Who am I?

Jay Tilley(they/them) is a certified holistic nutritionist (C.N.P) specializing in simple, whole food-based strategies to heal, balance and revitalize the body, mind and spirit. Jay has decades of experience researching and embodying a holistic approach to health that centres around food and extends into lifestyle practices to have a healthy, balanced, sustainable, joyful life.  Balance brings inner peace, inner peace creates resilience, creativity and space for meaning, and an authentic sense of self.

Bio

After living with depression for the better part of two decades, and finding medical interventions helpful but insufficient, Jay decided to focus on their relationship with food.  Through vigorous research and personal experimentation, Jay realized that the greatest sense of well-being and health came from a relationship to food that is similar to most indigenous and traditional understandings:

Eating diverse whole foods, eating locally and seasonally whenever possible, eating as medicine and as celebration, eating in community and with a sense of connection to food, and being in touch with our state of mind and body when we are being nourished by what we eat.  This practice of remembering food as healing and as sacred medicine radically transformed Jay’s depression. This provided Jay the energy, motivation and passion to return to school committed to the  study of Holistic nutrition and integrated health: the intersections of community, health, nature and environment that exist both within the body and in the world around us.

As a person of white settler ancestry, with all the advantages afforded a male body, Jay is deeply committed to life-long practice of Somatic abolitionism (ending white-body supremacy). This work further focuses on decolonization (cultural, psychological and economic freedom, and the right to self-determination), including learning from and honouring lineages of queer intersectional feminism and Indigenous Kinship. Jay is in daily practice with each of these practices to create authentic, accountable and transparent community and action. Jay wishes to use their position of advantage, access and safety, to redistribute knowledge, sharing, caring and resources, to bring justice and intimacy back into the body and its relationships. Jay’s practice is a reflection of the work they are deeply committed to and choose to build their life around, leaving compassionate room for growth, change and learning/unlearning.