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Stop obsessing about food and your body.. and get your sanity back.

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Stop Sabotaging Your Health Goals With 1 Simple Word and Mindset Shift...

I will help you retrain your brain to change the way you look at food and your body.

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What is Health &Mindset Coaching?

As a Health & Mindset Clini-Coach®, I can help you learn new ways of thinking about food and your body, using my combined skills and training as a licensed clinical mental health counselor and a coach. I'm also:

Your Accountability Partner

No one should go on this journey alone; trust me, I didn't. I had the support of two wonderful health coaches (shout out to Liz and Becca!) who supported me on my journey, and I want to do the same. As a coach, I can provide you with support and accountability (including humor and tough love, if needed) to help you reach your health goals.
Your Guide

I have always believed that people know how to solve their own problems, they also need someone to help them sort through all of their options. That's where a coach can come in, to help you arrive at the solutions to some of your issues around your relationship with food and your body and help you figure out your next step.
Your Motivator

My clients don't call me "The Cheerleader" for no reason - I actually have a pom-pom in my office! We as humans thrive on positive reinforcement (i.e. praise), so you're in the right place. I love to cheer people on for their growth, and I cheer on the baby steps (because that's how we should evolve anyway)!

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A HEALTH & MINDSET Coach is NOT...

A Therapist

While I am a licensed clinical mental health therapist, in this situation, I am not YOUR therapist. I will be utilizing information from my clinical training, and yet, I will not be conducting a mental health therapy session. If the coaching sessions dig into something that would be better addressed in a therapeutic setting, I will recommend that you discuss this with another licensed clinician.
A Bestie

Our coaching sessions will feel easy and relaxed because I enjoy connecting with people; however, I am a professional and hold to a code of ethics which discourages dual relationships with my clients (even if you're super-cool and I would love to have coffee with you).
A Crutch

Our sessions come as a package for a reason - there is a start and end date so that I can "work myself out of a job". The goal of coaching is to give you the skills that you need and gently nudge you out of the nest. I want you to be able to take it from there and put your new tools into action. Sure, you'll have some stumbles, and if you need to check in with me, you can, although my hope is that you won't need me (because you've got it)!

So how does this

Health & Mindset Coaching

thing work?

What We'll Do

During our work together, we will:

Discuss the pitfalls of diet culture and how it has impacted your life

Discuss why short-term, restrictive diets don't work for weight loss or changing your body composition (if that is your goal)

Discuss how disordered eating behaviors affect people of all ages, all gender identities, and all ethnicities (it doesn't just affect young, white women!)

Break down the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating

Discuss how you can reframe your thinking about food and exercise

Teach you a number of mindset shifts to change the way you view food and your body

Unlearn a number of myths and assumptions about food and nutrition

Challenge black-or-white, all-or-nothing thinking that can cause you to sabotage your progress towards your long-term health goals

Focus on how you see yourself, how you view your identity, and how this lines up with your values

Develop a sustainable, realistic plan for change to help you achieve your health goals by developing small, manageable health habits that you can stick with!

And we do it through:

12-weekly, 60-minute virtual sessions through Zoom (or alternate platform) - we can meet anywhere in the world, wherever you live!

Daily access and accountability to me via Voxer and email

Turn newfound knowledge into action with weekly activities

12-week habit tracker that comes FREE with program (spiral-bound for 1:1 and group participants, downloaded version for self-study participants)

Program Name - Food is Not The Enemy!

Answers to Your Burning Questions:

Why does this take 12 weeks? This could actually take longer, there is a LOT of information to cover. This is a process that takes time, patience and grace to unlearn a way of thinking and learn new concepts. At the end of our time together, I will encourage you to continue to practice what you've learned in order to create lasting and sustainable change.

Is this a diet? This is the opposite of a diet; a diet is a set of rules around eating. This is breaking free from those dieting rules that you have learned over the years. We will discuss food and nutrition in neutral terms, taking the "good" and "bad" labels off of food to help you learn how to relax your rules around food, thus ending guilt and shame after eating.

What if I still want to lose weight? Well, that's totally your choice - it's normal to feel that way! During this program, however, I will suggest that you shift your focus from a specific weight goal or number on the scale to a wider lens of who you want to be when this process is over (your identity).

We will then identify the health habits that you want to develop in order to achieve this identity (such as exercising on a regular basis, adding more greens, drinking more water, getting more sleep, etc.).

You will find that your body will adjust accordingly without having to focus only on the number on the

scale.

There are so many other ways to measure progress - we call them "Non-scale victories" - these include:

How do your clothes feel?
Have you gained more confidence and self-esteem?
Do you have more energy?
Are you sleeping better?

You might enjoy these benefits as well as the number on the scale changing!

Will you recommend/endorse a specific way of eating? No, I'm not a dietician, so I won't tell you what to eat. We will talk about paying attention to how certain foods make you FEEL after eating them to help you make small adjustments to link certain foods with certain functions (such as energy or relaxation), or including foods for various occasions (such as birthday cake!).

ANNOUNCING

3 different ways to join this program:

Individual Method

Consists of:

12-Weekly individual 60-minute coaching sessions with Amparo (via zoom or alternate platform)

Access to Membership Portal of "Food is Not The Enemy" Program for weekly coaching materials and activities

Free 12-week "Daily Habits" Planner (spiral bound) to use during the program (see pic)

Daily accountability with me via Voxer and/or email

Facebook Group access - Food: Your New BFF (if interested)

Group Method

Consists of:

12-Weekly 60-minute group coaching sessions with Amparo (via zoom or alternate platform)

Access to Membership Portal of "Food is Not The Enemy" Program for weekly coaching materials and activities

Free 12-week "Daily Habits" Planner (spiral bound) to use during the program (see pic)

Daily accountability with me via Voxer and/or email

Facebook Group Access - Food: Your New BFF (if interested)

Group Begins Spring 2023!!

Self Study Method

Consists of:

Access of Membership Portal of "Food is Not The Enemy" Program for weekly coaching materials and activities

Free 12-week "Daily Habits Planner to use during the program (downloaded version)

Facebook Group Access - Food: Your New BFF (if interested)

1:1 Coaching - $2400 one payment/3 installments of $800

Group Coaching - $1500 - one payment/3 installments of $500

Self-study - $750 - one payment/3 installments of $250

The 12-week spiral bound habit tracker is included in 1:1 and group coaching package, and a downloaded version will be available for the self-study package.

It can also be purchased separately for $25 (plus s/h). To purchase the Habit Tracker, click below, or find out more information here!

Purchase tracker - $25

Questions? I'll answer them!

Who is your coach?😎

Hi, I'm Amparo.

I'm a licensed clinical mental health counselor (with over 20 years experience) and a health & mindset Clini-Coach©️. I'm originally from Raleigh, NC and now live in the beautiful mountains of Asheville, NC with my husband and school-aged kiddo. I have a deep passion for helping people learn to find balance in their lives, and to develop and healthy relationship with food and their bodies.

I experienced over 20 years of yo-yo dieting, frustration with my body, and searching for "the magic pill" to end my complicated relationship with food and my body. It was also difficult to find resources out there for a person of color or someone from other marginalized communities.

This is not something to do alone, so I worked with my own health coaches to heal my relationship with food and my body and it was a game changer for me. And now I'm paying it forward by helping others who are on their journey to their best selves!

I am an avid weightlifter and kickboxer, getting interested in boxing 25 years ago by watching all of the Rocky movies with my dad on repeat.
I have seen every episode of Law and Order (original and SVU) multiple times.
During my sessions, I usually find a way to quote something from Michael Jackson, The Golden Girls, or RuPaul.

Contact me :)

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Contact:

Email

amparo@amparopenny.com

Phone

(828) 295-2248

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