This month we focus on helping you be in the space of presence with clients instead of dread, uncertainty or worry, that ‘uh-oh, that client again’ mode. We invite you to watch Diana’s video on unblending your own parts in…
Author: Molly Kellogg
May 2023
This month we focus on helping clients map their parts as they present in session. When clients draw or write their parts on a piece of paper, it invites the parts to externally unblend and their energy settles down a…
March 2023
The topic of this, our second newsletter for nutrition professionals interested in the Internal Family Systems model of counseling, is about bringing clearer sight to our clients awareness, who may be blended with feelings and beliefs of the parts of them…
February 2023
Welcome to the first edition of a newsletter for nutrition professionals interested in the Internal Family Systems model. Each month, you’ll receive either a video showing real time RD challenges using IFS skills and concepts as a solution or other…
Molly Kellogg Nutrition Counseling Fund
May 21, 2021 I am announcing today that I have set up the Molly Kellogg Nutrition Counseling Fund through the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation. The fund will help advance counseling skills excellence in the dietetic profession by providing…
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Big Changes
January, 2021 Dear friends and colleagues: 2020 has been a year of reckoning for many of us. We’ve been forced to shift much about how we live and work. For me, the timing has been perfect to step back and…
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# 195 Addressing Dangerous Behavior
The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it. Helen Keller The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. Sir William Bragg…
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# 194 It’s Called Behavior Change for a Reason
Many of our clients come to us with what sound like clear health goals. They may want to eat healthier, get off blood pressure medication, or fuel up for the next marathon. When a client has stated the direction…
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#193 Social Media and Nutrition Counseling
This tip originated in a conversation I had with a couple of participants in my Motivational Interviewing training, and then other colleagues chimed in to add depth. It began as we realized that the recent proliferation of communication platforms…
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# 192 When A Client Won’t Set A Goal
I got a question recently about adapting Motivational Interviewing to other cultures, especially with Hispanic clients in a WIC clinic. The dietitian had noticed that some clients didn’t seem to understand the idea of setting a goal. She asked…
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