Healing Eating Difficulties And Body Image
Eating Psychology Pioneer, Storyteller, Author, And Speaker
Healing Conversation #515
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Valeria Teles interviews Dr. Anita Johnston — the author of “Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationships with Food Through Myth, Metaphor, and Storytelling”.
Anita Johnston, Ph.D., is a psychologist, storyteller, and author. Her book “Eating in the Light of the Moon” has been published in seven languages.
She has been working in the field of women’s issues, eating difficulties, and body image distress for over 35 years and is currently the Clinical Director of ‘Ai Pono* Hawaii which has a residential treatment program in Maui and outpatient eating disorder programs in Honolulu. And she is the Executive Director of Eating Disorder Programs for the Integrative Life Center in Nashville.
She is the co-creator of the Light of the Moon Café, an interactive online women’s circle, book club, or “workbook” for Eating in the Light of the Moon.
Dr. Johnston, a certified eating disorder specialist, provides virtual individual consultations, trainings, and conducts workshops around the world. She is best known for integrating metaphor and storytelling into her training as a clinical psychologist to explain the complex issues that underlie struggles with eating, exercise, and body image.
Learn more about Dr. Anita Johnston and her work please, visit: https://dranitajohnston.com/ — https://lightofthemooncafe.com/ and https://www.aipono.com/
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