You love yourself…………
Your behaviors haven't caught up yet.
You don't need another strategy. You need to heal what's underneath.
You've spent years trying to understand why food still feels so complicated.
You see the patterns, you know where they came from, and you've done more inner work than most people will do in a lifetime. But the behaviors haven't shifted.
The mental noise around food hasn't quieted. And the gap between how much you love yourself and how you actually treat yourself around food keeps showing up.
If that resonates, this work might be for you. It's about closing that gap by healing the disconnection underneath it.
Marla’s New Book
Be-Friend Yourself
Finding Freedom with Food and Peace with your Body
WORK WITH MARLA
-
COACHING
Personalized work for people ready to heal at the root — whether that's the food struggle, generational patterns, nervous system restoration, or deepening your relationship with God.
We move at your pace, focusing on what's underneath the surface instead of managing symptoms. Transformation happens through every layer: body, heart, and spirit.
-
HEALING
Kingdom Healing is a divine transmission that transforms body, heart, and spirit. This work breaks generational patterns, releases addiction at the root, restores nervous system peace, and deepens your connection with God.
It restores your energy and boundaries, remembers your gifts and worth, and returns you to living from your center.
-
INSPIRATION
Tools, reflections, and reminders for navigating food, body, and healing. This is where you'll find support for the hard days, insights for the confusing moments, and permission to move at your own pace.
Healing isn't linear, and you don't have to do it alone.
My Journey
From the outside, my life looked good. I had work I loved, meaningful relationships, so much to be grateful for. And I was still stuck in this exhausting cycle with food that I couldn't break. The gap between how blessed my life was and how much I struggled with this one thing felt confusing and isolating.
I spent years in the same place you might be now — successful, self-aware, doing the work, completely unable to shift my relationship with food. I understood why I struggled and could trace it back through my entire life, but that knowledge didn't change anything. Therapy helped with other things but never touched the food piece. Diets worked temporarily and then collapsed.
The shift came when I stopped trying to fix a behavior problem and started healing a disconnection I didn't even know was there. When I stopped forcing and started reconnecting to my body, to myself, to God, everything changed. The noise quieted, the cycle broke, and I started trusting myself in a completely new way.
That's the work I do now, and I'd be honored to walk with you through it.
Speaking
Marla’s Tedx-
The Secret Ingredient to Feeling Good in Your Body
“I loved how honest and candid the talk was; it was very relatable. It helped me understand that body image issues affect people of all shapes and sizes and reminded me that skinny doesn’t equal happy. ” Chapman University
“Marla’s interactive talk encouraged me to reflect positively. It made me want to treat myself better and I believe that I will.” - USC student
The Real Reason Food still has Power over You.
A Free Video Course designed to support you to find out