Steamboat Springs, Colorado
As a Registered Dietitian (RD) my mission is to help you fall back in love with food in a healthy and sustainable way. This may involve releasing underlying patterns of rigidity with food or simply optimizing what you’re already doing.
When I was in college, I started battling some serious health issues that went undiagnosed for about six years. Eventually, I was diagnosed with Chronic Late Stage Lyme Disease, which I now know was the root cause of the myriad of health issues I experienced throughout my 20s including, but definitely not limited to, severe daily nausea, crippling anxiety, poor recovery, and mysterious joint and muscle pain that never seemed to go away.
I have since regained my health through an integrative medicine approach combining western and eastern medicine healing modalities, mental health therapy, and using food as medicine through medical nutrition therapy. My healing journey inspired my career shift from the world of engineering to the field of nutrition and dietetics. While battling Lyme disease, I learned about the importance of nutrition to help optimize health and healing. I also learned the importance of maintaining a positive relationship with food and your body.
Throughout my health journey, I leaned towards blaming my symptoms on the food I was eating, which created unnecessary food fears and a disordered relationship with food. For many years of my life, I spent too much time thinking about food from a restrictive mindset. Essentially, I felt powerless to food which caused anxiety in social situations, exacerbated my health issues, and left me feeling hopeless.
Through my clinical training as an RD, I now help clients struggling with disordered eating, recovering from an eating disorder, or those seeking a more positive relationship with food achieve what is known as "food freedom" so they can have their full life back.
Outside of work, I maintain an active lifestyle playing in the mountains of Colorado. My hometown of Steamboat Springs, CO instilled a passion and love for mountain sports, such as trail running, skiing, snowboarding, and biking. When I’m not moving my body, you can find me baking or cooking for friends and family and geeking out about all things nutrition.
Guiding Your Inner Compass Towards Health
My inspiration behind the branding for Sky's Rooted Nutrition stems from the concept of navigating through one of nature's marvels - the mountains. Topographic maps reveal the steepest routes, which are the most challenging, and routes with less dramatic incline, which can feel more sustainable.
Each route is the same amount of total elevation gain, but require different journeys and tools to get there.
As your Registered Dietitian, I act as the topographic lines to help guide your inner compass along the right route for you and your health journey. I believe everyone's health journey is unique and requires different tools, but I also believe that everyone is capable of reaching the summit of their journey regardless of the starting point. There is always a way up the mountain.
My Philosophy
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"I cannot recommend Skylar enough. She has helped me tremendously in my health journey, and I owe so much of my success to her.
After dealing with a host of confusing symptoms for several months and having seen multiple nurse practitioners to try and get answers, I was feeling lost and, frankly, hopeless.
Skylar thoroughly reviewed my lab results and confirmed my suspicions with empathy, care and understanding. She kindly explained what each value was, why it was important, and how the levels being what they were could be contributing to certain symptoms. She also helped me understand a variety of bodily processes, roles of different hormones and nutrients, and the importance of energy availability.
Above all, I finally felt heard, seen and validated. Other practitioners made me feel like it was all in my head or chalked it up to “stress” without giving me any real plan of action.
Skylar set goals with me, challenged me to really dig deep with regard to my food rules and rigidity, and overall just gave me hope again, which is something I’d lost along the way in all of this."
E.K.
Nevada
R.R.
Colorado
“I started working with Skylar this past summer, unaware how deeply I was still intertwined in my eating disorder over the past 10 years.
Not only that, but I had such intense emotions of hurt, confusion, and anger consuming me and my relationship with food. Food was not part of my life, it was my life. The good, the bad, and the ugly, food and exercise consumed my daily thoughts and made my anxiety spiral.
I had been hesitant to work with a Registered Dietitian because I feared what someone would say to me – when I was real with all the foods I ate, but more so, all the foods I wouldn’t eat (the “scary” ones).
Throughout my journey with Skylar, she has met me with compassion. When I get overwhelmed, she breaks it down. When I feel mad at myself, she finds empathy. When I get hopeless, she shows me the hope AND the progress. By working together, I no longer have a black and white mentality in my relationship with food. Its not “good” vs. “bad” or “I earned this” vs. “I don’t deserve this.” I have a body that I fuel because it’s home, because I love her. Through healing my food relationship, I have found I can show up in so many parts of my life that I had previously abandoned. I found myself.”
E.K.
Massachusetts
