Intuitive Eating for Life

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For anyone who struggles with food, eating, and body image, Intuitive Eating for Life presents easy and effective mindfulness skills to enhance, sustain, and deepen your intuitive eating practice! Intuitive eating is a great way to get off the diet roller coaster, stay healthy, build confidence in your body, and take the guesswork out of mealtime. But if you’re like many people, you may have trouble staying on track. Enter mindfulness! Based on the popular anti-diet book program, Intuitive Eating , renowned nutrition therapist and meditation teacher Jenna Hollenstein provides powerful mindfulness tools to help you find stability, discover self-awareness, and self-regulate—so you can respect your body and honor your health. In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn to practice intuitive eating using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, a classic Buddhist framework. The Four Foundations include: Mindfulness of body , in which you will examine how the body awareness enhances your ability to practice the principles of intuitive eating—honor your hunger, respect your fullness, and exercise. Mindfulness of feeling , in which you will explore the ways that mindfulness and meditation can provide stability and self-awareness, allowing you to experience the full spectrum of your emotions in real time. Mindfulness of mind , in which you will examine your own beliefs and misconceptions about eating and the body and respond to them with compassion Mindfulness of dhammas (or phenomena), in which you will learn how phenomena such as the impermanence of life can shift our focus from improving our bodies to caring for them. Using these simple and easy-to-remember foundations, you’ll discover that you can easily stay on track with your intuitive eating path, and actually improve it for better health and overall well-being. So, what are you waiting for? Contents Introduction CHAPTER 1. Mindfulness Is a Form of Self-Care and Respect PART I: Mindfulness of Body CHAPTER 2. How Mindfulness Affects Your Body CHAPTER 3. Hunger CHAPTER 4. Fullness CHAPTER 5. Satisfaction, the Center of the Framework CHAPTER 6. Movement PART II: Mindfulness of Feelings CHAPTER 7. The Biology of Emotion CHAPTER 8. Tending to Emotional Hunger CHAPTER 9. Finding Peace with Food PART III: Mindfulness of Mind CHAPTER 10. How Mindfulness Affects Your Thoughts CHAPTER 11. Cultivating Self-Compassion CHAPTER 12. Transforming Specific Diet Mentality Thoughts PART IV: Mindfulness of Phenomena CHAPTER 13. How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything CHAPTER 14. The Power of Showing Up Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes About the Author