Soul Nutrition

This is a conference for nutritional health practitioners using a brand new, bespoke, virtual conference and expo platform. The IHCAN Conferences Virtual Event is a whole-day event with multiple live sessions and a virtual exhibition – bringing the “in-person” conference experience direct to your device.

Katie Sheen will be presenting the following session from 10-11am:

Overcoming client resistance to nutritional change

Do you sometimes sense that your clients have a subtle resistance to making positive nutritional and lifestyle changes? Are habitual patterns of thought and behaviour constantly triggering a stress response, or trapping them ever more firmly in the signs and symptoms of ill health?

Today’s session offers you practical ideas to help your clients soothe their distress so that both you and they can see their situation more clearly. Learning to turn towards their emotional and physical suffering with a calm, compassionate attitude of self-care allows them to disentangle themselves from unhelpful patterns of thoughts, beliefs and perceptions. Free to act differently, they can then fully engage with your nutrition and lifestyle protocols, enhancing clinical results and setting themselves on a sustainable path to wellness.

About Katie Sheen

Katie qualified from The Institute for Optimum Nutrition in 2008 and established her private practice at Amaranth in Bramhall, winners of the CAM Clinic of the Year 2010.

Initially combining nutritional therapy alongside her work in brain tumour research and support charities, she soon became a lecturer, personal tutor and module leader for the Masters Degree in Nutritional Therapy at the University of Worcester. It was here that she gained her PCGE and MA in Education, beginning to weave mindfulness and mindful eating into her teaching from 2011. She can now be found delivering regular CPD webinars and seminars for health practitioners at Lamberts Healthcare and Pharma Nord UK, alongside a range of public and corporate events.

Katie first discovered mindfulness in 2001, and having used it to process the trauma of her cancer treatment in 2015, she has special interests in both mindfulness for anxiety and mindfulness for pain and fatigue management.

Primarily practicing in the Plum Village tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, she is a course leader for the Plum Village UK ‘Be Calm, Be Happy’ mindfulness course and retreats.

She is also an accredited Breathworks teacher and regularly offers their 8 weeks ‘Mindfulness for Health’ course on Zoom, designed to support and inspire adults living with a wide range of health conditions, from knee injuries and pain syndromes through to stroke recovery and neurodegenerative conditions.

On her website you can access her pre-recorded ‘Mindfulness for Anxiety’ course, currently being viewed in 114 countries across the globe. She also offers you and your clients a free mindful eating food diary, a happiness calendar and an online life coaching model called SHIFT. You can discover more about all these resources on her website at www.soulnutrition.org

Today she is going to be talking about mindfulness to support and enhance successful clinical outcomes; sharing a range of practical ideas to help free your clients from unhelpful patterns of thoughts, beliefs and perceptions that may be hindering their ability to fully engage with your recommendations.