The "Stress Free Healthy Eating" program consists of eight weekly one-hour sessions. I also offer this as a small group program. Check my "Workshop" webpage for details.

 

This is a dynamic approach to heal your relationship with food. You will create healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime. Whether you are overweight, or worried about your food habits, this program will dramatically change the way you "do food."

We will use the 8 step program outlined in Marc David’s book The Slow Down Diet. Each week we will focus on a different aspect of your relationship with food, and during the week you will be asked to do a few exercises that will help to ground this knowledge into your daily routine.

Believe it or not, this is a fun approach. There is work involved, but I think you will find the work to be deeply satisfying, as you learn to take care of yourself in a whole new way. You will learn to stop punishing yourself with restrictive, joyless diets, and learn from your core the pleasure of truly healthy eating.

My approach is a holistic one. It takes into account that your nutritional habits do not exist in a vacuum. They are an integral part of your whole life – the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of who you are. To develop a healthy, healing relationship with food, you need to start from the ground up, working with all of these aspects of your being and your lifestyle.

Diets do not work. This is not a news bulletin. If you have ever dieted in your life, you know this from personal experience.

Try as you may, you lose weight but you cannot keep it off. Stop for a moment and realize that your body is brilliantly designed to consume, digest, absorb, and metabolize food. It may then occur to you that there has to be an effective way to achieve a healthy relationship with food without making yourself miserable. Because that is what you are designed to do.

The ways that you eat, and the efficiency of your digestion and metabolism, are intimately connected to the way you live. If you are eating the healthiest diet in the world, but you are eating it under chronic stress, your body will not be able to make use of all those good nutrients you are so conscientiously feeding it. This is because chronic stress dramatically effects our digestion and metabolism. It also throws out of balance all of our food related brain signals, so we may feel hungry all the time, or we may crave foods that we know are not healthy.

What then is the solution to your eating issues? My favorite nutritionist, Marc David, says we need to “slow down life to speed up metabolism”. Slowing down, Marc explains “is becoming aware: Open. Centered. Present. Balanced. Immediate changes will occur in the nervous, endocrine, immune systems, as well as the neuropeptide network throughout the body. The result is that you will burn calories at an optimum rate. . . . Immunity will be enhanced. . . . Couple this with quality food choices and you’ll begin to create the kind of metabolism that deep down inside you know you were meant to have.”

The bottom line is this: When you move towards a healthy, healing lifestyle, your relationship with food will naturally follow. The changes you make will last, because they are not about denial, blame, or suffering. They are about enjoying life, enjoying food, and learning to nourish and nurture your body, mind, and spirit.

 

Call or email for more information. If you are interested in learning more in person before committing to the program, free consults are available.