Mind Body Spoon discovers the new you
The contact card reads “Wellness from the inside out,” and it’s what owner and founder of Mind Body Spoon Casey Lyn Goold bases her business on. Goold earned her training as a health coach with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, studiying over 100 food theories under top professors from around the world.
Now, with her knowledge, Goold is using her business to help others learn to love themselves again, but through what they put on their plate. “Once you start to healthy up your plate, you start to healthy up your life as well, which encourages you to healthy up your plate even more. It’s kinda this yin and yang,” she said.
Goold offers two different styles of programs with her business: a six month individual session, or a six month group session. Regardless of the number of people she is working with, however, every step of the way is personalized. “I don’t push any one way on them. Diets just set you up for failure. I work with clients to individualize the process and reach the desired outcome,” she said. Even the means of communication is specially tailored, as she can be reached by email, phone, or in person for the sessions, and keeps in touch with her clients between bi-weekly meetings.
“Every meeting starts with ‘What’s new and good?’ I want to hear the good things. There’s always something good in your life,” said Goold. She uses her conversations with her clients to help them balance their lives. “If there’s an imbalance in your life, that can throw off everything else. If you balance all that primary stuff, you can balance all your secondary food as well,” she said. She even offers to show her clients how to buy and cook the food that is good for them.
Each six-month session includes grocery store tours, pantry revamps, bi-weekly meetings and cooking demos if the client so desires. Goold can also cater meals for clients if they need meals for certain dietary needs such as gluten free or paleo diets. “I have no culinary experience,” she said, admitting she never attended a culinary school. “I just decided I’m going to love myself, and I’m going to put all my love into my food.”
Right now, her favorite meal is cauliflower crust pizza, and hummus is always a go-to, but Goold doesn’t hold back when it comes to learning how to cook new meals. “Everything that’s on my Pinterest page, I’ve made. I try it; if I like it, it stays up there.” She uses the social media site Pinterest to share nutritional meals with her clients. “If I haven’t tried it, how am I supposed to tell you to try it?”
Now, as her business is opening its doors, Goold is working on writing a book geared toward helping people love themselves through food. With the help of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s Launch Your Dream Book program, her book "Hungry for Happiness" will hit the shelves by early next year with recipes to help those who suffer from depression. In the meantime, Goold can be reached at 302-437-5262 or at mindbodyspoon@gmail.com to speak with her about scheduling a free consultation session with her business Mind Body Spoon.
