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Get started on the path to health at your body's most natural weight...without the ongoing struggle and battle with the body
Get started on the path to health at your body's most natural weight...without the ongoing struggle and battle with the body
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I'll be coaching exclusively, traveling to clients as I no longer work in an office! I'm retired from my military contractor work and won't be traveling any longer.
I am doing private retreats and unique short-term and long-term 1:1's right where you are and to address what you need most. Give me a call if you're interested to see what we can create together to lose weight, have more energy to do life, to get out of the fight with clothes, movement, and the mirror....
Stop the battle with your body. Stop the body war. Stop the fight with food.
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With almost 35 years of experience in fitness, nutrition, nursing, & medicine, we will create a conversation, allowing us to develop a plan that works uniquely for you. I understand the importance of educating you on the most effective ways to care for your body & mind.
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.
Dynamic Eating Psychology is an important new field 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, though, 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. Dynamic Eating Psychology is a powerful breakthrough approach.
I’ve been privileged to be a part of the healing of veterans and active duty soldiers as well as patients for primary care, pain management, radiation oncology, digestive troubles, and immune challenges. Oftentimes, people seek help from multiple providers but are left without good solutions and needless, continued suffering with their body.
Through my own lifelong eating challenges prior to "doing the work," efforting around healthy aging, and maintaining a competitive edge in mind, body, & soul, I discovered new healing methods. Using sustainable, results-oriented approaches, you can – like I did - rise above your years of struggle with eating challenges, disordered body image, food sensitivities, weight challenges, and other common symptoms through implementing dynamic eating psychology concepts, mind-body nutrition, and positive psychology principles.
I look forward to being your partner on your empowered path for establishing a better relationship with eating, caring for your body, and reaching your wellness goals. I have done the work and continue to do it…every single day! And yes, it’s hard work, and work on yourself is the best work you can do to transform your body, your mind, and your life. Become the mighty oak from the blueprint of your acorn...with a coach.
Be reassured that sessions and coaching are 100% confidential.
What is Mind Body Eating Coaching?
Mind Body Eating Coaching is an exciting and 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 a Mind Body Eating Coach, 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 on the places that are most relevant for you, success is more easily achieved. As an Mind Body Eating Coach, I look to support you with coaching strategies and nutrition principles that are nourishing, doable, sustainable, and that yield results.
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 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 many of the best strategies from nutrition science and eating psychology. By eliminating all the “shoulds and shouldn’ts," I focus on what’s right for your body and your personal style.
As we work together in this way, eating & health issues become a place of exploration. Instead of seeing the challenges as the enemy, they become opportunities for growth and self-improvement. In my training at the Institute, I’ve learned to help clients reach their highest goals not by strategies that punish, but through strategies that nourish.
I trained at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, the world’s leading school in Nutritional
Psychology, where I received my certification as a Mind Body Eating Coach. 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, binge eating, and a
variety of nutrition related health concerns, such as digestion, fatigue, mood, immunity, and
others. I applied these to my own body, and they 100% work.
This - in addition to my 3 decades of nursing/nurse practitioner work and as an American Association for Nurse Practitioners board-certified adult nurse practitioner - combines the powerful new fields of Dynamic Eating Psychology and Mind Body Nutrition while taking into account your medical concerns. 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.
The body and mind work is something to be explored in a calm setting, maybe in your home, or maybe taking a walk. Let me know what you prefer.