The Mindful Nutrition Way Signature Coaching™

When Food Feels Calm, Life Opens Up.


Take care of what’s on your plate — and feel free in your life again.

 

A 5-week private coaching experience rooted in The Mindful Nutrition Method™ to bring calm, confidence, and balance back to food and daily life.

 

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When food takes up too much space:

You care about your health.

You want to eat well, feel good, and live fully — but somewhere along the way, food became complicated.

You know what to do, yet you keep slipping into the same patterns:

rules

guilt

overthinking

starting over

You want food to feel easy and supportive — not something you constantly have to manage.

You want to nourish yourself in a way that feels natural, grounded, and enjoyable again.

You want to take care of yourself — without food stress getting in the way.

That’s where The Mindful Nutrition Way comes in

Created by McKel Hill Kooienga, MS, RDN, LDN — leading mindful eating Registered Dietitian, author, and founder of Nutrition Stripped®.

Over the past decade, McKel has guided thousands of women through her proven Mindful Nutrition Method™ — a science-backed, mindfulness-based framework that helps you eat with balance, awareness, and calm.

Her work has been featured in Oprah.com, Bon Appétit, Food Network, Women’s Health, and MindBodyGreen, and trusted by thousands of alumni of her mindful eating programs.

This process isn’t about control — it’s about care.

When you learn how to take care of what’s on your plate, everything off the plate starts to shift too — your energy, your focus, your joy, your peace.

When food feels calm, life opens up.

92%

say they now feel calmer and more at peace with food.

88%

say they trust their body’s cues for hunger and fullness.

97%

say they’d recommend the experience to a friend. 

Who You Become Through This Work

When you nourish yourself in this way, you don’t just change how you eat — you change how you live.

You become the person who…

  • Sits down to eat without guilt, anxiety, or second-guessing.

  • Builds balanced meals with ease and confidence — no rules, no stress.

  • Feels grounded, energized, and clear-headed throughout her day.

  • Knows what her body needs — and trusts herself to honor it.

  • Feeds herself from a place of care, not control.

  • Lives with more peace, presence, and joy — both on and off the plate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you stop struggling with food, you make space for everything else that matters — joy, calm, and a life that feels like yours again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Food becomes a way to take care of:

Your energy.
Your focus.
Your peace.

And that’s when everything off the plate — your creativity, your confidence, your calm — begins to expand.

 To take care of yourself is to build a calm, nourishing relationship with food — one that sustains your energy, deepens your joy, and becomes a natural part of your life.

What’s Included in Your 5-Week Journey

 
Each week builds upon the last, creating a rhythm of calm, nourishment, and transformation — inside and out.
5 PRIVATE COACHING SESSIONS

Personalized guidance to help you align your meals, mindset, and habits with what your body truly needs. Every session builds your trust, confidence, and calm.

THE MINDFUL NUTRITION WAY™ COURSE 

Lifetime access to your 5-week foundational course with tools, reflections, and guided lessons that support you long after our sessions end.

THE CALM PLATE™ COURSE

Learn the Foundational Five framework for building balanced meals with ease — so you can stop guessing, overthinking, or second-guessing what to eat.

 THE 10-DAY REBALANCE RESET™

A gentle 10-day reset to realign your body and habits whenever life feels off balance. Think of it as your go-to grounding tool.

PRIVATE MESSAGING ACCESS

Stay supported and connected between sessions with check-ins, feedback, and mindful accountability.

30-DAY POST-PROGRAM AUDIT

A reflection and recalibration call to help you sustain your progress and continue living The Mindful Nutrition Way™.

Next Step: Apply Now

You’ll receive a personal response from McKel within 48 hours. If it’s a great fit, you’ll receive a private invitation to enroll and begin your journey.
 
 
INVESTMENT
 
This private coaching journey is by application only — to ensure the best fit and most meaningful results. Because this experience is deeply personal and intentionally limited, spaces open on a rolling basis.
 
Coaching begins at $3,200, with flexible 6-12 monthly payment options available.

Are you here to quiet the food noise, reconnect with your body, or finally feel at peace with how you eat?

 

McKel’s work lives at the intersection of nourishment and self — where mindful eating becomes second nature, balance feels effortless, and calm begins in your body.

 

This is The Mindful Nutrition Way™ — a guided path to take care of what’s on your plate, so you can take care of everything off it.

This Is For You

...if you're ready to

Stop chasing balance and start living it as your future self.

Transform how you show up for yourself & your eating habits.

Reconnect with your body’s natural cues (hunger).

Feel nourished without the noise of guilt or perfectionism.

Create rhythms of eating and living that actually feel like you.

Take care of yourself in ways that ripple into every part of your life.

Meet The Founder

McKel Hill Kooienga, MS, RDN, LDN is the founder of Nutrition Stripped®, author of the Nutrition Stripped Cookbook, and creator of the transformative Mindful Nutrition Method™. Recognized as one of the “Top 20 Role Models” by Arianna Huffington, McKel is a leading voice in the field of mindful eating.

Her work has reached millions globally across 180+ countries, with features in Oprah.com, Women’s Health, Bon Appétit, Food Network, and more.

McKel’s Mindful Nutrition Method™ stands apart from quick-fix diets, offering a sustainable, step-by-step approach to balanced eating that helps people break free from diet obsession and build a positive relationship with food and their bodies.

With over a decade of experience as a Registered Dietitian, she has empowered thousands to achieve lasting food freedom and take control of their health.

Testimonials

 

“Food was the enemy I fought most of my life. Now Food is my friend and ally.

After a couple of days of eating the foundation 5 meals, my body felt so much better. I had more energy and my mood correspondently lifted.

Later in the program, I noticed I had had a weight plateau that lifted without even really noting it as important. Scale freedom!”

— Karen C

“Before I was constantly swinging from all in to all out, consumed with food guilt and frustration that I was stuck.

Now I feel I understand my body better, and that I have better tools to determine what I need while still enjoying food.

The Mindful Nutrition Method is life changing, no joke! It's a perfect blend of habit change and compassion building to truly find your balance and enjoy life.”

— Sara L.

“I was an all or nothing type of person. I either ate perfectly within my Macros and Calories or I ate like a Linebacker (aka anything I wanted).

I was off the rails. Nothing was off limits. Now I feel balanced.

This program taught me it is about consistency. That consistency is gained through having a good foundational relationship with food.”

— Leslie H.

“If you want to find a way to let go of rules around food and diets and understand how to nourish yourself and create a way that works for you I’d say this program is it.

There are so many diet programmes out there but this is totally different, it delves so much deeper and helps you to take the time to really reflect on what is right for you as an individual and gives you so many tools to help.”

— Emma S.

Frequently Asked Questions

 

Testimonials

“Before I was constantly swinging from all in to all out, consumed with food guilt and frustration that I was stuck. Now I feel I understand my body better, and that I have better tools to determine what I need while still enjoying food.

The Mindful Nutrition Method is life changing, no joke! It's a perfect blend of habit change and compassion building to truly find your balance and enjoy life.”

— Sara L.

 

“I was constantly going back and forth from restricting, to then completely the opposite end of that spectrum, I was binging a lot. I had really been mostly focusing on my weight and my appearance, and working through the Method, I really feel like it's helping me see that it's not just about that, or not even mostly about that, it's how I feel, how I'm living my life every day.

Changing my focus from just losing weight and my appearance to how I'm feeling and how I'm showing up for my days has really been a huge difference. It's really taken the stress off of food for me.

I really truly believe that this has helped transform my life. I have gone from feeling miserable and honestly depressed and very stressed around food to now feeling excited to cook and to eat, there's not so much worry, I feel more alive. I feel happier and healthier, which is my goal.”

— Kristin O., New Mexico

 

 “Before joining the method, I was frustrated with food and I had a very bad relationship with food. 

I had issues with binge eating, so one thing the method has helped me with is understanding my personal and specific reasons why I would overeat and the connection between emotion and food.

It stems from family history, issues of self-confidence and self-worth, and even what happened this week. Breaking it down and exploring how that affects my eating has been really helpful….I could really tune into those moments when I was highly stressed and frustrated, and angry, and how that translated into what I was eating…

What's really shifted is that I'm more conscious of what I'm doing and more present and that's had such a positive impact to stop overeating. If you're looking for help, then this is a very supportive and warm environment to shift your own self-worth and self-awareness.”

— Ann B., New York

 

 “I was thinking about food all of the time. It consumed so much of my mental energy was just thinking about how am I going to eat, what's the right way to eat, how do I get into the best physical shape? I just feel so much better now. I really feel like I am at this point in my life, the healthiest that I've ever been. 

I feel like I am so much more in tune with what I need to nourish myself both externally — how does my body look and feel — and also internally — giving myself the time to really recharge and show up in a way in the world that I've always wanted to show up. 

I’m looking at my health as physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, all of it, and that's something I've never done before with myself or my health.”

— Kelsey M., Washington D.C. 

 

 “I had all of this nutrition knowledge about what I should and shouldn't be eating, and what was good foods or bad or treats, but I was rarely consistent.

It sounds really dramatic when I say this, but I think it made me feel worthless...I'm not getting it right means that I’m constantly failing at something. And when you feel like you're failing at something and not being your best self constantly, it kind of makes you feel you're out of control or lacking discipline, which is all really negative and really chips away at you and your confidence. That feeling of worthlessness was there for years.

It's a mindset change. Now I don't feel the need to get it right 100% of the time, or saying 'you can't have or shouldn't have.' Now I know it's 'What do you need to get that balance?' It's so different.  I genuinely don't think you would find anything that would do this for you other than the Method,”

— Pippa M., United Kingdom

Your Next Step

You’ve tried to eat better, stay consistent, or “get back on track.”

But you’re craving peace — a way to nourish yourself without overthinking it.

The Mindful Nutrition Way™ is your path back to that peace: a 5-week experience to help you rebuild trust with food, reconnect with your body, and return to balance — calmly, confidently, and with care.

This is the shift from:

trying to take care of yourself through control

→

to actually feeling cared for through nourishment.

If you’re ready to take care of what’s on your plate — so you can take care of everything off it — I’d love to invite you to apply below.

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