Sonderself Recovery offers virtual eating disorder recovery coaching designed to support people moving through food & body distress toward a more grounded, stable, and connected sense of self. — to show you that recovery is not only possible, it will transform you.
WHO I HELP
If you feel heart-hungry, like something deeper in you is ready for peace, but you’re not sure how to access it- that’s why I’m here.
I work with those navigating eating disorders who feel stuck between awareness and change. You might understand your patterns logically, but still find yourself repeating them. You might feel exhausted from trying to “heal” on your own, or unsure what recovery is supposed to actually look like for you. What does a life beyond suffering feel like?
Most of the people I support are already insightful and self-aware. They’ve read, researched, tried different approaches, and often have some history of support — but still feel like something isn’t fully landing or lasting.
I am not here to focus on the surface level patterns and cycles that feel draining. I am here to help you see yourself through gentler, more accepting eyes. My greatest goal is to light you up to grow and build a life around recovery. One that is rooted, magical, and real.
My approach is rooted in helping you gently untangle the patterns underneath, not just manage the surface.
Over time, clients often begin to experience a shift in how they relate to themselves and food. This can look like:
less mental noise and obsession around food and eating
reduced binge–restrict or compensatory cycles
more stability and ease in daily decision-making around food
a growing sense of safety in the body over time
feeling more present, grounded, and emotionally steady
reconnecting with identity beyond the eating disorder
Recovery isn’t linear, & it doesn’t happen overnight. But with the right support, it becomes less overwhelming, less isolating, & more possible than it once felt.
This is not a rigid program. It’s a guided, supportive process that meets you where you are and evolves with you. I’m simply the guide that leads you by the hand to find yourself again. .
MEET EMMA
MEET EMMA
CCI — the Carolyn Costin Institute — is a rigorous certification program founded by Carolyn Costin, author of Eight Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder and founder of the Monte Nido Eating Disorder Treatment Centre. CCI-trained coaches work alongside a client's existing treatment team, focused on real-life, day-to-day recovery skills — like eating meals together and facing fear foods — as a hands-on complement to therapy, not a replacement for it.
For 16 years, I lived inside the cycle of anorexia and binge eating — disconnected, exhausted, and constantly at war with myself. I felt my focus, passion, and connection to life slip away. And then, I decided to choose healing on my own terms.
Not perfectly, and not all at once — but intentionally. After years of trying traditional approaches, I began rebuilding my relationship with myself in a way that actually felt human: through creativity, expression, holistic methods, and deeper self-understanding. That path let me reconnect with who I was beneath the disorder.
Now, 5 years into my own recovery, I've been coaching professionally since 2022 as a CCI-certified eating disorder recovery coach — supporting clients across 9 countries. My work blends lived experience with grounded coaching methods. I call this human-centered coaching, because the focus is always on you as a whole person, not just your eating disorder.
I'm not a conventional coach, and SonderSelf isn't a conventional space. I hold space for all of you — your light, your shadow, and everything in between. This work asks you to be honest, brave, and open to doing things differently.
If you're ready for a deeper, more personal approach to recovery, you're in the right place. If you're looking for rigid rules and surface-level fixes, this probably isn't for you.
This work matters deeply to me — because I know what it takes to choose a different path, and I know how powerful it is to not do it alone.
Why Creativity Is at the Heart of My Coaching
Creativity has always been part of how I heal — and it's woven into how I coach. In our work together, you might find yourself journaling through a self-care prompt, building a personalized "love action" ritual just for you, or using art and expression to access feelings that words alone can't reach.
Recovery isn't only behavioral — it's creative, emotional, and deeply personal, and I bring all of that into session with you. That’s why SonderSelf changes the game.
This is human-centered coaching in practice: no rigid protocol, no one-size-fits-all methods. I meet you exactly where you are, week by week, and build our work around your story and your authentic self — we build recovery around your life, not the other way around. Some sessions look like structure and accountability. Others look like art, movement, or simply being witnessed without judgment.
You're not just getting a coach who read a textbook on eating disorders. You're getting someone who healed through creativity herself, and now helps others do the same — fully, humanly, and without losing the parts of you that make you, you.