I’m Rande. Eating Psychology Coach. Founder of Free Spirit Academy and author of The Eat to Feel Good “Diet”. I spent most of my life battling binge eating disorder and orthorexia. My quest to heal brought me to the extreme of taking on a 90-day juice fast. When the “self-improvement” path didn’t lead to freedom, I gave it all up for self-love and expression. I now guide women from painful relationships with food and their bodies to lightness and liberation.

My name is Raquel Sedano and after overcoming Crohn’s disease and suffering menstrual imbalances for years, I decided to give my value as a health professional and help women to have a better lifestyle, self freedom, and love throughout a beautiful process in coherence with their physiology and nature.

I work with people who have challenges around weight, binge eating, body image, and a number of health concerns such as digestion, fatigue, mood issues, and more. I am trained in a highly unique and results-oriented holistic approach to eating issues that integrates nutrition and psychology.

Personally, the Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training has helped me understand my own body image and eating challenges and has given me the tools to continue healing them. I would love to work with you and guide you through your own personal journey.

Certified Mind Body Eating Coach, chef, and instructor reconnecting individuals to their truth through food and body wisdom.

Raquel Rodríguez is a Certified Hypnotherapist and Mind Body Eating Coach. She has been a practicing transpersonal hypnotherapist and instructor since 2015. She takes pride in assisting clients resolve their issues in a caring and supportive way using a variety of techniques. She specializes in weight concerns and stress reduction.

As a Mind Body Eating Coach, she creates individualized mind body nutrition programs that focus on nutrition, nourishment, self-love, self-acceptance, a renewed relationship with food and body, and a new approach to life.

She believes there comes a time when need sparks our desire to seek change, help, healing, personal or spiritual growth, unleashing a vast world of possibilities for self-discovery and transformation.

Her vision is to raise consciousness and enrich people’s lives and help those who struggle with body image, their relationship with food and unidentified stressors that impact their health.

I am a Registered Nurse who worked primarily in the field of Critical Care and was Nationally Certified in Critical Care, until retiring from hospital nursing.
After raising our two sons, I decided to open a Weight Loss Clinic, Ideal Weight Loss. I was certified through the Ideal Protein program, lost 45 pounds myself and helped many people reach personal and weight loss goals. Due to the constraints of owning a storefront business, I began looking for other ways to fulfill my desire to help others with the challenges that I face in losing weight and keeping it off, especially through menopause and aging.

I worked for a short time in the Met Trim MD program in order to expose myself to other weight loss programs.

After recently completing the Psychology of Eating Program, I am a lifestyle and weight loss coach. Through this program, I have been given a new outlook and approach to addressing issues with weight that are novel to many practitioners.

My quest to improve my health allowed me to become a Certified Holistic Health Coach (IIN) and I now add Psychology of Eating (IPE) to my tool belt. My health struggles kept me from continuing as an Athlete, Umpiring College Fast Pitch Softball, staying an active Aunt, sister, and daughter. As my health began to improve a new passion develop within me to empower others in understanding their emotional eating, body image issues, chronic dieting, and nutritional fitness. My goal is to work with athletes, adults, children and teens encouraging them to focus on what’s right for their mind, body and spiritual being. Encouraging people to show up for wellness and live a complete, happy, and healthy living.

My passion is helping others find freedom, recovery, and restoration. Food and eating are such beautiful gifts, and it is possible to have a positive relationship with both.

In addition to being a certified Mind Body Eating Coach, my education includes trauma training as a certified Trauma Touch Therapist and I hold a Masters of Science degree from Seminary in Spiritual Formation. I’m currently completing my Masters of Science in Clinical Mental Health for a license in professional counseling.

I would be honored to walk your journey with you.

Wife, mother of 2 boys, child food advocate
Inspiring yoga instructor, Psychology of eating and integrative nutrition health coach.
Supporting her clients in Bio-individuality and making healthy choices to find their healing food and body image challenges. She believes wellness should be nourishing, easy, sustainable and accessible to everyone. Inspires others to yield results and achieve optimal health.

Through several seasons of overweight and “recovery” and after overcoming several challenges in life, including Thyroid Disease and a major life change, I came to a practical understanding of how stress can affect energy, immunity and mood, negatively impacting maintenance of weight as well as bringing on fatigue. I have gained insight into the deleterious effects of unconscious eating and root causes that undermine of the Conscious Practice in caring for oneself. After becoming a widow, I had to face the fear, anxiety and heartbreak of being without my life partner and came to terms with the depression that followed in the wake of emotional devastation. It was in this season that I became fully aware of how conscious self-care, in all its manifestations, was vital in the continuation of a full and productive life. I chose life in all its dimensions and took the gifts it offered me to resume my journey. As a dynamic eating psychology coach I look to guide and support those who face various life challenges and are looking for an effective plan to implement recovery for sustained health and well-being.

In 1983, I began studying to become a nurse, I quickly realized it was not the way I wanted to help people. I felt as though the field lacked what I considered the most important aspects of healing.

Finding a more natural way to heal myself lead me to study massage therapy, colon therapy and nutrition. I later found Yoga which brought me to a new level of awareness of my body and spirit.

In 2010-2012, I had the opportunity to work with preteen and teenage girls in the public school system. The damage done by our culture in how they viewed their bodies and food was heartbreaking. As a young girl growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, I absorbed these same cultural messages and internalized them, but the intensity of these influences on our children today is shocking.

My own healing path with food and body issues eventually brought me to Marc David’s work. This work feels like home to me. Earning my Eating Psychology Coach certificate has given me the tools to be a guide, mentor and educator in helping people focus on being the person they are meant to be.

I have always been interested in helping others and continue to look for innovative ways to do so. Being in the healthcare field for over 20 years now, I became a Nurse practitioner, Health and Wellness Coach, and now an Eating Psychology Coach. My goal is to help others feel better about themselves in mind, body and soul.