Beverly Calderon, MS, RDN, CDCES,NBC-HWC, Certified Focusing Professional
I loves food and working with people to find personally meaningful change related to their nutrition and food related concerns. As a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN), certified diabetes care and education specialist (CDCES), national board-certified health & wellness coach (NBC-HWC), and certified Focusing Professional, my professional energy is concentrated now on one-to-one virtual sessions and online programs.
As someone with more than their fair share of cooking mishaps I find this quote 
humorously true, and a useful analogy when applied to nutrition concerns. “If you want to smell the soup, you don’t stick your head in it.” (Eugene Gendlin)
It was in 2016, that I became a Certified Focusing Professional and Trainer, through The International Focusing Institute. This followed a two-year training program, and is as meaningful as my twenty-plus years of nutrition and wellness achievements. Professionally and personally, I find the Focusing process to be an essential ingredient, when wanting to addressing any concern. As a a gentle, yet dynamic process, it supports transforming what had seemed unchangeable into something that can change.
Since 2015, I’ve worked to bring Focusing to dietitians and wellness professionals by facilitating workshops, collaborating on training modules, and presenting at conferences. Focusing, in my view, is a genuinely person-centered foundation that supports all other nutrition counseling, coaching and behavior change methods.
My dietetic career began with community nutrition, in-patient/out-patient clinical care, diabetes research program, and adjunct faculty teaching undergraduate nutrition science. Prior to being in private practice, I completed a rewarding twenty plus years of federal service, working in public health. My federal career included nutrition counseling and education, community-based health promotion, grant collaborations and oversight, healthcare contract technical oversight.
I’m grateful for the many years of learning from clients, mentors and community members. It has been heartwarming hearing at times that my efforts positively impacted others and their communities. I consider myself to be someone who is family-oriented embracing person-centered ways, who is based in the U.S. in Southern California.
This quote always come to mind when reflecting on my years of in public health, and amazing people working to restore balance with community owned wellness efforts.
“As long as we feel there is one person greater, one system better, and one organization responsible for our individual health and well-being, we are taking away from ourselves our own spiritual creative power. In doing so, we praise or blame those external forces not realizing that the control issue is our own internal empowerment process to regain our own destiny”. Gene Thin Elk
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