Healthanie offers nutrition, neurochemistry, and nervous system-based support for overeating, binge eating, and food addiction.
This work is grounded in a simple understanding: Binge eating isn’t random. It’s chemistry meeting context.
Eating that feels out of control is the body’s attempt to regulate — both the nervous system and reward pathway in the brain.
This work centers neurochemistry, pattern awareness, and practical rituals so regulation can return and eating can settle more naturally.
About
The work
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Healthanie supports thoughtful, capable individuals who feel out of control around food. Food thoughts feel constant. Binge eating feels compulsive.
It is a structured, nutrition, neurochemistry, and nervous-system based approach for those who want to stabilize binge eating patterns and rebuild trust within themselves.
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Stephanie Pasewaldt, also known as Healthanie, is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), Master of Public Health in Behavior Change (MPH), and Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) with a background in crisis intervention.
More importantly, she is a recovering Binge Eating Disorder and food addiction sufferer.
Her work integrates formal training in nutrition and neurochemistry with lived experience navigating dysregulated eating.
She specializes in helping people understand the neurochemical drivers behind overeating — including dopamine rhythms, cortisol load, and nervous system regulation — so food no longer feels like a constant battle.
Stephanie works from a neurochemistry-first lens: when the nervous system stabilizes and brain pathways regulate, behavior follows.
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Nutritional therapy is an individualized, capacity-based approach that supports eating regulation through food, nutrients, and lifestyle with an emphasis on education and tool delivery.
Rather than focusing on restriction or control, its principle work is to stabilize the systems that influence eating behavior, including blood sugar, stress hormones, dopamine rhythms, and nervous system load.
When these systems are supported, food becomes less urgent, less magnetic, and more steady.
The goal is regulation — so eating feels supportive instead of something you have to fear and fight.
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Safety
Attunement
Integrity
Connection
Freedom