Dec 13, 2022 | Blog, Mindfulness
In a previous blog, I offered you a lesson about mindful eating from the beloved fairy-tale character, Goldilocks. Goldilocks also has a mindful meditation lesson for you. After Goldilocks mindfully ate the porridge, she felt sleepy. She searched for some place to...
Dec 6, 2022 | Blog, Mindfulness
Once upon a time, in a far-off distant land, lived a little girl named Goldilocks. One day, Goldilocks took a walk in the forest and came upon a house. She knocked on the door. No one answered, so she walked in. Goldilocks saw three bowls of porridge sitting on the...
Oct 18, 2022 | Blog, Mindful, Mindfulness
For me, one of the unexpected benefits of becoming mindful is discovering how much more life as to offer. This is because mindfulness is a way of noticing more of what has always been there but never paid much attention to. Take nature for example. Do you know how...
Sep 13, 2022 | Blog, Mindfulness
When I first got my training in MB-EAT, I heard a question posed by Dr. Jean Kristeller, author of Joy of Half a Cookie. She asked, “What if a year from now you lost weight, maybe not as much as you’d like, but you were more in control of your life and eating and the...
Sep 6, 2022 | Blog, Eating, Mindfulness
I always enjoyed the first day of school because it meant a new pair of shoes and a matching outfit. I would walk to the school bus stop with book bag and brown sack lunch in tow. Because I came of age in the 1960’s and 1970’s, my lunch consisted of bologna or...
Aug 9, 2022 | Blog, Mindfulness
At the heart of my mindful eating training is mindfulness meditation. Now before you get all freaked out and worried about the idea of meditating, let me assure that your meditation is probably not what you think it is. In fact, mindfulness-based meditation may...