Minding The Food Space

offers mindfulness-based interventions

to help women restore healthier relationships

with food, eating, their bodies and themselves.

what is mindfulness?

Mindfulness is moment-to-moment non- judgemental awareness.

So rather than getting lost in our thoughts of what we ate yesterday, and what we should eat today, mindfulness provides a way to reconnect to our present moments and our inner resources.

Mindfulness is cultivated by paying attention on purpose from moment-to-moment with an attitude of non-judgement, curiosity and openness.

how can mindfulness help?

"Mindfulness-based interventions appear particularly well suited to addressing disordered eating behaviours. (They) provide individuals with heightened ability to simply observe feelings, behaviours and experiences, to disengage; and then allow dysfunctional reactivity; and then allow themselves to work with and develop wiser and more balanced relationships, their eating and their bodies"

Mindfulness-based approaches to eating disorders. Kristeller, JL; Bauer, RA and Quillian-Wolever, R, in Baer, RA (Ed) (2006). Mindfulness and acceptance-based interventions: Conceptualization, application and empirical support. San Diego, CA: Elsevier.