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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 the stress and impulsivity that often drives emotional eating, you''ll also practice new ways to savor food and finally nourish your body the way it deserves.

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Publié par	New Harbinger Publications
Date de parution	01 janvier 0001
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781572249301
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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“Highly 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 Retailerreview

“Sasha Loring’s book,Eating with Fierce Kindness,is a brilliant, innovative, and compelling guide to improving one’s relationship with food via the path of self-compassion and mindfulness. Backed by scientific evidence and years of personal experience and expertise, Loring’s book offers an easy-to-understand, step-by-step approach to transforming one’s perceptions and behavior regarding eating. This book is highly recommended to health professionals who work with those with maladaptive eating behaviors as well as individuals who are looking for a truly effective and transformational approach to weight and body-image issues.”

—Susan A. Gaylord, PhD, director of the integrative medicine program and the mindfulness-based stress and pain managementprogramattheUniversityofNorth Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC

eating with fierce kindness

a mindful and compassionate guide to losing weight

SASHA T. LORING, M.ED.,LCSW

New Harbinger Publications, Inc.

Publisher’s Note This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books

Cover design by Amy Shoup; Text design by Michele Waters-Kermes; Acquired by Melissa Kirk; Edited by Karen Stein

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Loring, Sasha T. Eating with fierce kindness : a mindful and compassionate guide to losing weight / Sasha T. Loring. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-57224-927-1 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-57224-930-1 (pdf ebook) 1. Weight loss--Psychological aspects. 2. Compassion. 3. Kindness. I. Title. RM222.2.L578 2010 613.2’5--dc22 2010037740

Foreword Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 Fierce Kindness

Contents

PART I Fierce Kindness

CHAPTER 2 Introducing the Inner Critic to Compassion

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PART II Self-Awareness

CHAPTER 3 What Is Mindfulness and How Does It Help?

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

CHAPTER 8 Reclaiming Your Body

CHAPTER 9 Bringing Awareness to Eating

CHAPTER 10 Moving Forward

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Foreword

We eat for many reasons, and our relationship to food is deeply conditioned by a multitude of factors. Besides the basic biological need for nourishment and knowledge of the basic nutritional value of different foods, those conditioning factors can also include our personal history with eating and food; the degree of self-awareness we have; the inner “scripts” we believe and follow about who we are; how worthy (or not worthy) we think we are; and how we have learned to relate eating to intense feelings ranging from pain to joy and celebration. In each moment of activity involving food and eating, how we approach, take in, and relate to our food is being

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actively shaped by a complex history of experience. The unfolding unconscious patterns in mind and body continue to be reinforced—in the present moment—as each meal pro-gresses, unless and until one learns to recognize, manage, and transform the existing habit patterns. When present and active, and when it is unrecognized and poorly understood, a deeply conditioned, dysfunctional relationship between food, eating, and one’s inner landscape of thoughts and feelings has the power to warp the simple act of eating into an experience of unavoidable misery. The consequences of distorted habits of eating, thinking, and feeling often include endangered health, and obesity that is markedly refractory to diets and “quick fix” approaches. As it turns out, very large numbers of people are affected by unhealthy patterns of eating and weight management. As a nation, we currently face a public health crisis of obesity— one that includes not only adults but alarmingly also extends to and includes our children. How might one begin to shift from a dysfunctional and unhealthy relationship to food, eating, and weight manage-ment toward a relationship marked by confidence, happiness, enjoyment, and sustainable good health? In this wise and powerful book,Eating with Fierce Kindness:A Mindful and Compassionate Guide to Losing Weight, Sasha Loring offers us the possibility for a satisfying relationship to food and to eating, and a path toward better health.

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For many reasons, it is a joy for me to introduce you to her and to this book. I have known Sasha for many years, as a friend, a col-league, and a meditation student and teacher. She has devoted herself—with an incredible “fierce kindness” of her own—to understanding the inner life and what it means to be a human being, by diving deeply into the world of meditation, using methods like the mindfulness and loving-kindness practices she teaches here. Sasha has also developed and committed her professional energies for many years to helping others, as a psychothera-pist specializing in mindful eating and weight management. As you will quickly discover from reading and working with her guidance in this book, Sasha is an experienced, keen, and effective teacher of meditation methods and ways to help you transform your relationship to eating and food. At the core of Sasha’s message are two elements: the importance of developing mindfulness in your life, moment by moment; and the crucial role of intentionally nurturing a compassionate relationship with yourself, and especially your habits and reactions around food and eating. Mindfulness and compassion are central to the work many people are doing currently in a wide-ranging spectrum of health interventions that includes integrative medicine, stress reduction programs, psychotherapy practices, relapse prevention for addictions, and care at the end of life. Mindfulness is an awareness that arises when you pay attention on purpose in a nonjudging and receptive way to

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