Welcome to The Spoonie Dietitian
The Spoonie Dietitian has a fresh new look — and it feels like the right time to properly reintroduce myself.
It’s been a while since I last posted here. A lot has happened, personally and professionally, and honestly? I lost my spark for a bit. Earlier this year I enrolled in Markerita with Rachel Hawkins to get some marketing guidance and give the brand a refresh — new colours to complement my signature blush pink, and an updated website to match.
So today’s post is a welcome to the refreshed Spoonie Dietitian. If we haven’t met yet — hey, I’m Emma. A Dietitian, Endo warrior, POTsie, spoonie, hater of diet culture, and lover of everything pink and retro.
I’m also the founder of this little corner of the internet: an online practice supporting people with chronic illness and Endometriosis who are tired of being dismissed, gaslit, and handed restrictive diets that make everything worse.
Because I’ve been there. And I know how exhausting it is to feel like no one truly gets it.
How The Spoonie Dietitian came to be
If you've spent years being dismissed, handed a restrictive diet, and told it's "just stress" — this space was built for you.
Chronic illness is exhausting enough without having to fight through a broken system and a sea of nutrition misinformation on top of it.
The internet is full of wellness noise. Elimination diets, miracle supplements, and influencers promising cures they've never had to live through. For someone with a chronic illness, that content is everywhere — and it's genuinely hard to ignore when you're desperate for answers. But most of it isn't just unhelpful. It's harmful.
I know this world from the inside.
My own symptoms started in my teens — excruciating period pain, gut issues, fatigue. At 18, I started pushing for answers. For the next six years I was dismissed, gaslit, and sent home without answers more times than I can count.
At 24, I was finally diagnosed with Endometriosis. Later came hypermobility, then POTS and IST at 30.
Like so many spoonies, I spent most of my 20s in survival mode — managing pain, navigating diagnoses, and carrying the grief and mental load that comes with chronic illness. I lived it. I still do.
I'm also a Dietitian. And that combination — lived experience and clinical training — is exactly what's missing from most chronic illness nutrition support.
I created The Spoonie Dietitian to offer something different: compassionate, no-nonsense nutrition care that actually meets you where you are. No unnecessary restriction. No one-size-fits-all plans. Just evidence-based support from someone who genuinely gets it — and a bigger vision to change the way nutrition care for chronic illness is delivered entirely.
You deserve care that takes you seriously. That’s what this is here for.
Why the rebrand?
Honestly? I needed this.
I’d lost my sense of direction a little — and when I sat down to ask myself why I was doing this, I kept coming back to the same four things: accessibility, authenticity, curiosity, and heart. So the rebrand became a chance to make sure everything I put out actually reflects those values.
Accessibility means nutrition care that’s available to everyone, wherever you are. Online, flexible, and adapted to your needs — because accessibility should never be an afterthought.
Authenticity means I show up as myself, always. I’m an open book. I share my own experiences, I’m honest with you, and I want you to feel safe enough to be your full self with me too.
Curiosity means I’m always asking questions — about what your body is telling you, about the science, about what we might be missing. And if I don’t know the answer, I’ll find it.
Heart means I genuinely care. I’ve been where you are. I’ve been dismissed and told everything is “normal” while I kept getting sicker. Building real connections — making sure you feel seen and heard — is at the core of everything I do.
This rebrand is me putting all of that front and centre.
What’s coming next
Going forward, you can expect monthly blog posts covering spoonie nutrition topics, new research, and practical food ideas — all written with you in mind.
I’m really glad you’re here. Whether you’re newly diagnosed, years into your spoonie journey, or just looking for a space that actually gets it — welcome. This is for you.
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Emma x