Eating Disorder RECOVERY COACHING WITH MERRIT ELIZABETH
For women in eating disorder recovery who need more impactful support and stronger accountability
PERSONALIZED EATING DISORDER RECOVERY COACHING
Recovery gets easier when you understand what's happening inside your brain and have someone beside you who truly gets it. I'm Merrit Elizabeth, a Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach through the Carolyn Costin Institute who recovered fully from an eating disorder myself. I combine lived experience, neuroscience, and practical support to take the shame out of recovery, working alongside your treatment team to support the behavior, motivation, and mindset shifts that happen between sessions, focused on action today, not the past.
Eating disorder recovery coaching sessions may include:
short & long-term goal setting & strategizing
meal support & fear food challenges
reframing eating disorder thoughts
NEUROSCIENCE-BASED recovery ACTIVITIES
developing a recovery-oriented mindset
PERSONALIZED EATING DISORDER RECOVERY COACHING
Why a coach with lived experience?
I fully recovered from an eating disorder, and I know firsthand how complex recovery can feel. I want to meet you exactly where you are, without judgment, and help you move forward from there.
My approach brings together mind, body, and soul, drawing on neuroplasticity and mindfulness to help retrain brain patterns, reconnect you with your body’s cues, and build a life that feels aligned with who you really are.
"Having access to her whenever I am struggling with a meal or just life in general has been so helpful"
-NT
"Merrit was the difference between living in partial recovery and truly living freely from my ED"
-KV
"Merrit has continued to hold hope for me even at times when I could not for myself."
-LS
"I had no idea I could take chances, create my own life, or even change my relationships until I met Merrit."
-LMM
1:1 eating disorder recovery coaching with merrit elizabeth
Sessions are 50 minutes, weekly, over HIPAA-compliant video through SimplePractice, with text support in between. We start with an intake to set your goals, then build a plan around where you actually are: quieting negative thought loops, spotting triggers early, and relearning your body's signals for hunger, rest, movement, and emotion, with specific strategies developed alongside your treatment team and meal and fear-food support when you want it.
• short & long-term goal setting
• meal support and fear food challenges
• eating disorder thought reframes
• neuroscience-based mindset tools
• team collaboration
the DETAILS
My name is Merrit Elizabeth Pacheco and I hold a certification in Eating Disorder Recovery Coaching from the Carolyn Costin Institute, having trained directly under Carolyn Costin. I'm a magna cum laude graduate of Southern Methodist University with a Master of Science in Health Promotion Management. I also hold a Certificate in Applied Neuroscience from The Neuroscience Coaching Network, and a Certificate of Completion from Jessica Setnick's Eating Disorders Boot Camp. I’m based in Chicago, but see clients virtually all over the world!
Meet Your Coach
MERRIT ELIZABETH RECOVERY COACHING IS BUILT ON THE foundation OF:
Raising your subconscious awareness focuses on turning off your default network for negative thoughts, recognizing triggers for negative behaviors, and relearning the body’s signals for hunger, thirst, rest, movement, & emotional regulation. I will coach you to conscious eating and purposeful living.
Awareness
Conscious change requires a shift in mindset from survival of the eating disorder to the freedom of recovery. You will develop your “why’s” for recovery and begin building the environment that allows you to manifest healing. Visualization of life in recovery should be practiced regularly.
Mindset
Your brain, body, and soul depend on nutrients for healing. I can educate and empower you to understand the interconnectedness of physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Nourishment
-BK
"Working with Merrit has been so helpful! She has helped me find freedom from all the negative diet culture thoughts and anxiety. She has helped me navigate the triggers of my every day life and I would not be where I am without her!"
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