Food, Fitness, and Freedom
                                                          With Hogan Pesaniello, MD 


A facilitated support group experience

Change the way you relate to your body, your mind, and your food.

 


                                                                       Improve Your Emotional Regulation

Education and guided demonstration of various modes of relaxation/stress response regulation, including the following:

 

• guided imagery, systematic relaxation, autogenic relaxation, mindfulness and centering prayer

 

• biofeedback to improve mind-body regulation (thermal, heart-rate-variability)

 

• Improved self-soothing and self-nurturing

 

• Education and demonstration of techniques for dealing with relational, environmental or historical issues, making way for a healthier approach to food and fitness

 

• Improving optimistic thinking / cognitive skills

 

• Communication skills

 

• Skills in conflict resolution

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• Developing a sustaining social network

 

• Encouraging a creative approach to old issues

                                                                            Improving Your Eating Behavior

 

Develop a healthy approach to food and clarify and remove barriers to that goal:

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• Guided self-observation of eating behavior

 

• Problems solving with group support and coaching

 

• Education and guided experience of mindful eating

                                                                               Improve Your Physical Fitness

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Establish regular pattern of exercise and fit habits:

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• group support, education, and coaching 

 

• Organized liaison such as a physical therapist, exercise coach and a certified nutritional counselor for additional treatment, education or coaching in nutrition and fitness.