I am so glad you are here
Hi! I’m Bailey Saneman MS, RD, LDN!
Together, we can uncover and learn to listen to the body’s innate wisdom that will support living your fullest life.
I was born and raised in Maryland and could usually be found on a sports field, or in a barn or the woods. I grew up with lots of different farm animals and pets and am always looking for new outdoor activities to get involved in. I eventually ended up playing lacrosse in college at the University of Vermont – a place that I was able to tie together my love of sports and the outdoors.
While playing sports, I began getting curious about nutrition and how it’s not always something that we are taught. So that’s what I did – I decided upon Nutrition as a major, and it’s lead me to where I am now. I believe that there is no right or wrong way to eat and encourage honoring our bodies and recognizing our individual needs.
Disclaimer: At Rooted Recovery, while we focus on promoting our own services to aid individuals on their journey toward wellbeing, we also advocate for the services of other clinicians and specialists and the resources they create as it aligns with our mission and values. It is important to clarify that we are not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any food, beverage, or drug companies. Our commitment remains steadfast in providing compassionate, client-centered care.
Our Model
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Health at Every Size as a movement and a community supports the right of every human to engage in health-promoting practices while honoring inherent size diversity and acknowledging the harm of weight discrimination in our culture. HAES® practitioners offer an alternative to the traditional ‘weight-centric’ approach in healthcare by rejecting the value society places on thinness and weight loss as markers of wellbeing.
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Intuitive eating as developed by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch is a framework for breaking free from the diet mentality that pulls us away from our ability to trust our internal cues to guide choices around food. Through intuitive eating, you can reconnect with signals of hunger and fullness, develop the confidence to make satisfying and nourishing choices, and reclaim the brain space that was previously overtaken by food rules, food guilt, and diet culture noise.
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A ‘non-diet’ or ‘anti-diet’ dietitian does not recommend intentional weight loss or reinforce the messages of diet culture. We provide nutrition counseling via practices that are evidence-based, and research has found that dieting will fail over 90% of the time and is not a practice that is sustainable for the human body.
We believe that using rules to ‘control’ food causes harm both mentally and physically rather than actually enhancing health as it is often portrayed. Dieting not only damages one’s relationship with food and body, but it also contributes to weight cycling (initial loss followed by weight regain), eating disorders, and disordered eating patterns. You can expect your non-diet dietitian to support your health and wellness goals without promoting behaviors that may sacrifice ultimate wellbeing.
Training
I have advanced training in eating disorder nutrition therapy for adult and adolescent populations as well as experience with athletes and sports nutrition.
University of Vermont - B.S. - Nutrition, Food Science and Dietetics
Auburn University - Dietetic Internship
Auburn University - M.S. - Nutrition
Registered Dietitian by the Commission on Dietetic Registration
Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist by the Maryland State Board of Dietetic Practice
Dietitian for the Renfrew Center of Baltimore, a partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient eating disorder treatment center for adolescents and adults
My Philosophy
I believe it is our birthright to eat intuitively and move in a way that honors our body’s unique needs and limitations.
The care you will receive while working with me will be weight inclusive, trauma-informed, grounded in the Health at Every Size® (HAES) movement, and aligned with the principles of Intuitive Eating. We will shed the damaging diet mentality and learn how your well-being does not have to come by manipulating your body size and at the expense of your mental health.