Do you want to step away from dieting and enjoy a new awareness of your body and a healthier relationship with food?

Anti-fat prejudice is a global reality. Being overweight or obese is associated with laziness and lack of self-control, which leads to anxiety, self-loathing and shame.

The Mindfulness Clinic’s program, Dear Body – Mindful Eating, is aimed at facilitating a shift from having a cognitive relationship with the body, which is coloured by cultural stereotypes, to a sensory relationship with the body which is a kind and intimate experience.

The program uses mindfulness and mindful eating to support a healthy weight while at the same time reducing stress and anxiety. Dear Body is delivered as an online program, through face-to-face sessions, or through immersive retreats.

The online program, Dear Body: Six Steps to Loving the Body and Freeing the Mind, is comprised of:

• Weekly videos
• Audios
• Meditations
• Written manual and workbook
• Lifetime access to a private supportive Facebook community.

Mindful eating is about eating with intention and attention so that we:

• Increase self-awareness and self-management
• Correct the imbalances that inappropriate eating generates
• Learn to make good choices naturally
• Recapture and reclaim our power, as well as a healthy and wise life focus
• Step into life rather than mask pain and discomfort with food
• Uncover more richness in daily activities
• Experience balance and harmony with food.

• To become more aware of why and when we eat and for what reasons
• To find alternative ways to cope with the sensations that lead us to the fridge
• To recognise and remove long-held negative beliefs and associations around food and diet
• To become aware of triggers that lead to over-eating
• To develop strategies and practical tips around portions, shopping and food consumption

Without mindful eating we often eat mindlessly while we work, or while we drive; we eat for the wrong purpose, and without a sense of true choice.