Nutritional Counseling During Inpatient Mental Health Treatment

You or your loved one’s residential mental health treatment at Bridges to Recovery integrates nutritional counseling into our overarching mental health treatment programs.  Many clients benefit from assessment of their nutritional needs and implementation of an eating plan which enhances mental, physical, and spiritual health.  This is particularly important for individuals who have developed eating symptoms or eating disorders including compulsive overeating, food restriction, bulimia, and compulsive exercise.

The nutrition counseling teaches the client how to compassionately take care of their needs rather than having an unhealthy love/hate relationship with food that results in food obsession and food denial (punishment). As such, each individual is challenged to be curious about his or her own relationship in order to consciously explore what is learned and felt within the primary experience of nurturing that basic need.

As the person discovers how emotional tendencies were defined while dependent on others for survival and sustenance, it becomes possible to detect where they unconsciously recycle aspects of that relationship with the self. Thus, they learn how this creates the basis for struggle, compulsive eating, food restriction, dismissal, and other traits that continue to cause their inability to give themself what is needed to achieve balance and vitality.

By restructuring the foundation of how the person cares for basic needs, they will be inspired to consciously choose the loving support desired throughout the healing and recovery process. With a supportive foundation, it becomes possible to then reunite with the spiritual meaning and celebration of food, to feel the response to the food-mood connection, to prevent or reverse physical illness, and to experience the freedom and vitality of a life empowered and well nurtured.

Interested in learning more about how we asses and plan an individual’s inpatient mental health treatment? Contact us today.

 

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