Eating with Fierce Kindness
You Can Change Your Relationship to Food\ Eating with Fierce Kindness is not a diet, but a way to revolutionize how you think about yourself and about food. Eating with fierce kindness and compassion toward yourself, instead of shame and self-blame, will empower you to change your relationship to food and see yourself in a whole new light.\ This book will guide you toward an understanding of why and how you are eating so you can successfully change your eating patterns. As you learn to reduce...
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Eating with Fierce Kindness is a revolutionary program for those who overeat or want to lose weight. The program is based in compassion and mindfulness techniques. Readers learn to cope with negative body image, become mindful of the thoughts and experiences that relate to food and eating, and approach weight loss from a place of kindness and self-care rather than self-recrimination and guilt.People who tend to overeat or binge eat—many of whom are yo-yo dieters—fail to meet their weight loss goals in part because of their 'all or nothing' mindset. If they succeed in denying themselves foods they like, they consider themselves to be successful, but if they make a mistake, the self-criticism and guilt they feel can be overwhelming. And these feelings can lead to further overeating. Eating with Fierce Kindness presents a new approach to weight loss, one that focuses on breaking that destructive cycle with self-compassion. The book helps readers become aware of the present moment so that they can make healthy food choices, but also shows them how to manage the inevitable obstacles to weight loss: disappointment at the rate of weight loss, guilt about 'cheating' on a diet, emotional issues surrounding food, negative body image, and low self-confidence. Readers learn to move beyond pursuing weight loss in order to meet a social standard or because of a bad self-image and instead develop healthier eating habits out of kindness toward themselves and their bodies. The book also offers advice for changing eating patterns, recognizing the signs of hunger and fullness, and navigating food triggers, such as emotional eating, that may be affecting eating patterns. Four meditation practices at the end of the book help readers practice the art of self-compassion and get started seeing their weight loss journey in a brand new way.
Foreword v\ Acknowledgments xi\ Introduction 1\ Part I Fierce Kindness\ Chapter 1 Fierce Kindness 7\ Chapter 2 Introducing the Inner Critic to Compassion 23\ Part II Self-Awareness\ Chapter 3 What Is Mindfulness and How Does It Help? 47\ Chapter 4 Viewing Weight Loss as an Outcome, Not a Goal 65\ Chapter 5 The RE-PAIR Process for Reducing Emotional Reactivity 81\ Chapter 6 Exploring the Wanting Mind 103\ Part III Fierce Kindness Practices for Transforming Your Relationship with Food\ Chapter 7 Distinguish Between Feeding Your Body and Feeding Your Mind 119\ Chapter 8 Reclaiming Your Body 135\ Chapter 9 Bringing Awareness to Eating 153\ Chapter 10 Moving Forward 171\ Additional Resources 189\ References 193
\ From the PublisherHighly experienced psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher Sasha Loring offers readers the best of the material she has garnered from her years of personal meditation. Changing our relationship to food is a long journey that begins with self-kindness. We all understand the need for information that helps people in their struggle with food. This book contains cutting-edge help presented in a nurturing and compassionate manner.\ —Anna Jedrziewski, New Age Retailer review\ \ \
