transform your relationship with food and body with light of the moon cafe
Anita Johnston, Ph. D. is a psychologist, a storyteller, and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, which has been published in 7 languages. She is the co-creator if the Light of the Moon Café, an interactive online women’s circle, book club or ‘workbook’ for Eating in the Light of the Moon.
Dr Johnston has been working in the field of eating difficulties and body image distress for over 35 years and is currently the Clinical Director of Ai Pono Hawaii which has a residential treatment program in Maui and outpatients eating disorder programs in Honolulu. And she is the Executive Director of Eating Disorder Programs for the Integrative Life Center in Nashville.
Anita provides virtual individual consultations and conducts workshops around the world. She is best known for integrating metaphor and storytelling into her training as a clinical phycologist to explain the complex issues that underlie struggles with eating, exercise and body image.
On todays podcast Anita and Nicolette discus different kinds of eating difficulties people suffer, how you are not broken or stupid if these difficulties are effecting you, the meaning behind what kind if foods you are or are not eating and the difference between authenticity and attachment. We are not taught to deal with our emotions and so Anita will help you learn the skills you need to help you give yourself what you need to keep energy in motion, including creating an inner mother so that eating difficulties have no place.