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Exposure Response Prevention: Grocery Shopping and In-Home Cooking Sessions

One of the many goals of an eating disorder recovery coach is to help the client move through an/any eating related experience(s). The Grocery Shopping and In-Home Cooking exposure and response prevention sessions assist in reframing your experience of shopping and preparing a meal in line with your recovery goals. You receive the support, guidance, and accountability necessary to navigate the process of shopping, cooking and meal preparation as per your nutritional plan, your nutritional needs and preferences. 

The sessions are a way to witness the reality of one’s life and stage of recovery by working directly with his/her food while concurrently challenging and addressing ingrained eating patterns, food choices, food rules, food rituals, and beliefs. 

During these exposure events one can set and practice new food behavorial goals while working towards creating new eating experiences. 

Overall, within the frame of the Grocery Shopping and In-Home Cooking sessions, we work in synergy to rediscover the meaning and joy of planning, shopping, cooking, and preparing a meal for yourself and actually sitting down and enjoying it. 

It is during these sessions that we also explore the notion of “adding soul to the food” where you learn to not just see food and eating as a survival act, and as a have to process, but rather as a “want to” process, a “wish to” process, a process you look forward to, an experience you relish. 

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An Eating Disorder Recovery Coach is not a replacement for a therapist, dietician, or medical or mental health professional, and thus, I cannot provide medical, nutritional, psychological, or other services designated for practice by a medical or mental health professional. My role functions as an adjunct to your treatment team, and my services complement and support those of your primary care providers as I am dealing with unique issues and circumstances that other team members cannot perform due to time constraints, legal parameters, or lack of specific training. As a Recovered Eating Disorder Coach, I help individuals reach their treatment goals in real-life situations, providing support, and appropriate challenges, and serving as both a role model and a guide. I am trained on how to work with the eating disorder population, in both an individual and group setting, to help facilitate growth and behavior change related to recovery.

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