Brenda Wollenberg is an author and educator. She combines her education and experience as a nutritionist, social worker, and co-pastor in her work as a body /mind /spirit wellness coach. Over the past five years, she has expanded her training and scope of practice to help her clients understand how genetics influences overall wellness. She has worked for decades using metabolic typing to inform food plans, exercise routines, and stress management tools. With the added epigenetic component, however—examining how behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect genes' expression—she now works, 1-1 and in a group setting, to help clients explore clinically relevant and nutritionally actionable genes, and discover the ideal way to eat, supplement, move and calm for their genetic profile. Brenda is the author of 'Overweight Kids in a Toothpick World', and 'Eat, Sleep Move: For Your Genetic Body Type. How to Physically and Emotionally Care for a Unique You’. She has had articles in Canadian Living, Mclean's, and Family Fun and has also created In Balance Wellness programs for children, teens, and adults. Most recently, along with co-creator Alicia Mazari-Anderson, a fellow nutritionist with a Ph.D. in biology, Brenda has developed Gene Reset Blueprint: A 12-Week Program for Personalized Optimal Health. Brenda’s decades of experience across a range of physical, emotional, and spiritual modalities, has enabled her to design a methodology that harnesses the power of genetics and epigenetics—the environment—to optimize good health.
In this episode:
Recap – contributing factors to addiction
Genes and variations
Brenda takes us through our Individual Case studies
-Food and Mood
-Food and Energy (Optimal fuel mix)
Brenda takes us through protein, carbohydrate, and fats recommendations
Supplements, caffeine, raw and cooked vegetables
It takes support!!!
Our takeaways
How to get in contact with Brenda
Follow Brenda: https://www.inbalancelm.com/fjp
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sweet Sobriety has 2 amazing workshops in the month of July! Be sure to join Molly Painschab, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Licensed Addiction Counselor on Fridays as she covers Codependency – From Codependent to Interdependent. This workshop may be for you if you have:
Codependency – From Codependent to Interdependent
Do you have:
Low self-esteem
Familial dysfunction
Depression
Anxiety
Stress
Low emotional expressivity
Having a hard time saying no
Having poor boundaries
Showing emotional reactivity
Feeling compelled to take care of people
Having a need for control, especially over others
Having trouble communicating honestly
Fixating on mistakes
Feeling a need to be liked by everyone
Feeling a need to always be in a relationship
Denying one’s own needs, thoughts, and feelings
Having intimacy issues
Confusing love and pity
Displaying fear of abandonment
This workshop will:
Identify What it is and isn’t
Identify Why Codependency and Addiction go hand in hand
Explain How codependency affects recovery
Teach you How to recognize the signs as an individual and in relationships
Identify Attachment Style and how to shift it
Teach you How to prevent codependent relationships from developing
Support you in Working toward interdependence and independence
What you get:
Pre-recorded videos to watch at your own pace
Downloads/worksheets/resources
4 x 1hr LIVE sessions that will be recorded and available for replay
Join us:
Fridays, July 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th at 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern/8pm UK
$50USD
REGISTER: https://www.sweetsobriety.ca/courses/codependency
We are also running a FREE Foundations Workshop for anyone who has purchased the Foundations Course. The work at your own pace course is $200USD.
We will meet on Wednesdays, July 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern/7pm UK and will cover 3 modules each week.
PURCHASE FOUNDATIONS COURSE: https://www.sweetsobriety.ca/courses/sweet-sobriety-foundations
SWEET SOBRIETY MEET UP
As you may have heard – we had to PIVOT from Las Vegas and we are NOW MEETING IN
TORONTO, CANADA!
Dates: October 20 – 24, 2023
Costs:
$150 USD for individual Meet Up days
$499 USD for the entire Meet Up
***You are responsible for your airfare, food, and accommodations
If you are interested in sharing a room to save on cost, sign up here: https://forms.gle/RwY3qMg5m9TK6VP8A
If you are wondering about how else you can spend your time in Toronto, check out this resource Bethany put together: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Oso-ZpxhzBWS1n4W75fW1Lt9JZXJ3hugC3pMKmvSLE/edit?usp=sharing
Come to the Q&A to learn more!!!
Here is what we have lined up for you so far!
Friday Special Sweet Sobriety Soire
We are looking for a restaurant close to the Town Inn Suites hotel (620 Church Street) to host our hangout with Vera on Friday night. We haven't confirmed it yet because we need to get a better idea of how many people will be coming. THIS will be an exclusive event for our Sweet Sobriety members where we are just going to hang out and spend time together. The plan is to have something arranged for 5:30 - 8:30pm window we might have to be flexible on either side of that, but I know Vera likes to go to bed early ;)
Saturday Speakers (80 Cooperage Street)
Sandra Elia: Aligning Your Sails to Recovery: Thinking >Actions>Words
Sophie Rolland: Insulin Resistance in the Brain: How it Affects Eating Behaviours
Dr. Èvelyne Bourdua-Roy:
Dr. Vera Ingrid Tarman: Am I Abstinent Enough? Besides sugar, exploring Alcohol & Cannabis.
Sunday Speaker/Workshops (Venue for S/M/T will be 519 Community Centre Ballroom)
Pamela Mekuz: Getting into the Readiness Mindset
Jennifer Lindo Kranc: Turning Information into Transformation – Neuroplasticity
Viktoria Hamma: Workshop or Hypnotherapy
Tony Vassallo?
Monday
10am Group Coaching
11am WORKSHOP – Traveling Food Sober (subject to change)
12:30pm Lunch on your own
1:30pm Group Activity
2:30pm WORKSHOP Cravings Management (subject to change)
4:00pm Mini workshop/close Somatic Experiencing (subject to change)
FREE TO DO AS YOU WISH
Tuesday
10am Group Coaching
11am WORKSHOP Emotional Eating (subject to change)
12:00pm Break Stuff
1:00pm Lunch on your own
2pm Group Outing
Evening celebration/Dinner together/goodbyes
**WORKSHOPS WILL BE HELD NEAR THE TOWN INN SUITES Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
💜💜To Register, use the following links:
💜Saturday, October 21st ONLY
💜Sunday, October 22nd ONLY
💜Monday, October 23rd ONLY
💜Tuesday, October 24th ONLY
💜ALL 4 DAYS
Accommodations for Toronto: October 20th – October 24th
Hotel Where Rooms are Reserved:
💜💜Town Inn Suites Toronto
620 Church St, Toronto, ON M4Y 2G2 (416) 964-3311
Rooms Reserved under Name: Sweet Sobriety
Hotel Manager: Vishal Mistry Contact: [email protected]
Single Room: $269 CAD + tax = $303 CAD per night
Double Room: $299 CAD + tax = $338 CAD per night
Accommodations at other Hotels Near By:
Holiday Inn Toronto Downtown Centre, an IHG Hotel
30 Carlton St., Toronto, ON M5B 2E9 (416) 977-6655
Chelsea Hotel, Toronto
33 Gerrard St W, Toronto, ON M5G 1Z4 (416) 595-1975
Sonder The Wellesley
29 Wellesley St E, Toronto, ON M4Y 1G7 (438) 795-6650
The Anndore House, part of JDV by Hyatt
15 Charles St E, Toronto, ON M4Y 1S1 +1 833-745-8370
W Toronto
90 Bloor St E, Toronto, ON M4W 1A7 (416) 961-8000
Comfy Guest House
250 Gerrard St E, Toronto, ON M5A 2G2•(416) 822-5590
Elevate Rooms Taigh Ice
259 Wellesley St E, Toronto, ON M4X 1G8 (416) 876-5667
Pembroke Inn
117 Pembroke St, Toronto, ON M5A 2N9 (416) 925-8456
Jacob B & B
22 Monteith St, Toronto, ON M4Y 1K7 (416) 841-4020
Keppner Guest House
41 Huntley St, Toronto, ON M4Y 2K9 (647) 710-3474
All Days Hostel
5 Selby St, Toronto, ON M4Y 1W3
The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede your healthcare provider's professional relationship and direction. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.
