Hi, I'm Beverly.

Why "Unmeasured"

For a long time, my life was measured. Measured by the numbers an eating disorder cares about, by the miles and the times and the standings that sport cares about, and by how my body compared to the one next to me. I was good at measuring. I was also disappearing inside it.

Recovery taught me something I now believe to my core: life is meant to be about so much more than food, numbers, and body image. The meals that matter are the ones you remember for the people at the table. The body that matters is the one that carries you into your actual life. Your life was never meant to be measured.

I started Unmeasured because the support that mattered most in my own recovery was not always in a clinical setting. My therapist and dietitian were essential. But the moments that decided whether a week went well happened in the grocery store, at a restaurant, at a family table, or alone in my kitchen at night, and nobody from my treatment team was there. What helped was having someone beside me who understood why a menu could feel like a threat. Someone a few steps ahead who could say, honestly, "this part is hard, and it does get lighter."

That is what I want to be for you: a recovery buddy. Someone compassionate, relatable, and steady for the everyday moments where recovery is actually won.

How I work

Coaching with me is practical and specific. We talk about this meal, this event, this evening, this week, not recovery in the abstract. I will ask what your team has asked of you and help you do it. I will ask what you are avoiding and go there with you, at a pace you can stand. I will notice when you are tired and when you are hiding, and I will say so kindly.

I am honest about setbacks, because I had plenty, and because a slip handled with compassion is where a lot of recovery actually happens. I laugh with clients, often. Recovery is serious work, and it is also a life you are getting back, and that deserves some lightness.

And I stay in my lane. I am not your therapist or your dietitian through Unmeasured, and I will not pretend to be. What I am is the person in your corner between their appointments, and, if you want me to be, the one who tells them how it is really going.

Athletics and recovery

Sport was a big part of my story, and it is a big part of many of my clients' stories too. Athletic culture can quietly feed an eating disorder: the praise for discipline, the numbers on every surface, the idea that a body is a tool to be optimized and that pain is proof of commitment. Coaches, teammates, and uniforms can all turn up the volume.

Athletic culture can also make recovery feel like a loss of identity. If you are not the one who trains the hardest, who are you? If your relationship with movement has to change, what is left? I understand that tension personally, and I work with current and former athletes with that context in mind: the grief, the pressure, the decisions about training that belong to your team, and the slow discovery that you are more than your sport ever measured.

My background, and an important distinction

I am a licensed counselor in the state of Texas (license no. 101137). Along the way, my background has included training in eating disorders and work centered on athletic performance, including the particular pressures athletes carry around food and body. I bring all of that to coaching, along with the part no training can give: I have lived it.

Unmeasured is a coaching practice, not a counseling practice. The support I provide through Unmeasured is offered separately from my work as a licensed counselor. It is not therapy, it does not involve diagnosis or clinical treatment, and it does not create a counselor-client relationship. If you need counseling, I will encourage you to work with a therapist, and I am glad to coordinate with yours.

What I believe