Exclusive Interview With Amy Bondar – Nutrition And Eating Psychology Coach
Amy Bondar, Nutritional Therapist, Certified Eating Psychology Coach, Speaker, and Author, changes life! Amy brings two decades of experience in the field of nutrition and mind-body coaching and believes that nourishing our body with the power of food, resolving stresses that are blocking our physiology and hindering our full potential, and living a life with purpose are essential ingredients to optimizing our health. Amy offers virtual consults and lectures to clients around the world and will inspire, educate and guide you to transform your relationship with food, body, and self.
Who is Amy?
I am a Nutritional Consulting Practitioner, Eating Psychology Coach, Author and Dynamic Speaker and I get to wake up every day dedicating my life to helping others optimize their health with the power of food. I am celebrating 19 years in practice and I can honestly say I still love what I do! My other two highest values are my family and my health. I have 2 beautiful children and my husband and I are dedicated to guiding them and providing them with opportunities to do what they love so they can shine incredibly bright. When I am not working or with my family, you can find me walking my dog Bagel in nature, working out, and enjoying some form of self-care.
What is it that you do for your clients?
I inspire, educate and guide my clients to nourish their body, mind and soul. Physically I awaken men and women to the power of food to optimize their health, improve symptoms and conditions and help them find greater states vitality so they have the energy and vibrancy to do what they love every day.
Mentally, I work with my clients to resolve the stresses and conflicts in their life that are often at the root of their unwanted eating behaviors (stress eating, binge eating, emotional eating and compulsive eating, chronic dieting), weight and body image challenges and the manifestation of symptom and illness.
Soulfully, I guide my clients to live a life of fulfillment as lack of daily mission and purpose can lead to poor food choices, weight and health challenges. When we do what we love, we eat to fulfill our mission which I believe is the ultimate expression of nutrition.
Ultimately I help my clients to transform their relationship with food, body and self.
Who should hire/work with you?
I love to work with people who are ready to do the work, meaning, ready to truly explore their relationship with food and the underlying reasons why they may struggle with it. They have to be ready to explore the deeper dimensions in life that are often at the root of their eating, weight and health challenges.
I get excited to work with people who are ready to move away from diet mentality, generic meal plans, food lists and linear one-size-fits all approaches to nutrition and really desire to think about food and nutrition in a whole new light! It is not about weight loss, it is about wellness and I welcome and love to work with men or women who want to move away from diet mentality and awaken their nutritional consciousness.
I also love working with people who are really confused and conflicted about what to eat and teach them about their own unique body type and how to use food to fuel their individual biochemistry. We are all different and unique and every single person on this planet has their own food story and blueprint for how and what they should eat to feel their best. I love helping my clients to decipher that and teach them how to eat for a lifetime.
What is your big goal? Where do you see yourself in 10 years from now?
My ultimate vision is to be invited by top Wellness Centers and Spas to share my message on nutrition and how to heal and ignite our relationship with food. I see myself having another book or two written and inspiring large audiences to think about food and their body in a beautiful sacred way.
I also see myself continuing to work one-on-one with my clients because I truly love the human connection and working intimately with people, be that in-person or virtually around the globe. To help somebody transform their relationship with food, to resolve emotional stresses with them and to see how their health improves with all the services and techniques I offer, is such a gift. It truly fulfills me and brings me joy.
In nearly two decades of practice what do see has changes in the field of nutrition?
Honestly, and sadly, not a whole lot! I continually see fad diets, one-way system nutrition ideologies (eg, keto, paleo, plant-based, pegan, intermittent fasting, etc.) that are all conflicting and leaving people continuously confused about what and how to eat. The diet industry skyrockets while people are still struggling in the same way with weight and health.
There is nutritional wisdom that stands the test of time but rarely ever spoken about, which is what I incorporate in my writing, programs and teachings. But the one thing that almost always gets left out of the nutritional conversation is the emotional connection to food. You cannot follow a successful nutrition lifestyle or truly change your body and relationship with food if you do not understand who you are as an eater and why you eat in the first place. Mind-Body eating is essential to long-term transformation and that is the work I do and that I believe that differentiates me from majority of other practitioners in my industry.
What is the most important message you want people to know?
Our longest lasting relationship in life is with food. We eat from the moment of our conception to the time of our physical death. We relate with food every single day of our lives, and multiple times a day. What we eat matters and is the most influential and important factor that determines how we feel and how we do life! But we typically ignore this most important relationship. We don’t work on it, explore it, understand it, honor it and respect it. Our relationship with food is here to guide us and our body gives us vital information through symptoms to let us know when we are off path. Our emotional eating moments, or what I call, the in-between moments, reveal to us when something is not feeling right in our life. These are the doorways of opportunity to explore that offer us great insight and reveal truths within ourselves that will lead to growth and transformation when we listen. We must connect with food with such reverence because it is our greatest teacher.
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