Who am I?

Jay Tilley(they/them) is a certified holistic nutritionist (C.N.P) specializing in simple, whole food-based strategies and life style practices to heal, balance and revitalize the body, mind and spirit. Jay has decades of experience researching and embodying a holistic approach to health that centres around food and extends into daily living to build a healthy, balanced, sustainable, joyful life.  Balance brings inner peace. Inner peace creates resilience, creativity and space for meaning, and an authentic sense of self. Jay attended the Institute of Holistic Nutrition in Vancouver, Canada. IHN is a private college that offers an intensive 1 year program based on university-level curricula. Students graduate with a diploma in Applied Holistic Nutrition and have earned the designation of Certified Nutritional Practitioner (CNP), with full qualification to receive the Registered Nutritional Consultant Practitioner (RNCP) and Registered Orthomolecular Health Practitioner (ROHP) designations.

Bio

After living with depression for the better part of two decades, and finding medical interventions helpful but significantly lacking, Jay decided to focus on their relationship with food.  Through vigorous research and personal experimentation, Jay realized that the greatest sense of well-being and health came from a relationship to food that is similar to most indigenous and traditional understandings: eating diverse whole foods, eating locally and seasonally whenever possible, eating as medicine and as celebration, eating in community and with a sense of connection to the land and the food it grows, and being in touch with our state of mind and body to be nourished by what we eat.  This practice of remembering food as healing and as sacred medicine radically transformed Jay’s depression. This provided Jay the energy, motivation and passion to return to school committed to the  study of Holistic nutrition and integrated health: the intersections of community, health, nature and environment that exist both within the body and in the world around us.