The Self-Compassion Diet: Guided Practices to Lose Weight with Loving-Kindness
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1604070773 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 2 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Self-kindness can help quiet the shame that traditional diets instill, and establish a harmonious relationship with food." Here is a treasury of heart-opening mind-body practices for improving the way you live, breathe, and eat.. Jean Fain tells us it's about cultivating awareness and self-acceptance wherever you are. Combining loving-kindness, self-hypnosis, and other winning weight-loss strategies, she shares eleven guided meditations and trance sessions that have helped her clients change for good, including: 1) Satisfaction: a practice for appreciating the everyday activity of eating, and learning to trust your body's signals that it's nourished 2) Gradual change: a guided visualization for developing mindful eating habits 3) Wise: a meditation for getting to know the diet coach who knows you best -- your compassionate "inner advisor." "Most dieters try to `kill cravings' and break habits with self-discipline," teaches Fain. With The Self-Compassion Diet, this Harvard Medical School-affiliated psychotherapist prescribes a practical program for transforming the way you think and feel about food and your whole self -- a shift that, paradoxically, inspires physical change. The secret to sustainable weight loss isn't counting calories or depr
Fain addresses eating disorders and body image issues with loving-kindness.' -- Janice Lynne Lundy, awakeisgood, January 18, 2011'Mindful eating is something you could learn and practice on your own. I like this book 'The Self-Compassion Diet', and it’s already given me food for thought.' -- Sophie Dembling, suitupandshowupspot, January 14, 2011'Certainly not your typical diet book, The Self-Compassion Diet proves that loving kindness to yourself is more effective than any diet food or miracle
Transforming poor body image with kindness instead of self-hatred--who would've thought?!? This book was highly recommended by my eating disorders nutritionist, and after reading it I have to say it's a lifesaver for anyone with binge eating disorder or bulimia. Instead of beating yourself up for your lifelong, out-of-control behaviors with food, you're encouraged to be kind to yourself, as you would be to a close friend struggling with a painful health issue. You wouldn't criticize your friend and tell her she was stupid and weak and disgusting for not being able to change her ingrained lifelong coping beha. Wonderful read for anyone serious about stopping the vicious diet cycle! S. Power As a health psychologist that specializes in working with patients who are trying to lose weight, I have to say that this book is a breath of fresh air! So many diet programs and books about dieting fail to take in to account the struggles that people face. They always make it seem so easy- just eat less, exercise more, and the weight will melt away! Well anyone that has ever made a serious attempt at weight loss realizes that it is not that easy. If it were, 2/3 of the American population would not be overweight and o. "Stop dieting and learn to eat mindfully and with self-compassion" according to Christine Adams, PsyD. The Self-Compassion Diet is not a diet at all (thankfully) but a set of tools that can help in making lasting changes in one's way of eating: meditation, self-hypnosis, mindful eating, and community support. As a psychotherapist who works with eating disorders and emotional eating, I greatly value the research, practical exercises, and other resources the book offers in each of these areas. It is particularly nice to see a self-help book that so comprehensively cites research supporting its claims. In addition to cover
Jean Fain, LICSW, MSW, is a licensed psychotherapist and a teaching associate in psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. She has dedicated her work to helping others keep physically, emotionally, and mentally fit.. Her health articles have appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine,