One of the most common statements I hear at the beginning of my mindful eating classes is “I can’t stop eating because it tastes so good even when I’m full.” My question is “Are you listening to your belly or to your mind?” After a short pause, I hear “From my mind!” People get it.
Greetings! Enrollment for the next online Eat for Life classes are now open. Eat for Life is a 10-week mindfulness-based intuitive eating program designed to help you develop a loving and kind relationship with your food and your body. This is a non-diet approach which uses the wisdom of your body to guide how, what,
Greetings! This is a quick post to let people know that I am going to be deciding on the days and times for my next round of Eat for Life Classes starting in September. If you are interested in attending, please fill out this doodle poll by Friday, and your preferred dates and times will
Do you need to give your meditation practice a boost? Here are seven things you can do with one easy download. I have been using the mediation app, Insight Timer, for a couple of years now and I am not surprised at how popular it has become. It is the most highly rated free meditation
Mindless eating happens when you are busy, distracted, stressed, in a hurry, sad, angry, impatient, lonely, happy, and when food just happens to be around. These are just a few of the circumstances when we reach for food (any food), eat more than your body needs, and then feel depleted afterward. Mindless eating almost inevitably
Colorado here I come! I’m very excited to be taking mindfulness and my book on the road next week for a three-city excursion. Here’s my itinerary in case you’re going to be in Colorado or know people who are. In case you can’t be in Colorado, you can listen to the interview I did with
Sometimes life seems like a really big project. We are rushing around trying to get everything done but we never get there. There is this continuous sense of needing to do more, accomplish more, create more, work more, strive more so that we can “get everything done.” Because that is an impossible task, there is
Last weekend I attended a wonderful yoga retreat led by Tias Little, founder of Prajna Yoga, called Stillness in Motion. It reminded me how lovely it is to engage in yoga in a way that supports movement into stillness, compassion, and care. Many yoga classes seem to focus more on physical fitness and perfection of
The research is clear about what behaviors do and do not support health. We know that health is not supported through tobacco use, drugs and alcohol use, sedentary lifestyle, poor nutrition, and risky sexual behaviors. On the flip side, we know that health is supported with exercise most days of the week, eating a balanced
I am an avid reader (and collector) of books on mindfulness, such that I recently discovered the need to have new book shelves built in my office so I can house them all. I recently read the list of the top ten mindful books of 2016 from Mindful Magazine, and found a few that will
