About Susan/Bio
About Susan
I've been teaching people HOW to eat for over 30 years. My first--and one of my most challenging clients--was ME. I promise you, whatever struggles, setbacks or shame you’ve experienced with food, body, weight, truly, truly--I’ve been there—done that!
My story: After more than a dozen years bingeing, starving or dieting with every program known to man/woman (and some more grueling I invented myself), years of losing 11 pounds one week, gaining 13 pounds back the next, years of I’ll never again, followed by OMG I did! I craved peace with food and my body--but how?
With slow steps, small changes and a daily, continued and continuing Mindfulness practice--learning to be in the present moment, to be gentle and compassionate, observing and listening to my brilliant body, gradually, I evolved. By feeling/being instead of thinkingthinkingthinking I began to understand what to eat, when to eat, and how much to eat. I learned to Step Away from the yapping of my fearful, spinning mind, from the judgements, restrictions, fears & habitual behaviors and trust my heart-mind, meaning kindness, compassion, acceptance and peace.
As my struggles with food, body, weight and mind got smaller, I found I had more confidence, compassion, clarity and calm in all parts of my life. And guess what other ginormous (and unexpected) gift I got? The freedom, time and energy to create a more meaningful, creative and happier life than I ever thought possible! Because when my struggles with food, body and weight got smaller and smaller and smaller, there was finally room for me! The authentic me— dancing, painting, writing, walking, reading, laughing, questioning, collaging, cooking, camera-happy, living in the present moment, finally free me.
~And I can teach YOU how to have this too!
What's it like working with Susan? Here's what clients say:
"...she is full of wisdom, empathy, and positive energy."
"After my first session with Susan, I left with a feeling of peace, joy, happiness."
"I felt really unjudged and accepted."
"Susan is gentle and centers our appointments around what I feel I need most help with, what is most important for MY recovery. Everything I have gained during this round in recovery has been sustainable because it is all at my pace."
"Her words are like medicine!"
"Susan's a pillar of wisdom and unconditional compassion. I never have to feel ashamed with her. I can put the last binge or purge behind me and start now, here."
"Susan stands in her truth...and not only teaches with her words but more importantly with her disposition. I left feeling grounded, peaceful and empowered."
Bio
Susan Weiss Berry, MS, MFA, CNS, is a gifted Nutrition Counselor, Mindful Eating/Mindful Living Expert and Founding Director of Evolved Eating, a unique Mindfulness-based, Intuitive Eating program that teaches clients to free themselves from habitual behaviors and pre-conceived notions around food and weight. She is also the creator of Evolved Eating’s Mind-Body Culinary Therapy Workshops, Stepping Away Workshops and Co-creator of bodyPeace byPiece.
With relationship-centered care, Susan has helped hundreds of clients (CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies, doctors, singers, Olympic athletes, mothers and students) recover from eating disorders, overeating, chronic dieting/restricting as well as weight and health issues. Using her decades of daily meditation experience, as well as her own recovery, she teaches clients to stop struggling with WHAT they EAT by teaching them HOW TO EAT. Her humorous, compassionate approach has been described as both practical and profound.
Susan was a pioneer in the non-diet movement and one of the first Nutritionists in America to establish an Integrative Private Practice. Throughout her 25+year career she’s been in great demand as a lecturer, writer, Program Design Specialist and Nutrition Consultant for both university and private organizations including: The Center for Preventative Medicine, The WIC Program, The University of Michigan, American Business Women's Association, Marriott Corporation, The Center for Eating Disorders, Whole Foods Inc., and The NY Hotel Trades Council Health Centers, Inc.
Former Director of The Center for Nutrition and Wellness in Ann Arbor/Detroit, and the San Francisco Bay Area, she’s now based in NYC. Susan is a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS) accredited through The American College of Nutrition and a Board Certified Holistic Health Counselor (CHHC) accredited through AADP. She received an MS in Food Science and Nutrition from Eastern Michigan University as well as post-graduate training in Bulimia and Anorexia from Susan C. Wooley, PhD at the University of Michigan and in Body Image and Psychodynamics with Anne Kearney-Cooke, PhD. For 15 years she served as staff Nutritionist and then Consulting Nutritionist for The Center for Eating Disorders in Ann Arbor.
Susan is also a national award-winning author with an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College near San Francisco. She’s written for and been quoted by The Detroit Free Press, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, The NY Daily News, Big Apple Parent, Columbia University News Wire Service,
www.singleedition.com, www.intent.com,www.sizeate.blogspot.com, www.divine.caroline,www.selfgrowth.com, www.nationaleatingdisorders.org, and www.parentsknow.com
Susan is a member of NEDA--The National Eating Disorders Association.
Susan is a consultant to CLEANSE NYC