The Psychology of Eating Program and Groups (coming soon)

Enroll in the Psychology of Eating Program ​to learn how to recognize, reduce, and prevent the common unhelpful nutritional beliefs that are sabotaging your health and performance goals. Join live groups alongside those navigating through similar experiences. . 

    Psychology of Eating Program 

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Zoom-based Coach-led small group sessions for three distinct speical interest groups:
(1) Endurance athletes struggling with healthy nutrition while training for health and/or performance goals,
(2) Anyone seeking to reduce emotional eating behaviors through the practice of replacement coping strategies and
(3) Anyone navigating the emotional side of the nutritional challenges that accompany living with T2 diabetes.

Cost: $40 per individual session. $35/session when billed in 4-session committments. Renew as often as you wish.    
(1) Endurance athletes seeking peak performace or to quickly improve body composition are at very high risk for making unhealthy, misguided, and unsustainable nutritional choices.  

​This wellness group is offered as an eating disorder prevention group not as a treatment group. ​

​Social influencers and social media post/images rarely lead aspiring athletes down the road to optimal health and peak performance. There is a lot of noise and a lot of irrational eating behaviors that cause unnecessary suffering. Mistaken beliefs can drive our experiences with food, mood, body composition, and performance. Misguided well-intentioned behaviors can set the stage for dysfunctional eating patterns that most often sabotage long-term athletic success.

​Dysfunctional eating is a precurser to clinical-level Eating Disorders that will require clinical level care. Our group offers a place to help athletes process and repair challenging relationships with food before reaching a clinical level of harm. 
(2) Emotional Eating, often presenting as non-clinical overeating, is a maladaptive coping strategy. Often called "stress eating" or "eating my feelings", many of us will overeat, usually comfort food, in response to stress, Emotional eating is one of the most common unheatlhy eating behaviors in the US and can be a precursor to developing an clinical-level eating diosorder once binge eating become compulsive and dangerously out of control.

Learn more about emotional eating (non-clinical) vs Binge Eating Disorder (clinical): www.rosewoodranch.com/emotional-eating-and-binge-eating-disorder/

Our Emotional Eating group offers participants a chance to not only learn about but also to practice alternative coping strategies to proactively or reactively manage to stress. This group does not intend to replace therapy for specific causes of stress but rather offers general proactive coping skills training with time to practice between sessions to help reduce the use of emotional eating as a coping skill. ​
(3) When newly diaganosed with T2 Diabetes, the news can be devastating. The way we eat is shaped by our social circle, our culture, our preferences, and our ingrained habits.  

To learn that our eating choices, often our favorite foods, are slowly shortening our lifespan many experience disenfranchised grief and loss. This type of loss is very real but mostly unrecognized by society. This type of emotional distress is also often unacknowledged by treating sources who focus primarily on managing blood sugar. 
​We often feel alone, frustrated, disappointed, and sad. To suddently attempt to cut out added sugars cold-turkey is as hard as quitting smoking. Emotional support during this adjustment phase is severaly needed but seems to be ignored by the medical community. Peer-led support groups exist but they are most often filled with extreme and uninformed advice that does not support well-balanced optimal health. ​

Our group provides validation, understanding, and support for our shared emotional experiences. A Diabetes Prevention Lifestyle coach will provide evidence-based education from industry leaders on Type 2 Diabetes (ADA, CDC, NIH, etc). Learning how to nourish our bodies in well-balanced, safe, and healthy ways while improving lifestyle-related behaviors is hard. But it is possible for people living with Type 2 Diabetes to build a new healthier relationship with food.  
Tentative Group Details:
  • Small Zoom groups: 3-8 members only. 

  • Must be 18 or over. 
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  • Duration: 55 minutes sessions. Length may be extended depending upon the size of group.

  • Commitment: 4 weeks at a time, You can renew your commitment for as long as you wish. 

  • When: Sessions will be scheduled M/W/F afternoons (12 pm ET) and/or evenings (6:00 pm ET).  

  • Format: Process-Style Solution-Focused Support Groups with Coach-led education, and coping skills training.

  • Your Expectations: Attend to share common struggles, but expect the group's tone to be solution- and strength- focused. Experience support through group discussion, with occasional journaling and/or creative prompts to work on between sessions if you choose. 
  • Who should attend: Anyone navigating a non-clinical eating-behavior challenges, who identify with any of the special interest groups (Athletes, Emotional Eating, Type 2 Diabetes) and who feels ready, willing, and able for strength-focused, solution-focused group work. 

  • Not Therapy: These groups are non-clinical wellness coaching groups. These groups cannot replace and do not intend to replace mental health treatment for eating disorders, trauma, or any other clinical-level challenge that is better served by formal behavioral health treament.   ​​

Clarification: Coaching (non-clinical) vs Therapy (clinical)

Non-clinical means you are not attending as a patient, but rather as a participate. As such, you should not expect to recieve any personalized medical or psychiatric care. You will not be diagnosed. You are not expected to have a clinicial diagnosis to participate. These groups are for people not diagnoses.

You have the capacity to remain responsible for your personal choices. You should feel confident that you are capable of making safe decisions. You should not need or expect help to maintain your personal safety.  

​In contrast, clinical level care means you do need professional level care to make safe chooses and help managing symptoms of a diagnosable condition. Please reach out to your medical team or health care provider if you beileve you need this level of care. Do not delay. There is no need to suffer when help exists. 
Meet Your Coach: 
Shannon McGinn, EDS, MS, MA, NBC-HWC, ATR-BC, LPAT
National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC)
National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) Lifestyle Coach
RRCA Certified Endurance Coach 
USATF Level 1 Certified Coach 
ISSA Certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist 
ISSA Transformation Specialist 
MS in Kinesiology, Sports Performance, and Coaching Psychology. 
Board Certified and Licensed Professional Art Therapist (ATR-BC, LPAT)
 Family System Therapy Education Specialist (EDS)

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