Savor Every Bite
Mindful Ways to Eat, Love Your Body, and Live with Joy
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Publisher Description
Savor your food, soothe difficult emotions, and enjoy every moment with powerful mindfulness practices!
Do you turn to food when you’re feeling bored, depressed, or anxious? Do you judge your body for not fitting into some ideal shape or size? If so, you aren’t alone. Diet culture has sabotaged our relationship with food and our bodies. As a result, many of us are confused—attaching shame to our food choices and judging our bodies. It’s time to break free!
Savor Every Bite offers powerful mindfulness and compassion practices for soothing difficult emotions and cultivating positive coping strategies. From psychologist and mindful eating expert Lynn Rossy, this book provides daily tips and tools for whole-body healing—including how to eat mindfully, move your body in ways that feel delicious, and live with greater ease and joy.
With this guide, you’ll learn mindfulness skills to help you navigate the difficulties of daily life and cultivate a lasting sense of calm, clarity, and profound happiness. It’s time to start savoring your life!
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Psychologist Rossy (The Mindfulness Based Eating Solution) explores in this middling guide ways to accept one's body and correct poor dietary habits through mindfulness. Encouraging readers to jump around and choose from the 52 thematic chapters, Rossy sprinkles her advice across five pillars—exploring one's senses, soothing emotions, eschewing limiting thoughts, choosing happiness, and savoring every moment. Rossy opens with basic tools of mindfulness, such as offering physical "Savoring Practices," yogic massage, and meditation techniques, before digging into ideas of surrendering to a slower pace and "weaving intentions more deeply." Rossy maintains an overtly positive vibe: "Slow down before you eat, before you make plans, before you make a decision, before you send an email, before you say yes or no to something, and before the many other choices you make each day." Unfortunately, the saccharine appeals become cloying, and the many painfully obvious filler statements ("Fullness is determined by the quantity of food you've eaten" and "If we're not present, where are we?") fail to move forward the basic concept of slowing down and savoring one's meals. Readers looking for useful health tips will be disappointed.
