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We'll be exploring self-compassion meditation and exercises influenced by the evidence-based mindfulness research developed by Kristin Neff focused especially on food and body.

This episode gives an overview of why you'd want to open to difficult emotion despite the inherent discomfort of it! I go into how not doing this blocks potential insights from developing that could help shift habit energies around emotional eating that doesn't serve you. I discuss a general way to approach difficult emotion that allows for a self-compassionate opening towards it without trying to push it away.

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How could focusing on your life beyond food and body help inspire a life well lived? I explore this empowering perspective through the lens of body neutrality.

For More On How Conscious Eating can help bring peace and joy around food, body, and emotions:

Join the Conscious Eating Community email list for valuable free offerings of tools and resources:

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☞ @annettes.conscious.life; instagram.com/annettes.conscious.life

For transcripts of this episode and The Conscious Eating with Annette Podcast: ☞annettejamesmindfulness.com

This video walks you through the difference in motivation you feel when setting goals that come from the mind, a place of externally-inspired Should's, versus finding inspired goals from within that bring to mind actions you can get excited about. This includes a 3-minute guided meditation practice beginning at the 2:15 minute. I hope you'll find it to be helpful.

Have you tried setting health goals as part of New Year's Resolutions without getting results? This video is about setting goals and achieving them. Setting goals motivation, weight loss goals to set, health goals wellness. Part of goal setting theory of motivation, and effective goal setting, setting goals, health theory, is about selecting the right goals. I hope after guided meditation practice you'll find setting goals motivational video. This video supports goal setting motivation.

https://youtu.be/9G_S1zPD0NA

Annette describes how she will be supporting women who have a goal of weight loss to approach it with self-compassion and habits that are sustainable over time with the support of community and coaching.

For this week's podcast, we wanted to bring you a taste of something we've been working on all month in Conscious Eating Community. We've been exploring The Work of Byron Katie in our community, relating it to moments of tension and conflict in our lives. That includes moments where we struggle with emotional eating.

The Work asks you to actually put yourself back into a tense scenario and to bring to mind a thought that was present or a belief that was present in that moment. Sitting with this discomfort is the beginning of gaining freedom from it.

We don't get to choose what we believe in a given moment. Afterwards, though, doing an inquiry practice like what is highlighted in the video below can free you from those thoughts. You can start to get a taste of what it is to be in a moment like that, but not have the thought.

It's one thing to rationally know a thought doesn't serve you. Experiencing it directly though is key to letting it go.

This audio includes a 10-minute guided practice (beginning at the 5-minute mark) that will help you dive into this profound practice right now.

I hope you'll find it helpful.