’d try a new food and maybe it wouldn’t sit well. It’d bloat me out or whatever reaction at the time and I’d want to fret on it and investigate they whys of it, but eventually I’d hear Summer say those magical worlds to me, “It’s ok! Just move the H on!” And you know what? The bloating either never was as bad after that, or I just didn’t notice it as much…most likely my nervous obsessing over my body’s reaction to things was exacerbating the bloating (darn gut brain connection!).

But either way, that simple phrase slowly wore me down…which is exactly what I needed to be built up to where I’m at. I have been terrified to try eggs back in, but yesterday I craved them so much I did it…I ate two delicious farm fresh eggs for breakfast and then you know what happened? I moved the H on, didn’t re think it until just this morning when I was typing this and realized, “Hey! I ate eggs yesterday and it was fine!”. I will believe to the end of times that I had no reaction because I moved on and didn’t fret over IF I was going to have a reaction. That may sound simple to some, but it was crucial for me.

The workbook, assignments, email access, and phone consults were beyond anything I could have asked for. Summer was my sounding board on so many things. I was able to turn off my internal debate over so many health related things by being able to “set the worries aside” until my next phone consult or email with Summer and then with her kind yet direct guidance, was able to take a practical look at whatever my concern was, and then move the H on!

Don’t take that the wrong way though, she never once just told me what to do…that was the key component, she helped open up my thoughts and pull apart my fears so that I could decide without the pressure of a perfect decision. Priceless.

That is an ability I now carry with me and will be a daily reminder for me of what I’ve learned from Summer. Had she strictly told me to “eat this and not that and do this and not that”….she’d have made a lot more money as I’d have continued to sign back up for years…but instead, she taught me how to do it myself. That.is.amazing!

Summer’s website and support services are my go to offering to so many of my girlfriends who are struggling. I used to email them all links on how taking gluten out of their diet would make them feel better or a pin about how paleo was the next step/true answer. Now…when a girlfriend asks me for diet advice to feel better…I give them Summer’s info so that they can feel better NOW with who they are vs. tackling everything under the sun to change into whatever mainstream society tells them they “should” be.

When I found Summer I was at a point where the process of trying to feel well through the “right diet and right supplements” had broken me down to where I really didn’t know why I was fighting to feel better anymore; it was my last resort before I gave up on ever feeling well. It didn’t turn out that way though, instead of it being my “last step”….it was my FIRST step to really living, living MY own unique beautiful life.

My struggles with food have been a lifelong battle. I’m certain that I have participated in almost every diet out there. They would work at first, but they were unrealistic and I would always end up gaining the weight back plus more.

I knew that I had to change the way I was thinking on the inside and find a way to love myself the way my family and friends love me. The biggest significant change was my attitude towards myself. I learned that I was enough.

Talking to my future self has been a god send, and was one of my favorite missions. Summer gave me the tools to learn how to silence the negative voice in my head and make correlations on why that inner voice was saying those horrible things.

I felt from the first meeting with Summer that she comes from a place of understanding and compassion.

She’s experienced these same issues and that’s when I knew that she was the going to help me approach this whole body love issue in a unique way.

I started this program with the hopes of changing the way I saw myself, and with Summer’s help and her missions, I felt the changes slowly happen. I am going to incorporate all her missions every way that I can to continue the journey of loving my body and nurturing my body a daily mantra.

My experience with Summer was eye opening, inspiring and wonderful.

I loved how she set missions for me to follow so I could come to my own conclusions about what I need vs. telling me what to do. And challenging me to think about being who I want to be…and damn the opinions or backlash.

Summer helped me realize that success isn’t about seeing external changes (scale, pants size etc) it is about feeling internal shifts that change the way we see everything.

Summer’s program was real! Frank, focused, and empowering me to decide how I feel about who I am….helping me rid myself of external pressures that changed my mind about my worth. For this taught me that I am worthy and grateful. It was fun, empowering and exciting!

I had also come to coaching with Summer at one of the most stressful times in my life. I have dieted all my life and it seemed that planning menus and exercise schedules was consuming my life.

Through working with Summer, I learned the skills to break out of this diet stress cycle. This couldn’t have happened at a more appropriate time for me.

Having these new skills has helped free up so much energy to focus in other areas of my life. Removing the false illusions I had been projecting all this time has allowed me to be more fearless in all areas of my life especially my relationships.

I am kinder in my self-talk, I have come to appreciate my strengths, I live life without putting things on hold until I lose 10 lbs, I dress as well as I can which takes my confidence up a notch. My attitude has changed for the better, I refuse to shrink to fit this world or someone else’s perception of my worth.

I love the podcasts that I can take with me anywhere. I really enjoy the journaling work as that is what facilitates the personal transformation. I also love that there was no diet plan.

Working with Summer was transformative, freeing and empowering. I would absolutely recommend working with her!

Before I felt completely separated from my body, like it wasn’t even my own. Now, I feel so much more calm than I have in a year and I am overall happier because I’m not spending every waking moment thinking about what I’m going to be eating and how I am looking and what other people might be thinking of me.

My favorite exercise was the kindness mantra Summer gave me to repeat during my times of struggle. I didn’t even realized how hard I had been being on myself for so long, so being kind felt amazing.

Talking to Summer is like talking to a friend, but without any of the B’s about food and your body. She is helpful and really moves you forward with your mindfulness journey. The steps I took were HUGE and without her guidance, I don’t know how I would be thinking about myself.

Summer works with you with issues about your body that you didn’t even know you had, and helps you move through them. That’s not to say those issues won’t rear their ugly head again, but this time you will know how to fight them.

What I valued most was Summer’s unflappable-ness. I felt so supported, and able to freely share so much with you without any fear of judgement.

She is like the anti-judge. I loved that she has created a space for her own authenticity so that the women she works with can step into their own authenticity. It was freeing to be so authentic in working with Summer.

One huge shift I had working with Summer is that I now know that when I think mean or hateful things towards my body, it’s because something else is going on.

You taught me that I don’t have to believe what my evil doppleganger says to me when I look at my reflection in the mirror in the morning. Instead, when she starts her mean chatter about me, I can either just shrug and move on and get back to things that actually matter, OR I can turn to myself and check in about what else is going on that’s causing me to think that way. Either way, I’m able to just be more comfortable in my skin.

The other shift I’ve had since working with Summer—which is huge—is that I no longer wake up in the morning and immediately start thinking about how fat I feel.

In fact, even writing that down makes it seem like it’s a distant memory. I’m consistently surprised and thrilled at how long it takes now for my evil doppleganger to pipe up and start running me down. And when she does start up, I feel much more equipped to handle the rising sense of panic that she used to induce in me.

I also just had no idea—like NO IDEA—that not being perfect was an option for me. I had nooooo idea that one could eat imperfectly, exercise imperfectly, do the “wrong” things and…still just be okay.

I didn’t know that I could trust myself. I didn’t know that I could just chuck all of that conventional wisdom out the window: no eating after 7:00 pm; if you can’t go 100% off gluten, then there’s no point in trying; you always have to balance out a fat, a carb and a protein; carbs are Satan, etc.

I also didn’t know that you could eat the “wrong” thing and just…move on. I didn’t know I didn’t have to review and berate myself for every wrong thing. I didn’t know that not eating every bite mindfully was acceptable. I didn’t know that I could just…choose to not shame and judge myself. I didn’t know I could stop judging other women’s bodies and begin to embrace body diversity.

I didn’t know I could LEGALIZE EVERY FOOD!!!I didn’t know I could really embrace eating chips, and really fucking dive in and enjoy and savour them. I also just didn’t know that body image problems are not solved by weight loss. Those are all the things that you taught me in such a short period of time.

Before I worked with Summer, I hadn’t really known how much I sneak food past myself. Now I want to really enjoy and savour the food that I eat—regardless of what kind of food it is.

Hands down, I would recommend Summer. She is the real deal. She’s so calm yet so funny. She seemed to know how to guide our conversations so that we would stay on point and yet discuss things fully.

Since working with Summer, I have learned how to better handle my emotions instead of turning inward and fighting the reflection in the mirror. I have managed to let go of my control issues with food and diet. My life is more relaxed.

I spend more time with friends and family and less time obsessed with macros and WODS. I have learned to embrace my body the way it is and I’ve stopped beating it down with too little calories and too much exercise.

I loved that Summer understood where I was coming from. That she didn’t give me another diet but instead helped my outlook on diet and exercise.

I felt instant trust because she understood paleo and CrossFit. If I had gone to someone who didn’t understand those things I don’t think I would have gotten the help I needed. I have seen doctors in the past who have told me to cut my calories or eat more beans. That just wasn’t the issue.

I would totally recommend Summer, and have! I feel like it was judgment free and from someone that understood me and where I was coming from. I felt like I was talking to a friend.

If you think you need to paleo harder or workout more just take a breath and email Summer today. There is no reason you need to live your life obsessing about grams of fat vs. grams carbs when Summer can help you love the life and the body you have now.

I have also found myself being less of a perfectionist (in a good way) and being forgiving of what I eat and the choices I make. Finally, I have really been focused lately on taking time for myself in order to relieve stress and do some self-nourishing. This has really helped me be more calm and aware of my surroundings and thoughts.

I really appreciated the format of Summer’s ‘missions’. Even just calling them missions was helpful because they made me feel like I was working for something during the 2 weeks. I also liked that the missions were broken into smaller pieces so it wasn’t like I was biting off too much at one time. They also gave me ideas on what to think about going forward as well. Finally, the quick check-in calls and emails were helpful in thinking through all the items we discussed.

I would definitely recommend your Summer! I think that working with Summer is great because it totally changes your mindset from the health information we’re fed by most of the media. People are often so focused on weight as an indicator of life success, and I think people need to realize that we are so much more than that. Summer’s very approachable and encouraging, even if you are struggling with some tough things.