About the Author
Dr. Karin Kratina, RDN, LDN, SEP, is a nationally recognized nutrition therapist, author, and speaker whose work has helped reshape how clinicians and clients alike understand eating, weight, and the body.
The Eating Wisdom approach has been developed and refined over more than four decades of clinical practice, grounded in Dr. Kratina's deep conviction that more nutritional knowledge is rarely the answer — and that real healing requires something more fundamental: learning to work with your body rather than against it.
A pioneer in the fields of intuitive eating and Health at Every Size, Dr. Kratina was at the forefront of these ideas before they had names. In 1996, she co-authored Moving Away from Diets — one of the first professional books to bring intuitive eating into clinical practice, rooting it in research, therapeutic experience, and genuine respect for the complexity of eating struggles. A second edition followed in 2003.
Her doctoral research in Symbolic Anthropology at the University of Florida focused on women's relationships with food and body in contemporary culture — and produced a central insight that shapes her work to this day: that eating issues and body image distress can be decoded to uncover the deeper issues underneath. That decoding process became a cornerstone of the Eating Wisdom framework.
Dr. Kratina holds advanced degrees in exercise physiology, gender studies, and cognitive anthropology, and has extensive training in Somatic Experiencing and the Enneagram of Personality. She has trained thousands of health professionals across the country, lectured at national and international conferences, and consulted for eating disorder treatment programs including the University of Florida. She developed nutrition and exercise services at The Renfrew Center of Florida, one of the country's first eating disorder treatment facilities.
She currently practices in Gainesville, Florida, alongside Dr. Hannah Allen, where she works individually with people navigating the full spectrum of eating struggles — from chronic dieting and emotional eating to eating disorders and disordered body image.