Fear and the diet mentality go hand in hand. Even if you've successfully stopped dieting, that doesn't stop you from fearing what will happen if you eat too much of that, and not enough of this. But what is fear and what are we so afraid of... generally and specifically around eating? After entertaining these question, participants will have a chance to do what dieters are so reluctant to do -- face their food-related fears vs. run from them. Finally, one and all will learn a simple self-compassion practice for alleviating fear.

Participants will:
    •    1 Understand how fear feeds the diet mentality
    •    2 Discover what happens when you face food-related fears vs. running from them
    •    3 Learn a simple self-compassion practice for alleviating fear

Fear & The Diet Mentality
September 1, 3 pm EST

Jean Fain, MSW, LICSW, is a Harvard Medical School-affiliated psychotherapist and the author of “The Self-Compassion Diet.” In addition to seeing individual clients in her Concord, Mass. private practice, she runs groups and workshops on self-compassion for eating issues. She also writes about food and body-image issues for newspapers (from the Boston Globe to the LA Times), magazines (O: The Oprah Magazine, Shape, Self…) and on-line publications (NPR, Huffington Post).

www.jeanfain.com

Self-Compassion Diet available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Self-Compassion-Diet-Step-Step-Loving-Kindness/dp/1604070757




Fear & The Diet Mentality

The Center for Mindful Eating is pleased to offer free mindful eating meditations. Visit thecenterformindfuleating.org/FREE-Meditations for additional free resources, publications, webinars and more!

Lynn Rossy, Ph.D., is an author and health psychologist who specializes in offering mindfulness-based interventions for eating, stress, and work-life balance. She became the Director of Integrated Wellness at Veterans United after spending much of her career at the University of Missouri System. She developed an empirically validated mindfulness-based intuitive eating program called Eat for Life which helps people have a healthy relationship with food and their bodies—decreasing binge eating while increasing body image, mindfulness, and intuitive eating. She published the concepts from the program in a book entitled, The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution (New Harbinger, July 2016).

Meditation on Gratitude

The Center for Mindful Eating is pleased to offer free mindful eating meditations. Visit http://thecenterformindfuleating.org/FREE-Meditations for additional free resources, publications, webinars and more!

Alice J. Rosen, MSEd, LMHC, is the founder of "The No-Diet and Self-Led Eating Workshops" and "The Conscious Cafe'. She is a faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, and former Director of Education for "Feeding Ourselves (SM)". 

Mindfulness is a key reference point in Alice's practice.  She started meditating in 1974. In 1979, during a mindfulness meditation retreat, in the midst of 17 years of conflict with food and her body, she experienced being calmly in charge, and fully satisfied.  In eating mindfully, she discovered that she had an inherent wisdom about when what and how much to eat.  

Alice loves good food and considers herself an intuitive cook.  Besides her work, she has a passion for nature and the outdoors, in any weather, and is admittedly addicted to being near and in the water.

A Mindful Exploration of What Food Would Satisfy your Present Hunger

Physical food comes and goes, but emotional nourishment is the kind that last. Learn how to fill up with what the Buddha called, the Sublime Attitudes. These include friendliness, compassion, equanimity and sympathetic joy.  Ronna Kabatznick will teach the meditations associated with each of these sublime qualities after offering a general description of each one. Come learn and practice what it means to experience a deep sense of fullness and nourishment, without food.

Emotional Nourishment: Four sure-ways of filling up without food

The Basic Mindful Eating Meditation

Basic Breathing Practice 
It is the first of all the meditations we will be sharing with you this month. In this mindfulness practice, we will create the space to gradually shift from the doing to the being mode, a mode in which we can sense the body and the breath and also rest the awareness in the present moment when the mind gets distracted. Bringing an attitude of curiosity and kindness will help us be present in this practice, the first one for many of us.

Emotional Nourishment: Four sure-ways of filling up without food

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