Feed Your Mind Wellness Announces the Addition of Elyse Wagner

Highland Park, IL— Dr. Sandra Scheinbaum, Director of Feed Your Mind Wellness, recently announced the addition of Elyse Wagner, MS to the practice. Ms. Wagner is a Nutritionist and Mental Health Counselor and is available to share her wellness strategies with clients at Feed Your Mind Wellness located at 1732 First Street, Highland Park.
           Feed Your Mind Wellness is an integrative practice offering services in psychological consulting, nutrition, and biofeedback. The focus of Feed Your Mind Wellness is to help individuals learn useful tools to create and maintain a healthy lifestyle. According to Dr Scheinbaum, “We use a positive approach and avoid focusing on mental disorders. The team at Feed Your Mind Wellness offers a unique opportunity for clients to learn how to experience joy in their daily lives, using food, exercise and meaningful connections as their
medicine. ”  Clients are taught how to integrate strategies to achieve optimal wellness though classes in whole foods cooking, nutritional counseling, and biofeedback.
         Ms. Wagner recently returned to the Chicago area after completing a three-year graduate studies program at Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington, where she received a dual master’s degree in Holistic Nutrition and Clinical Health Psychology. She received her undergraduate degree in Dietetics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 2008. She is a self-described “multi-passionate nutritionist” because she loves teaching others about the power of whole foods and how changing their food can change their life. With a compassionate and collaborative approach, Ms.Wagner understands that everyone is unique with special gifts and talents to share with the world. She empowers her clients to break through their barriers and take hold of their health, while providing the tools, resources and inspiration they need on their journey to living well. Appointments can be made by calling 847-604-2752 or by email at ElyseWagner@feedyour mindwellness.com.
        Feed Your Mind Wellness also offers group sessions for preventing and reversing pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes. Based on the principles of functional medicine, as espoused by experts such as Dr. Mark Hyman, one of Dr. Scheinbaum's mentors and author of The Blood Sugar Solution, their cutting-edge program targets belly fat and insulin-resistance to prevent conditions such as depression, heart disease, cancer, and even Alzheimer's disease, which some have referred to as "Type 3" diabetes.
       The Feed Your Mind Wellness Program for Reversing Chronic Disease is offered as an intensive one-day workshop, a 6 session class, or an on-going group. It is tailored to meet the needs of each individual in the program and includes dietary counseling, targeted supplements, an exercise prescription, a plan for dealing with toxic load, and effective relaxation techniques. Progress is traced through body composition analysis, medical symptom questionnaires and laboratory testing. Call 847-604-2752 or email DrSandi@Feedyourmindwellness.com for more information.
         Dr. Scheinbaum is the founder and director of Feed Your Mind Wellness, LLC. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, a board certified senior fellow in biofeedback, a certified yoga instructor and nutrition coach. Preventing and reversing disease through diet and lifestyle interventions has been her passion for over 30 years.