Learn About Group Coaching (Forum)
It's hard to learn Normal Eating on your own from a book, and you don't have to.
The Normal Eating Support Group is one powerful and inexpensive option - just $35 for a lifetime membership. I'm active in the forum and provide group-level coaching, plus you have the advice and support of fellow members.
But sometimes people want help with issues that they're not comfortable posting online, or they need more individualized attention than I can provide in the forum. Personal coaching fills this gap, and can greatly accelerate your progress in Normal Eating.
It's important to note that coaching isn't the same as psychotherapy. Normal Eating coaching has the limited focus of helping you break the obsession with eating and body size, and learn to eat normally. If the issues that drive your eating don't run too deep, I can help you explore them. But if they do run deep, I'll suggest you see a therapist to work through them. Coaching and therapy can complement each other well. Your Normal Eating work can identify hot button areas that you then work through with a therapist.
The four stages of Normal Eating and the exercises that accompany each stage are the starting point for personal coaching. When you do the exercises with a coach, you'll tend to go deeper and get more out of them. I'll help you to write and interpret your weight history, gain insights from your Eating Experience Log, and identify the triggers behind your non-hunger eating urges.
The exact process is individualized to your particular needs. We'll usually end each session with goals for the coming week, and often some sort of homework assignment. For example, I might ask you to keep a specialized log of some sort, or try different types of foods.
Since coaching uses the Normal Eating method, all coaching clients must have access to the book Normal Eating for Normal Weight, either by purchasing the ebook or paperback, or by joining the forum (an online version is available to forum members). You'll benefit most from personal coaching if you read the book first.
Coaching can be by phone or email, with email a last resort for when time zones make talking on the phone impractical. I strongly encourage phone coaching over email because there is so much more communicated when you can hear a person's voice. Also, a phone conversation allows back-and-forth interaction within a single session, so communication is smoother and faster. In email coaching, I send you a long message, you respond, and then I answer in the next email session.
I'm on the east coast of the US, and I'm available Monday through Friday until early evening east coast time, and on Saturdays during the day. I will call you so you don't have to pay for the phone call itself.
With phone coaching, full sessions include a 50-minute phone conversation, plus my preparation time (reading your weight history, eating experience logs, etc.). With half sessions it's a 25-minute phone conversation plus my preparation time. Email coaching is full sessions only, and I spend the hour writing a detailed response to the questions and exercises you send me in email.
Coaching works best when it's ongoing - weekly sessions over a number of months. Since coaching isn't covered by insurance, I offer a range of options to make it more affordable: half sessions or full sessions, and a discount when you purchase multiple sessions at once. Our first two sessions should be full sessions so we have enough time to get to know each other a bit and set goals for future sessions.
If you're interested in personal coaching, please send me email and we'll discuss whether coaching is right for you.
If you're a current client, you can purchase sessions below. Payment is through PayPal and is due in advance of the session. You don't have to be a PayPal member; you can pay by credit card.
