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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!
Author Notes
Lynn Rossy, PhD , is a licensed clinical psychologist and author of The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution . She developed Eat for Life, a research-based mindful eating program that helps you end overeating, appreciate your body, and savor your life. She is president of The Center for Mindful Eating.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
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. (May)
Booklist Review
Psychologist Rossy offers a combination of yoga and mindfulness practices to teach readers how to live in the present, a concept that many COVID-wracked brains could embrace. Her five steps fully encompass both body and heart: slow down and explore your senses; soothe your emotions; surrender limiting thoughts; smile and create your own happiness; savor every moment. The consistency of her advice lends a soothing rhythm to daily activities and thoughts. Here are a few examples: breathe with me; do what's important, not urgent; be your own best friend; remember the power of a smile. At the end of each sub-step is a savoring practice or exercise, like asking yourself "What am I really hungry for?," writing a letter to yourself, and paying attention to meaning and the heart. Those already enmeshed in the mind-and-body arts might consider this a refresher, while others will find a whole new way to approach the art of living and contentment.