Author Bio

Marc David, M.A.

Marc David, M.A., is the Founder and Primary Teacher of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. He is the leading visionary behind the fascinating field of Eating Psychology, and the author of the bestselling books, Nourishing Wisdom and The Slow Down Diet, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Marc holds a range of qualifications, including an M.A. of Psychology and a B.S. of Biology, and has participated in several Clinical Mind-Body Medicine Programs, all of which have shaped his groundbreaking approach to food, body, and nutrition.

For more than 40 years, Marc has been an innovator in Eating Psychology and Mind Body Nutrition, championing an uplifting, inclusive approach to food and body, and a warm, engaging speaking style that continues to attract listeners from around the world.

Among other positions, Marc has been a senior consultant at Johnson & Johnson; a master nutrition consultant and lecturer at Canyon Ranch Resorts; Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health; and senior consultant at The Disney Company. His corporate clients have included Kraft Foods, Pepsi, Coke, General Nutrition Centers (GNC), Richardson-Vicks, The International Olive Oil Council, and many others. Marc also served as the submissions editor for the peer-reviewed Journal of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine.

In September 2007, Marc founded the Institute to channel his passionate mission of sharing an uplifting, results-driven approach to today’s most important eating challenges. Today, IPE remains the only Institute in the world devoted to teaching the principles of Eating Psychology and Mind Body Nutrition and attracts students from more than 60 countries each year. The Institute’s many thousands of graduates have used their world-class education in these revolutionary disciplines to transform the lives of countless people around the globe struggling with food and body challenges.

Marc’s work has been featured in a wide range of media outlets, including CNN, NBC, The New York Times, The Chicago-Sun Times, Glamour, Elle, Yoga Journal, Bon Appetit, Eating Well, and WebMD. His extensive background in clinical nutrition and eating psychology has made him a sought-after international speaker and mentor to many luminaries in the fields of nutrition and natural medicine. His past speaking engagements include Harvard University, The Institute for Functional Medicine, The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the New York Open Center, and The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine.

My life as an eating psychology coach with Brenda Bliss

My Life as an Eating Psychology Coach: Brenda Bliss

By Marc David, M.A. / April 16, 2019 /

What made you want to become an Eating Psychology Coach? I have always been interested in people, the way they think and act. I wanted to combine my nursing career with my coaching. I want to make a difference in people’s lives. What do you love about being an Eating Psychology Coach? I love being…

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My life as an eating psychology coach with Meredith Newell

My Life as an Eating Psychology Coach: Meredith Newell

By Marc David, M.A. / April 16, 2019 /

What made you want to become an Eating Psychology Coach? Working in the field of nutrition and owning a catering business that focuses on whole, local foods, I couldn’t shake the feeling that pieces were missing. I spend my days talking about food and preparing food, but my clients seemed to need more. I met…

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My Life as an Eating Psychology Coach: Samantha Russell

My Life as an Eating Psychology Coach: Samantha Russell

By Marc David, M.A. / April 16, 2019 /

What made you want to become an Eating Psychology Coach? After completing my Master’s research focused on how people connect food and health, I started to understand just how confused and overwhelmed many of us are about how and what to eat, what we should look like, and how we should feel about it. During…

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My life as an eating psychology coach with Kimberly Irlbeck

My Life as an Eating Psychology Coach: Kimberly Irlbeck

By Marc David, M.A. / April 16, 2019 /

What made you want to become an Eating Psychology Coach? After 20 years working as a personal trainer and health coach, I knew my clients’ challenges with food and body image were much deeper and more complex than what they were eating and how much they exercised. I often had clients talking to me about…

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My life as an eating psychology coach with Kim Bunney

My Life as an Eating Psychology Coach: Kim Bunney

By Marc David, M.A. / April 16, 2019 /

What made you want to become an Eating Psychology Coach? I was already a nutrition coach but I soon discovered that no matter how well written the nutrition plans were, only 1 in 10 people would comply with the plan without self-sabotaging their efforts. I knew there was more to Nutrition Coaching than just providing…

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My Life as an Eating Psychology Coach: Alison Kingston

My Life as an Eating Psychology Coach: Alison Kingston

By Marc David, M.A. / April 16, 2019 /

What made you want to become an Eating Psychology Coach? I had been seeing clients in my nutritional therapy practice for nearly 7 years and I know I wasn’t getting to the core of people’s health challenges. I was naturally getting drawn to take a more gentle approach when giving my clients recommendations around food.…

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My life as an eating psychology coach with Tammy Shemesh

My Life as an Eating Psychology Coach: Tammy Shemesh

By Marc David, M.A. / April 16, 2019 /

What made you want to become an Eating Psychology Coach? I was teaching yoga to patients in an Eating Disorder Clinic, and in my daily life I was meeting so many women who looked like they had the ‘perfect’ body, but were still deeply unsatisfied with it. Watching them try diet after diet, restricting, over-exercising,…

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My life as an eating psychology coach with Jessica Rae

My Life as an Eating Psychology Coach: Jessica Rae

By Marc David, M.A. / April 15, 2019 /

What made you want to become an Eating Psychology Coach? II struggled with a severe eating disorder since the age of 8. I tried every single diet, program, workout regimen, etc. I could get my hands on, to no avail. I would get a little better for a while, but eventually fall back into the…

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My life as an eating psychology coach with Sue Bradley

My Life as an Eating Psychology Coach: Sue Bradley

By Marc David, M.A. / April 15, 2019 /

What made you want to become an Eating Psychology Coach? As a yoga teacher, I always intended to study nutrition to go alongside my teaching. But as I looked around, none of the nutrition courses “grabbed” me in the way the Eating Psychology course did – they just didn’t ring true. I didn’t want to…

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My life as an eating psychology coach with Gerda Bruwer

My Life as an Eating Psychology Coach: Gerda Bruwer

By Marc David, M.A. / April 15, 2019 /

What made you want to become an Eating Psychology Coach? I am passionate about empowering women to heal the relationship between emotional body and food. I am 30kg less because I used mind body nutrition to swap my internal war for a life of freedom. Today I am grateful for how my own hurts and…

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