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Mindful Eating Series: How Will You Feed Your Eyes?

May 14, 2012

As part of our mindful eating series, we have been exploring the seven hungers, as discussed in Jan Chozen Bay’s book, “Mindful Eating.”  Eye hunger, nose hunger, mouth hunger, stomach hunger, cellular hunger, mind hunger and heart hunger – each provides a unique lens through which you can investigate your relationship to food and the [...]

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Binge and Breath

March 26, 2012

Binging or mindlessly eating leads us to self loathing and not tasting our food in the moment. The more mindless we are, the more shallowly we breathe. At Green Mountain we practice remembering to breathe by taking 3 deep breaths every time we go to the bathroom. In this way we can add breathing deeply [...]

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Gratitude: Make It Happen In Your Life

February 27, 2012

Can you imagine starting out your day with a thank you? Imagine connecting with your Green Mountain wins…small successes that you count, notice and hold on to. Imagine starting a sentence with I am thankful____________. Gratitude and appreciation are ways to increase your positive self talk and by definition, decrease your negative self talk. The [...]

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Fat, Fat, Fat-the critical voice inside

February 6, 2012

We are so hard on our bodies and just keep focusing on weight loss. I am not talking about the ways we don’t take care of ourselves physically.  I am talking about our negative self talk. Could I pay you large sums of money to talk to any child the way you talk to yourself?  [...]

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Weight Loss –The “Should”

January 2, 2012

There is something about the New Year that invites the word “should” into our hearts and minds.  “I should have de-cluttered my house last year” or “I should be thinking about weight loss as 2012 begins” or I should taking better care of myself”. I was reading  Stepping Out of the Should Trap by Jo [...]

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Winter Wonderland and Body Rhythm

October 31, 2011

Our first snow here at Green Mountain …oh so beautiful with sun twinkling off the glistening trees.  A change in season is an opportunity to connect with ourselves in a more hopeful way. One way to enhance our day to day life is by noticing our body rhythms.  What is your best time of day, [...]

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Fat Talk Free Week

October 16, 2011

Wake Up to Fat Talk Fat Talk is a conversational trap of habituated and mindless speaking. We not only use  it on others, but it is also how we talk to ourselves.  Frequently it’s used as a starter or how we greet old friends… “Wow, it looks like you have lost weight” or “Gosh, I [...]

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Overwhelming Fear and Fat Feelings

June 27, 2011

Fear, often described as anxiety, can sweep in and overtake us. Yikes! It is such a big feeling and leads us to focusing on feeling fat and how our bodies should be different and how our lives would if different “if only I would stop bingeing.” How to step from fear to possibility? I received [...]

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Feeling Stuck or Overwhelmed?

April 25, 2011

When you get into feeling stuck and down on yourself about your body, it is like having your feet in quicksand; the more you flail around the deeper you go.  This can lead to inertia, depression and despair.  One step towards moving out of the quicksand is looking at what has you stuck straight in [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday – Stir Fry as Meditation

March 31, 2011

Few things get my head straight like doing detailed knife work.  So when I'm having an off day, I will often turn to the vegetables in my fridge for clarity.  Executing brunoise (dicing things really small), chiffonade (cutting leafy things into thin ribbons), or even a simple julienne (slicing into strips) can force me to get my head out [...]

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