Talking With Our Mouths Full is a 10-week virtual nutrition process group intended to help members examine improve their relationship to food, self, and others. Group members include those suffering from disordered eating/eating disorders and co-occurring chronic illnesses. The group is led by Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Amy Isabella Chalker and will meet weekly on Zoom, Fridays from 3-4:30pm. Each 90-minute group session is $75; group members who sign up are expected to be present for all sessions, unless otherwise discussed.
During this group, members commit to focusing on what is happening for them in the present moment; members are encouraged to participate by verbalizing experiences, thoughts, feelings, and emotions that arise within the group setting, as well as outside the group.
Outline: This 10-week group will have a question each week as a starting point for discussion (subject to change):
Week 1: What did food mean to us throughout our development?
Week 2: What does ‘health’ mean to us now?
Week 3: How can our bodies be a form of communication?
Week 4: Social media and society: Empty calories?
Week 5: How does our use of food, exercise, and symptoms help keep us safe?
Week 6: Family, food, and pain - what’s the connection?
Week 7: Hunger and fullness: How do we discern the difference and find the balance?
Week 8: What obstacles get in the way of nourishing ourselves?
Week 9: What are we hungry for?
Week 10: TBD
Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, or MCAS, is an immune condition that disproportionately impacts the eating disorder population, with an estimated 20-25% of clients suffering from this complex condition. Furthermore, an estimated 15-20% of the general population suffer from this condition - most undiagnosed.
Relying on the latest evidence-based, peer-reviewed studies, supervision from clinical leaders in the field, and hands-on work with clients, Amy is excited to offer the opportunity to delve into the best ways to support and manage MCAS through nutrition therapy, including recognizing the condition in the first place, managing common co-occurring chronic conditions, all while continuing to support best feeding practices, whether individuals have an eating disorder or not.
If you are seeing or experiencing gastrointestinal symptoms that seem to morph and evade relief, have tried seemingly every known approach, and still find that these symptoms persist, this group is for you! When it comes to MCAS, recognition and appropriate treatment are vital in lasting relief.
This 4-part virtual consultation & training will run every other Friday, beginning 9/20, from 8am-9:30am PST. Please Register Here to reserve your spot: Space is limited to 6 participants - a waitlist will open for other interested individuals. Pricing is $500 for all 4 sessions.
Please contact Amy (amy@aicnutrition.com) with any questions. We look forward to seeing you soon for this important, in-depth, and intimate group!
Gut health is in the news and all over social media these days, and rightly so - new studies are helping us understand just how impactful our gut microbiomes are to our everyday health and wellbeing across all organ systems. But making sense of the information and sifting through marketing for gut powders and pills can be overwhelming at best and potentially dangerous at worst.
Receive access to the live recording of What in the Gut is Happening to Me?, a virtual introduction to all things gastrointestinal from an evidence-based perspective. Learn just how many unique etiologies exists for various gut disturbances, understand what your body might be communicating through its symptoms, and discern next steps to help you find lasting relief from the bottom up.
As always, Amy presents information through a psychodynamic lens, inviting discussion along the way and weaving in the conscious and unconscious mind to consider the whole person.