Jenna Hollenstein

Jenna Hollenstein is a nutrition therapist, author, and meditation teacher whose work explores food, embodiment, and meaning in a culture obsessed with control. She is the author of Eat to Love and the creator of the Eat to Love Companion Workbook, which invites readers to dismantle food rules without replacing them with subtler, more insidious ones.

Coming of age in the late twentieth century—amid diet culture, moral panic, and the promise that self-discipline would lead to safety—Jenna understands food struggles not as personal failures but as intelligent adaptations to their time. Her work draws from intuitive eating, trauma-informed mindfulness, Buddhist psychology, and feminist inquiry to examine how hunger is shaped, distorted, and reclaimed across a lifetime.

Rather than offering fixes or prescriptions, Jenna writes for readers who are tired of optimization and interested in truth: how bodies actually work, how culture gets under the skin, and what it means to live with agency and self-trust in midlife and beyond. She lives in New York with her family and continues to write about hunger in all its forms.