Eating Mindfully - Your Key to a Healthy Relationship with Yourself & Food

"Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you, as fish out of water hear the waves, or a hunting falcon hears the drums come back. This turning toward what you deeply love saves you."

~Jalal al-Din Rumi, A Voice Through the Door, translated by Coleman Barks

 

Are you a prisoner of gaining and losing weight, only to become heavier?  

          

Are your thoughts preoccupied with food issues, guilt, wishing things were different?

 

Have you lost hope in yourself? Do you believe that you will never succeed in becoming healthy and staying healthy?

 

Do you believe that you will be happier at a lower weight or a smaller size?

 

Dieting is a 60 billion dollar a year industry in our country– could something be terribly wrong?

 

Compulsive eating, or not eating, is a way we distance ourselves from a reality we don’t want to face, when life is different than how we long for it to be. I personally have tried numerous diets, only to have gained and lost a combined total of 1,900 pounds over a ten-year period. The way I finally healed was by letting go of the compulsion to "fix" myself with thinness; by learning to believe that I could be happy right here...now...in this moment. By integrating the practice of mindfulness into my life, I learned to believe in my wholeness, my goodness, my true self just as it is. I began to dismantle the myth of perfection and let go of the ties it had on my life.

 

Eating Mindfully is about being in and embracing the present moment, ending our dysfunctional relationship with food.

 

In my work, I help people believe their life is worth being present for, building the strength it takes to no longer consider doing anything less than what is in their very best interest. My clients learn to trust themselves, to respect their bodies and to find their way back to what is whole and to what was never broken. I offer:

 

  • Empathetic understanding
  • Compassionate interaction
  • Skills to live a healthier life
  • Tools to learn ways of deepening mindfulness and self-understanding
  • Support to live a life of meaning, purpose and fulfillment
  • Resources to keep for a lifetime

 

The most challenging part of any program that addresses weight-related issues is that, unless it is founded upon understanding and accepting the part of you that wants something you can’t name ~ the heart of hearts of your longing ~ it will fail. There is an entire world between the moment you feel empty, bored or angry – and turn towards or away from food to deal with these uncomfortable or frightening feelings.

 

Imagine: Not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that you can handle any situation…that you will not be destroyed or guilt ridden…that you are larger and vaster than any feeling or thought; and that any threatening situation would be small in comparison to knowing who you are and what you value in life.

If you are ready to give up believing there is something wrong with you –something that will change when you have a different body, or something else that will bring peaceful living only after doing something more – then you are ready for Eating Mindfully.

 

Eating mindfully is our path toward uncovering who lives underneath the voice of the disordered behavior. We are not creating a new, healthy person or putting this person back together again. We are, instead, dismantling…taking apart who we think we are…making room for the blossoming and flourishing of our hidden souls.

 

True change in a lasting way must occur at a level deeper than our thoughts about dieting and self image. With understanding, inquiry, self love and finally acceptance, it is possible to see that we eat the way we do for very good reasons.

 

With mindful awareness, it is possible to let go of believing eating or not eating, in some special way, will take away hurt, disappointment, loneliness – boredom, anger, emptiness; in its place will be believing in yourself and in the beauty of this world. When this happens, you will stop using food for anything other than nourishment and healthy enjoyment.

 

Freedom from food obsessions and control is not an action; it is a state of being ~ a state of knowing who you are and of being fully present to this moment. And you will find yourself hungry for the beauty and richness of life as it is, today.

 

Your relationship with yourself and food is the bridge to discovery, holding the answers you search for and is your doorway to freedom. Let’s start today - call me for a free 15-minute conversation to explore possibilities!

 

Check our Lorrie's e- guidebook, 21 Days of Eating Mindfully, available now!

 

Or, if you prefer, check out the 21-day challenge, based on the 21 Days of Eating Mindfully ebook.