Conscious Eating: Exploring Our Relationship with Food
“Food is man’s only truly reliable medicine and foods do cure, just the same as wrong foods and drinks may kill us.”
So often we turn to pain killers, antacids, Pepto-Bismal or Miralax because our digestion is so chronically compromised. Whether we are talking about the stomach, the small intestines or the colon, we are talking about how our body is handling the food we eat.
This is because we have failed to understand the essence of “feeding”. We may eat, but that doesn’t mean we are feeding ourselves. All of us understand that a donut isn’t the healthiest option, but we aren’t eating it for its nutritional value. We are eating it because we feel we deserve a treat, because we are in a rush and need something in our stomach, because we are dealing with grief, because it’s too delicious to pass up! The feelings and emotions that surround our food choices are often what drives our symptoms as well.
Conscious Eating as a one on one therapy in which our Nutritional Therapist, Tanya Lewis will help you to develop an understanding of how your relationship to food is an expression of your emotional life. These appointments are to gradually provide you with a mindfulness about how your body handles food, why it craves certain foods and how to make healthier choices for what we need every day. Our emotions are so often expressed through food choices instead of through the emotional pathways in our lives.
Through Conscious Eating, we will help you learn how to make food a priority without all the emotional baggage that can weigh you down.
Through the process of Conscious Eating we will help you to navigate the hundreds of eating plans out there from Paleo to Keto to Atkins to Vegan to the one that is just for you.
“The quality of our food determines in large part the quality of our lives.”
Tanya Lewis is our incredible Holistic Nutrition Specialist combining psychological and emotional aspects with an understanding of the place of food and eating in our daily lives.
This is an essential therapy for anyone with chronic digestive issues, food cravings, loss of appetite and weight challenges.
Identify and change the emotional eating habits that take the place of true emotional balance and health.
Goals of Conscious Eating
Begin to understand what motivates you to eat and the food choices you make.
How to establish a positive relationship with nutrition and the food you eat every day.
Create a journal of how you react to your food choices and create a food list of incompatible foods with your digestive system and your thoughts/feelings.
Slowly integrate new foods and more nutritional options into your daily diet.
Learn how and why your body gains or loses weight.
Find quick and easy recipes for each meal.
Explore different eating plans and their methods.
How to make shopping lists and meal plans.
Family-friendly healthy recipes.
Explore healthy fasting options for health and wellness.
Find the links between the food you eat and your decision-making, your mood and your memory.
