What Clients Are Saying
Jennifer,
I just really want to say thank you for everything you have done for me. Your patience and understanding and support have been an amazingly huge part of my progress. I feel very lucky to have you as part of my treatment team. I can envision how my life might have turned out without you guys to help me fight, and it isn't pretty. I have not gotten where I am going quite yet, but I am a LOT closer than I was before I met you. So thanks for always instilling hope and having faith in me...You are just amazing. Thank you for doing what you do.
- Katie, Nutrition Client
With Jennifer as my guide I can now say I have not binged in over 4 months, I eat what I want when I want, and I am on my way back to a healthy weight!
Before meeting Jennifer I truly believed I would never be able to eat food like a normal person. I recall binges where I would plan an entire day around eating from the second I got up to the time I went to bed. Hour after hour finding new foods to fill me up. By the end of the day I was so full the skin on my stomach ached from being stretched, and so nauseous I would have to take antacids so I wouldn’t throw up. This was my typical Sunday. By opening up to Jennifer and taking in all her advice and wisdom about how to cope with binge eating I have been able to change my relationship with food completely. She is extremely patient and understanding, and there is never any pressure to eat more of one thing, or less of another. I was able to go at my own pace when it came to learning how not to be afraid of food. Jennifer cheered me on the whole way. Even when I would come into her office after a huge binge, I would still leave feeling as though I was one step closer to letting go of my eating disorder. It was her faith in me, and her faith in our ability to find balance that kept me on my path. I gave up restriction whole-heartedly, and as scared as I was of gaining weight, I just let go. With Jennifer as my guide I can now say I have not binged in over 4 months, I eat what I want when I want, and I am on my way back to a healthy weight! I remember reading her testimonials before I went in to see her and in the back of my mind thinking, “that may have worked for them, but it won’t work for me.” I have never been so happy to be proven wrong.
- Nutrition Client
The profound effect Jennifer's counsel has had on my life cannot be put into words, but I will make an attempt.
First of all, I always feel that Jennifer really cares about me as an individual. I never feel like just anot her one of her many clients.
The restrictive eating pattern I've had since my teen years has been a dangerous coping mechanism that progressed to be potentially life threatening. Although I was able to be successful in business in my 20's, 30's and 40's, by 50 when a number of life changes occurred at once (including marriage and stepchildren), anorexia took over my life. When I began to see Jennifer, I was at such a low weight that I satisfied the requirements to be hospitalized. My restrictive eating allowed only certain non-fat foods once a day.
Jennifer listened to me, investing her knowledge and soul, giving me the confidence to believe that I could change my relationship with food. The environment she created was one where I could safely divulge my thoughts...all my thoughts including those I felt shameful of...those I hadn't shared with anyone in my life. I could stop hiding. She intuitively knew how much change I could handle without increasing my fear and anxiety. We took one step at a time. And while there were expected setbacks along the way, every time we finished our session together, remarkably I moved from sometimes extreme disappointment with myself to being inspired with the courage of taking yet another step.
Her solid knowledge of nutrition allowed me to successfully complete two complicated surgeries involving bone fusion in my feet. Although challenged with being underweight yet gradually gaining, my body was nurtured with food required for proper bone growth and healing.
I never considered that eating like a "normal" person was even remotely possible for me. I have more work to do, but today I can enjoy guilt free eating and a range of foods I never al lowed myself before. Certainly for most of my life, food was the enemy, something to avoid, a source of pain. Now, I see that food can be a source of joy. Pleasure. Health.
Cooking has become an activity I no longer avoid. From her brilliant team of culinary colleagues, I have discovered that I too can cook! Their way of teaching basic techniques and principles inspired me without overwhelming.
I highly recommend Jennifer and Passionate Nutrition.
- Nutrition Client
Your professional, easy, supportive and accessible manner makes potentially difficult changes in my relationship with food a positive and joyful experience. I cannot recommend Jennifer enough.
I was diagnosed with IBS in college. Since then, I’ve spent over half my life at war with food and my body. I found little or no relief from the various physicians I’ve seen over the years. Same unproductive answer, “Avoid X, Y & Z and we’ll do a test.”
Exhausted and nearly out of hope, my conditions worsening, I took the advice given me to visit with Jennifer. Her sound advice on how to work with my digestive system (not against it) were easy to incorporate and they work. Simply stated – Jennifer has saved me. After a few visits, she has selectively found options and solutions to the daily incapacitation eating caused me. I laughingly told her it feels like we are playing a game of Gin Rummy. I have a set of cards that don’t work and need discarding, while she is dealing me the cards I need to succeed. Her professional, easy, supportive and accessible manner makes potentially difficult changes in my relationship with food a positive and joyful experience. I cannot recommend her enough.
- Diane
Erin, we did a phone appointment a few weeks ago and you gave me some great suggestions for handling my IBS symptoms. I wanted to let you know that your recommendations have helped me a TON! I feel like I've made a lot of progress with both my symptoms and my understanding of the emotional issues underlying my digestive troubles. I've been doing a lot of good work in terms of eating habits and emotional processing, and have also started reading The Slow Down Diet again from the beginning. I've been practicing week 1 (mindful breathing, eating slowly) and plan to go through the other 7 chapters, one week at a time.
Thank you again and I hope to hear from you soon.
Kind regards,
- Anonymous
I wanted to let you know that your recommendations have helped me a TON!
I have come off of the candida diet completely, and some miraculous changes have taken place. After being intolerant to beef for 10 years, I can now eat it again. Beef used to trigger extreme symptoms for me. In addition to the typical IBS red meat symptoms of pain/bloating/constipation, I also would get migraines, cystic pimples on my face, and major negative mood swings after consuming a small portion of beef. Now I can eat it just fine, no pain or indigestion, and no problems with going #2 the next day at all. :)
The other major thing that happened was, after that episode of bad gut pain toward the end of the cleanse, things gradually calmed down. Once they settled, I found that I no longer had the lower right quadrant pain that has plagued me for over 4 years. Literally nothing had helped that gut pain until your soluble fiber suggestion and doing some breathing, body awareness, meditation, and EFT and even then, it only lessened it a bit. Prior to seeing you, I had cut out gluten and dairy, taken probiotics, cod liver oil, bone broth, fermented foods, done exercises, colon hydrotherapy, juicing, etc. All those things helped my health in different ways, but they did nothing for the gut pain in that one spot.
Well, it's GONE. That embarrassing terrible gut pain is gone. I never revealed the full extent of it even to you: it made my love life hell for the last four years.
I can now push on that part of my belly and it's not tender or sore the way it used to be. It's still more "sensitive" than other areas because my body guarded that area so much since it always hurt.... but the pain is gone!! Also, nothing I've eaten has caused a major flare-up of that pain. Even if it feels a little "off" it's very different than it used to be. A little tender sometimes, but no sharp pains anymore.
So, thank you. Thank you for everything.
- Anonymous
I just wanted to let you know that you are usually the one who inspires me to get back on track and I appreciate it even if I resist sometimes (or most of the time). Thank you for helping me, and thank you for being so patient with me. I'm back on my meal plan and I already feel a lot better. See you next week.
- Katie
I just wanted to thank you again for your guidance these last couple of months. The BIA test that you did with me told a pretty dismal story at my second visit. The fact that by my fourth and final visit the test results were so drastically different really blew me away. You accomplished so much with me in such a short amount of time! The cherry on top was when I got home from that very visit... my blood test results were in from my physical (done the week before), and my cholesterol was 115! (good cholesterol was high, and bad cholesterol was low). My calcium levels were really high (yea keifer!) and everything was in the perfect range of where I should be. Anyway, I really appreciate what you did for me and what you do for everyone!
-Laura, nutrition client
Thank you so much for such an amazing trip! I think I have found a new obsession in Northwest sea vegetables. This trip took seaweed to a whole new level for me. To be able to experience it alive in nature, through harvesting, transport and processing, then into my cooking really makes me feel connected to what I am eating! . I especially enjoyed the kelp beds, but I also thought it was great that the tide was in when we harvested at the beach. I liked harvesting the plants underwater, they seemed so alive, breathing and moving with the tides.
-DeAnn Laubey, Seaweed 101 participant
My appointment with Jennifer was the single most positive “medical” experience I’ve had in my forty-two years of life. Not only in regards to my weight issue, but my health in general.
Jennifer acknowledged my current efforts in such a remarkable and kind way. Providers usually don’t look at what you’re doing right, only at what you’re doing wrong. I actually left the appointment feeling like change was possible. I’ve been overweight all of my life, and every appointment I’ve had regarding this problem from early youth until earlier yesterday has been largely degrading and horribly shaming — usually leaving me feeling much worse about the situation than before I went to seek help. I always left with a pretty bleak outlook. Jennifer acknowledged my current efforts in such a remarkable and kind way. Providers usually don’t look at what you’re doing right, only at what you’re doing wrong. I actually left the appointment feeling like change was possible.”
- Johanna Perri, private practice client
Every time I leave our appointments I want to go out and become a nutritionist so that people like me can feel a sense of hope about what normally feels like a completely hopeless situation.
Your knowledge, presence and patience have truly enriched my life, Jennifer. Every time I leave our appointments I want to go out and become a nutritionist so that people like me can feel a sense of hope about what normally feels like a completely hopeless situation. That’s how much what you do means to me.
- Kimberly Patterson
I am proud to say that I am finally at peace with my self, my body and food! I am no longer on a strict diet and have stopped weighing myself.
I felt compelled to write you to thank you so much again for all the guidance and support you gave me last year at this time. First of all, based on all the nutritionists on my insurance list of 30, it was a huge blessing that I picked you, as I feel anyone else probably would have put me on a restricted diet and I would not see lasting results or get to the deeper issues.
When I first came to see you I was obsessed with caloric intake, avoiding “bad foods,” had body image issues and was also a binge eater. I was not comfortable in my own skin! Now a year later, I am proud to say that I am finally at peace with my self, my body and food! I am no longer on a strict diet and have stopped weighing myself. I can even have pints of Haagen Dazs in the freezer for two months at a time now, knowing that I can have some whenever I want. Before the pints would have never lasted more than two days! It took me exactly 9 months to remove “the charge” out of those once “forbidden foods” and all the others I considered off limits! I really do feel free and out of the food prison and it feels so wonderful!!!
At this time I am still maintaining a good natural weight for myself and my body, but it no longer dominates my thoughts and for that I am truly thankful. Thank you again for all of your help. I am so very grateful!!
- Laurie Nelson
As always, I left your office feeling supported and encouraged.
As always, I left your office feeling supported and encouraged. Your comments about my “difficult” eating/nutrition situation as a youngster were particularly profound. I rarely think about the impact my early years have had on my decisions as an adult, but it’s helpful to take “stock” (!) and keep in awareness about the deprivation of food and love that I felt as a child — knowing that I can (and do!) make better choices for myself and my children. Thank you for reminding me, gently and calmly.
- Kathryn, nutrition client
I can’t believe my new energy level.
For ten long years, I was plagued by painful, chronic acid reflux disease. It ruined my honeymoon and my daughter’s wedding. My well-meaning doctors and well-respected surgeons all insisted that I would need to remain on Nexium for the rest of my life. I could not bear the thought, but… I took the drugs they prescribed for eight years. I contacted Jennifer through Cancer Lifeline in Seattle…As a result of her thorough diagnosis of my issues and her understanding of what the body can and cannot do, she made some…suggestions. Within two months, I was free of pain and the daily purple pill. I can’t believe my new energy level. My brother visited last month for two weeks. “Where did you get all that energy,” he kept saying. “Are you on drugs?” “No,” I said. “Thanks to Jennifer Adler, I’m off them.”
Ironically, after successfully getting off the purple pill, I received a letter from my insurance company indicating that since the cost of that prescription had risen to $968.00 for my 90-day supply, and there was no alternative drug, it would no longer be covered — funny how things work out.
- Mindy Sitton-Halleck
We have totally changed the way we are eating to focus on ADDING good things instead of just AVOIDING the bad things.
Just wanted to drop you an email to tell you that I am absolutely amazed at how good I feel this week. I took your advice and in addition to adding kefir, I got a probiotic supplement (Reuteri brand) at Whole Foods that has 5 billion and seems to be helping with the cravings a lot. My husband and I have both been taking it and neither of us have ANY cravings for sugary things. We have totally changed the way we are eating to focus on ADDING good things instead of just AVOIDING the bad things. It seems so doable and I haven’t felt that deprivation mindset at all. I have energy, and I am sleeping better, etc. I can’t wait to talk with you more at our next appointment about other healthy changes I can make. Just wanted to drop you a note now to let you know that the simple little things that you have suggested I focus on (protein, probiotics, etc.) are helping much more than I thought they would. So thank you! You are wonderful!
- Kelley N., nutrition client
It is important to me to find nutritionists who can meet the needs of my clients with compassion, honesty, and encouragement. Jennifer Adler demonstrates all three of these qualities.
As a nurse psychotherapist treating clients with eating concerns, it is important to me to find nutritionists who can meet the needs of my clients with compassion, honesty, and encouragement. Jennifer Adler demonstrates all three of these qualities, coupled with sound information and a balanced understanding of the complex realities of nutrition on today’s hectic world. She listens well, and incorporates all aspects of eating into the clinical interview: social, cultural, physical, preferences, and options. Her office has a feel of a comfortable home, and parking was a snap.
- B. Imei H., Registered Nurse
Your passion for nutrition and helping others is beautiful and I know the tools you have given me will help me for life!
It has been such a pleasure to have you help me meet all of my goals and you have been the perfect person to help me do so! You were gentle with me, yet you knew how to take me to the next level and really help me open my mind to therapeutic foods, that I might not have considered therapeutic (butter for one!). Your passion for nutrition and helping others is beautiful and I know the tools you have given me will help me for life! I look forward to staying in touch.
- Siona
You have contributed to bettering my quality of life.
Your classes have changed many of my digestive issues. I am pretty sure the Kefir and Kombucha have played a heavy role in adjusting that balance. I am no longer lactose intolerant — amazing! You have contributed to bettering my quality of life. Thank you!
- Jan Piller, nutrition client
Jennifer is knowledgeable, positive and helpful.
Jennifer is knowledgeable, positive and helpful. She shares her gift in such an amazing way and always goes the extra mile for her clients. In a world where providers have a tendency to make you feel more like a number (or dollar figure), that means a lot. Thank You!
- Sarah Foretich
What Students Are Saying…
I can hardly express to you how much of a positive impact you have made on my life.
I don’t mean to be so effusive, but I can hardly express how much of a positive impact you have made on my life. I am thankful for it everyday. Many of my conversations with my parents, customers, and co-workers begin with the sentence, “My favorite nutrition professor says…” followed by some tidbit of wisdom I learned in one of your classes. There are so many reminders in my life of the gifts you have given me. My mom usually buys organic roast chicken from a local restaurant, and she now uses the leftovers from each one to make bone broth — I don’t even have to ask! I think of Jennifer when I toast millet, swig cod liver oil straight from the bottle, suggest that someone boil quinoa like pasta, make a kale salad, take my betaine, make an herbal infusion, drink raw milk, make sauerkraut, work some kelp into my meal, dress my food with a generous pat of butter, or just slow down, breathe, and thoroughly enjoy every nuance of taste in the food I’m eating. The list goes on. Thank you again and again.
- Amie M., nutrition student at Bastyr University
It has been such an honor to hear your wisdom around food and health this past year.
I just wanted to share how much I enjoy your classes and teaching style. It has been such an honor to hear your wisdom around food and health this past year — and frankly, quite a relief. I came to Bastyr to learn more philosophical and energetic ways about nutrition and I am relieved to have been a student under your watch. There are only a handful of classes that run parallel to these values.
- McKenzie Z., nutrition student at Bastyr University
With diet change and lots more exercise I have lost 105 pounds in just over a year. I have almost lost my symptoms of Asthma, my arthritis is greatly improved, and I feel strong and full of energy!
Thanks for another great PCC Cooks class last night! Yum on every item, and I just wouldn’t think I would ever be saying Yum when eating steamed bulgur.
I first took a class on improving my metabolism from you a couple years ago. You provided information that was so foreign to what I had understood from conventional (USDA) information, and even so different from what I had learned growing up in the sixties with our whole grains, crunchy granola, back to the land information. You told us about pastured animals, about using good pastured animal fat to help us boost our metabolism and stay healthy. You mentioned the book Real Food: What to Eat and Why and I immediately ordered the book that changed our lives (mine and many family members). We now try to only eat pastured animal meats, eggs, and dairy along with many more fresh vegetables and fruits. With diet change and lots more exercise I have lost 105 pounds in just over a year. I have almost lost my symptoms of Asthma, my arthritis is greatly improved, and I feel strong and full of energy! I love trying ideas for eating and have lots of fun when my husband with his very discriminating palate says “Yum”! We eat lots of soups as main course in the winter, often just soup and salad for dinner, and summer has us eating huge salads every day. Salad with some free-range chicken or pastured beef on top is delicious! Thanks again for your fun and informative class. We will be eating the white beans with spicy beef tonight, for sure, along with the delicious kale salad.
- Betsy Hunt, a “happy and healthier cooking student”
Thank you for all your support and wonderful knowledge.
I wanted to let you know I have accepted a position as pastry chef instructor with Le Cordon Bleu in St Louis. Thank you for all your support and wonderful knowledge. I looked forward to your classes because of your teaching style and personality. My intention is to be as instrumental as a mentor to others as you have been to me. I hope we will keep in touch in the future.
- Karen Williams, nutrition student at Bastyr Univeristy
What Referring Practitioners are Saying…
I really like referring clients to Jennifer Adler. She is affiliated with Bastyr University and is very good with patients. She has common sense, works with people where they are at, doesn’t pressure and doesn’t have supplements or other things that she tries to sell. She is also really good about communicating post consult. I actually send a fair number of my anxious and depressed patients to Jennifer. She is in Seattle and I have heard nothing but good feedback from the patients I refer to her. She also runs an eating disorder program as well.
Cheryl H., referring psychiatrist
