Going on a diet isn’t just about food, but lifestyle.  It is what else that matters to our health that is on Mya’s radar, too. Things like enough sleep, not too much stress, moving from overwhelmed to happy-busy.

Marvelous care doesn’t just happen when we are given a diet prescription at the doctor’s  office.  The road to better health and appearance is tailor-made with the small decisions we make every day. It’s about the choices we make when we put our hopes and dreams on our to-do list. Then we buy our groceries, attend dinners, adhere to a regular diet  pattern, and eat mindfully to reach our lifelong goals.

What motivates Mya and makes her happy to work with clients is the present moment when a client shifts in thinking to understand what it is in their current path that is burdensome and discovers on their own ground a way to go a new, healthful direction in their food intake.

Sometimes her statement to clients,  “Is this something you could see yourself doing three years from now” finds one or two who have taken a giant inhale expecting to go on a special diet, but who haven’t realized it to be lasting, a small lifestyle change. And so the process begins over again with the road to better health tailor-made by the small decisions made every day.    It’s about the choices we make.

Mya became interested in why people eat what they eat while in graduate school.  She was lucky enough that her major professor, Dr. Ann Bass to be connected with a socio-cultural foods emphasis.  All became areas of study for Mya:  transmission of food ways, why people eat what they eat, and nutrition therapy.  After graduation with her Master of Science Degree, she went on to teach college at Pennsylvania State University and later to progress through eight years with the Scripps Hospital Encinitas into her practice of nutrition therapy and nutrition education in private practice as a registered dietitian.