I’ve spent the last couple of years writing a new book called Intuitive Eating for Life: How Mindfulness Can Deepen and Sustain Your Meditation Practice. It's a more secular offering than Eat to Love and draws on more of the science of Intuitive Eating, Polyvagal theory, and trauma-sensitive mindfulness. It is filled with practical mindfulness exercises, vignettes from my work with clients, and new ways of looking at your relationship with food and body that might help move the needle in your own life. And it comes out on December 1, 2022!

This week I share a mindfulness exercise you can start doing today that will help you find and stop at comfortable fullness more consistently. Let me know what you think!

I really hope you'll join me in our fullness group that's starting in just two weeks! Full details below. This deep dive in community is the way to feel more comfortable stopping eating before you feel distressed or even sick, while still enjoying eating!

https://www.jennahollenstein.com/findingfullness

This week we're talking about the relationship between hunger and fullness, for example, what does starting to eat at your "sweet spot" of hunger have to do with being able to recognize and stop at comfortable fullness? A lot, as it turns out. I also introduce an upcoming group you might be interested in!

Building on our discussion of finding your sweet spot of hunger, this week we talk about when connecting with hunger just isn't working. Structured eating is an intuitive eating tool to always have in your back pocket for any time you need a little extra support.

This week I'm talking about the many reasons to prioritize starting eating at your "sweet spot" of hunger. That level of hunger when you're hungry enough that food tastes good but not so hungry that eating feels chaotic. The more consistently you eat at your sweet spot of hunger, the more information your body communicates about the eating experience and the more natural this habit becomes.

This week we're talking about going to the doctor on your own terms. You can grab a copy of the pdf I discuss here. As always, I would LOVE to hear your thoughts about this.

Here's a 3-step process for setting and defending boundaries on your Intuitive Eating path. If you are open to sharing, I'd love to hear about your experience with setting and defending boundaries (even if it's only what you fantasize about saying to others!).

Have you ever been really (like REALLY) looking forward to eating something but when you bite into it, you're like "meh!" I mean, you've been looking forward to this food all day. How dare it not meet your expectations?!!

That is the topic of this week's video: notice the gap between expectation and reality. It happens to all of us. Here's what to do about it.

Did you think I forgot all about meditation? When it comes to working with pain, my meditation practice has been invaluable. In this video I describe how and why.

This week we’re talking about working with pain from a non-diet perspective. Even though the go-to for many doctor’s is the suggestion to lose weight – and perhaps now this is something that comes up in your own mind as well – there is actually a lot more to do when working with everything from the occasional aches and pains to chronic and debilitating pain that HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WEIGHT LOSS! Sorry, didn’t mean to yell. Hope this is helpful and would love to hear your thoughts.