Wellness, Not Weight: Health At Every Size and Motivational Interviewing

I am honored to be a speaker in the WN4DC Symposium debuting this July. This is for any professional working with clients who have diabetes, and focuses on a WEIGHT NEUTRAL approach. This includes Health At Every Size® and a "non-diet" approach to treatment. Check it out!

About the Symposium
The WN4DC Symposium is an online conference that offers four tracks
• Track 1: Nuts & Bolts of Diabetes Care
• Track 2: Weight Neutral Care
• Track 3: Counseling Skills
• Track 4: Disordered Eating and Diabetes
Our speaker lineup for the 2019 Symposium includes an impressive group of leading experts from around the world in the fields of nutrition, weight-stigma, counseling, diabetes and eating disorders. Each track focused on a unique area of diabetes care that has typically been underserved by traditional in-person conferences. Please visit our website, www.wn4dcsymposium.com for a list of all talk description, speaker bios, and learning objectives.

2019 Symposium

What about HAES when you’re on vacation? Awareness can be hard to maintain when you are out of your regular routine. My experience is that once “mindful eating” is grooved as part of your interior life, it becomes automatic, something you want and value.
This is me and my husband, Barry Glovsky on our way to Panama for a big adventure! I’m holding onto my “mindful eating” on a cruise.

Event announcement! My colleague and friend, Lisa DuBreuil at Mass General Hospital is co chairing an a workshop on 10/18/18. It should be a a terrific way to learn about weight stigma!

(10/18/18) Are You Ready For the Paradigm Shift?: Weight Stigma in Medical Settings Internalized bias related to larger bodies is socially acceptable. Traditional health messages support social standards that shame and blame those categorized as obese and those deemed overweight are viewed as inherently ill either emotionally or physically. Conventional research studies, weight los...

Motivational Interviewing helps your client know you understand them and "get" them, with accurate empathy. We strive to understand our clients and their struggles with food and body issues. Letting people know you really GET them goes a long way in helping them to make their own decisions about health behavior change.

I'm very interested in the use of Interviewing and Health At Every Size. HAES encourages us to be accepting and non-judgmental of others' body shape and size. MI also encourages acceptance. These work beautifully together! Check it our

Health At Every Size is about ACCEPTANCE of yourself whatever size your body is right now. Life won't begin sometime in the future when you lose weight. Life is RIGHT NOW. Your body is the size it's supposed to be, and we can work to keep ourselves as healthy as possible at the size you are right now.

Ambivalence is a key concept in Motivational Interviewing. Most of us are ambivalent when faced with change, t,hat is you feel two ways about something. "One one hand this, but on the other hand, that." Ambivalence is GOOD, it means you're not saying "no, never" buy "maybe". Helping people to work through their ambivalence and face changing behavior is the focus of MI.

Check out my new website at www.trainingwithdrellen.com. This is my Motivational Interviewing training website. You can also find my book there, or go directly to www.wellnessnotweight.org. I’ve put lots of information on MI and how to learn to be a more effective agent of change for your patients and clients. Let me know what you think! I’ll be happy to converse with you about MI and how it can help you with your clients.
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Wellness, Not Weight: Health at Every Size and Motivational Interviewing Wellness, Not Weight: Health at Every Size and Motivational Interviewing, brings a new, well rounded perspective to issues of weight, health and helping people change behavior. This book is the first to address Health at Every Size (HAES), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and a non-diet, wellness app...

Poodle Science An animated video exposing the limitations of current research on weight and health. To learn more about the Health At Every Size® approach, please visit us ...

Using Motivational Interviewing with your clients helps them to set their own goals for behavior change. Guide your clients to making their own choices about how they want to be healthy. The word "healthy" is so LOADED, that most of us just feel guilty when we hear it. There's no ONE RIGHT WAY to be healthy!

I’m conducting an exciting webinar on Motivational Interviewing for Today’s Dietitian and Becky Dorner and Associates on Tuesday, June 6. I will be discussing the basics of MI, and how they apply to dietary behavior change. There will be plenty of time to ask questions. It would be great if you could join us. Register here:
https://www.beckydorner.com/products/312

Motivational Interviewing is a directive, person-centered, guiding style for counseling clients to help them to make their own decisions about changing health behavior. This webinar will present the basics of MI, including the listening skills and ways of responding to clients to help them decide if, when and how they will change.
Learning Objectives
After successfully completing the program, participants will be able to:
1. Define motivational interviewing.
2. Design a collaborative working relationship with the patient.
3. Utilize the basic listening skills and effective responses in a conversation with a client.

Purchase the Inspiring & Supporting Behavior Change Book
and receive this webinar for FREE—11.5 credits total!

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