Changing from Within: Mindful Eating * Level 1

Mindfulness Practices for Achieving & Maintaining a Healthy Weight

Research demonstrates that a mindfulness approach to eating results in healthier eating patterns. Join the expert practitioners at Duke Integrative Medicine for an eight- session course on this innovative approach to weight management. When you bring close attention to your mind, body and behaviors, you begin to observe the subtleties of your eating patterns. The information, skills training, and group support of this program will guide you in making lifestyle changes that will help you respond in a healthier way, resulting in a healthy weight that you can maintain over time.

• Session 1
  Introduction to Mindfulness and Awareness: Developing a personal mindfulness practice
• Session 2
  The Power of Presence: Becoming aware of body signals regarding food
• Session 3
  Attending to Eating: A guided session in mindful eating
• Session 4
  Experiencing Emotions: Subtle indications of emotional states and healthy options for dealing with them
• Session 5
  Emotional Hunger: Exploring non-hunger eating, urges, and craving
• Session 6
  Making Choices: Healthy responses to food triggers
• Session 7
  The Spectrum of Eating Behaviors:  What is “normal eating”?
• Session 8
  Putting It All Together: Recovering from setbacks and strategies for continued success

Instructors may include: 

• Janna L. Fikkan, PhD
  Psychologist
  Duke Integrative Medicine
  
  Janna is a clinician and researcher specializing in the use of mindfulness-based approaches for eating and weight-related issues.