Books by Megrette Fletcher

How can health professionals teach diabetes education without getting sucked into the restrictive-eating, appearance-based, weight-loss trap?Diabetes Counseling and Education Activities: Helping clients without harping on weight,is the culmination of 20 years of teaching experience by a Certified Diabetes Educator, Registered Dietitian, and Mindful Eating pioneer. Motivational Interviewing is the counseling method used throughout this manual to demonstrate how to teach diabetes care by presenting 14 different activities. To make this manual easy to use, each of activity is organized in a similar way, providing you with why, when, and how to introduce the activity in the counseling session. The learning objective and detailed counseling dialog help you shift to goal-planning and documenting the visit.

This classic bestseller has been completely revised and updated for its second edition! This book will give you the skills and confidence to use mindful eating in your practice. Written by mindful eating expert Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDE, it is designed to give RDs and CDEs the practical tools to use mindful eating for a variety of counseling scenarios including diabetes management, bariatric counseling and disordered and emotional eating. Features 50 client-ready handouts on Mindful Eating activities for either the counseling session, or client self-directed learning.

Finally, health-care professionals have a way to save time, energize their counseling practices, and help clients create compassionate, sustainable changes.The Core Concepts in Mindful Eating: Professional Edition lays out the fundamentals of Mindful Eating and provides supporting research, presented in three clear sections. Core Concepts of Mindful Eating: Professional Edition is for Registered Dietitians, Health Coaches, Therapists, or other professionals interested in Mindful Eating. Incorporating the principles and position statements from The Center for Mindful Eating, The Core Concepts of Mindful Eating provides a Health At Every Size compliant manual for professionals looking to promote awareness and compassionate, sustainable change. This comprehensive workbook is more than just an overview: Each chapter contains teaching activities that promote understanding and can be quickly incorporated into an education session.