About Choosing You!
The reason why so many people have difficulty keeping lost weight off is that they focus solely on food intake and exercise and do not deal with WHY people eat when they are not hungry. Choosing You! takes an integrative approach, through conscious eating and body appreciation, to weight loss and curtailment of bingeing and dieting involving body, mind and spirit.
BODY
Choosing You! helps people create a more positive body image and appreciate and honor their bodies for all that they do. Choosing You! teaches participants to become more embodied and grounded through body image activities and physical movement.
MIND
Choosing You! promotes conscious eating, a shift in consciousness from a dieting approach (where we are either "good" or "bad") to a caring approach ("What is it that I truly need right now?"). We address old stories we tell ourselves about our weight and our bodies and reframe these old stories to new positive current ones that will better support us in taking care of ourselves and making beneficial choices to support our bodies.
SPIRIT
Choosing You! takes a psychological and spiritual perspective around WHY we eat when we are not hungry, including binge eating and overeating. Participants learn how to have inner dialogues to find out what they are feeling and needing so that they can more directly respond to these needs rather than eat when they are not hungry. Participants learn to listen to their bodies, for cues about their hunger, satiety, need for activity and for connection with others.
Methodology to teach these different skills and strategies require self reflection, personal experience and interaction with others. We therefore use a variety of modalities including:
Eating Awareness Activities
Visualization activities
Group discussion/sharing/support
Drawing and Writing
Moving in our bodies
Storytelling
Inner dialogue with body parts
Inner dialogue with our inner child
Improvisation
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Articles, books and workbooks suggested by Dr. Liz Berney can be found here.
Choosing You! has been featured in "Washington Woman" (March 08)
and American Psychological Association's "Monitor" (June 08)
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An Integrative Nurturing Approach for Developing Healthy Relationships with your Body and Food