Gregory Lazarus
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The team as Rainshadow Consulting offer nutritional and integrative medicine as part of their psychotherapy treatments
Rainshadow Consulting - Integrative Medicine
Focus areas
Lifestyle
Self-help
F5
Hopelessness
Stress Management
Clinical supervision
Nutritional Medicine:
Optimally resourcing our body’s biochemistry through diet and with specific supplementation (vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids) and some herbal medicines.
Integrative Medicine:
Integrating lifestyle changes with other interventions is central to a holistic approach. Paying attention to physical exercise, sleep quality, adequate sunlight exposure, to environmental contaminants and other lifestyle choices profoundly affects the mind/body.
Mind/ Body Medicine
Mood disorders, such as depression, involve a multifaceted interplay of bio-psycho-social-environmental influences. As part of a multi-disciplinary approach, nutritional and lifestyle factors play a significant role.
The ‘chemistry of thought’ is not localised to the brain because the same neurotransmitter receptors are also found in the gut, on the surface of white blood cells, and numerous other bodily locations, which explains why emotional states cause physiological effects and conversely, why physiological states induce particular moods. Hence, taking care of the body supports mental vitality and taking care of the mind supports physical wellbeing.
Intuitive Eating
Nature’s survival mechanism has been to make food nourishing. We have adapted mechanisms for taste preferences – sweet wild foods are usually safe and bitter/astringent foods are often poisonous; we have physiological mechanisms for attempting to correct nutrient deficiencies by inducing specific food cravings; we have natural preferences for energy dense foods because of the survival advantage they offer; and we have a natural capacity for fat storage, again for survival benefit; and so on. In essence, our body is able to provide our minds with very specific signals for meeting nutrition related physiological needs.
Food is frequently used either consciously or unconsciously to manage anxiety, stress and to bring comfort when lonely, sad or afraid. Resisting food desires, sticking to a diet plan, and being slim are often considered in today’s society to be praiseworthy. Failure in these areas can lead to feelings of insufficient willpower, worthlessness, hopelessness and feeling ‘fat’/‘bad’. Non-hungry eating is a pattern likely recognisable by the great majority of us.
But what if non-hungry eating was not viewed as a failure, but as a sensible ‘self-help’ technique?
What if eating is a way of helping yourself in the best way you know how?
What if reaching out for food is simply a way of trying to manage a stressful moment in time?
Understanding non-hungry eating in this way is a powerful way of seeing stress-induced eating behaviour for what it truly is: a mechanism by which food and eating serves to distract one from an uncomfortable emotional state. Many of us have a calming problem, not a food problem.
Call us today to book your appointment, and start feeling better tomorrow!
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