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MINDFULNESS-BASED EATING AWARENESS
TRAINING (MB-EAT)

Binge eating represents a set of patterns that have developed over a long period of time. These patterns aren't healthy or balanced, either physically or emotionally, but they persist and are difficult to stop, leaving a person feeling helpless and not in control.

Weight is not the focus in this program. The focus is on changing your relationship to food so that eating takes a balanced place alongside other important aspects of your life. The intention is for you to feel more in control of your life and your eating, and no longer controlled by your urges to binge.

The practice of developing mindfulness can facilitate your becoming aware of how you react to internal and external experiences and how to access your inner resources to develop new skills.
 

 


 


Women who binge eat find themselves:

  • eating large amounts of food, even when not hungry, and feeling out of control
  • eating rapidly, feeling uncomfortably full, even in pain
  • having depressed or anxious moods
  • feeling disgust, guilt and shame after overeating
  • ignoring or overriding fullness or hunger signals; depriving or restricting food intake
  • using food to comfort or punish yourself; having a love-hate relationship with food
  • eating in secret, at night, or hiding food for binges
  • having tried lots of diets and repeatedly "fall off the wagon"
  • not using any measures to purge binged food

Through the practice of mindfulness you will learn how to:

  • develop a more natural, balanced relationship with food
  • reduce the frequency and intensity of binging; learn how to eat mindfully
  • do simple mindfulness meditation, gentle stretching, and mindful eating
  • pay attention to what the body needs and respond with care
  • observe your mind and sensations in your body without judging yourself
  • recognize and work with habitual, detrimental patterns
  • reconnect with your deeper intelligence so that your can rely less on external limits such as diets, and more on your own inner wisdom.

 

 


PROGRAM SPECIFICS

This is a psychoeducational women's group for the effective reduction and management of binge eating.  There is an initial, individual interview with the program facilitator. Group size is limited. The program consists of nine weekly 2-hour group sessions, plus two 2-hour group follow-up sessions. The program includes a half-day retreat.

The program provides a supportive environment in which to learn simple mindfulness meditation techniques, mindful movement and stretching, focused skill-building exercises, four meditation CDs, workbook and related reading. Program Brochure (pdf)

Begins Monday, September 22, 6:00-8:00 pm
Cost: $450
 

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