The basic process of MI, engagement,is the foundation of your relationship with your client, and all that builds on it. To be an effective agent of change, the practitioner must demonstrate engagement at every opportunity, by letting the client know that they are listening and understand the meaning of the proposed change to the client. […]
Counseling Tips for Nutrition Therapists: Practice Workbook, Volume 3 by Molly Kellogg, RD, LCSW
Excerpted from Counseling Tips for Nutrition Therapists: Practice Workbook, Volume 3 by Molly Kellogg,RD, LCSW, Kg Press, 2014 This month, I am spotlighting my colleague and friend, Molly Kellogg, who has written a wide variety of practice tips for nutrition professionals. We humans come in wondrous variety, and we approach the world with an infinite range […]
Being on a Diet Is Like Being on a Leash
One of my clients, Penny, is a woman struggling with dieting, food and her body. She came to me for help, since weight loss diets were not working, and she began to feel desperate. After menopause, she felt herself “getting fatter and fatter” and couldn’t figure out what to do about it. We’ve worked together […]
Having a Real Choice in What You Eat
In my last post, I wrote about the idea that volition, or the desire for change in behavior is only a part of the process of change. There are other obstacles people face in this process. For example, in changing one’s food habits, one such obstacle is either not having access to the foods that […]
Finding Perfection in Food: A Metaphor for our Anxieties
I’ve been reading a very interesting new book, “White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf” by Aaron Bobrow-Strain. The author has written about how the concept of a white flour bread, vs the older style whole wheat or dark bread was and is linked to social and political movements over the past 130 […]
