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Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training
Are you unhappy with your eating habits or weight?
Are you:
an emotional eater?
a mindless eater?
a compulsive overeater?
a binge eater?
a chronic dieter?
Are you worried about the ways your relationship with food affects your health?
If you have answered "yes" to any of these questions, Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training may help you to heal your struggle with weight and food.
Promising results
The MB EAT program originally was developed for compulsive overeating and binge eating disorder. Initial research studies showed that participation in the program increases self awareness of eating related experience, internalization of control and self acceptance. Participants who practiced mindfulness reported decreased binge eating behavior and lost weight. Results were so promising that a second $1.8 million study to examine the effects of the MB-EAT program on treating obesity in addition to binge eating has been funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Basic Skills for Mindful Eating
Learn or strengthen basic mindfulness skills to enhance your relationship with food and your body. Practice core skills from the Mindfulness Based Eating Awareness Training curriculum. If mindfulness is new to you, this session might help you consider whether the 10 week MB-EAT program beginning Monday. March 22 might be useful to you. If you have used mindfulness before, perhaps this would be a good way to refresh your practice. Sessions are scheduled on four Monday evenings, February 1 and 15, March 1 and 15, 6:30-8:30 pm, led alternately by Robin Boudette, Ph.D. and Nancy Logue, Ph.D. Tuition is $200.00; there is a $100.00 orientation for new participants (counts toward tuition for 10-week session if you decide to enroll). Class held at 90 West Afton Avenue, Yardley, PA.
Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training Program
In the 10 week MB-EAT program, you will learn the basic principles of mindfulness meditation and steps to develop mindful eating. Each week, you will learn and practice new skills. You will receive a workbook and audio CDs to support your home training.
Through practicing and adopting a mindful approach to eating behaviors and food itself, you can reclaim a balanced relationship with food – a balance that you may have lost long ago. Unlike diets, which tend to ignore the psychological causes of eating problems, the MB-EAT program seeks to address the underlying issues that have created unhappy and unhealthy eating patterns. Tuning in to internal cues of hunger and fullness and distinguishing body signals from emotional triggers of overeating or impulsive eating helps you free yourself from negative feelings, thoughts and behaviors.
With daily practice, you can
- change self-defeating patterns
- find a new peace with food and eating
- learn intuitive eating skills for long term results
- improve your emotional and physical well-being
Note: This training is not intended for those with anorexia.
Program details:
Monday evenings 6:30-8:30 pm
March 22 - June 7
All sessions to be held at:
AFTON ALLIANCE FOR EMOTIONAL HEALTH
90 West Afton Avenue, Yardley, PA 19067
Registration
Cost of the program: $650.00
Includes one individual orientation session
Insurance may provide reimbursement
$600 early registration by March 8
You can reserve your place by calling 215-321-5695 or emailing nl@aftonalliance.com.
Led by:
The program will be facilitated by licensed psychologists Robin Boudette, Ph.D. and Nancy Logue, Ph.D. Both Robin and Nancy are specialists in the treatment of all forms of disordered eating with many years experience and were trained by MB-EAT originator Jean Kristeller. Click to learn more about Dr. Robin Boudette and Dr. Nancy Logue.
Learn about Mindful Lunches held Wednesdays at Afton Alliance for Emotional Health. Cultivate mind/body peace at these weekly brown-bag lunch seminars on stress reduction and mindful eating.
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