Short excerpt from a September 2011 YouTube video ("September 2011 FMU part 2") featuring Kathie Swift. In this passage Swift describes her clinical approach: framing dietary lapses as teachable moments that do not derail healing, using them for nutritional skill-building and empowerment, and the value of group-based digestive health and healing programs (example: program at Kripalu) for community support.
So I think as a clinician I try to troubleshoot and provide assurance that it's a journey and one dietary indiscretion doesn't bust, break or blow a healing process and use all of these things as teachable moments and opportunities for nutritional skill building and empowerment. I also have found that this is where groups can be really very, very helpful, which is one of the reasons I started a digestive health and healing program at Kripalo, a center for yoga. And this group experience has been especially helpful because then they form a community together of individuals for ongoing.
