Nourish and Shine

Jenny Breen has been a professional chef and advocate for sustainable food systems and food justice, and has worked directly with farmers and producers in Minnesota since the mid-1980’s. She was co-owner of Good Life Cafe and Catering, a sustainable food business from 1996 to 2013. She is a 2009 Archibald Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow and completed her Master of Public Health degree in Nutrition at the University of Minnesota in 2011 while working to build strong networks within health and food systems for greater access to food, support for sustainable farming, and understanding of cooking as a health strategy. Her first cookbook, Cooking up the Good Life, emphasizes local, seasonal whole foods cooking for families and was released in April of 2011 from the University of Minnesota Press.

Chef Breen currently teaches three courses at the University of Minnesota, including an online undergraduate course called "Food Choices: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves" and a graduate level cooking course for health professional students called “Food Matters: Cook Like Your Life Depends on It,” both through the Bakken Center For Spirituality and Healing. She also teaches an undergraduate nutrition cooking class, “A Food Systems Approach to Cooking”  in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS). She contracts as a Public Health culinary nutrition educator with local health departments, clinical organizations, school districts and nonprofit food and farming organizations.

Sarah Stinson, MS, LPCC,CMT,CHTP/I

Sarah has worked in the field of mental health and eating disorders for 28 years. She received her Master’s in Community Counseling from St. Cloud State University in 1991. She became a Certified Massage Therapist in 1999, a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner in 2010, and a Certified Healing Touch Instructor in 2012. In 2018 she completed a 2 year Interprofessional Integrative Health and Medicine Fellowship through the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine. Sarah has worked at Mayo Clinic Health System-Red Wing since 1999. Currently she is the Integrative Medicine and Health Coordinator and an Eating Disorders Therapist. She has spoken internationally on various topics related to body image, eating disorders, stress management, Healing Touch and integrative health and medicine. Her passion is to support others in their healing journey and inspire them to see their true beauty and unique place in this world.

NEDA      nationaleatingdisorders.org

Academy for Eating Disorders    aedweb.org

The Body Positive   thebodypositive.org

Sydney Ross Singer is a pioneer of the field of Applied Medical Anthropology, Director of the Institute for the Study of Culturogenic Disease, and author of numerous groundbreaking health books on the cultural causes of disease. Drawing on his extensive training in biochemistry, anthropology, and medicine, Sydney has made numerous new medical discoveries that have helped millions of people recover from many common health problems caused by harmful lifestyles. He is best known internationally for his groundbreaking and culture-changing research, done with his wife and co-author Soma Grismaijer, linking breast cancer with the wearing of tight bras, and described in their book, Dressed to Kill.

BrasAndBreastCancer.org 

BraFreeStudy.org

Lynn Rossy, Ph.D. is a health psychologist specializing in mindful eating and living. She developed a ten-week, empirically validated Eat for Life class that teaches people to eat mindfully and intuitively, love their bodies, and find deeper meaning in their lives.  Her book, The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution, is based on the concepts in Eat for Life. Lynn is a long-time practitioner of mindfulness meditation and yoga–certifed in Kripalu and EMYoga. She is the President of the Center for Mindful Eating.

https://www.lynnrossy.com/about-me/

https://www.thecenterformindfuleating.org/

Gina is a registered yoga teacher who strives to inspire hope and courage while cultivating connection and empowerment through her yoga teaching, workshops and trainings. As a trauma survivor herself and a mental health advocate, Gina's joy and passion is to bring others into whole-person wellness and healing and assist them in the discovery of who they were created to be.

www.sanctuaryyoga.info

@sanctuary_yoga_tsy

Erica Mather was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1975, and grew up swimming, playing the piano, and reading books before, during, and after school. When her father died at the young age of 56 (she, 23), Erica realized that life is short and it’s best to quickly get on with the business of living it in alignment with what matters to us most. She quit her day job and doubled down on playing the piano professionally, gigging, writing, teaching, and self-producing two jazz-inspired albums, Borderlands (1999), and The Millennium Song Cycle (2001). In 2002 Erica was voted “Madison’s Favorite Jazz Artist” in the 2002 Isthmus Reader’s Poll. She served on the Mayor’s Arts Advisory Board. You can hear her music on SoundCloud. At the age of 26, Erica began experiencing adult onset migraines, going overnight from “healthy” to “gravely ill.” On a quest for relief she discovered Forrest Yoga.

In 2004 moved to New York City to commence Ph.D. studies in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University. After earning her Masters Degree in 2006 she took a medical leave of absence, trying to get a handle on worsening migraines. In this quest, during the summer of 2006 Erica enrolled in and completed the month-long, immersive Forrest Yoga 200-hour Teacher Training with Ana Forrest, in Boston, Massachusetts. Returning to New York City, Erica began what has been her profession of the last 15 years. Fortifying her career change with retail work, Erica began growing a reputation throughout New York City as a gifted teacher, capable of high-level, physically, intellectually, and emotionally engaging education, presented in a mixed level classroom. It is in this environment of practicing and teaching yoga that Erica gestated the information culminating in her first book, Your Body, Your Best Friend: End the Confidence Crushing Pursuit of Unrealistic Beauty Standards and Embrace Your True Power (New Harbinger, April 2020). Using her own illness and body image challenges, the teachings of embodiment intrinsic to Forrest Yoga, and her experience working in private practice with people’s wounded and ill bodies, Erica has developed a teaching style and message that encourages us to begin to build a relationship with the body, in service of our health, and also in the quest to discover our life’s work, or dharma. In 2009, Erica was hand-selected by Ana Forrest to become a lineage-holder (called “a Guardian”) in the Forrest Yoga system. In 2014 she founded The Adore Your Body Transformational Program, a 7-step system for getting a handle on body image challenges, and also founded The Yoga Clinic of NYC, a business that educates clients, medical practitioners, and yoga teachers about empowered self-care practices using yoga as the core tool.

www.ericamather.com

Amy Galper, B.A., M.A., Founder of the first Aromatherapy School in NYC, the New York Institute of Aromatherapy, has been a Certified Aromatherapist since 2001, as well as a passionate advocate, entrepreneur, formulator and consultant in clean beauty and wellness. She co-authored best selling natural beauty book "Plant Powered Beauty," published by BenBella Books and endorsed by beauty industry visionary Bobbi Brown, Credo Beauty's Annie Jackson, Sophie Uliano and Tata Harper. Amy is honored and proud to be a member of Credo Beauty's Clean Beauty Council, celebrating, advocating and educating for Clean Beauty and Wellness, along with other influencers and thought leaders in the field. Her new book, "Ultimate Guide to Aromatherapy" is available for sale on Amazon (launched in the fall of 2020).

Amy has appeared as a featured speaker at the Indie Beauty Expo, Women in Flavor & Fragrance Conference, The Jewish Museum of Florida, EcoSessions, along with dozens of media events and conferences. She is a guest lecturer at NYU, Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism and has presented at Nova Southeastern University (NSU).

She has been featured on FOX NEWS, THRIVE GLOBAL, REUTERS, CUNY TV, and has been quoted as an essential oil expert for countless print articles, TV, podcasts and online posts about essential oils, as seen in Allure, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Vogue.com, Extraordinary Health, Dr. OZ, Prevention, Well and Good, Better Homes and Gardens, Mind Body Green, People, Refinery29 and many many more.

https://amygalper.com/

www.credobeauty.com

Free class about Clean Beauty:  https://courses.amygalper.com/credocleanbeauty101

Wait list for the next Aromatherapy in Action cohort: https://courses.amygalper.com/aromatherapy-in-action

Jennifer Carr is a London born, Barcelona based Behavioural Eating Coach and Plant Based Retreat Cook. Training at The Institute of the Psychology of Eating in Boulder, Colorado in 2017, today Jennifer coaches from her home in Barcelona in person and online, helping people to address an array of body image and eating challenges. Through a blend of mindfulness based psychology, mirror work, energy medicine and firsthand experience, Jennifer’s ultimate goal is to support people in understanding their belief systems and patterns around eating and self image, to enable the coaching journey to be one of awareness, discovery and ultimately, re-learning how to nourish the mind-body for pleasure and health.

From Mind + Plate Online: "My journey with dieting began at 18, triggered by a turbulent set of personal circumstances and a deep belief that I was not enough. Dabbling with zero fat foods and endless bowls of steamed vegetables quickly led to weight loss and attention, which translated a distorted truth in my mind: “I’m worthy”.

The path back had its fair share of potholes. And as anyone who’s overcome an eating disorder will know, it’s often not linear.  I now regard my own ‘road back’ as one of the most valuable experiences, because it forced me to let go of who I thought I was and become who I am. In so doing, I found my ‘true north’ as a certified transformational eating coach and more recently, reiki practitioner.

I believe our world is in a deep crisis of perfectionism that’s fuelled by “not-enoughness”. Our culture teaches us that if we can just look a certain way, or diet a certain way, that happiness is within our grasp. It’s time to unlearn this idea. It’s time to embrace food with a peaceful, balanced attitude that frees us up to nourishment and pleasurable eating without extremes. Working with me, you will rewrite your food script – and discover a liberating new approach to your body and your life."

[email protected]

Instagram and Facebook @mindandplate

www.mindandplate.com

Lauren Castle, PharmD, MS is the founder of the Functional Medicine Pharmacists Alliance at

www.FMPhA.org, and works as a Market Health and Wellness Director for Walmart in Dayton,

OH.

She received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Ohio Northern University in 2013 and her Master of

Science in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine from the University of Western States in

2018.

Lauren began her career as a technician for an independent pharmacy in Monroe, MI before

moving to Dayton, OH and joining Walmart 9 years ago as an intern. Upon graduating, she

spent three years as a Pharmacy Manager in Springfield, OH; Livonia, MI; and Flint, MI before

becoming a Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager in Metro Detroit. In 2017, she returned to Ohio

as a Market Health and Wellness Director for 11 stores. In 2019, she was selected to attend the

Walmart Shareholders Meeting as a social media champion. She has also completed a special

project assignment on nutrition initiatives in Health and Wellness at Walmart’s Home Office in

Bentonville, AR.

Upon discovering functional medicine in 2015, Lauren began sharing her passion through

speaking engagements at the local, state, and national level. Realizing the lack of resources for

pharmacists in this emerging field, she founded the Functional Medicine Pharmacists Alliance in

2017. The goal of FMPhA is to unite pharmacists, practitioners, patients, and organizations in its

mission to integrate pharmacists into the practice of Functional Medicine, and Functional

Medicine into profession of pharmacy.

Lauren lives with her husband Seth and their Maine Coon cat, Emily. Together, they enjoy riding

motorcycles, attending concerts, and going on travel adventures.

Links:

www.fmpha.org

IG: @fmpha

FB: @fmpha.org

Twitter: @fmphaorg

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/fmpha

www.drlaurencastle.com

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlaurencastle/