May 13, 2009 at 05:00PM

Nutrition for the Soul™

Deanna M. Minich, Ph.D., C.N., is a nutritional educator, researcher, and clinician. Her Nutrition for the Soul™ workshop series has been taught at medical clinics in the Pacific Northwest, at The Evergreen State College and Bastry University. She is currently the director of new product development at a well-known dietary supplement company. She is the author of Chakra Foods for Optimum Health and An A-Z Guide to Food Additives.

"Chakra Foods will gently walk you through the journey of your energetic landscape and give you creative tools and insight as to how foods and ways we eat can heal, brighten, balance, and strengthen parts of us that need not only physical but spiritual nourishment." -- from the author

Nutritionist and yoga practitioner Deanna Minich's Chakra Foods provides information on how to heal emotional and physical woes through making the right food choices. The material for this book developed out of the author's highly successful "Nutrition for the Soul" classes, workshops, and private counseling sessions. Not a diet book, it looks at both the nutritional and spiritual aspects of the foods we eat and how they can heal us. For example, someone feeling stuck in her life could turn to chapter 5 and find a list of orange foods -- apricots, carrots, salmon, pumpkin, oranges -- to help her sacral chakra. For each chakra, specific affirmations and other practices are also offered, as are meal plans and recipes.