What is Eating Joyfully?
Eating joyfully is healthy eating grounded in gratitude. Gratitude for what we are consuming. Noticing how each morsel affects our body. The act of respecting both the food itself and our consumption.
What is EatingJoyfully.com?
Eating Joyfully’s mission is to help people eat more healthfully, with more joy, more often. Our goal is to teach how healthy eating is, at its core, a journey of exploration and discovery — a journey that can transform our physical and spiritual well-being.
Over the years, the website has expanded to involve collaboration with students and others seeking to share their experiences adapting favorite foods to accommodate health concerns that they and/or their loved ones have developed. Health concerns present many opportunities to re-explore our relationship with food and rekindle the joy of recreating ourselves every time we eat and drink!
Suzen M. Moeller, PhD, MS
Joyfully Healthy Eating Facilitator
Suzen M. Moeller is a nutritional epidemiologist, educator, spiritual director, and artist who loves eating joyfully/healthfully!
Dr. Moeller earned her master’s degree in human nutrition science and doctorate in nutritional epidemiology from Tufts University in Boston, MA. Following the completion of her post-doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she worked for a large health-professional organization where she spent her days on public policy issues related to diet and nutrition while helping develop and evaluate educational resources for healthcare professionals and patients.
In addition to her other accomplishments, Dr. Moeller earned a certificate in spiritual direction from the Claret Center in Chicago, IL. She went through additional training during her time at Claret on using meditation, visual art, and music as spiritual tools.
Eating Joyfully was born out of Dr. Moeller’s desire to share with others the joy that she feels when eating healthy foods. She knows that eating joyfully is difficult in our world. Dr. Moeller has felt frustration, anger, and sadness with food after her diagnosis with a “perfect allergic gut,” which made it incredibly stressful to eat. From this struggle, however, came gifts in the forms of realizations and accrued knowledge. Dr. Moeller’s relationship with food began to improve, and she realized that the core of eating joyfully stems from the finding, opening, and treasuring of these gifts.
When not eating joyfully, Dr. Moeller serves as Professor of Health Sciences at North Park University in Chicago. Outside of work, she likes to bike, hike, dance, draw, paint, watch sci-fi, and prepare joyfully healthy foods to share with her family.
