When I first started in health coaching, I had a need to portray myself as someone who had it all figured out because I so wanted to have it all figured out. I mean, we all want to have it figured out, but the truth is, we are all a work in progress. For as long as I can remember,… Read More
Is Bread the Devil?
I’m back from Long Beach and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s Mega Conference. It was so hard to leave this. But I got to come back to this. So no complaints there! The question of the day: Is bread the devil? It depends on who you ask: Mark Sisson or Paul Pitchford. Mark Sisson I’m usually not a big advocate… Read More
Integrative Nutrition Certification Improvements
I’m more than half-way there and in six months I will have become a health coach through IIN! At the end, I’ll have my Integrative Nutrition Certification. Having reached this point, we’ve been asked to reflect on our improvements throughout the program. Thinking back over the past six months, my journey on this path has mostly been a steady climb… Read More
Highlights from a Live Class Weekend
I’m a distance learning student at IIN which means that instead of attending class one weekend per month in NYC, the content is delivered to me online and via an ipod. I felt this option better suited my schedule. But this weekend I switched it up a bit and was fortunate enough to be on location at the Lincoln Center… Read More
Back to Basics
I am two weeks into the program at IIN and this past week, started the “meat” of the content with a lecture by Walter Willett, M.D. from the Harvard School of Public Health. I’m someone who likes to know what’s ahead –I count the number of pages in a chapter before I read it, I ask my personal trainer to… Read More