Blog Topic: Weight
Insight Timer
Insight Timer is a free app for smartphones and iPads (www.insighttimer.com) designed to support meditation practice. The app contains hundreds of guided meditations. I encourage you to check out this app and join the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion Insight Timer...
Self-Compassion Mantra
This is a moment of suffering This is a moment of suffering Suffering is part of life May i be kind to myself in this moment May i give myself the kindness and caring that I need
My Own Cupboard of Chocolate
Compassion is a human resource that allows us to bear witness to suffering with the intention of trying to alleviate it. We are hardwired for this capacity for compassion and we can also learn to direct it to ourselves. It is a radical idea in our culture, but the...
Eating out and about
AT … WHAT TO EAT … the movies Small popcorn without added butter or margarine Frozen fruit yogurt Water or small size of fruit juice … the mall Stir-fry vegetables/tofu with steamed rice Bean burrito (ask for whole wheat) Sandwich or wrap on sprouted whole grain,...
Nutrition Makeover for the Office
Often we often spend more time at work than at home. It is important therefore to support ourselves and our commitment to healthy eating, even at work. Take a moment and think about your staff room at work. Think about what is on the shelves, in the cupboards, or the...
Beyond Mindful Eating
One of my mentors Marc David with the Institute for the Psychology of Eating wrote a book called The Slow Down Diet. In it he talks about the fact even if we eat the healthiest foods in the perfect amount but consume it in a state of anxious rushing, the...
Check out our New Website!
After many months of amazing work and compassionate hand holding by Communications Specialist Jackie Duys from# AwarewolfCreative, we are thrilled to launch our new website. Please have a peak and pass it around. Sign up for our newsletter and blog and be on the...
Good Parent Messages
Ideally, every child needs to hear these messages in order to grow up with confidence, self worth and an ability to form healthy intimate relationships. No one receives all of these messages perfectly. Its just part of our humanity. Our healing task is to identify...
Compassion Inspired Mornings
Some people wake up famished and need to eat right away and others need a few hours to fully wake up before they can even think about food. While it is important to listen to your body, it is also important to eat something within a few hours of waking. Studies show...
Mid Life Woman by David Whyte
Mid life woman you are not invisible to me. I seem to see beneath your face all the women you have ever been. Midlife woman I have grown with you secretly, in another parallel, breathing with you as you breathed, seeing with you as you see, lining my face with an...