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 […]
Are You Trained in Motivational Interviewing?
I often talk with other professionals about MI, either casually or in my trainings, and hear “Oh, I’m already doing that stuff with my patients”. I think they are confusing warmth and caring with all of MI. Certainly warmth and caring are an important part of MI, but not the whole story. When you dig […]
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 […]
Grandchildren!
I’m spending the weekend with my husband Barry taking care of my two oldest grandchildren, who are ages 8 and 10. I’m suddenly realizing that this is a different set of tasks than in the past. My relationship with them has changed! They are no longer young children, and need almost no physical care. Sometimes […]
How Do People Lose Weight? An Apology From Me to My Past Clients
I’ve been a dietitian since 1971, and was trained to tell people what to do, what to eat, and prescribe diets. After 20 years of practice, I realized that almost no one had done what I told them to do, and if they had, they couldn’t keep doing it. So, all the people I counseled […]
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