About
I coach from the road I've walked.
I'm Tahmina, a recovery coach drawing on lived experience of eating disorder recovery and integrative-health training. This is the work I needed, offered to the person you are now.
Hi, I'm Tahmina. I struggled with eating disorders, and the mental health conditions that came with them, for three and a half years. I was exactly where you might be right now. Lost in a flood of advice from social media and podcasts telling you what your recovery is supposed to look like. Comparing yourself to people who seem to have left the eating disorder behind and built beautiful, exciting lives, and feeling hopeless that you're nowhere near that kind of healing.
Here's what I've come to believe. That hopelessness comes from somewhere specific. We stop letting ourselves hear our own internal voice, the one that actually knows how our healing should look. Only you know what kind of life, and what choices, will carry you out of the misery.
I broke out of my eating disorder, and now I live in steady, stable recovery. I got here by giving myself the space and the time to examine my life with radical honesty. To see clearly which events and experiences led me into an eating disorder in the first place. Where they were external things I had no control over, and where the power to repair my relationship with food and my body was in my own hands all along.
That radical honesty led me to unconditional compassion for myself. And that compassion gave me a kind of limitless freedom to grow through my own agency. Honesty, then compassion, then agency. Each one made the next one possible.
Now that I'm free of the eating disorder's skewed paradigm, I know myself well enough to make choices that feel authentic to me. I no longer look for validation, or try to control what's on my plate, to feel in charge of my life.
If you want to set yourself free and start living a life where you come first, where you grow through self-knowledge and your own agency, let's book a discovery call and see whether we're a match to walk through this together.
The philosophy
Honesty, compassion, agency
My approach is a threefold framework, each part building on the one before it.
Radical self-honesty
It begins with looking within, and learning to watch your own life as if it were a film, where you are the main character living your days and making your choices. Some of those choices are good to see. Others are painful. You have to acknowledge that you are the character making the choices that leave you miserable, reinforcing the behaviors around food, meeting your reflection with a harsh eye. And you come to see that this character's relationship with food and her body wasn't formed in a vacuum. It was shaped by her environment, the people around her, the work and lifestyle that triggered her unwellness, and the choices that led to the eating disorder in the first place. The work here is to accept that character fully, and to hold yourself honestly accountable for the emotional and spiritual damage she has been quietly carrying.
Self-compassion
Once you can accept the whole of that character, not just the parts that are easy to love, compassion follows. The self-knowledge you've earned lets you finally put your own desires and boundaries first. Above other people, above circumstances, above the pull of the disorder.
Growth through self-agency
That combination, knowing yourself clearly and meeting yourself with love, releases a kind of limitless agency. It gives you the power to grow into a version of the character you'll be proud to watch on the screen.
Built on a whole-person foundation
That framework rests on an integrative, biopsychosocial view of health: you are not a symptom to manage but a whole person across four pillars, each one shaping the others.
Physical
Nourishment, energy, rest, and your body's lived signals.
Mental
Thought patterns, beliefs, and the stories you tell yourself.
Emotional
Feeling, naming, and learning to sit with what arises.
Spiritual
Meaning, values, and a sense of purpose beyond symptoms.
Credentials
Where my experience comes from
Integrative Health Coaching Certification
Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), 2025.
Lived experience of eating disorder recovery
Roughly a year of steady remission, and the daily practice that sustains it.
Founder of WaitStop
Building tools that support people beyond the coaching room.
To be clear and honest about scope: I am nota therapist, psychologist, dietitian, physician, or any kind of licensed clinician, and I do not hold an eating-disorder–specific clinical credential. I don't diagnose, treat, or cure. I coach, and I'll always tell you when something belongs with a licensed professional instead.
Curious whether we'd work well together?
Start with a free discovery call. No commitment, no health details needed up front.