Eating is essential for survival and optimal health, yet as a society we struggle to understand this fundamental aspect of life and how relate to us. Constant external stimulation—TV ads, magazines, radio commercials, new diets—bombards our senses daily, normalizing impulsive food choices. Combined with busy lifestyles and daily stress, we're pushed to make rapid decisions about how, when and what to eat, leaving no room to understand why our bodies need nourishment in that moment. We slowly lose the capacity to make informed decisions within ourself feeling powerless as negative thoughts and patterns develop. Finally, we let external cues to drive fundamental nutritional decisions that deplete our health.

Mindful eating is a discipline that allows you to develop your emotional intelligence through the power of food, with compassion and awareness toward your mind, body and spirit in the present moment. We utilize mindful eating tools to help you understand your internal and external environment, allowing you to gracefully explore your personal needs and experiences through your own lens in life.

Food has many components that are here to support, maintain and enhance your living experience. Food is powerful and is meant to be celebrated and shared with people you love without any sense of guilt or restriction. With each bite, you're not only practicing the art of nutrition—you're empowering yourself with health and life.

Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT) Program Info

I feel honored to be certified MB-EAT (Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training). This is a 12 week educational program developed by Dr. Kristeller over several decades with NIH (National Institute of Health) support to address compulsive eating, binge eating disorder, weight management, and food relationship issues. This program has many elements and components of MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. He was the original developer and leader of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

The program's core principle is reconnecting individuals with internal hunger, satiety, and taste signals that external factors often override. Development began in the late 1970s at Yale University, progressed through the first group program at Brown University in 1981, was refined at UMass Medical Center, and reached its final form at Indiana State University. A key validation study conducted with Dr. Wolever in 2013 (Kristeller, Wolever & Sheets, 2013) demonstrated high success rates.

The program has been successfully tested across diverse demographics including men and women of all weight levels and ages ranging from 18 to 89. This science based program is here to support you and elevate your health. Please inquire about this program by emailing at hello@mindfuleatingbydesign.com.