Welcome to Nutrition Stripped®, founded by McKel Hill Kooienga, MS, RDN, LDN. Our mission is to help you feel confident, balanced, and at peace with food. Here, you’ll learn how to nourish yourself and create a balanced and holistic lifestyle that empowers you to feel aligned, calm, and in control of your eating habits.
We’re here to guide you in breaking free from diets, food stress, and restrictive mindsets so you can cultivate a lasting, positive relationship with food. Through our education and tools, we empower you to live a life of nourishment and balance.
Our Balanced & Mindful Manifesto
Whether you’re looking to create more balanced eating habits, find your balanced weight, or manage a health condition with more mindful eating, if these statements below resonate with you, then you’re in the right community!
We embrace the individual, not strive for perfection.
We prioritize intentional action, practice, and progress over the pursuit of perfection. We believe that small, practical daily steps—tailored to your unique well-being—are the key to building sustainable habits that last.
Striving for perfection creates an imbalance, leaving us stuck, overwhelmed, and disconnected from the present moment. It hinders your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Instead, we focus on nourishing yourself with balance, embracing progress, and cultivating a sense of peace and empowerment along your journey.
We honor the many roles food plays in our lives.
We believe food goes beyond physical nourishment. It’s about honoring its many roles in our lives—connecting us to our culture, traditions, social experiences, and the simple joy of eating.
You don’t have to choose between nourishment and enjoyment; they can coexist. Unlike what diets may tell you, you can have both. Balanced eating enriches your life, allowing you to fully embrace social gatherings, celebrations, travel, and the discovery of new cultures, all while providing your body with the nutrients it needs to thrive.
We deserve and are worthy of long-term health.
We practice embodying the balanced, future selves we aspire to be—believing that by acting in alignment with that vision, we become it.
We are worthy of prioritizing our health and embracing a mindset that goes beyond the quick fixes or 30-day plans. This journey is one of growth, learning, and expansion. It’s not about chasing short-term results but about nurturing a long-term, evolving relationship with ourselves and our well-being.
We honor our unique needs.
We honor our unique bodies by cultivating self-awareness and a deep mind-body connection, allowing us to tune in to our true needs and desires. We believe in listening to ourselves, not ignoring our needs for the sake of following rigid plans or ticking generic boxes.
We trust that we know ourselves best, and through mindful reflection on our thoughts, feelings, and actions around food, we can find balance and nourish ourselves in a way that truly aligns with our well-being.
We cultivate compassion and curiosity.
We speak to ourselves with deep compassion and curiosity when it comes to our eating habits. We reject shame, stress, and pressure to “get it right” or avoid failure. Instead, we embrace challenges as opportunities for growth.
We believe that non-judgmental observation, paired with compassion and curiosity, helps us deepen our inner wisdom, fostering the balance and well-being we seek on our journey.
We strive for balance.
We find balance by nourishing ourselves in harmony with the flow of life, aligning and recentering on The Balance Spectrum™. We avoid swinging from one extreme to the other or cycling between rigid approaches to eating.
Our practice is about calibrating to the center—the happy medium—rather than adopting strict or extreme mindsets. We focus on flexible, balanced nourishment that supports our well-being without rigid rules or limitations.
We are open to a journey that’s easy and enjoyable.
We design a way of eating and living that is entirely unique to our bodies and lifestyles, cultivating a sense of peace and ease.
We understand that following diets or plans that aren’t tailored to us creates resistance and requires force. True nourishment comes naturally when we align with what we genuinely want and need, allowing balanced eating to feel effortless and sustainable.
Where To Get Started
Register For The Free Class
Learn if the Mindful Nutrition Method is right for you by registering for our free class to learn how to break free from feeling stressed and obsessed with food and diets to create balanced eating habits for life! Watch it here →
Join Our Balanced Eating Made Easy Mini-course
Presented by the Mindful Nutrition Method™, this Mini-Course will teach you how to create simple meals that nourish your body, so you can feel your best every day while also supporting your long-term well-being. This is one tool of many we teach within the full Mindful Nutrition Method™ program. Get Started →
Join The Mindful Nutrition Method™
The Mindful Nutrition Method™ is our signature process to help you feel confident and balanced with food. By the end of this program, you’ll cultivate balance, peace, and ease with your eating habits. Join us here →
Community
We are deeply grateful that our work reaches readers all over the world, and we warmly welcome people from all walks of life—across ages, gender identities, sexual orientations, political beliefs, races, ethnicities, body sizes, and abilities. In joining our compassionate community, we hope to share a mutual respect for everyone’s well-being. Our goal is for each member to feel welcome.
Connect
Learn how to create a balanced mindset around food, experience positive eating habits, and embody balance with the way you uniquely nourish yourself.
Get started today: take our free “What’s your balance eating archetype? Quiz!