Mindfulness

Why do so many people have a love-hate relationship with food? One the one hand, food brings pleasure and flavor and enjoyment. Food can love us, in the sense that it provides us with all the nutrients and building blocks our bodies need to function well physically, mentally […]

What a Healthy Relationship to Food Looks Like & How ...

March 25, 2015 in Beauty / Body Image / eating healthy / Emotional Eating / Food Addiction / Health / Intuitive Eating / Mindful Eating / Overeating / Relationship to Food / Self-Compassion / Weight Loss tagged Body image / Compulsive overeating / emotional eating / healthy relationship to food / intuitive eating / Mindful eating / mindfulness / Nutrition / Self-love / weight loss by eatingmindful@gmail.com

You know how rose bushes need to be pruned before they can bloom? I am implementing a notion that we, too, need to be pruned sometimes before we can grow-or flourish- We need to make room for what we REALLY want. I’m in the process of making space. I recently […]

8 Ways to Make Space for What You REALLY Want

March 9, 2015 in Beauty / Emotional Eating / Fitness / Goal Setting / Health / Intuitive Eating / Mindfulness / Uncategorized by eatingmindful@gmail.com

When untangling the web of of a dysfunctional relationship to food, learning to work WITH your hunger, rather than AGAINST it, is a key piece of the puzzle. Yo-yo dieting and rigid food rules disconnect us from knowing what hunger is. Your job now is to re-connect. And more importantly, […]

3 Steps for Dealing with Hunger

February 24, 2015 in eating healthy / Emotional Eating / Food Addiction / Health / Intuitive Eating / Mindful Eating / Overeating / Weight Loss by eatingmindful@gmail.com

I’m on day 7 of a 21-day detox. I normally do a purification program once a year, but this time I’m doing an autoimmune/leaky gut protocol (eating clean foods while taking specific supplements to create a rockstar gut environment). While I don’t have autoimmune issues, I’ve had issues with leaky […]

A Sure-Fire (and Unexpected) Way to Become an Intuitive Eater

October 29, 2014 in Detoxification / eating healthy / Emotional Eating / Food Addiction / Health / Mindful Eating / Weight Loss tagged Detox / Detoxification / Digestion / eating healthy / emotional eating / Energy level / Health / Inflammation / intuitive eating / Meredith Milton / Mindful eating / Toxin / weight loss by eatingmindful@gmail.com

There's this human condition to stay in situations and lifestyle pattens that are causing misery and tons of pain…Or are mediocre but not fulfilling…Or are satisfying but it clearly could be BETTER.I’m sure you can relate in one way or another.There’s an unsatisfying or dysfunctional relationship you stay in, a job […]

The Force That Shapes Your Health…and Life

August 27, 2014 in Emotional Eating / Fitness / Goal Setting / Health / Mindful Eating / Mindfulness / Weight Loss tagged Compulsive overeating / emotional eating / Energy level / Fitness / Health / Meredith Milton / Mindful eating / mindfulness / Nutrition / Overeating / pleasure / Self-love / stress reduction / weight loss by eatingmindful@gmail.com

Words are powerful. Think about how good communication can breed and maintain healthy relationships with our partners, friends and family. In the same way, good communication with ourselves can not only foster feeling states of wellbeing, it can also alter how we view and treat our bodies, and in return, […]

AFFIRMATIONS TO CREATE THE BODY OF YOUR DREAMS

August 9, 2014 in Beauty / Body Image / Emotional Eating / Goal Setting / Health / Mindfulness / Self-Compassion / Uncategorized / Weight Loss by eatingmindful@gmail.com

I was leading a workshop last weekend and a component of it involved a mindful eating practice. I passed around some edible “objects” and instructed the participants to take one, hold it in their palm and first examine this thing with their eyes only, noticing all of the shadows, the […]

Are Your Food Prefences Perception or Reality?

November 8, 2013 in Blog / Emotional Eating / Mindful Eating / Mindfulness / Weight Loss by eatingmindful@gmail.com

I had a couple of weeks that were emotionally challenging, and despite many years of learning to work with my emotions and find healthy coping mechanisms, I felt a sense of what I can only describe as a relapse that I hadn’t felt in MONTHS. Worry that it WAS a […]