Welcome to Mind Your Food (a mindfulness based weight management program)
As a mindful eating coach, I specialize in helping my clients break free of diet culture in order to re-establish the severed connection between themselves and their bodies responsible for their difficulties with their weight in the first place. Using a combination of mindful eating practices, meditation, and gentle movement I teach my clients how to acknowledge, respect, and meet their physical and emotional needs in a safe and sustainable way.
My name is Melissa. I am a full time healthcare professional, a yoga instructor, content creator and wife. I became a mindful eating coach and developed my flagship product Mind Your Food (an intensive 8 week mindful eating course) after experiencing first hand the power of mindfulness in ending my own struggle with my weight. In learning how to maintain a moment by moment awareness of my feelings, habits and actions with non-judgmental observation, my entire life changed. While most would say I didn't need to worry about my weight, I spent the first 25 years of my life struggling with it. I toggled between obesity and my goal weight, always unhappy with what I saw in the mirror and afraid of my lunch. I tried every diet and bought every stupid weight loss product that I thought might finally get me into a size zero. I even considered major cosmetic surgery. But it wasn't until I stopped relying on stuff "out there" and started listening to the stuff "in here" that I finally conquered obesity and my fear of food. Because of the role mindfulness has played in my very busy and very ordinary life, I knew I had to share it with as many people as I possibly could. I developed this program so that you too, through the practice of yoga and mindful living, might also come to find your own sense of peace and self worth.
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