This is Part 2 of a series of posts on this free online premier event. To read about the conference in general and biographies of some of the experts, please go to Annual Eating Psychology Free Online Conference Part 1.
In this part, we are continuing with the short bios of some of the experts who will be sharing the newest information, research and science on the psychology of eating, including weight loss, dieting, binge and emotional eating, body image and nutrition:
John Robbins - A Heartfelt Understanding of Food, Planet and Soul
John Robbins is the author of nine bestsellers that have collectively sold more than 3 million copies and been translated into 31 languages. These include:Meghan Telpner - A Beautiful Relationship with Food
John is Founder and Board Chair Emeritus of EarthSave International, and co-founder and co-host of the 150,000+ member Food Revolution Network. He is recipient of the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, the Peace Abbey’s Courage of Conscience Award, Green America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and many other accolades.
- Diet for a New America 25th Anniversary Edition: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Your Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth
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- The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World,
- Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples
- Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!
(with Ocean Robbins)
Meghan Telpner is a Toronto-based nutritionista and her humorous, engaging and real approach to healthy living has garnered her a world-wide following and extensive media attention. Her online cooking courses and health programs are making this vibrant living lifestyle available across the globe. Meghan’s bestselling book UnDiet: The Shiny, Happy, Vibrant, Gluten-Free, Plant-Based Way to Look Better, Feel Better, and Live Better Each and Every Day!Dr. Frank Lipman - The Heart of Functional Medicineis creating a revolution in how people think about their health.
Dr. Frank Lipman is the founder and director of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York City. After years of seeing patients struggle to get (and stay) healthy, he developed a simple & highly effective 2 week detox program that has helped hundreds of patients reclaim their health.Ana Forrest - Yoga, Addiction, Food and Embodiment
Ana Forrest is an internationally-recognized pioneer in yoga and emotional healing. She is a Medicine Woman, the creatrix of Forrest Yoga and author of the highly-acclaimed book, Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the SpiritJon Gabriel - The Psychobiology of Weight. Ana created Forrest Yoga as she worked through her own life traumas— including abuse, addictions and an unhealthy relationship with food—to find healing. She teaches from an intuitive and highly-developed understanding of the human body and psyche. Native American Medicine and the clinical application of healing modalities—including homeopathic and naturopathic remedies, reflexology, pressure point & craniosacral therapies, Shiatsu, chiropractic, and hands-on healing—always inform her work.
In 2001 Jon Gabriel weighed 409 lbs. He’d tried almost every popular diet available without success. Not only did he fail to lose weight—he was steadily gaining it. Overweight, overworked and unhappy, Jon was ready to give up. Then on September 11th 2001, Jon received a wake-up call. Jon realized that life was a precious opportunity not to be wasted. He realized that his weight would eventually kill him and decided to do something about it. Over the next two and a half years, Jon lost over 100 kilos (226 pounds) without dieting, pills or surgery. He also stopped feeling stressed and overworked and started living the life of his dreams.Dr. Hyla Cass - A Psychiatrist Looks at Food Addiction
Dr. Hyla Cass is a nationally acclaimed innovator and expert in the fields of integrative medicine and psychiatry. She helps individuals to enhance mind, mood and energy, as well as withdraw safely and comfortably from addictive substances, including medication, with the use of targeted natural supplements, many of which are her own unique formulations. She is a frequent guest on national radio and television, including The View and The Dr. Oz Show, and author/co-author of The Addicted Brain and How to Break Free (ebook), Natural Highs: Feel Good All the Time, 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health: A Take Charge Program and Supplement your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Nutrition.Guðni Gunnarsson - A Deeper Look Into Nourishment
Fitness and life consultant Guðni Gunnarsson is a native of Iceland. He has been instrumental in the Icelandic yoga and fitness industry for the past thirty-five years. He is currently President of Ropeyoga Inc., a company associated with the BodycrafterTM and the Mindful FitnessTM program—which are the result of Gunnarsson’s thirty-five year career involvement in the wellness industry. Mr. Gunnarsson is the author the Icelandic bestseller (Máttur Viljans, 2011), Presence Is Power (Máttur Athyglinnar, 2012), and Awareness Prosperity.Isabelle Tierney - If You Don't Dare to Love Your Body, Who Will?
Isabelle Tierney, M.A., LMFT, BHS, is a licensed therapist, trailblazer, coach, speaker, consultant, and author. She is the creator of the "Dare To Be You" movement, which invites us to fall in love with the sacred and the messy art of being human in body, mind, and spirit. She spreads this message through her Dare To be You podcast, ebooks, and group and invididual coaching. Isabelle has been in private practice internationally since 1996 with a strong specialty in eating disorders (including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating), body image, and other painful habits and addictions. Isabelle practices both in her Boulder, CO office and through long-distance programs.Dave Asprey - The Bulletproof Perspective
Dave Asprey, founder and CEO of The Bulletproof Executive, is a Silicon Valley investor and technology entrepreneur who spent 15 years and over $300,000 to hack his own biology. He upgraded his brain by over 20 IQ points, lowered his biological age, and lost 100 pounds without calorie counting or exercise.Golda Poretsky - Celebrating the Body at Every Size
Golda Poretsky, HHC is a certified holistic health counselor and founder of Body Love Wellness, which offers one-to-one and group coaching for plus-sized women who are fed up with dieting and want support to stop obsessing about food and weight. Her Health At Every Size® based programs and activism work have been featured on CBS’s The Early Show, ABC’s Nightline, NBC’s LX New York and in Time Out New York. Golda is often recognized from her viral TEDx talk, "Why It’s Okay To Be Fat" and was named a "Top Body Image Hero for 2013" by The Huffington Post. She is the author of Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To HealDaniel Vitalis. Golda has also organized and hosted major body positive online events, including The Body Love Revolutionaries Telesummit, the HAES® Master Class and the Body Positive Dating Master Class. Golda’s big, fat dream is for every plus sized woman to own her power, beauty, and body, whatever her size.
Daniel Vitalis is a Leading Health, Nutrition, and Personal Development Strategist. Encouraging us to "ReWild Ourselves", he teaches that Invincible Health is produced by a life aligned with our biological design. His entertaining, motivational and magnetic delivery style has made him an in-demand public speaker in North America and abroad. He is the creator of FindASpring.com, a resource helping people find fresh, clean, wild water wherever they live, and the founder of SurThrival.com, a brand pioneering a lifestyle of health and adventure. Daniel was recently featured in the widely acclaimed film Hungry for Change.Linda Paterson - Gut and Psychology Syndrome
Linda Paterson is a Certified GAPS Practitioner and strong advocate and spokesperson for GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride). GAPS Australia and the GAPS Nutrition Consultancy Clinic emerged from Linda’s personal experience in effectively treating her own son diagnosed with autism and extreme fussy eating. She understands the extent to which these children will refuse to eat certain foods and crave the very foods that are problematic for them. Linda has since supported many families to navigate their GAPS healing journey in her GAPS clinic and has been very successful in providing parents with the right tools to convert their child’s fussy eating habits. The GAPS diet coupled with applied behavior analysis and fussy eating programs is instrumental to the transformation of a child who experiences severe food aversions and Linda is committed to help families get their little fussy eaters across the line.Deborah King - Energy Healing
Deborah King IS Energy Healing! A New York Times best-selling author, energy healer and spiritual teacher, Deborah has developed her powerful gifts through nearly three decades of global study and is hailed as the premiere Master Healer of our time. Deborah was a successful attorney in her twenties when she was diagnosed with cancer that began a quest for health that would radically change her life. Her amazing remission at the hands of a healer led her to leave the corporate arena for the field of energy medicine, where she mastered ancient and modern systems, ultimately developed a powerful energy healing technique of her own. Through her numerous books, live workshops, TV appearances, and her popular Hay House Radio Show, Deborah has guided tens of thousands of people to tap into a higher level of consciousness, trust their intuition, and heal themselves in a way they never thought possible. In the process, many people discovered a new path to healing as their own innate healing abilities were awakened. With Spirit as her guide, Deborah created a powerful and hugely successful online video certification course for those who want to use their gifts not just to heal themselves, but also to heal others – even the world! Deborah’s New York Times best-selling Be Your Own ShamanFor more information and to sign up for free go to the Conference.and Truth Heals: What You Hide Can Hurt You
take you on unique journeys into the powerful esoteric world of healers, sages, and shamans. Her most recent book, Entangled In Darkness: Seeking the Light
is a startling trip into the maze of the psyche and an enlightened path out. Featured regularly in the media, W Magazine calls Deborah's work "electrifying.”
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. The Institute for the Psychology of Eating is the world’s only teaching
organization dedicated to a forward thinking, positive, holistic
approach to nutritional psychology. IPE is unique and revolutionary in
its approach – teaching students and professionals how to effectively
work with the most common eating challenges of our times in their
internationally acclaimed Eating Psychology Coach Certification
Training. The Institute also features cutting edge programs for the
public.
addresses the obesity epidemic by providing a step-by-step approach to
managing blood sugar levels, diabetes and a healthy weight.
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fifteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating soul in
every aspect of life. He has been a monk, a musician, a university
professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on
holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts. He has a Ph. D.
in religion from Syracuse University and has won several awards for his
work, including an honorary doctorate from Lesley University and the
Humanitarian Award from Einstein Medical School of Yeshiva University.
Three of his books have won the prestigious Books for a Better Life
awards. He writes fiction and music and often works with his wife,
artist and yoga instructor, 
, where he re-defines and
re-imagines religion as the deep, personal process in which you deal
with the mysteries of life. Much of his recent work has focused on the
world of medicine, speaking to nurses and doctors about the soul and
spirit of medical practice.
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. GAINING is, in
part, a sequel to Liu's very first book, 
- which was
also America's first anorexia memoir. Revisiting the questions of what
really causes eating disorders and what it takes to fully recover, Liu
interviewed leading researchers and more than 40 other women and men
with histories of eating disorders.
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She teaches men and women how to balance their hormones naturally,
regardless of age. She is a Harvard-educated physician, speaker. Board-certified in Obstetrics and
Gynecology, she is known for quoting Top 40 lyrics and blending the
seriousness of women’s health with playfulness and humor. Take a free quiz at 
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She studied digital
journalism with the New York Film Academy, in conjunction with NBC News,
and has been interviewing experts in the personal development field
since 2007, having conducted over 200 broadcast interviews to date.
For the past eight years, Jessica has traveled the world working with
and training under many of the leaders in the field of personal
development. She is trained as an NLP Master Practitioner and is
certified in hypnosis. She combines her experience in the field with her
knowledge of tapping to create tap-along audios that have been used by
thousands of people around the world, with great results.
Jessica is the host, and creates content for, 
and authored 
. His numerous media appearances include 
is described as "ignited prayer" by Eve
Ensler, "life-changing" by 