Barbara Birsinger, ThD, MPH, CEDRD, (Founder, the Behavior Decoding Method™) has helped individuals and professionals for over 25 years transform behaviors, beliefs and identities stuck in disordered eating and weight-related symptoms.
This page is for individuals and professionals.
1. For INDIVIDUALS who would like to:
• eat consciously, for nourishment and enjoyment
• make peace with food
• find joy in your body
• take time to care for all aspects of yourself (soulful, emotional, spiritual, mental, physical, social)
And who would like to experience:
• exactly what, when and how much to eat at any time, for your individual needs
• the symbolic meaning of your hunger and food cravings, how they may be serving you or masking areas of your life that are calling for attention, and how to restore balance
• nourishing all aspects of yourself, freeing up tremendous amounts of energy
• expressing yourself from the inside out, radiating a beauty that far surpasses the illusion of the cultural ideal
• new choices that nurture your deepest desires and serve your highest good
2. For PROFESSIONALS who:
• Want to learn new, practical, friendly, effective and research-based tools to help their clients to:
-Discover the purpose being served in their behaviors and find their own answers from within
-Reduce resistance and increase motivation for treatment
-More quickly and easily access feelings and deep needs that have lost to the ED behaviors
-Activate their own, unique Self-care practices and creative expression to satisfy the unmet needs in their life, lessening the need for behaviors
-Build meaning in their recovery, leading to more self-acceptance and compassion
-Commit to their treatment, move forward and remain stable in recovery
• Want to have a system that provides concrete steps and structure over the course of treatment for clients to transform their beliefs and behaviors
• Want to increase referrals and serve more clients in less time
Virtual e-Learning Courses for Licensed Professionals, Certified Life/Health Coaches, and for the Public