Meet Julie

Thrive Nutrition and Wellness, LLC is the home of Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Julie Feldman MPH, RDN. Julie is a nationally recognized nutrition expert, counselor, speaker spokesperson and author who has helped thousands of individuals live a healthier life.

Julie’s 25-year career includes hundreds of appearances on FOX 2, ABC, and NBC news in Detroit. She has been the media representative for the Michigan Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and has served as a spokesperson for Coca Cola, KIND Bars, The National Fishery Institute, Bed Bath and Beyond, Azteca Foods and more. Julie is a national speaker for Mead Johnson Corporation where she educates physicians, nurses and fellow dietitians on the benefits of advanced infant formula. Julie serves as a facilitator for the Obesity Interventions in Adults and Pediatrics program that is taught around the country. She speaks regularly at The University of Michigan as well as at Orangetheory Fitness locations in around the country. Julie is also proud to be partners with some of the best physicians in Metro Detroit in the nutritional care of their patients.

Approach

Julie’s approach to health and wellness is unique. With a deep appreciation and understanding of the emotional components that are key determinants to our success, Julie is able to synthesize evidence-based nutrition science with compassion, mindfulness and a personal touch to create a unique and life-changing approach to well-being. Julie provides trauma-informed care to children and adults in a peaceful setting every day.

Expertise

  • Weight Loss
  • Eating Disorders
  • Body Image Issues
  • Food Allergies
  • Gastrointestinal Disease
  • Auto-immune Disease
  • Diabetes
  • Hypertension
  • Heart Disease
  • Athletes
  • Vegetarian and Vegan Diets
  • Picky Eaters
  • Meal Planning
  • Grocery Shopping Guidance
  • General Wellness
  • Pre/Post-Natal Nutrition for Mom and Baby

Focus On Families

Julie entered the world of dietetics with the primary goal of helping children to learn how to lead a happy and healthy life.  As a child that dealt with issues around weight, Julie began the process of transforming her mind and body at the age of 12. Throughout her lifelong and continuing journey, Julie is in touch with the feelings and emotions that face children that deal with weight as an issue. Julie believes that children are never too young to learn the connection between a balanced diet and a strong body.

Her approach to working with kids on all issues is to empower them with the knowledge they need to feel confident in any situation. Julie speaks to families with language that kids understand so that the entire family is educated. As a mother of three children, Julie understands firsthand the pressures of the daily routine and how to make a balanced diet “fit” into our busy schedules.

Value-Driven Nutrition

When it comes to food we often focus solely on when to eat and what to eat, however this way of thinking leaves out the important question of WHY we eat what we do when we do it. The truth is nutrition is NOT a one size fits all topic of conversation. For each of us, different nutritional choices will make sense at different points throughout our life. Julie’s unique approach to providing Value Driven Nutrition counseling allows her clients, both kids and adults, to use their own personal values to help drive the nutrition conversation. Too often we think of food as good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. This type of thinking leads to negative thoughts and self-talk when we participate in certain moments throughout our life, like eating birthday cake at a party or sharing in appetizers for a holiday get together. Helping clients to see that their decisions are driven by their personal values rather than just a lack of control around food can help to keep a positive mindset as clients aim to change their relationship with food. Furthermore, connecting a client with their values truly provides them with a road map for making decisions in their life. Value Driven Nutrition is a game changing approach to health and wellness that removes the feelings of restriction many experience. If you have dieted unsuccessfully in the past, this mindset shift may be just the refresh you are looking for.

Speaker

Julie’s experience, confidence and knowledge shines through in her work as a public speaker and nutrition educator. Whether she is lecturing to a group of new moms or to a group of physicians and nurses, Julie shares her passion for the importance of good nutrition in a personable and approachable way.

Julie speaks to groups, both large and small, and is able to create motivating wellness-based presentations that call to action the listeners. In a workplace setting, wellness presentations improve morale and increase productivity. In a social setting, wellness presentations generate camaraderie and increase participation.

Corporate Wellness

The Mission of Thrive@work is to echo the directive of your companies’ leadership by improving the health and wellness of its entire staff creating an enhanced quality of life and in turn an enhanced qualtiy of work. What does it mean to THRIVE? Thriving is growing or developing well or vigorously, to prosper and to flourish. Thriving is not simply surviving, but rather reaching to the next level in all that we do. When it comes to health and wellness for most people it may feel that there are roadblocks in the path to achieving optimal outcomes. Thrive@work will be a platform designed from the ground up to cater specifically to the needs of the your workforce to remove those roadblocks. Through Education, Empowerment, Community building, Story telling and of course Incentives, Thrive@ will partner with employees to improve physical and mental health. Thrive@work is unique. It will be a trauma-informed, weight neutral, eating disorder informed approach to adressing employee’s healthcare needs. Our goal is to raise people up, not to label or shame. We will ask “What happened to you” rather than “What’s wrong with you” because we will recognize that many of our lifestyle decisions are mere reactions and coping mechanisms and that each of us has the right and the ability to learn how to take care of themselves in the most optimal way.

Let’s work together to let your employees Thrive@work

Dietitian Mentorship and Supervision

Becoming and practicing as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist is one of the most rewarding career paths in the world. My journey in the work that I do began 24 years ago and was only enhanced because of the incredible mentors I had at the beginning of my practice. As a private practice dietitian with an extensive background in mental health there is nothing I enjoy more than sharing my practice pearls with new and veteran dietitians looking to venture deeper into the psychological aspects of our relationship with food and who want to help clients turn knowledge into action. So many clients will say “I know what to do but I’m just not doing it,” and there is a reason that is the case. Knowledge is amazing but our decision making is complicated and knowledge alone doesn’t make choices.

Teaching trauma-informed nutrition counseling to other dietitians is my passion. If you find yourself counseling clients and feeling stuck in your work, or counseling clients and don’t feel you have the skills to help them dive deeper into their food relationships I’d love to be able to help you to develop those skills. There is a tremendous body of information that exists including therapeutic frameworks, mindfulness techniques, and numerous tips and tricks that can truly allow you to help your clients in new and unimaginable ways.

Success Stories

SG

Working with Julie has truly been a life-saver for me. She is always there to cheer me on in my never-ending fight to step away from unhealthy eating habits. Even when I want to give up, she is quick with just the right supportive word that enables me to keep fighting to improve my life. Her kindness comes through every time we speak. She is truly a treasure and I am honored that she is such an integral part of my journey!!

BN

Working with Julie has changed so much more for me than just my relationship with food. She has taught me how to grow my relationship with myself and helped me to become more confident and comfortable within my own skin.

AK

Julie has a special way of giving me the tools to help conquer food concerns that I face with gastrointestinal and dietary concerns that I face on a daily basis. She is an amazing listener and so compassionate, including giving me specific ways to help improve the issues that I face. Her help is literally priceless.

KL

I was tired of diets and gimmicks and fast ways to take off weight (which always resulted in gaining it back) when I started working with Julie. With Julie as my guide, I changed the way I think about food, and within a year, I dropped 20 pounds without dieting, and without feeling restricted. She's the best!

Anon

Julie has been an amazing support system for my weight loss journey. Her approach is very realistic and accommodates my work life/lifestyle. Her positivity is infectious and she is always accessible, which is very helpful. I am excited to continue working with her.

Allison W

For the first time, after many years struggling with self-image, weight issues, and eating disorders, I feel stronger and more encouraged than ever. In addition to Julie’s vast knowledge regarding nutrition, she also has a deep understanding and insight into the psychological aspects of weight loss. Through her personal approach, accessibility, mentorship, and motivation, Julie has helped me work on underlying issues and understand what being healthy actually means!

Rochelle R

We Love Julie Feldman!!!! She has helped tremendously to motivate us to eat healthier as a family. She has taught us many very important tips & given us ideas for healthy eating (even when we eat out), And taking into account the very busy lifestyle of a family with school-age kids!! Because of Julie, we have All become healthier and happier!! She is Amazing!

Lonnie H

Julie provided me with the right information, tools, and resources on a very personal issue. She was very effective in providing me helpful suggestions that turned became real solutions.

CK

Julie is a one-of-a-kind dietician. In addition to being incredibly knowledgeable about nutrition, she is kind and compassionate. She truly cares about the people she works with. My relationship with food and with my body has grown immensely in the three years that I have worked with her. She has helped me overcome my eating disorder in a way that no other dietician that I have worked with has achieved. I am incredibly grateful for Julie and I highly recommend her.

MK

Julie cares about treating your daughter as a person by connecting with them on a personal level, so she can give them the help they need. She is extremely knowledgeable about eating disorders and what needs to be done for each individual case. Julie is very resourceful and can guide you through the process of recovery, as well as communicate effectively with the rest of the team. As a parent, I trust my daughter's care to her with complete confidence, as she is now in recovery and doing great in large part due to Julie and her thoughtful interventions... she is beyond amazing and we are thankful we get to work with her!!! Highly recommend!!!!

MD

I started working with Julie as a way to step out of my eating disorder where for years, I was held hostage by a myriad of food rules and restrictions. Working with Julie, I finally have a solid, healthy relationship with food, and I continue to work with her to navigate food allergies without falling into the unhealthy habits of days past. Having Julie in my corner, with her unwavering support and guidance, is why I finally look forward to meals!

SS

Julie is outstanding! We began working together almost a year ago prior to a surgery I was having and have been working together since. Not only has she drastically improved aspects of my diet/nutrition, but she has also played a huge role in my recovery process and helped keep me on the right track — both mentally and physically. As a former elite athlete, I had sought the advice of nutritionists previously, but none compare to the work and progress I’ve made with Julie. She truly is the best!

AL

Working with you has been an interesting and very rewarding experience. I had such a negative view of food in the sense of being on many different diet programs and when you didn’t lose or you didn’t do what they asked you were shamed or made to feel guilty of the choices of food that you made and the only result from that was more negative choices. What I learned from you was how food affects your moods how you feel in general about yourself and it’s a much more positive experience. I have learned food is not your enemy but when you make better choices you feel good about yourself and it’s very empowering! Everyone needs to have a healthy relationship with food, it’s a journey like life. JULIE is an inspiring life coach so positive never shaming or criticizing you for not the best choices. One learns from their mistakes and move on you can’t undo the past. We all stumble in life and we learn from it and move on JULIE is an amazing person and anybody that would have the opportunity to work with her would be fortunate. it’s a very uplifting experience. Julie is a joy to work with!

ES

Julie’s expertise extends beyond nutrition. She has explored my thoughts and feelings surrounding food. I can now enjoy intuitive eating with my friends and family.

HE

Working with Julie has made me feel more powerful in my decisions based on food. I had an extreme emotional connection and Julie helped me to break that, and see food in a completely different way. After losing about 30 pounds I feel absolutely incredible and can’t wait for the journey ahead!

Selda Dauti

We had the pleasure of having Julie come out to our studio and absolutely loved all the knowledge and information that she shared with us. We are a healthy group of people however we still learned so much from Julie in such a short amount of time. She is knowledgeable and her information is studied and fits everyone’s lifestyle. We are looking forward to our next session as a team.

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