| Mindfulness & Meditation |
| Self-help |
| Nutrition |
| Body, Mind & Spirit |
| Health & Fitness |
| Diet & Nutrition |
| Eating Disorders & Body Image |
Summary
Summary
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?
Author Notes
Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RD, CDN , is a nutrition therapist, meditation teacher, and author of five books. Her work combines intuitive eating, trauma-sensitive mindfulness, polyvagal theory, and other embodied modalities. Her work has been featured in Forbes , The Wall Street Journal , Self , Health , Lion's Roar , Mindful , Vogue , Elle , Glamour , Women's World , and U.S. News & World Report . Jenna lives in the greater New York City, NY, area.
Reviews (1)
Library Journal Review
In this anti-diet book, nutrition therapist Hollenstein (Eat To Love) reassures readers that they are the experts of themselves, which is empowering. This is a companion to Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch's Intuitive Eating, which advocates for freeing oneself from the mental trappings of diet culture and to trust one's body regarding food choices. Hollenstein's book expands upon the ideas from the source material by presenting a highly customizable series of mindfulness practices in order to make an intuitive eating lifestyle sustainable. But her book can be a stand-alone as well. Tools such as guided meditations, compassionate self-talk examples, and journaling prompts are provided in order to support lifelong transformation. She explores many aspects of life that are intertwined with body image, including food, movement, emotion, and trauma. By working toward body acceptance, Hollenstein suggests, one can develop the stability and insight to grow in other aspects of life and will likely experience the freedom to embrace their genuine self. VERDICT Hollenstein's relatable, warm, and supportive tone encourages readers to rethink their relationship to their bodies. A much-needed counterbalance to the endless supply of diet books on public library shelves. Highly recommended.--Anitra Gates
