The Detox Summit - Free Online Event

The Detox Summit Free Online Event

The Detox Summit is a free online event hosted by Deanna Minich PhD in collaboration with the Institute of Functional Medicine.  "Detox" is a term that means many different things to different people, from drug and alcohol detoxification to nutritional detox, or cleanses using food, smoothies and juices.  The Summit brings together 30 experts in the areas of medicine, nutrition and personal growth to discuss all aspects of detoxification to help participants (listeners) return to a healthy state of wellness.  During this event, participants can expect a well-rounded, credible approach to a much-debated issue and to learn to navigate their way through today's toxic terrain by recognizing toxins, what to do about them and how to change their lives for a healthier lifestyle, as well as:

The Detox Summit - The Institute for Functional Medicine

• Learn about environmental toxins in food, air and water
• Understand internally generated toxins, like thoughts, emotions and behaviors
• Recognize toxins and eliminate them
• Focus on breakthrough solutions to gain more energy and vitality

The conference will be broadcast from August 4 - 11, 2014 and will feature the following experts who will discuss and address the following issues:
(For more information and to register go to The Detox Summit)

Jeffrey Bland, PhD - Father of Functional Medicine, Author

The Biochemistry and History of Detoxification

• History of detoxification
• Detailed description of how the body eliminates toxins, especially through the liver
• How nutrients improve detoxification

Mark Hyman, MD - Bestselling Author, Functional Medicine Expert

Metabolic Disturbances and Detox

• Relationship between chronic disease and toxicity "Diabesity"
• Health effects of toxins like sugar and food chemicals
• Power of a detox to promote health and healing

David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM - Bestselling Author, Renowned Neurologist Brain Health Expert

Toxicity and Brain Function

• Relationship between diet and brain health
• Why carbohydrates, especially sugars, and toxic to the brain
• Why the type of fat you eat is so important for health and detox

Alejandro Junger, MD - Bestselling Author and Founder of the Clean Program

The Many Approaches to Detox and Coming Clean

• The necessity of detox for health
• Why detox needs to be personalized to the individual
• Juicing vs. food vs. supplements for detox

Martha Herbert, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston

Autism and Detox

• Toxic exposures of all types and their effect on the brain
• The emerging connection between autism and toxicity in pregnancy
• Overcoming chemical burden in the unborn and children

Elson Haas, MD - Practicing Physician of Integrated Family Medicine, "Father of Clinical Detoxification", Author

Staying Healthy with Nutrition and Detox

• Incorporating traditional medicine approaches into a nutritional, biochemical detoxification
• The importance of following the cycles of nature, seasons and the body's rhythm in detox and healing
• How to personalize a detoxification by becoming aware of the body's needs

Soram Khalsa, MD - Board Certified in Internal Medicine

The Environment is Toxic and It's Making Us Toxic:  Epigenetic Influences

• Sources of toxicity in our daily environment: focus on the home and food
• Importance of detox before conception and pregnancy
• Keeping our children free of toxins by taking everyday precautions in our environment

Kelly Brogan, MD - Boarded in Psychiatry/Psychosomatic Medicine/Reproductive Psychiatry and Integrative Holistic Medicine

Toxicity and Impact in Women and Children's Health

• How women can take precautions to become less toxic
• Dangers of inflammation to mother, fetus and child
• Top recommendations for cleaning up the womb

Kara Kitzgerald, ND - Faculty at the Institute for Functional Medicine; Private Practice in Sandy Hook, Connecticut

Labs to Assess Toxin Load

• Best labs to assess your exposure to heavy metals and other environmental toxins
• Tests you can ask your doctor to run to see if you are toxic
• Compelling clinical pearls on how to address heavy metal and environmental toxicity

Aristo Vojdani, PhD, MSC, CLS - Professor of Neuroimmunology at the Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies; Chief Scientific Advisor for Cyrex Labs, LLC

Cutting-Edge Diagnostics for Toxicity

• Environmental triggers and the effect on the immune system
• Understanding how the immune system responds to toxins
• Labs to detect the presence of autoimmune reaction

Michael Stone, MD, MS - Family Physician, Faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine

Methylation and Toxicity

• Importance of methylation in detoxification
• How to assess with lab tests whether you are methylating properly
• Physical signs that your body is toxic

Sayer Ji - Author; Educator; Founder of GreenMedInfo.com

Transcending the Detox/Retox Cycle through Radical Nourishment

• Simple yet potent diet and lifestyle detox tweaks to get you clean
• Health myths that lead to toxic overload
• Why we're in a post-organic era, and what to do about it

David Wolfe - Masters in Nutrition, Health, Eco, Nutrition; Natural Beauty Expert

Nature's Solution to Toxicity is Food

• Epigenetics of eating and connection to health
• Super foods for detox
• Impact your immune system through medicinal mushrooms

Jeffrey Smith - Author, Filmmaker, Executive Director

GMOs as Food Toxins

• Why GMOs are toxic to the body
• How to avoid GMOs in your food choices
• How to eat a low-GMO diet

Tom O'Bryan, DC

Gluten as a Toxin

• Why gluten is a toxin in the current food supply
• What is leaky gut and how does it relate to toxicity and gluten
• Eating intolerant foods and inflammation

JJ Virgin, CNS, CHFS - Author, Fitness Expert

The Virgin Diet: Lose Weight and Feel Better Fast When You Drop Toxic Foods

• How food intolerance is the real cause of weight gain and poor health
• Toxic foods and which ones are holding your health hostage
• Connect the dots between what you eat and how you feel

Marci Shimoff - Best-selling Author

Detoxing and Happiness:  How to Raise Your Current Happiness Level

• A powerful process to open your heart and dissolve pain, heartache and emptiness
• Take a fresh approach to deal with negativity in your mind, relationships and environment
• Take away tips on essential happiness habits to live a life of freedom, joy and ease

Thomas Moore, PhD - Bestselling Author

Detoxing the Soul

• Is there a role of toxins for the health of our body and soul?
• A call to look at toxins as a messenger of greater personal growth
• The toxicity of beliefs we choose

Char Sundust - Teacher, Healer and Speaker in the Native American Tradition, Founder, Sundust Oracle Institute

Living in Harmony with Nature as the Ultimate Detox

• Mentoring your mind by uniting with nature's rhythms
• Importance of recognizing the whole within the sum of its parts and within each other
• Ways to come into union with the spectrum of nature for greater happiness and soul satisfaction

Rainbeau Mars - Actor; Author; Health, Fitness and Beauty Expert

The Full-Spectrum of a SuperStar Cleanse

• How to do yoga without stretching: The importance of "being on the mat"
• Physical and mental ingestion is the key to living properly: beauty and food tips
• Tips to unleashing the SuperStar within to break through toxic habits

Mary Ellen Chalmers, DMD - Functional Medicine Dentist; Faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine

Functional Dentistry: Recognizing the Signs and Symptoms of Oral Inflammation and Toxicity

• Your mouth is a telltale of your toxic burden and health
• Dental materials, disease and root canals can contribute to patient inflammation and toxic load
• Controversies around mercury amalgam and safe removal/replacement

Joseph Pizzorno, ND - Founding President of Bastyr University, the Leading Naturopathic University; Author of 10 Books

A Naturopathic and Functional Medicine Approach to Detoxification

• Detoxification is a foundational principle of natural and functional medicine
• Sources of toxic mercury in the environment
• A complete protocol for removing mercury

Garry Gordon, MD, DO, MD(H) - Co-Founder of the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM); President of Gordon Research Institute (GRI), Father of Oral Chelation

Survive and Thrive in a Toxic World

• Toxins are the single, most common, underlying factors contributing to ALL diseases
• The impact of the depletion of the earth's electromagnetic field
• Energy medicine therapies, daily oral chelation and detoxification protocols

Joel Kahn, MD - Clinical Professor of Cardiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine; Founding Member of the International Society of Functional and Metabolic Cardiovascular Medicine

Get Heart Smart Before Your Ticker Gets Sicker

• Heavy metal is for music not your heart: role of toxins in hypertension and cardiovascular disease
• How toxins make your heart unhealthy
• Tips to protecting your heart from the buildup of toxins

Kristi Hughes, ND - Associate Director of Education at the Institute for Functional Medicine

Sequencing a Detox

• How to do a detox safely
• Doing Detox in a functional medicine way: what does that mean and how to do it
• Using dietary supplements during a detox:  which ones and how to take them

Aviva Romm, MD - Board Certified Family Physician, Certified Midwife, Herbalist, Author

Toxic Shock:  How to Minimize the Risks of Living in a Chemical Stew

• Getting over your fear of herbs and how to use them safely in a detox
• Learn about key herbs that positively influence detoxification
• Minimize risks and repair the damage from environmental exposures with herbs

Lise Alschuler, ND - Board Certification in Naturopathic Oncology

Cancer Processes and Detoxification:  Focus on Glutatione

• The start of cancer and disease can come from oxidative stress
• Toxins and cancer: the connection
• How to increase better energy by boosting glutathione, the master antioxidant, in the body

Frank Lipman, MD - Founder, Eleven Eleven Wellness Center; Author

Building a Better Microbiome:  Gut Bacteria and Detox

• Optimizing your microbiome to prevent obesity and chronic diseases
• How to make the gut inhospitable to intruders
• Using a detox protocol to strengthen your digestion and boost your microbiome

 Amy Myers, MD - Practicing Functional Medicine Physician and Founder of The Myers Way

Thyroid Dysfunction, Autoimmunity, and Toxins

• The thyroid and its sensitivity to toxins
• Signs that the thyroid is sick and what you can do to help thyroid health
• How toxin load can lead to autoimmune conditions

Terry Wahls, MD - Board Certified in Internal Medicine; Physician and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Iowa

Dietary Approaches for Autoimmune Toxicity

• Toxins can turn on or silence genes related to autoimmune diseases
• Food that can help lessen toxin burden in autoimmunity
• The Wahls Diet™ improves the detoxification enzyme efficiency and effectiveness

Annual Eating Psychology Free Online Conference - Part 4

Psychology of Eating Online Conference

2nd Annual Eating Psychology Virtual Conference

This is Part 4 of a series of posts on this free online premier event.  To learn more about the conference in general and read the biographies of some of the experts, please go to Annual Eating Psychology Free Online Conference Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

In this part, we are continuing with the summary bios of some of the many experts who are sharing the newest, cutting edge ideas, information, research and science on the psychology of eating, weight loss, dieting, binge and emotional eating, body image, health and nutrition:

Trudy Scott - Transform Anxiety and Cravings with Amino Acids and More

Food Mood Expert Trudy Scott is a nutritionist on a mission to educate and empower women worldwide about the healing powers of real whole food, the amazing amino acids and simple lifestyle changes for eliminating anxiety and emotional eating. Trudy works with clients one-on-one and in groups, serving as a catalyst in bringing about life enhancing mood transformations. Trudy is past president of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals. She was recipient of the 2012 Impact Award and currently serves as a Special Advisor to the Board of Directors. She is also a member of Alliance for Addiction Solutions and Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Trudy is author of The Antianxiety Food Solution: How the Foods You Eat Can Help You Calm Your Anxious Mind, Improve Your Mood, and End Cravings.  She is also the creator and host of The Anxiety Summit, a virtual gathering of international experts sharing research and nutritional solutions for anxiety. She has been featured on NPR, GaiamTV, morning shows like Good Day Sacramento and been quoted in AARP, Glamour and Cosmopolitan magazines.

Tom Malterre - A Deeper Look at Nutrition, Life and True Healing

What if our state of dis-ease is coming from a lack of connection? A connection of where health and all of life comes from? What if the soil we grow our food in, the air that we breathe, and the water we drink are the key to sustaining health? What if these are the true currencies of life itself? After attaining two degrees in nutrition sciences, getting advanced training from the Institute for Functional Medicine, lecturing across the US and Canada, becoming a faculty member of the Autism Research Institute, and watching as thousands of my clients change their connection to their food, their earth, and their health, the message is becoming clearer every day. If we are kind to earth in which our food comes from, it gives us more abundance than we could ever imagine. My goal now is to share this insight as much as I possibly can and I am doing this through the Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook, Nourishing Meals book, and the website WholeLifeNutrition.net. I am reaching our to physicians and other practitioners with hard sciences and clinical case studies in my Progressive Practitioner Coaching Programs so I can share the genius of Functional Medicine and it’s understanding of these principals of life. It is my belief that we can end unnecessary suffering through two simple means. Awareness and gratitude.

Janet Podleski - Reclaiming Cooking, Food and Laughter

Janet Podleski is the author (along with her sister, Greta) of four #1 national bestselling cookbooks, including their latest, The Looneyspoons Collection. Known for her trademark wit and humor, she’s also host of popular Food Network Canada TV series, “Eat, Shrink & Be Merry,” and is a sought-after inspirational/wellness speaker and Registered Holistic Nutritionist with a private practice in Ottawa, Ontario. Janet & Greta are to Canada what Jamie Oliver is to the UK: Health and wellness experts passionately dedicated to helping North Americans improve their eating habits. By combining good food, good health and good fun, the sisters have inspired millions to “take platters into their own hands,” getting them back into the kitchen preparing their own healthy meals.

Matt Stone - A Man's Journey with Eating Psychology

"With a high metabolic rate, EVERYTHING works better." Matt Stone is an independent health researcher, #1 Amazon bestselling author of more than 15 books, and the founder of 180DegreeHealth, a controversial website that has challenged the status quo on health with a combination of cutting-edge science and radical common sense since 2006. In his most popular books, Eat for Heat: The Metabolic Approach to Food and Drink and the Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood, and Your Relationship with Food series, Stone lays out explicit instructions for achieving a high metabolic rate, the details of which are Stone's greatest discovery in his decade of intensive research. With an increase in metabolic rate, thousands of Stone's readers and clients have reported improvements in a vast array of disorders: constipation, hair loss, low libido, acid reflux, insomnia, anxiety, cold hands and feet, frequent urination, allergies, skin conditions, chronic infections, infertility, and countless others, all while eating common, enjoyable, comfort foods to their heart's content.

Izabella Wentz - The Importance of Thyroid Health

Dr. Izabella Wentz, PharmD, FASCP is a pharmacist who has dedicated herself to addressing the root causes of autoimmune thyroid disease after being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis in 2009. She is the author of the best-selling patient guide "Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis" Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause".

Dr. Susan Albers - Mindfulness and Eating

Susan Albers PsyD is a clinical psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic. She graduated from the University of Denver and did her pre-doctoral internship at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Albers completed her post-doctoral work at Stanford University. She has written six books on the topic of mindful eating including Eat.Q., Eating Mindfully, Eat, Drink & Be Mindful, Mindful Eating 101, 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, and But I Deserve This Chocolate. She conducts mindful eating workshops and lectures on 5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Eat.Q. internationally.

Sarah Ballantyne - Insights from the Paleo Mom

Sarah Ballantyne, Ph.D. (a.k.a. The Paleo Mom) is the blogger behind the award-winning blog www.ThePaleoMom.com, cohost of the top-rated and syndicated The Paleo View podcast, and author of two books The Paleo Approach: Reverse Autoimmune Disease, Heal Your Body and The Paleo Approach Cookbook: A Detailed Guide to Heal Your Body and Nourish Your Soul (English and English Edition).  At the time her first daughter was born, Sarah was morbidly obese and suffered from over a dozen immune- and autoimmune-related diseases. After her second daughter was born, Sarah discovered the Paleo lifestyle. It had an amazing effect on her health, including contributing to her 120-pound weight loss! Over time, she healed herself of a long laundry list of physical complaints including: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, acid reflux, migraines, anxiety, asthma, allergies, psoriasis and an autoimmune skin condition called lichen planus. In fact, Sarah was able to discontinue six prescription medications, some of which she has been taking for 12 years, within two weeks of changing her diet! The dramatic improvements in Sarah’s conditions convinced her never to revert to her previous eating habits. She quickly became a passionate and enthusiastic advocate for the Paleo lifestyle.

Connie Sobczak - The Body Positive Approach

Connie Sobczak is the co-founder and co-director of The Body Positive, a nonprofit organization she founded in 1996 with Elizabeth Scott, LCSW, to prevent eating problems and improve the self-image of youth and adults. She is the author of embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!) which brings to life the five core Competencies of the Be Body Positive Model. Connie produced the BodyTalk DVD series for students in grades K-12, and Discover Your Healthy Weight, a DVD for adults and grand festival award winner in the 2009 Berkeley Video & Film Festival. She develops The Body Positive’s curricula and training materials, facilitates Be Body Positive workshops for the general public, and trains student groups in middle school through college to develop peer-led Body Positive programs. She was a 2008 semi-finalist for a Volvo for Life award honoring "real-life heroes."

Roy Nelson - Emotional Eating

Roy Nelson is known as "the last resort" for those who cannot stop their self-destructive habits. Living with a violent, alcoholic father drove him to pursue a life of distraction by any means possible - until he conceded that his self-imposed hell was killing him. It was then that he had a profound experience that changed everything. Over thirty-five years ago Roy "cracked the code" of his own addictive personality. As a result, he lost 120 pounds and overcome a myriad of addictions, as well as depression, panic attacks, and phobias. Based on his personal experience of total freedom, Roy developed The Nelson Method—a plan of spiritual healing that is designed to help people heal from their own personal hell, even when all other approaches have failed.

Ian Lawton - The Spiritual Journey

Ian Lawton is a spiritual teacher of inner wisdom, universal love, self awareness, oneness, peace, and abundance. He is an author and lectures internationally on contemporary spirituality and personal growth. Ian and his wife, Meg lead an online support community called Soulseeds, and an online marketing support service called Soulseeds Media. Soulseeds offers resources to people to eat, live, lead, change, exercise, meditate and love more soulfully.

Yuri Elkaim - Reclaim Your Energy

Yuri Elkaim is a holistic nutritionist and fitness expert most famous for helping people enjoy all-day energy and amazing health in a very short period of time without radical diets or gimmicks. His follow-along workouts are sought-after for helping you get in athletic shape without spending all of your time in the gym. He's on a mission to transform the lives of more than 10 million people by 2018.

Joe Cross - Rebooting Your Body

Joe Cross is the founder of Reboot with Joe, a company dedicated to helping people reclaim their health and vitality by consuming more fruits and vegetables. His personal story of transformation was chronicled in the documentary Fat Sick & Nearly Dead , which has been seen by more than 10MM people worldwide.  The incredible response to screenings of the film inspired Joe to create Reboot with Joe, making the tools, information and support available to enable anyone to reclaim their wellbeing. Currently, more than a half a million people are members of Reboot’s online community. Cross has spent the past 18 months criss-crossing the globe as a featured speaker, spreading his message of plant-based wellness to audiences eager for a solution to a growing global problem of obesity.

Dr. John Spencer Ellis - Lifestyle Design and Personal Excellence

Each week, over one million people enjoy a fitness and personal development program John Spencer Ellis created. He is the CEO of 4 international associations and founded Wexford University. He’s a 2x Amazon #1 best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker and Personal Trainer Hall of Fame inductee. John competed in the Ironman triathlon and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Championships.

Lindsey Averill - Fattitude:  An Empowering Look at Fat

Lindsey Averill, the producer/director of the forthcoming film Fattitude, is a fat feminist activist, filmmaker and the author of Feminist Cupcake, a blog that looks at how representations in popular culture perpetuate negative stereotypes about race, gender, sexuality and body type. Lindsey also founded Extraordinary Being, an organization that facilitates life affirming, feminist and body-positive workshops and provides one-on-one feminist and body-positive coaching to clients nationwide.

Dr. Mark Schwartz

Dr. Mark Schwartz graduated from The John's Hopkins University with a doctorate degree in psychology and mental health. He worked in the Department of Psychology at John's Hopkins and co-taught at the university. He then joined the staff of Master's and Johnson Institute, in which he served as Director of Workshops, Director of Research, and ultimately, Executive Director. He co-founded along with Lori Galperin, three Inpatient Programs in Trauma and Compulsivity with Dr. Masters in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Los Angeles. He then co-founded Castlewood Treatment Center for Eating Disorders in St. Louis, and Monarch Cove Treatment Center located in Pacific Grove, CA. He has published research articles, textbook chapters and has edited 3 books. He lectures widely throughout the United States and Europe to thousands of psychotherapists. 

 For more information and to sign up for free go to the Conference.

Annual Eating Psychology Free Online Conference Part 3

Psychology of Eating Online Event

2nd Annual Eating Psychology Virtual Conference

This is Part 3 of a series of posts on this free online premier event.  To read about the conference in general and biographies of some of the experts, please go to Annual Eating Psychology Free Online Conference Part 1 and Part 2.

In this part, we are continuing with the short bios of some of the many experts who are sharing the newest, cutting edge ideas, information, research and science on the psychology of eating, including weight loss, dieting, binge and emotional eating, body image and nutrition:


JJ Virgin - Reclaiming Health with Virgin Diet

JJ Virgin, CNS, CHFS Celebrity Nutrition & Fitness Expert JJ Virgin helps clients lose weight fast by breaking free from food intolerance. She is author of New York Times Bestsellers The Virgin Diet: Drop 7 Foods, Lose 7 Pounds, Just 7 Days and The Virgin Diet Cookbook: 150 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Lose Weight and Feel Better Fast .  JJ is also bestselling author of Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy: The 5-Step Plan to Sleek, Strong, and Sculpted Arm, a HuffingtonPost blogger, creator of the 4X4 Burst Training Workout, and co-starred in TLC'sFreaky Eaters.

Dr. Tom O'Bryan - Getting Real About Gluten

Dr. Tom O'Bryan is an internationally recognized speaker and workshop leader specializing in the complications of Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity and Celiac Disease as they occur inside and outside of the intestines. He is the founder of www.theDr.com. He recently hosted the paradigm-shifting ‘The Gluten Summit - A Grain of Truth’, bringing together 29 of the world’s experts on Celiac Disease and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity at www.theglutensummit.com.

Paul Chek - Energy, Chemistry, Hydration and Organisms

Paul Chek is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of preventive holistic health and corrective and high-performance exercise systems addressing all aspects of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing. During the past three-decades, Paul’s unique, holistic approach to clinical intervention, treatment and education has changed the lives of countless individuals worldwide. By treating the body as a whole system and finding the root cause of a problem, Paul has successfully coached clients toward complete resolution of their health and performance challenges, where traditional approaches have consistently failed. As a walking, talking definition of success, Paul is above all an educator: teaching and applying his methods to benefit others. He has produced more than 50 videos, 6 books, 2 e-books, and 16 advanced-level home study courses while regularly contributing to many diverse publications and web sites. Paul is the founder of the C.H.E.K Institute and the P~P~S Success Mastery Center, in San Diego, California, USA. 

Andrea Nakayama

Andrea Nakayama is a Functional Nutritionist and founder of Replenish PDX and Holistic Nutrition Lab, where healthcare practitioners and awakened individuals learn how to effectively care for others and take full ownership over their own health. A master at simplifying and explaining why we hurt, how we heal, and what foods to eat, Andrea's dedication to personalized "food as medicine" skyrocketed after personal tragedy into the practice she has today, which includes a team of five nutritionists working in one-on-one client care and a host of sought after online programs.

Dr. Pedram Shojai - A Life of Vitality

Dr Pedram Shojai is the founder of Well.Org and the producer of the Vitality Movie.   He travels the world filming the good guys and helps bring balance and health back to our world. He's also the editor of BeMore! Magazine and the author of the book Rise and Shine: Awaken Your Energy Body with Taoist Alchemy and Qi Gong.

Donna Gates - The Gut Microbiome

Donna Gates, M.Ed., ABAAHP, is the international best-selling author of The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity.  Over the past 25 years, Donna has become one of the most respected authorities in digestive health, and is on a mission to change the way the world eats.

Dr. Srini Pillay - A Psychiatrist's Heartfelt Approach to Habit Change

Srini Pillay, M.D. is a world-renowned Harvard psychiatrist, executive coach, award-winning author and brain-imaging researcher who applies his extensive background in human psychology and the brain to help people overcome psychological obstacles. He works with corporations as well as individuals invested in lifestyle transformations. Srini graduated as the top medical student and won the most national awards of any resident at Harvard. He was Director of the Outpatient Anxiety Disorders Program at McLean Hospital, and is regarded as a global leader in the management of stress and anxiety as well as habit change. As the CEO of NeuroBusiness Group, Srini led the company to being voted one of the Top 20 “Movers and Shakers” in Leadership Development in the world by Training Industry in 2013. In the past year, Srini has created many programs to help people reach their greatest potential, including a 6-audio download called “The Untapped Power of You”, an online burnout assessment and intervention tool called “Burnout Buster”, an App to manage anxiety and help people through change and uncertainty called “GearShift” and an online program to help people develop a successful mindset for weight loss called “Noodlefist Habit Changer”. He is also author of Motivational Book of the Year: Life Unlocked: 7 Revolutionary Lessons to Overcome Fear Srini has been interviewed by many media outlets including Fox and CNN on TV, Shape magazine, Cosmopolitan and Martha Stewart Whole Living in print, the New York Times, Forbes and Oprah Radio as well as NPR.

Amara Pagano - Movement, Embodiment, and the Power of Dance

Amara Pagano is the founder of AZUL, a path of awakening through movement and the co-founder of OneDanceTribe, a global community of people evolving through conscious movement. She believes in the power of movement to transform ourselves and transform the world. Amara trained with Gabrielle Roth to teach Waves & Heartbeat and has taught 5Rhythms workshops and intensives internationally for 15 years. AZUL is an evolution of her work with 5Rhythms and inspired by her devotion to Prem Baba and his pscho-spiritual teachings. AZUL is a spiritual dance practice that supports people in their personal evolution and in the awakening of their true nature. She is based in Maui Hawaii and travels extensively offering workshops and retreats in North and South America, Europe and Australia.

Dr. Michael T. Murray - 10 Commandments for Healthy Weight Loss

Dr. Michael T. Murray is one of the world’s leading authorities on natural medicine. He has published over 30 books featuring natural approaches to health. His research into the health benefits of proper nutrition is the foundation for a best-selling line of dietary supplements from Natural Factors, where he is Director of Product Development. He is a graduate, former faculty member, and serves on the Board of Regents of Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington.

Dr. Martin Rosen - Neuroplasticity and Personal Change

Martin G. Rosen, D.C. is a 1981 summa cum laude graduate of Life Chiropractic College.  For the past 30 years Dr. Rosen has run a successful family oriented wellness care practice in Wellesley MA. His practice paradigm encompasses pediatrics, craniopathy and organic imbalances within a family oriented environment. Prevention of behavioral dysfunction issues, as well as treatment for these issues, has been part of Dr. Rosen’s specialized chiropractic approach. In addition to his private practice, Dr. Rosen has taught craniopathy and chiropractic pediatrics nationally and internationally as well as lecturing on practice management, philosophy, and technique protocols.

Dr. Deanna Minich - Food and Spirit

Dr. Deanna Minich is an internationally-recognized lifestyle medicine expert, creative visionary, and author of five books. Her twenty years of experience in the nutrition and functional medicine fields led her to develop an integrated, "whole self" approach to nutrition called Food & Spirit (www.foodandspirit.com), which is the practice of understanding one’s eating and living through the seven core symbolic themes. In 2014, she launched the Certified Food & Spirit Practitioner Program (www.foodandspiritprofessional.com) to provide health professionals with a practical way to apply the Food & Spirit principles into clinical medicine. Dr. Minich has had a diverse, well-rounded experience in the field of nutrition including clinical practice, research, product formulation, marketing, writing, and education. She received her nutrition education during her Doctoral (Ph.D.) study at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands where she researched essential fatty acid absorption and metabolism, and from her Master’s Degree (M.S.) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she focused on carotenoids and oxidative stress. She is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (F.A.C.N.), a Certified Nutrition Specialist (C.N.S.), Certified Nutritionist (C.N.) by the Washington State Department of Health, and a Registered Yoga Teacher (R.Y.T.). She is the author of five books on health and wellness, and over fifteen scientific publications. Currently, she is senior advisor to the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute in Seattle, WA, and is adjunct faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine and two universities. Her passion is teaching a whole-self approach to nourishment and bridging the gaps between science, spirituality, and art in medicine. 

Dr. Brian Mowll - A Mind Body Soul Approach to Diabetes

Since 1998, Dr. Brian Mowll has been helping people with all forms of diabetes properly manage their complex health conditions. Additionally, with type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, and metabolic syndrome, his goal is to not just manage the condition, but to reverse it, by addressing the root causes. Dr. Mowll has spent over 20 years studying and applying clinical nutrition, physical fitness, lifestyle management, functional medicine, and diabetes self-management education. He is the host of the widely popular "Reversing Diabetes World Summit", as well as a prolific writer, blogger, and speaker. He has written over 500 articles about diabetes and natural health, and has been a featured speaker throughout the US. Dr. Mowll treats patients locally in the Philadelphia area and globally through his acclaimed Diabetes Coach™ program.  For more information visit Sweet Life Diabetes Centers.

John Assaraf - Mastering Your Mindset

John Assaraf is a serial entrepreneur, brain researcher, and CEO of PraxisNow, a brain-research company that creates some of the most powerful evidence-based brain retraining tools and programs in the world. A relentless explorer of consciousness and human behavior, John’s passion is discovering and teaching people how to release the mental blockages that hold them back from achieving their fullest potential. Thousands of companies, entrepreneurs and individuals worldwide are currently using PraxisNow programs to develop unstoppable confidence, certainty and the personal power needed for achieving their goals and vision. In the last 25 years, John has grown 5 multi-million dollar companies in real estate, Internet software, brain research and life and business coaching and consulting. He’s the author of 2 New York Times best-selling books, Having It All: Achieving Your Life's Goals and Dreams and The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life John has appeared on almost every major TV program such Larry King Live, Anderson Cooper 360 and The Ellen Degeneres Show, and was featured in the blockbuster movie and book The Secret and in the special documentary “Quest for Success” with the Dali Lama and Sir Richard Branson. Today, John researches, writes and lectures extensively around the world on the neuroscience of success and achieving maximum performance.

For more information and to sign up for free go to the Conference.

Annual Eating Psychology Free Online Conference Part 2

2nd Annual Eating Psychology Virtual Conference

This is Part 2 of a series of posts on this free online premier event.  To read about the conference in general and biographies of some of the experts, please go to Annual Eating Psychology Free Online Conference Part 1.

In this part, we are continuing with the short bios of some of the experts who will be sharing the newest information, research and science on the psychology of eating, including weight loss, dieting, binge and emotional eating, body image and nutrition:

John Robbins - A Heartfelt Understanding of Food, Planet and Soul

John Robbins is the author of nine bestsellers that have collectively sold more than 3 million copies and been translated into 31 languages. These include:

•  Diet for a New America 25th Anniversary Edition: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Your Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth,  
• The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World,  
• Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples
• Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!  (with Ocean Robbins)

John is Founder and Board Chair Emeritus of EarthSave International, and co-founder and co-host of the 150,000+ member Food Revolution Network. He is recipient of the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, the Peace Abbey’s Courage of Conscience Award, Green America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and many other accolades.

Meghan Telpner - A Beautiful Relationship with Food

Meghan Telpner is a Toronto-based nutritionista and her humorous, engaging and real approach to healthy living has garnered her a world-wide following and extensive media attention. Her online cooking courses and health programs are making this vibrant living lifestyle available across the globe. Meghan’s bestselling book UnDiet: The Shiny, Happy, Vibrant, Gluten-Free, Plant-Based Way to Look Better, Feel Better, and Live Better Each and Every Day! is creating a revolution in how people think about their health.

 Dr. Frank Lipman - The Heart of Functional Medicine

Dr. Frank Lipman is the founder and director of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York City. After years of seeing patients struggle to get (and stay) healthy, he developed a simple & highly effective 2 week detox program that has helped hundreds of patients reclaim their health. 

Ana Forrest - Yoga, Addiction, Food and Embodiment

Ana Forrest is an internationally-recognized pioneer in yoga and emotional healing. She is a Medicine Woman, the creatrix of Forrest Yoga and author of the highly-acclaimed book, Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit . Ana created Forrest Yoga as she worked through her own life traumas— including abuse, addictions and an unhealthy relationship with food—to find healing. She teaches from an intuitive and highly-developed understanding of the human body and psyche. Native American Medicine and the clinical application of healing modalities—including homeopathic and naturopathic remedies, reflexology, pressure point & craniosacral therapies, Shiatsu, chiropractic, and hands-on healing—always inform her work.

Jon Gabriel - The Psychobiology of Weight

In 2001 Jon Gabriel weighed 409 lbs. He’d tried almost every popular diet available without success. Not only did he fail to lose weight—he was steadily gaining it. Overweight, overworked and unhappy, Jon was ready to give up. Then on September 11th 2001, Jon received a wake-up call.  Jon realized that life was a precious opportunity not to be wasted. He realized that his weight would eventually kill him and decided to do something about it. Over the next two and a half years, Jon lost over 100 kilos (226 pounds) without dieting, pills or surgery. He also stopped feeling stressed and overworked and started living the life of his dreams.

Dr. Hyla Cass - A Psychiatrist Looks at Food Addiction

Dr. Hyla Cass is a nationally acclaimed innovator and expert in the fields of integrative medicine and psychiatry.  She helps individuals to enhance mind, mood and energy, as well as withdraw safely and comfortably from addictive substances, including medication, with the use of targeted natural supplements, many of which are her own unique formulations.  She is a frequent guest on national radio and television, including The View and The Dr. Oz Show, and author/co-author of The Addicted Brain and How to Break Free (ebook), Natural Highs: Feel Good All the Time, 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health: A Take Charge Program and Supplement your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Nutrition.

Guðni Gunnarsson - A Deeper Look Into Nourishment

Fitness and life consultant Guðni Gunnarsson is a native of Iceland. He has been instrumental in the Icelandic yoga and fitness industry for the past thirty-five years. He is currently President of Ropeyoga Inc., a company associated with the BodycrafterTM and the Mindful FitnessTM program—which are the result of Gunnarsson’s thirty-five year career involvement in the wellness industry. Mr. Gunnarsson is the author the Icelandic bestseller (Máttur Viljans, 2011), Presence Is Power (Máttur Athyglinnar, 2012), and Awareness Prosperity.

Isabelle Tierney - If You Don't Dare to Love Your Body, Who Will?

Isabelle Tierney, M.A., LMFT, BHS, is a licensed therapist, trailblazer, coach, speaker, consultant, and author. She is the creator of the "Dare To Be You" movement, which invites us to fall in love with the sacred and the messy art of being human in body, mind, and spirit. She spreads this message through her Dare To be You podcast, ebooks, and group and invididual coaching. Isabelle has been in private practice internationally since 1996 with a strong specialty in eating disorders (including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating), body image, and other painful habits and addictions. Isabelle practices both in her Boulder, CO office and through long-distance programs.

Dave Asprey - The Bulletproof Perspective

Dave Asprey, founder and CEO of The Bulletproof Executive, is a Silicon Valley investor and technology entrepreneur who spent 15 years and over $300,000 to hack his own biology. He upgraded his brain by over 20 IQ points, lowered his biological age, and lost 100 pounds without calorie counting or exercise.

Golda Poretsky - Celebrating the Body at Every Size

Golda Poretsky, HHC is a certified holistic health counselor and founder of Body Love Wellness, which offers one-to-one and group coaching for plus-sized women who are fed up with dieting and want support to stop obsessing about food and weight. Her Health At Every Size® based programs and activism work have been featured on CBS’s The Early Show, ABC’s Nightline, NBC’s LX New York and in Time Out New York. Golda is often recognized from her viral TEDx talk, "Why It’s Okay To Be Fat" and was named a "Top Body Image Hero for 2013" by The Huffington Post. She is the author of Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To Heal . Golda has also organized and hosted major body positive online events, including The Body Love Revolutionaries Telesummit, the HAES® Master Class and the Body Positive Dating Master Class. Golda’s big, fat dream is for every plus sized woman to own her power, beauty, and body, whatever her size.

Daniel Vitalis

Daniel Vitalis is a Leading Health, Nutrition, and Personal Development Strategist. Encouraging us to "ReWild Ourselves", he teaches that Invincible Health is produced by a life aligned with our biological design. His entertaining, motivational and magnetic delivery style has made him an in-demand public speaker in North America and abroad. He is the creator of FindASpring.com, a resource helping people find fresh, clean, wild water wherever they live, and the founder of SurThrival.com, a brand pioneering a lifestyle of health and adventure. Daniel was recently featured in the widely acclaimed film Hungry for Change.

Linda Paterson - Gut and Psychology Syndrome

Linda Paterson is a Certified GAPS Practitioner and strong advocate and spokesperson for GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride). GAPS Australia and the GAPS Nutrition Consultancy Clinic emerged from Linda’s personal experience in effectively treating her own son diagnosed with autism and extreme fussy eating. She understands the extent to which these children will refuse to eat certain foods and crave the very foods that are problematic for them. Linda has since supported many families to navigate their GAPS healing journey in her GAPS clinic and has been very successful in providing parents with the right tools to convert their child’s fussy eating habits. The GAPS diet coupled with applied behavior analysis and fussy eating programs is instrumental to the transformation of a child who experiences severe food aversions and Linda is committed to help families get their little fussy eaters across the line.

Deborah King - Energy Healing

Deborah King IS Energy Healing! A New York Times best-selling author, energy healer and spiritual teacher, Deborah has developed her powerful gifts through nearly three decades of global study and is hailed as the premiere Master Healer of our time. Deborah was a successful attorney in her twenties when she was diagnosed with cancer that began a quest for health that would radically change her life. Her amazing remission at the hands of a healer led her to leave the corporate arena for the field of energy medicine, where she mastered ancient and modern systems, ultimately developed a powerful energy healing technique of her own. Through her numerous books, live workshops, TV appearances, and her popular Hay House Radio Show, Deborah has guided tens of thousands of people to tap into a higher level of consciousness, trust their intuition, and heal themselves in a way they never thought possible. In the process, many people discovered a new path to healing as their own innate healing abilities were awakened. With Spirit as her guide, Deborah created a powerful and hugely successful online video certification course for those who want to use their gifts not just to heal themselves, but also to heal others - even the world! Deborah’s New York Times best-selling Be Your Own Shaman and Truth Heals: What You Hide Can Hurt You take you on unique journeys into the powerful esoteric world of healers, sages, and shamans. Her most recent book, Entangled In Darkness: Seeking the Light is a startling trip into the maze of the psyche and an enlightened path out. Featured regularly in the media, W Magazine calls Deborah's work "electrifying.”

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Annual Eating Psychology Free Online Conference Part 1

Annual Eating Psychology Free Online Conference

2nd Annual Eating Psychology Virtual Conference

The world’s premier free online virtual conference in the science and psychology of eating is for everyone!

The conference will cover cutting edge ideas that can help participants take a big leap forward in their understanding of weight and weight loss, body image, overeating, binge eating, endless dieting, emotional eating, nutrition, health, personal transformation and more.

Taking an approach that honors all of who we are as humans who eat - body, mind, heart and soul, the following 45+ experts will engage in powerful and positive new conversations when it comes to the science and psychology of eating over a 5 day period:

Marc David (Host) - A New View of Eating Psychology

Marc David is the Founder of both the Institute for the Psychology of Eating and the Institute for Conscious Sexuality and Relationship, a leading visionary, teacher and consultant in Nutritional Psychology, and the author of the classic and best-selling works Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being and The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss .  The Institute for the Psychology of Eating is the world’s only teaching organization dedicated to a forward thinking, positive, holistic approach to nutritional psychology. IPE is unique and revolutionary in its approach - teaching students and professionals how to effectively work with the most common eating challenges of our times in their internationally acclaimed Eating Psychology Coach Certification Training. The Institute also features cutting edge programs for the public.

Dr. Mark Hyman - A Doctor's View of Food, Nutrition, and Health

Dr. Mark Hyman is a practicing family physician, an eight-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in his field. He is also the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center, chairman of the board of the Institute for Functional Medicine, a medical editor of The Huffington Post, and a regular medical contributor on Katie Couric’s TV show, Katie. His latest book, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast addresses the obesity epidemic by providing a step-by-step approach to managing blood sugar levels, diabetes and a healthy weight.

Amy Pershing - The Psychology of Binge Eating

Amy Pershing is the Founding CoExecutive Director of Pershing Turner Centers in Annapolis, Maryland and the Clinical Director for the Center for Eating Disorders in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is also the 2013/2014 Chair of The Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA). Amy lectures internationally on BED and complex trauma, and maintains a clinical practice in Ann Arbor.

Thomas Moore - A Soulful Approach to Food

Thomas Moore is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life and fifteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating soul in every aspect of life. He has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts.  He has a Ph. D. in religion from Syracuse University and has won several awards for his work, including an honorary doctorate from Lesley University and the Humanitarian Award from Einstein Medical School of Yeshiva University. Three of his books have won the prestigious Books for a Better Life awards. He writes fiction and music and often works with his wife, artist and yoga instructor, Hari Kirin. He writes regular columns for Resurgence, Spirituality & Health, and The Huffington Post, and his most recent book is A Religion of One's Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World , where he re-defines and re-imagines religion as the deep, personal process in which you deal with the mysteries of life. Much of his recent work has focused on the world of medicine, speaking to nurses and doctors about the soul and spirit of medical practice.

Dr. David Perlmutter - New and Daring Insights Into Brain Health

David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM is a Board-Certified Neurologist and Fellow of the American College of Nutrition who received his M.D. degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine where he was awarded the Leonard G. Rowntree Research Award. After completing residency training in Neurology, also at the University of Miami, Dr. Perlmutter entered private practice in Naples, Florida.

  He is the author of the bestselling book Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers.

Aimee Liu - The Journey Home from Anorexia

Aimee Liu's most recent book is Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders . GAINING is, in part, a sequel to Liu's very first book, Solitaire: The compelling story of a young woman growing up in America and her triumph over anorexia - which was also America's first anorexia memoir. Revisiting the questions of what really causes eating disorders and what it takes to fully recover, Liu interviewed leading researchers and more than 40 other women and men with histories of eating disorders.

Dr. Sara Gottfried - A Deeper Look at Hormones and Sacred Chemistry

Dr. Sara Gottfried MD is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep and Sex Drive; Lose Weight; Feel Focused, Vital, and Energized Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol. She teaches men and women how to balance their hormones naturally, regardless of age. She is a Harvard-educated physician, speaker.  Board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology, she is known for quoting Top 40 lyrics and blending the seriousness of women’s health with playfulness and humor.  Take a free quiz at TheHormoneCureBook.com

Sayer Ji - Exciting Research in Nutrition and Food

Sayer Ji is an author, researcher, lecturer, and advisory board member of the National Health Federation. He founded Greenmedinfo.com in 2008 in order to provide the world an open access, evidence-based resource supporting natural and integrative modalities. It is widely recognized as the most widely referenced health resource of its kind.

Jessica Ortner - Tapping Meets Eating Psychology

Jessica Ortner is a co-producer of the breakthrough documentary film on EFT / Meridian Tapping, The Tapping Solution. She studied digital journalism with the New York Film Academy, in conjunction with NBC News, and has been interviewing experts in the personal development field since 2007, having conducted over 200 broadcast interviews to date. For the past eight years, Jessica has traveled the world working with and training under many of the leaders in the field of personal development. She is trained as an NLP Master Practitioner and is certified in hypnosis. She combines her experience in the field with her knowledge of tapping to create tap-along audios that have been used by thousands of people around the world, with great results. Jessica is the host, and creates content for, The Tapping Insiders Club and is also the host of the annual Tapping World Summit.

Dr. Alan Christianson - A New View of Metabolism

Dr. Alan Christianson is a Phoenix, Arizona-based Naturopathic Physician (NMD) who specializes in natural endocrinology with a focus on thyroid disorders. He founded Integrative Health, a group of physicians that reverses complex and chronic diseases. Accolades include Top Doc recipient in Phoenix magazine. Dr. Christianson co-authored The Complete Idiot's Guide to Thyroid Disease and authored Healing Hashimoto's: A Savvy Patient's Guide . His numerous media appearances include CNN, The Today Show, The Doctors, Insider and Shape Magazine.

Lori Galperin

Lori Galperin is a clinician, writer and teacher. She received her undergraduate degree psychology followed by a graduate degree in social work from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Over the last 27 years of her professional career, Ms. Galperin co-founded 3 clinical programs treating sexual trauma, sexual addiction and related disorders, in addition to 3 residential eating disorder programs. She is trained in an array of clinical modalities including Hypnosis, EMDR, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Processing Therapies, and is skilled in psychodramatic techniques. Additionally, Ms. Galperin is trained in the original Masters & Johnson model of marital and sexual co-therapy, as taught by its founders. Along with co-authoring book chapters and journal articles, Ms. Galperin has lectured to, and done trainings with professional audiences in a variety of settings over the last 27 years.

Fall Ferguson - Health at Every Size

Fall Ferguson, JD, MA, is an educator and health activist. She teaches full-time in the Masters of Health Education program at John F. Kennedy University. "I am passionate about transformative health education. The best educators create a container for learning where experimentation with new perspectives feels safe—free from judgment and consequences. Unfortunately, most health and nutrition educators think their job is to get people to stop behaving one way and start behaving another way. I find that so limiting. My vision of health education is to help people make shifts in their lives toward meaning, toward purpose, toward connection, toward joy. Only meaningful changes, motivated intrinsically, will be sustainable and health-promoting in the long term." Ferguson has also served as President of the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) since 2012. ASDAH is an international non-profit that promotes education, research, and health services that are free from weight-based assumptions and weight discrimination. ASDAH advocates for a Health At Every Size® (HAES®) approach promoting weight inclusivity, health enhancement, respectful care, eating for well-being, and life-enhancing movement. "I am extremely proud of ASDAH’s recent expansion of the HAES model to address healthism, intersectionality, and social justice concerns. Any health advocacy group that is not confronting the social determinants of health risks becoming part of the problem." A regular contributor to the Health At Every Size Blog, Ferguson writes about a wide range of health policy and health activism topics.

Meggan Watterson - Getting Spiritually Naked

Meggan Watterson is an author, international speaker, and spiritual misfit who inspires seekers to abandon their fears but never themselves, and to live from the audacity and authenticity of the voice of their soul. Her recent book with Hay House titled Reveal: A Sacred Manual for Getting Spiritually Naked is described as "ignited prayer" by Eve Ensler, "life-changing" by Dr. Christiane Northup, and "a blessing to the world," by Gabrielle Bernstein. She facilitates the REDLADIES, a spiritual community that encourages women to reclaim their bodies as sacred and to be led by the soul-voice inside them without compromise or apology. (Some break bread together; REDLADIES break dark chocolate.) She founded REVEAL, an annual event in NYC that’s a triumvirate of one part fiery soul-voices, one part ritual, and one part dance party.

Emily Rosen - Mind Body Nutrition

Emily Rosen is the Director of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating and founder of the Institute for Conscious Sexuality and Relationship, where she oversees business development strategies, student affairs, marketing and public relations. With an extensive and varied background in nutritional science, counseling, natural foods, the culinary arts, conscious sex education, mind body practices, business management and marketing, Emily brings a unique skill-set to her role as a consultant to corporate and professional clientele. She has been a long-term director and administrator for Weight Loss Camps and Programs serving teens and adults and has held the position of Executive Chef at various retreat centers. Her passion for health and transformation has provided her the opportunity to teach, counsel, manage, and be at the forefront of the new wave of professionals who are changing the way we understand the science and psychology of eating and sexuality.

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