Andrea Lieberstein on Mindful Eating to Nourish our Whole Selves

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Andrea Lieberstein can teach you how to nourish your whole self so that you can have a healthier relationship with food. What does that mean? Well, often, we turn to food to nourish parts of our lives that it is not equipped to nourish. Have you ever turned to food to soothe anxiety or stress? This is a really common way that we ask food to do something that it's not meant to do. In this episode, Andrea teaches specific strategies for how to bring mindfulness into the act of eating. These practical, multi-pronged approaches are ones that you can bring to your very next encounter with food.

Andrea Lieberstein is a mindfulness-based registered dietitian nutritionist, mindful eating (MB-EAT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) instructor and coach, trainer, and registered yoga instructor has specialized in helping people transform their lives for over 25 years. She leads mindfulness meditation and mindful eating trainings and retreats at retreat centers across the country and internationally. Her individual coaching sessions are accessible to anyone through phone or a virtual video office. She utilizes Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT), MBSR, MSC (Mindful Self-Compassion) and other mindfulness-based and mindful eating practices in her private practice working with individuals on a wide range of disordered eating, healthy weight management, body image and stress-related issues and health concerns.

Her latest book is called: Well Nourished: Mindful Practices to Heal Your Relationship with Food Feed Your Whole Self, and End Overeating

In This Interview, Andrea Lieberstein and I Discuss...

• The Wolf Parable
• Her book, Well Nourished: Mindful Practices to Heal Your Relationship with Food Feed Your Whole Self, and End Overeating
• The importance of what we pay attention to
• The 8 bodies that we can nourish
• Being "fully resourced"
• Identifying your intention to have a better relationship with food
• Bringing mindful awareness to our eating triggers and our own bodies
• Learning to tune into hunger, fullness, cravings
• Making conscious, informed choices when it comes to food
• Honoring ourselves and appreciating others at holiday mealtimes
• Savoring our food so that we're really present and not on autopilot
• A mindful check-in: Pause, Deep Breaths, Ask "What is Present?"/"What's Going on Here?", Ask, "What do I really need right now?", Take a moment to reflect on your food
• Highly processed food
• The myth of needing to wait 20 minutes to know whether or not we're full
• Satisfaction at mealtime
• Making one meal or snack a day a silent one
• The 8 Bodies we need to Nourish: Physical, Emotional, Psychological, Social, Intellectual, Creative, Spiritual, and Worldly Nourishment
• How to deal with emotions in other ways than turning to food
• "Surfing the urge"
• Loving-kindness and cravings

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