Working with Midlife Clients with Disordered Eating

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The amount of women who deal with disordered eating on a daily basis is stifling. These are women, and may be you, who think about food from the moment they wake until they go to bed at night.

They focus on what they will eat, what they won’t eat, and how much. Least of all they focus on how hungry or satisfied they are. And they’ll come to you for help with weight issues that are potentially catching up with them after struggling for years or retriggered because of the changes that occur during menopause.

At no other time since puberty has the body gone through such a major change than as menopause, even including pregnancy which has it’s own challenges and changes. At menopause though may have the advantage of having other individual’s health at stake. The midlife woman is often influencing daughters and knows it. That may make the need or desire to change stronger.

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My Guest:

Mindy Gorman-Plutzer brings 2 decades of experience to her private practice as a Certified Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner and Eating Psychology Coach. Mindy’s life experience and training inspired her to create a framework that combines functional nutrition, positive psychology, and mind/body science; introducing a compassionate resolution to physical and emotional challenges resulting from chronic and complex health issues, as they relate to Eating Disorders. She’s the author of The Freedom Promise: 7 Steps To Stop Fearing What Food Will Do TO You and Start Embracing What It Can Do FOR You.

Questions we answer in this episode:

03:01 What are some things you’d like health coaches and trainers to know about E.D. recovery?

07:10 How often might it be true that a woman doesn’t want to change yet, how would a fitness or health coach positively coach clients with disordered eating?

08:20 What are examples of “active listening”?

10:35 A coach or trainer can easily feel the all eyes on her and be dealing with a disorder themselves. What do you recommend a coach do working with clients with disordered eating, while they currently are being triggered themselves?

It’s not uncommon for midlife women to be in denial about disordered eating, or to simply not recognize it because it has been a pattern for so long. When they’re ready, the teacher shows up, and it might be you.

Connect with Mindy:

Website: www.thefreedompromise.com/guide

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Resources:

5 Days to More Midlife Clients: https://www.fitnessmarketingmastery.com/5daysmoreclients

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