MIND-BODY NUTRITION — The Future of Wellness…
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Certified Eating Psychology Counselor — 2013
I trained at the institute for the Psychology of Eating — the worlds leading school in Nutritional Psychology where I received my certification as an Eating Psychology Counselor. In IPE’s internationally acclaimed program, I learned powerful, cutting-edge tools and protocols that enable me to work with weight issues, body image challenges, overeating, and binge eating. It has also empowered me to address a variety of nutrition related health concerns such as digestion, fatigue, mood, immunity, and others from a mind-body perspective — as dietary improvements in and of themselves don’t always get us the full distance. There’s much more to the equation than food.
This certification has enabled me to combine the powerful new fields of Dynamic Eating Psychology and Mind-Body Nutrition with a solid foundation of Nutritional Science. The skills I use from this training are a combination of practical coaching techniques, results-oriented psychology, clinical nutrition, body-centered practices, mind-body science, and a positive and compassionate approach to challenges with food and health.
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What is Mind-Body Nutrition?
Mind-Body Nutrition is an exciting and timely new field that advances the practice of clinical nutrition by exploring the psychophysiology of how thoughts, feelings and beliefs impact nutritional metabolism and health. Originated by Marc David, Founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, it goes far beyond classical nutrition by focusing on the fascinating connections between brain, body, and behavior. Simply put, what we eat is only half of the story of good nutrition. The other half is who we are as eaters. Mind-Body Nutrition reveals how stress physiology, the relaxation response, breathing, awareness, pleasure, meal timing and much more profoundly influence digestion and calorie burning. And it offers practical and results-oriented strategies for the most commonly seen eating challenges and health issues of our times.
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What is Dynamic Eating Psychology?
Dynamic Eating Psychology is a powerful, breakthrough discipline originated by Marc David, Founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. It’s a positive, empowering and transformational approach that’s designed for anyone who eats. Each of us has a unique, fascinating, and ever-changing relationship with food. Dynamic Eating Psychology affirms the primary importance of this relationship. It sees our challenges with eating, weight, and health not as an indication that we’re broken, but as a beautiful opportunity to grow and evolve. Previously, eating psychology has been limited to those with clinical eating disorders. Dynamic Eating Psychology is for everyone. It affirms that our relationship with food has important lessons to teach us if we choose to listen. And it recognizes that our challenges with eating, weight, and health are intimately connected to other primary life dimensions – relationship, family, work, sexuality, our search for meaning and fulfillment, and so much more.
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What is Eating Psychology Counseling?
Eating Psychology Counseling is an advanced, cutting edge approach developed by the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. It effectively addresses weight concerns, binge eating, overeating, body image challenges, and various nutrition related health concerns. As an Eating Psychology Counselor, my approach is positive and empowering. I don’t see your eating challenges merely as a sign that “something is wrong with you” – but as a place where we can more fully explore some of the personal dimensions in life that impact food, weight, and health. Oftentimes, our eating challenges are connected to work, money, relationship, family, intimacy, life stress and so much more. By working in the realms that are most relevant for you, success is more easily achieved. As an Eating Psychology Counselor, my goal is to support you with strategies and nutrition principles that are nourishing, doable, sustainable, and that yield results.
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How is My Approach Different?
For far too long, we’ve been inundated by negative messages about food, weight, and diet. We’ve been told that we’re willpower weaklings or that we need more control. The majority of nutrition experts promote conflicting advice. The result is that people are confused about what to eat, and how to have a happy relationship with food and a healthy metabolism. In my professional practice, I combine the best strategies from nutrition science and eating psychology — offering a very unique, individualized, and holistic approach. With less emphasis on “black and white” generalizations, I focus on what’s right for your body and your personal style. As we work together in this way, eating and health issues become a place of exploration. Instead of seeing such challenges as the enemy, they become opportunities for growth and self improvement.
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