JUNE 29, 2011
NCNLocal News + Information Services
Simon Says Integrated Medicine is
Best
SOUTH SALEM - A bout with Epstein-Barr virus in the early 1990s changed
the course of Renee Simon’s life, and has ultimately helped her to
change the lives of many others. Although she was a vegetarian and ran
more than 30 miles a week, she found that her high-stress corporate job
and poor food choices were making her sick. She became extremely
interested in the various components of nutrition and began to study the
topic extensively.
“In 2005, I wrote a
book ‘Take Back Your Health: A Total Wellness Guide for You and Your
Family,’ about my personal journey to health,” Simon said. “I got into
[the nutrition] business because I was sick and what got me better was
changing my diet and lifestyle.”
Now the president of
her own private practice called Total Wellness, with offices in South
Salem, Katonah, and Ridgefield, Connecticut, Simon specializes in
aspects of women’s and children’s health and offers nutritional
counseling for infertility, weight loss, hormonal imbalances, menopause,
digestive disorders, ADD, autism, and learning disabilities. She focuses
heavily on integrated medicine, which takes into account the total mind,
body, and spirit connection.
“I really work on
treating the whole person - I no longer just focus on nutrition, but on
holistic healing for the individual. What that involves is coaching
[clients’ on wellness, which could include everything from spiritual
counseling and healing work when necessary, to fitness programs and
teaching clients about breathing and meditation,” Simon said. “Some
people come in and they want to focus on losing weight but there is a
real heaviness about them that has nothing to do with weight. It’s
emotional heaviness, so we get into that.”
She has lectured at
universities and colleges, public schools, hospitals, corporations,
health spas, and not-for-profit organizations and has a few workshops
coming up this summer. Starting on July 7 and running for three weeks
from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., she will host a Webinar focused on cleansing,
which she said does not involve fasting but rather teaching participants
to eat healthily and rid inflammatory foods from their diet. On July 14
she will host the workshop “Boosting Your Immune System and also Healing
from Lyme Disease” at 7 p.m. in her Ridgefield office, and starting on
September 14 and running for four weeks she will co-present the lecture
“Tending your Inner Garden” With Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Stacy
Raymond, during the day at her South Salem practice and in the evenings
in Ridgefield.
We will teach people
how to nurture health relationships with food and their body and help
them prune away old patterns and habits that block them from reaching
their goals,” Simon said.
For more information,
call Renee Simon at 914-763-9107, visit her website at
http://totalwellnessnutrition.com
or send an e-mail to her at rsimon@totalwellnessnutrition.com.
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