AN "EXPERIENCE" OR THE SAME OLD CONSULTATION

Is your consultation with your healthcare practitioner the same old nutrition or psychotherapy session, or is it an "experience?"

Our society has become extremely entertainment driven. Watch any morning television program for kids; after-school program for teens or the Biggest Loser and you will see what makes people hooked to their television set. You can complain all you want about many of these shows, but you too are watching them-- perhaps more than you realize. What would you like to have happen when you walk in the door of the healthcare professional to which you were referred? What do you need-- to make what someone is telling you-- stick?

Let's look at some examples. I am going to take you back to my high school with a math teacher that every tenth grader wanted for their teacher. Mr. Waldman was a short- statured man with tremendous enthusiasm. He became "tall" when he walked into his classroom. He had songs for Geometry theorems as he jumped on his desk reciting them with his students. He had his students purchase a special, "Waldman Notebook." The way this notebook was organized facilitated the learning process. Mr. Waldman's students learned to love math and look forward to every new challenge in his class.

Wouldn't you love a similar approach in your recovery program? Is your dietitian handing you the same old menu plan as she talks AT you, or is your therapist dishing out absolutely no thought provoking questions while she lets you talk your way out of feeling? Or are these professionals empowering you to make food and life decisions in an introspective and stimulating way?

For those of you who have worked with me, you know that in addition to practicing as a registered dietitian and nutritionist, I am also a registered yoga teacher. In my intensives and retreats, I bring in art, music, and psychodrama by many other creative professionals along with other "hands-on" experiences to facilitate change. As a participant quoted on my website, "This retreat moved me beyond just talking about my issues with relationships and food to showing me solutions."

My newly released Reconnect with Food...unplugged! DVD is a far cry from lecturing about egg white omelets and carrots. In fact, it has nothing to do with "food" but how your relationship with food parallels every other relationship in your life. It is a yoga flow that is like a dance and filled with the opportunity to make connections and partnered with a message carried through the flow. The yoga does not take the place of a "drop in yoga class" at a studio but used here to compliment a regular yoga practice and as a tool to open up one's heart. " The theme of the class is then brought to a sharing circle where learning and listening creates a shift in thought process.

The simulated group on the DVD, a replica of my Reconnect with Food yoga support groups, is unlike most support groups where negative behaviors, victim drams and "bitch sessions" are the focus. Negative behaviors, victim drama and "bitch sessions" have no place at Reconnect with Food.

So are you feeling the experience yet? Can you leave your treatment provider's office feeling "lighter" and truly part of spirit? Was their energy contagious and did your healthcare provider touch your soul? Change is often hard work, but so is staying in the same place.

For more information on our private nutrition consultations and group support, call 248-390- 4150 or log onto www.reconnectwithfood.com

Namaste'

Beverly Price