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MINDFUL LIVING/CONSCIOUS EATING
SUPPORT GROUP
TOO MUCH OR NOT ENOUGH? HOW DO WE FIND A HEALTHY
BALANCE?
During our lifetime, most of us acquire eating patterns
that aren’t healthy or balanced, either physically or emotionally. Sometimes
these disordered ways of eating seem to come and go unbidden. Sometimes they
persist and are difficult to change and we feel upset, discouraged, hopeless or
out of control.
The practice of being mindful can facilitate your becoming aware of how you
react to internal and external experiences, and how you can access your inner
resources to develop new, healthy responses to old habituated patterns.
Weight, diets and rules are not the focus in this program. The focus is on
changing your relationship to food so that eating takes a balanced place
alongside other aspects of your life. The intention is for you to feel more in
control of your life and your eating, and to fully enjoy both.
WHO THIS SUPPORT GROUP IS FOR
Any woman who wants to explore her relationship with
food, eating and her body, and has experienced mind,
heart or body hunger. If you have used food to comfort,
punish or numb yourself and want to develop a healthy
relationship with food and your body, this group is a
place to begin that journey. You do not need to have a
mindfulness practice or be a meditator.
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Some of the skills you will learn and practice:
- Learn to bring awareness in a particular way, to
thoughts, emotions and physical sensations as a way to
guide your choices around eating.
- Explore different kinds of hunger and see how
bringing attention to the senses, moment by moment, can
shift your relationship to how, why and when you eat.
- Understand and work with internal habituated
patterns and external cues that trigger behaviors and
cravings.
- Acquire skills to work with emotional reactions that
trigger you to eat.
- Practice looking deeply as a way to bring
compassion, appreciation and gratitude to the act of
eating and life in general.
- Understand why you choose certain foods to cope with
emotions.
- Simple mindful guidelines for eating.
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This program, which draws from the current hands-on work
and research being done in the fields of mindfulness and
mindful eating, is set in a supportive environment. It
is experiential so that you have the opportunity to
learn and practice skills you can use in everyday life.
This includes instruction in simple mindfulness
meditations, mindful movement, eating awareness
exercises, a CD of meditations, handouts and suggested
related readings. Call 860-402-9333 for more
information.
PROGRAM SPECIFICS
The group size will be limited and will meet from
6:00-8:00pm weekly beginning in October. An initial
six-session commitment is required. The cost is $300.
Most insurance may partially reimburse for this program.
If you are interested in this support group it is
important that you call now and make an appointment for
a required initial consultation to determine if this is
an appropriate group for you. Insurance can be used for
this consultation. Call 860-402-9333 to schedule an
appointment.
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