Undiet Your Coaching Practice

In the first three years of clinical practice, I thought I was addressing the root cause of my patients' health concerns.

In my training in holistic health & functional medicine, we are trained on addressing the underlying or root cause of chronic disease. That is to say taking into account the whole person including their environment, genetics, and lifestyle factors. Therefore, addressing the root cause is a fundamental philosophy, and honestly, the pride of alternative health approaches. This means resolving the root cause vs. just dealing with side effects.

I was asking a lot of questions and doing an in-depth assessment with the goal of uncovering the "real issue" that no other health professionals had identified yet. In fact, this unidentified root cause was, as per my training in functional medicine, the reason why my clients were "still struggling".

But, was I really addressing the "real root cause"?

In today's episode, I open the discussion to find out if we really are addressing the real root cause with our traditional health coaching and nutrition model or should we be adopting an anti-diet approach.

• What's the real root cause?
• Why healing the root cause is so important
• Weight stigma
• Fatphobia
• Body Image healing
• Health can be weight neutral
• How the anti-diet approach addresses the real root cause

Mentorship Program

Free Intuitive Eating Guide

Free Professional Training & Resources

In the first three years of clinical practice, I thought I was addressing the root cause of my patients' health concerns.

In my training in holistic health & functional medicine, we are trained on addressing the underlying or root cause of chronic disease. That is to say taking into account the whole person including their environment, genetics, and lifestyle factors. Therefore, addressing the root cause is a fundamental philosophy, and honestly, the pride of alternative health approaches. This means resolving the root cause vs. just dealing with side effects.

I was asking a lot of questions and doing an in-depth assessment with the goal of uncovering the "real issue" that no other health professionals had identified yet. In fact, this unidentified root cause was, as per my training in functional medicine, the reason why my clients were "still struggling".

But, was I really addressing the "real root cause"?

In today's episode, I open the discussion to find out if we really are addressing the real root cause with our traditional health coaching and nutrition model or should we be adopting an anti-diet approach.

• What's the real root cause?
• Why healing the root cause is so important
• Weight stigma
• Fatphobia
• Body Image healing
• Health can be weight neutral
• How the anti-diet approach addresses the real root cause

Mentorship Program

Free Intuitive Eating Guide

Free Professional Training & Resources

For many, the words marketing is "yucky" or even "salesy". Many of my new intuitive eating business students at first will tell me "I hate that part of my job". Is that you too?

If you are a health professional and have a private practice, marketing is a vital part of your business. This is even more relevant for non-diet approach health practice.

In today's episode, we will discover how you should be marketing your non-diet business for success.

To help you fall in love with marketing so that you can thrive in your business, this episode will discuss the 3 pillars that your non-diet business marketing strategy must include.

• Understanding the non-diet business coaching framework
• The best marketing strategy for non-diet business
• The 3 pillars of non-diet marketing
  • 1: Ideal Client Readiness
  • 2: Emotional Connection
  • 3: Nurturing
• Next Steps...
  • Training
  • Mentorship program

Mentorship Program

Free Intuitive Eating Guide

Free Professional Training & Resources

Diet mindset professional training was not available when I started my transition to a non-diet approach to nutrition and health as a clinical nutritionist; I had to figure it out on my own. Piece it all together…

So, I went into private practice and model what I had learnt. Spending hours creating a complex protocol. Very quickly, I realized that wasn't going to work… clients were overwhelmed and scared of the complexity of what they would have to do. So, I went to what I was taught: trying to convince them with studies, facts, and data as to why restricting this and that food was essential to their health. That didn't work either.

I shared the professional transition that my client Carolyn triggered in First Do No Harm: The Intuitive Eating Mentorship Journey. I argued that the current model of practice for a nutrition professional top-down approach is causing more harm to a particular segment of our clients. The female yo-yo dieter…which is, unfortunately, the vast majority of our client population.

The solution: The bottom-up approach. Start first with addressing the diet mindset so you can talk about nutrition and health later in the journey.

• The professional non-diet approach to diet mindset
• How humans make food choices
• How diet mindset develops in women
• Common thought errors that lead to the diet cycle
• Diet Brain: The adaptation process to diet failures
• Self-Coaching: The solution to diet mindset
• Further Non-Diet Training
• Non-Diet Professional Mentorship

Mentorship Program

Intuitive Eating Guide

Free Professional Training & Resources

Set Point Podcast

Self-Coaching Article

In today's episode, we are going to explain what the intuitive eating business is really about. Starting this type of business can be overwhelming and scary. In fact, even those that have a regular health practice to transition to a non-diet model can be frightening.

These are the type of questions this episode aims to answer and many others:

Will I be able to sustain my income?

How can I make money off if I'm not selling meal plans, diet programs, detoxes, and cleanse?

If I'm not creating complex protocols for my clients: why would they pay me?

These questions stem from the fact is that this business is not a formulated typical health business and does not hold the same value system considering that most health businesses are created to support diet culture ideology. In contrast, this business is based on self-compassion, trust, respect of the individual innate body wisdom, and ability to heal themselves.

The most prevalent difference in a diet culture-free business resides in its approach to healing. An intuitive eating business is anchored in what I describe as a "bottom-up" approach versus a "top-down" approach. That is to say, the goal is to empower you to become your own expert at your body. On the other hand, a typical health business that is rooted in diet culture is built around the provider being the expert and telling you how to engage with your body. As a result, it leaves clients and patients disempowered.

We will reveal what steps you should take to create a heart-centred intuitive eating business that will be successful.

• What is an intuitive eating business?
• Who do we serve in this type of business?
• What is an Intuitive Eating Coach?
• Serving versus Selling non-diet model of business
• The first step to start an intuitive eating business
• Why Non-Diet Business coaching is different
• What is a Non-Diet Mentorship program?

Mentorship Program

Intuitive Eating Guide

Free Professional Training & resources

Welcome to the first episode of the Undiet Your Coaching Practice Podcast. This podcast is created to educate female health professionals on a non-diet approach to food, weight, and health.

In today's episode, we discuss how we may be causing harm to our clients and patients by delivering nutrition services. By following a traditional model of nutrition and health care for women, we may be aggravating an underlying condition and symptoms.

In this episode, I share my patient Caroline's (fictitious name) story along with how she changed my practice forever In fact, she was the most impactful client-practitioner experience I have had to this day. She triggered in me the must-needed professional and personal transformation. My quest for another way of serving my clients through intuitive eating coaching and healing myself began.

Caroline had a disordered relationship with food due to years of chronic dieting. All of my assessment tools and training never accounted for this condition simply because to the traditional medical system chronic dieting is "normal" ... yet it has devastating health consequences.

• My client Caroline's story
• As nutrition experts, are we causing harm to our clients?
• What is a non-diet approach to food & weight?
• How to shift to a non-diet approach in a professional practice
• Continuing to earn a living while not selling weight loss
• How to get started with a non-diet approach to health

Mentorship Program

Intuitive Eating Guide

Free Professional Training & resources

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