About Sarah Diamond - Finding Ground Nutrition

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” – Helen Keller

Hey there! I’m Sarah, a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (FNTP), a Restorative Wellness Practitioner (RWP), a Certified Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher, and a graduate student living in Boston, Massachusetts. I work with people who are frustrated with their health feel better through targeted nutrition therapy and mindfulness techniques. I believe that when one of us heals, we help heal the world through a ripple effect that touches our communities and beyond.

Finding Ground is the culmination of many years of trial and error in my own health journey, that I’m now bringing to you. I believe that individualized nutrition and self-compassion therapy has the power to change lives, by empowering you to understand your body’s needs, be your own best advocate, and make choices that help heal our broken food and health systems.

I started Finding Ground after graduating from the Nutritional Therapy Association in 2020, with the goal of working with individuals to help them streamline their health goals and stop being so confused about the misinformation surrounding nutrition — like I was for much of my life. It was only after I completed deep study, both in a school setting and at holistic and functional health clinics around the world, that I learned the art of intuitively using food as medicine through a compassionate and intentional relationship with the body and self.

Discovering a peace of mind and compassion for your body to build a strong foundation and flourish in mindful living.

My Story

ON MY 23RD BIRTHDAY, I WOKE UP ON WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SPECIAL DAY to the stark realization that my health issues were getting worse. I didn’t know it at the time, but I faced Candidiasis, hypothyroidism, losing my period, adrenal fatigue, and anxiety and panic attacks that I was starting to realize weren’t normal. I had lived this way for so long, and swept it all under the rug for years in a desperate desire to be successful, accomplished, and seen; but what my body really needed, was a break.

I studied food, health, and environmental policy in college, and spent much of my education abroad, in health clinics, organic farms, off-the-grid communities, and NGOs, trying to fulfill my deep curiosity for why humans had so much trouble finding a balance with the planet and with each other. But as I was studying the problems around me, I neglected the problems within me; a type of self-abandonment I would soon learn is an almost universal experience for people with an “autoimmune mindset.”

In my research, I started to see that environmental toxins, unattainable societal beauty and achievement standards, and food that was purposely manufactured to exploit our natural cravings were stripping people of their intuitive sense of health and happiness. I found that chronic disease rates are at an all-time high and that conventional medicine doesn’t address preventative lifestyle and nutrition measures as a way of managing them, instead focusing on treatment. As I started on my healing journey, I decided I was going to make the process of healing as beautiful as the healed state I was striving for. As I traveled, I made a roadmap up out of the darkness and into the light.

Now, I help people with a wide range of health concerns, all of which stem from the foundations I focus on (digestive health, blood sugar balancing, hormonal health, and brain health), heal from issues they believed had no hope. I take the time to listen, and together we make an individualized, sustainable, BS-free plan for your healing.

You are worth fighting for. I have found that people with illness/es are often far more patient and understanding of the people around them than of themselves. That “autoimmune mindset” stops now.

Welcome to Finding Ground Functional Nutrition. I’m so excited you’re here.

Credentials

Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (FNTP) from the Nutritional Therapy Association (2020)

Certified Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher from the School of Positive Transformation (2020)

Restorative Wellness Practitioner (RWP) L1 from Restorative Wellness Solutions (2021)

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) in training, year 2, from Somatic Experiencing Institute (2019-2022)

Master of Science student at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (2021-2023)