Jessica Brown author "Beyond The Shot" and "The Loving Diet"
"Beyond The Shot" by Jessica Brown
"The Loving Diet" by Jessica Flanigan Brown

About Jessica Brown

Jessica Brown is a clinical nutritionist with nearly 25 years of experience, a Stanford-certified compassion teacher, and the author of two published books, Beyond the Shot: Inner Work for Lasting Success on Weight Loss Medications and The Loving Diet. She specializes in helping individuals using GLP-1 medications, including Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Mounjaro®, and Zepbound™, navigate the emotional, psychological, and behavioral aspects of lasting weight loss through evidence-based nutrition, self-compassion, reparenting, parts work, and sustainable behavior change. Jessica serves as a visiting faculty member at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.

Key Topics Jessica Covers

  • GLP-1 nutrition and food noise

  • Emotional eating and self-sabotage patterns

  • Self-compassion techniques for long-term success

  • Reparenting strategies for healing old wounds

  • Building resilience and identity beyond weight loss

Professional Background

With nearly 25 years of experience, Jessica has helped thousands of people heal both physically and emotionally.

She is the author of two books:

  • Beyond the Shot (2025) — the first comprehensive book for GLP-1 users, focused on emotional and psychological healing.

  • The Loving Diet (2015) — one of the first mind-body books supporting people with autoimmune diseases.

    Beyond The Shot: Inner Work for Lasting Success on Weight-Loss Medications by Jessica Brown is available for purchase on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Spotify.

Jessica helps people who feel stuck. Whether they are struggling with emotional eating, food noise, weight loss resistance, heart disease, perimenopause, digestive issues, or chronic health concerns, she works to uncover and address both the physical and emotional factors driving their symptoms.

She also consults with practitioners on complex clinical cases, integrating advanced laboratory testing, including blood, stool, saliva, urine, genetic, and biometric assessments, to develop individualized nutrition protocols.

Official Profiles

What It’s Like to Work Together

Lasting change comes from addressing both the physical and emotional sides of health. Jessica combines advanced clinical nutrition with self-compassion to help clients understand not only what to change, but why change has felt difficult in the first place.

Her philosophy is simple: No one is broken. Instead of trying to "fix" people, Jessica helps clients uncover the physical, emotional, and belief-based patterns that shape their relationship with food, weight, and health. Together, you work toward lasting change with curiosity, compassion, and practical tools that fit your life.

Media & Contact

Jessica Brown
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For interviews, speaking engagements, or media features, please don't hesitate to reach out. A full media kit is available upon request.

Podcast Interviews

Summits & Presentations

  • California Peptide Club April 2026 Speaker and Panel Guest

  • Secrets to Mastering Menopause: Self-Compassion for Menopause 2022

  • Autoimmune Summit (with Elsa Quarsell), May 2021

  • Conscious Eating Summit (Dr. Nancy Crowell), June 2019

  • Empowered Autoimmune Mastermind Summit Guest Speaker (Ali Le Vere), January 2018

  • Further Food Autoimmune Awareness Month Guest Speaker, April 2017

  • Feed A Brain Summit (Cavin Balister), February 2017

  • The Professional Women’s Weight & Wellness Symposium, January 2016

  • Microbiome Medicine Conference, San Francisco, 2019 & 2018

  • Sarah Zielsdorf Functional Medicine Clinic, Chicago, 2018

  • The Loving Diet Workshop, Chicago, 2016

Education

Stanford University School of Medicine CCARE Applied Compassion Training – Certified Compassion Teacher/Educator – 2022

Mindful Self-Compassion 8-week course 2021

Dr. Robert Waterman, private intern 2016-2022

Quimby Institute – Certified Noetic Field Balancing Practitioner Training -2017

Certified Clinical Nutritionist, IAACN – 2006

Book cover titled 'Beyond the Shot' by Jessica Brown with the subtitle 'Inner work for lasting success on weight-loss medications.' The cover features a blue background with large yellow text and an illustration of a vaccine vial partially visible through a torn blue paper revealing pink behind it.

Beyond the Shot: Inner Work for Lasting Success on Weight Loss Medications (2025)

Beyond the Shot explores the psychological and emotional dimensions of GLP-1 therapy, providing readers with practical tools to build lasting change alongside the physical effects of medications such as Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Mounjaro®, and Zepbound™.

The book begins by acknowledging the profound impact these drugs can have in quieting “food noise” and reducing cravings, while also raising the deeper questions that surface once the urgency around eating subsides: How do I navigate body image changes? What if I fear weight regain? How do I sustain results in the long term?

Drawing on her clinical experience as a nutritionist and compassion teacher, Jessica Brown presents a framework for addressing these challenges through evidence-based therapeutic approaches. The book introduces self-compassion practices to help readers break cycles of shame and self-sabotage, along with reparenting strategies that uncover and shift the early beliefs driving their relationship with food. It also addresses identity transformation, body acceptance, and emotional resilience, offering readers practical techniques for managing stress and life transitions without relying on food.

Designed for individuals currently using GLP-1 medications, those considering tapering off, and those navigating life after treatment, Beyond the Shot positions itself as the first comprehensive guide to the inner work needed for sustainable change. It avoids diet prescriptions and quick fixes, instead presenting a compassionate roadmap that meets readers where they are and guides them toward greater freedom and confidence in their bodies.

"The Loving Diet" by Jessica Flanigan Brown

The Loving Diet™ (2016)

How can we make our life work for us, instead of against us? Can the entire nature of disease actually be a gift? Can joy and abundance be yours in unlimited amounts — despite the presence of illness? What’s the role of forgiveness and held beliefs in relation to disease?

In my book, “The Loving Diet,™” published in 2016, I introduce a powerful addition to health care plans: Love.

“The Loving Diet™” examines the spiritual, heart-centered side of healing, incorporating a new compassion-based mindfulness approach to heal what ails you through diet, love, and trust.

In addition to teaching how to incorporate love into your approach to illness, it provides loving affirmations, helpful sidebars, and prescriptive exercises, as well as stories of people who have followed “The Loving Diet™” and experienced its extraordinary benefits.

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