Dr. Monica
A. Dixon is a national speaker, consultant and internationally published author
with an accomplished record of success over 30 years designing and directing
strategic projects and fundraising objectives that help advance the health of
our nation. She consults nationwide across government, corporate, academic,
military, and non-profit sectors on strategic planning, policy development and
implementation, and communication planning for health and wellness programming.
As a recognized health policy expert, she has a seat on Governor Inslee’s
“Prevention Alliance,” and was awarded the “Creative Leadership by Example
Award” from the Center for Disease Control for her innovative health and nutrition
programs in Washington State.
As a “Camp Follower” and military spouse for the past 37 years, and the mother of a combat veteran, Dr. Dixon has served at the national, state, and local level assisting Family Support Groups meet their missions. She has trained thousands of soldiers and airmen at state-level Army and Air National Guard commands how to improve deployability through health promotion and life style change. These experiences resulted in Dr. Dixon being invited to address the U.S. Military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on relevant physical and mental health issues our military and their families face during periods of repeated deployment cycles.
Dr. Dixon earned her Bachelor of Science in Community-Medical Dietetics at Viterbo University in La Crosse, WI, her Masters of Science in Counseling at Winona State University in Winona, MN and her Ph.D. in Health Psychology at Saybrook University in San Francisco, CA.
In addition, she has studied nutrition and cooking in Tokyo, Italy, Maui, and the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley to learn how to better translate nutrition science into culturally relevant menu options. Dr. Dixon has taught thousands across the country in her engaging cooking and food shopping classes how to both buy and prepare healthful, delicious food at home. She is the president of Cookindoc Catering and Culinary Services, providing local, whole food through quantity food production and consults to restaurants and the food service industry how they can do the same. Freedom Heroes Story
Dubbed the “Passionate Life Doc” by my audiences and colleagues for my passion and enthusiasm to better people’s lives through great food and a healthy lifestyle, I’ve spent my career motivating those I’ve worked with toward positive change in their lives. I’ve come to learn that nothing stands to change one’s life more than fresh, healthy food shared with others; education, money, career, health, or success in life are all grounded first and foremost in being well fed, then the rest can follow.
Sharing my adult life with a man devoted to his military career has provided me countless opportunities to meld my life’s work with his, helping to train deploying and redeploying soldiers and airmen and their families on ways to manage the stresses of military life. When I first learned of the Freedom Heroes project, I immediately knew that this was an opportunity to help even more of our veterans, in a measurable and systematic way, to cultivate long-term, life-sustaining change in their lives through a holistic approach to their healing, with great nutrition as a core element.
I watched our oldest son return from Iraq with serious PTSD and struggled to help him navigate the current medical system, all the while hitting dead ends. Desperate to help him find some measure of joy in life again, I began him on an evidence-based diet and wellness routine that’s completely changed his life for the better, and helped him to return to us heart, mind and soul. These heroes have sacrificed enormously for our country and given us their very best; it is with deep gratitude and respect for them that I join the dedicated Freedom Heroes team to help return some measure of a better world for them.
As a “Camp Follower” and military spouse for the past 37 years, and the mother of a combat veteran, Dr. Dixon has served at the national, state, and local level assisting Family Support Groups meet their missions. She has trained thousands of soldiers and airmen at state-level Army and Air National Guard commands how to improve deployability through health promotion and life style change. These experiences resulted in Dr. Dixon being invited to address the U.S. Military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on relevant physical and mental health issues our military and their families face during periods of repeated deployment cycles.
Dr. Dixon earned her Bachelor of Science in Community-Medical Dietetics at Viterbo University in La Crosse, WI, her Masters of Science in Counseling at Winona State University in Winona, MN and her Ph.D. in Health Psychology at Saybrook University in San Francisco, CA.
In addition, she has studied nutrition and cooking in Tokyo, Italy, Maui, and the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley to learn how to better translate nutrition science into culturally relevant menu options. Dr. Dixon has taught thousands across the country in her engaging cooking and food shopping classes how to both buy and prepare healthful, delicious food at home. She is the president of Cookindoc Catering and Culinary Services, providing local, whole food through quantity food production and consults to restaurants and the food service industry how they can do the same. Freedom Heroes Story
Dubbed the “Passionate Life Doc” by my audiences and colleagues for my passion and enthusiasm to better people’s lives through great food and a healthy lifestyle, I’ve spent my career motivating those I’ve worked with toward positive change in their lives. I’ve come to learn that nothing stands to change one’s life more than fresh, healthy food shared with others; education, money, career, health, or success in life are all grounded first and foremost in being well fed, then the rest can follow.
Sharing my adult life with a man devoted to his military career has provided me countless opportunities to meld my life’s work with his, helping to train deploying and redeploying soldiers and airmen and their families on ways to manage the stresses of military life. When I first learned of the Freedom Heroes project, I immediately knew that this was an opportunity to help even more of our veterans, in a measurable and systematic way, to cultivate long-term, life-sustaining change in their lives through a holistic approach to their healing, with great nutrition as a core element.
I watched our oldest son return from Iraq with serious PTSD and struggled to help him navigate the current medical system, all the while hitting dead ends. Desperate to help him find some measure of joy in life again, I began him on an evidence-based diet and wellness routine that’s completely changed his life for the better, and helped him to return to us heart, mind and soul. These heroes have sacrificed enormously for our country and given us their very best; it is with deep gratitude and respect for them that I join the dedicated Freedom Heroes team to help return some measure of a better world for them.