Here at The Institute for the Psychology of Eating we do NOT endorse or promote any particular diet or nutritional lifestyle. We do highly encourage that each person openly explores the wide variety of nutritional approaches and dietary strategies that are available to them. We see nutrition as an ever changing…
The Month-Long Vegan Diet: 5 Tips for Beginners
Here at The Institute for the Psychology of Eating we do NOT endorse or promote any particular diet or nutritional lifestyle. We do highly encourage that each person openly explores the wide variety of nutritional approaches and dietary strategies that are available to them. We see nutrition as an ever changing…
3 Steps for Healing from Disordered Eating
It’s incredible to consider that, despite the amazing advancements we have made in our understanding of nutrition, fitness and wellness in the last hundred or so years, so many struggle with their relationship with food and body. When we go in and do the math and crunch the hard numbers,…
5 Ways to Love Your Body
Maybe you know someone who can’t pass by a mirror or window without giving his or her reflection a cursory glance…? Maybe this is a behavior you engage in as well. We’re always hoping to see “good news” aren’t we? We want the image looking back at us to be…
Chronic Dieting: The End
We’ve become so used to those around us, friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues, changing the way they eat throughout the year that its been normalized. Some say that 85% of women and will attempt a diet in their lifetime, most of which will continue dieting behaviors for upwards of seventeen…
Exploring the Connections Between Body Image and Shame
When it comes to our bodies, shame is an all too common feeling that many people, especially women, hold on to. Consider this statistic: On any average day, 97% of women say that they dislike their bodies. And acclaimed Shame Researcher Brene Brown found through that the number one source…
The Secret to Digestive Wellness
Ever wonder what it would be like to have a magic switch to turn your digestion on or off? Imagine if you could actually control your body’s ability to digest, metabolize and assimilate food. Well guess what? You do. Each of us has an on-off switch for our digestive and…
What is Nutritional Psychology?
Nutritional Psychology is an innovative new approach to working with some of the most common issues we see in our word today when it comes eating, body image, and weight. Since the key to wellness is often found beyond the actual foods one might choose to eat, the realm of…
Why We Need Holistic Nutrition
In the past, those wishing to enter the realm of nutritional education had to do so completely under the auspices of Dietetics … but times have changed! Today, the amount of information at our fingertips, about what we should eat and what nutrition can do, is astounding. Anyone inspired to…
Why Study Spiritual Psychology?
When we come to the study of Mind Body Nutrition, it becomes very apparent that there’s more to the human being than just the brain and the biology. In fact there’s a whole underlying story at work beneath the surface of each person. Before the term psychology was “invented,” the…