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"I have enjoyed each and every one of the Teleconferences so much that I am
now trying to schedule patients around them. I feel that the TCME is
extremely valuable and am planning to join as a member this week." -Danielle Paciera, LDN, RD, Tulane UniversityFrom tele-conference participant (The call) "it was great! I appreciated how you modeled these skills for us as you facilitated the group! I also loved hearing the experiences of others and learning about different resources. " Cathy C
"The entire concept of 'curiosity' was new to me with respect to nutrition counseling. It seemed like a very unlikely word to include. I came to understand, however, how it can increase our awareness of our/client's behaviors when taking a more curious stance (I wonder how much food It will take to fill me up/satisfy me?) rather than a more judgmental, negative stance such as "I'm not supposed to eat more than this for lunch, but I seem extra hungry today!". Judy T
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Dr. Ronna Kabatznick received her B.A. from Hampshire College in 1974. She received both her masters and Ph.D. degrees from the City University of New York. While in New York, Dr. Kabatznick taught a wide variety of psychology courses Hunter, City, and Queens Colleges. After completing her doctorate in Social Psychology, she taught briefly in the clinical psychology Ph.D. training program at Adelphi University.
Currently, Dr. Kabatznick is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco.
In 1985 Weight Watchers International invited Dr. Kabatznick to help develop the behavioral management aspects of their program. During her nine years as a consultant, Dr. Kabatznick introduced “mindful awareness” to the Weight Watchers Program, emphasizing the importance of mindful eating, forgiveness, compassion and loving kindness practices. She also served as a corporate spokesperson and was a frequent guest on television and radio shows nationally and internationally. Her monthly advice column, “Confidentially Yours,” was featured in Weight Watchers Magazine.
She is the author of The Zen of Eating: Ancient Answers to Modern Weight Problems, which applies Buddhist Meditation principles and practices to overcoming food and eating challenges. Now in it's 8th printing, her book has also been published in five languages.
Dr. Kabatznick’s passion is to find creative ways to resolve the twin epidemics of overeating and hunger in America. As the founder and director of “Dieters Feed the Hungry,” she worked from 1988-1991 to provide a practical and meaningful link between the millions struggling with the burden of abundance with the millions who are poorly nourished or who experience food insecurity. Based on her extensive meditation training, including an 18 month meditation retreat in Thailand, she has renewed her commitment to help encourage those fortune enough to choose what to eat to share their abundance with those who don't. And while this may appear to provide only physical nourishment to the hungry, the truth of our common humanity affords givers and receiver alike an emotional fulfillment that food alone cannot.
She is now in the process of developing a mindful eating program called METTA4U (Mindful Eating Training Through Awareness) that involves developing a deep understanding of the dynamics of misguided desires and cravings that often lead to compulsive and mindless overeating. Through a wide variety of Insight Meditation practices, including generosity, people learn the Middle Way, a multi-faceted path that leads to feelings of fullness and contentment that over time, radically alter one's relationship to food and eating, and to life in general.
Her private practice based in Berkeley, California, is devoted to helping people struggling with weight, depression and relationship issues.
U.S. News and World Report March 5, 2009. Interviewed TCME member Brian Shelley, MD and Execuitve Director Megrette Fletcher, RD about how Mindful Eating might support weight loss.
Mind Your Munching. By Elizabeth Bromstead. Toronto Canada NOW: Life and Style Magazine.8/27-9/3/08 TCME executive director interviewed.
WebMD article interviews TCME and lists it as a resource.
Thank you to all who attended the FNCE Conference and visited our booth. TCME is very grateful to DayOne Publishing for underwriting the dinner. Here are some photos!
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Dr. Ronna Kabatznick received her B.A. from Hampshire College in 1974. She received both her masters and Ph.D. degrees from the City University of New York. While in New York, Dr. Kabatznick taught a wide variety of psychology courses Hunter, City, and Queens Colleges. After completing her doctorate in Social Psychology, she taught briefly in the clinical psychology Ph.D. training program at Adelphi University.
