Being recovered is possible.
Online and In Person Coaching with Shannon Nunnelly
you are worth the hard work
Meet Shannon
Your Eating Disorder Recovery Coach
Welcome! I'm Shannon, and I'm so glad you're here. I am a certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach through the Carolyn Costin Institute.
With 10 years of personal experience parenting and supporting my daughter through her eating disorder, I understand the dark moments and the joy that comes with recovery. Additionally, my 20 years in the education field have equipped me with patience and compassion.
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I have been actively engaged in the eating disorder community for over a decade. Before becoming a coach, I participated in advocacy efforts through fundraising walks, advocacy days, and speaking at my local state house.
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Inspired by my lived experience with my daughter’s eating disorder and my advocacy work, I became a CCI-certified recovery coach to continue pursuing my passion for helping others.
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I believe that eating disorder recovery does take a walk in courage.
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What does a coach do?
A coach collaborates with the treatment team to support clients in navigating the daily challenges of eating disorder recovery, offering both virtual and in-person sessions. A key aspect of this coaching relationship is the daily "in-the-moment" text support provided.
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I can assist you with:
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Challenging and reframing thoughts related to your eating disorder
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Developing coping skills that don't involve disordered behaviors
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Healing your relationship with food and your body​
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Our sessions, whether virtual or in person, focus on the behaviors associated with your eating disorder. While you and your therapist explore the underlying reasons for these behaviors, I’ll help you address the day-to-day challenges they create.
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Through dialogue and goal-setting each week, we will work together to challenge these behaviors. My aim is to cultivate a strong, supportive relationship that empowers you to strengthen your healthier self.
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Services
Online Support
In-Person Support
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Meal and Snack Support
Grocery and Clothes Shopping
Text Support between sessions
"Being recovered is when a person can accept his or her natural body size and shape and no longer has a self-destructive or unnatural relationship with food or exercise.
When you are recovered, food and weight take a proper perspective in your life and what you weigh is not more important than who you are. In fact, actual numbers are of little or no importance at all. When recovered, you will not compromise your health or betray your soul to look a certain way, wear a certain size or reach a certain number on a scale. When you are recovered, you do not use eating disorder behaviors to deal with, distract from, or cope with other problems."
- Carolyn Costin
I am so grateful for the opportunity to add a recovery coach to my treatment team. Working with my therapist and dietitian was helpful and important in helping me develop the skills needed to fight the eating disorder and pursue recovery. But choosing to work with Shannon as my recovery coach provided the day to day accountability, support, and encouragement that I so badly needed. While I found I often knew what I needed to do next, I still often needed help taking those next steps. Shannon has played a critical role in helping me hold onto a recovery perspective, often acting as the healthy self voice while I work to strengthen my own. Shannon is instrumental in helping me to set small, actionable goals. As my recovery coach, Shannon also stays connected with my therapist and dietitian, providing them with updates from our work together as well as supporting me in maintaining strong, transparent communication. In all these ways, Shannon’s role as my recovery coach has served very practical benefits. But perhaps even more importantly, her relentless commitment to my recovery and her unwavering belief in me have consistently nurtured my belief in myself—and this has been the turning point in my years-long battle to find and sustain recovery. My relationship with Shannon as my recovery coach has fundamentally changed my perspective of myself and strengthened my belief that full recovery and freedom exist, and that they are possible for me.
- B.M.
I had always wondered what a recovery coach could offer as opposed to a therapist, but after meeting Shannon, I was heartened to see that there was so much more being offered. In my recovery coach, I found a friend, confidante, and well-wisher. When I was struggling emotionally, Shannon was always available to check-in and give me a different perspective than what my medical team, friends, or family could offer. I appreciate all her effort and willingness in helping me work towards accepting the new me, even when I couldn't.
- L.N.