Orientation, Nourish Your Mood: Meditation & Eating with the Brain in Mind
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About this Event
Discover how to nourish your mood, informed by science and guided by your own awareness and self-compassion
The latest research shows that mental health is a whole-body issue.
Feeling frazzled?
Anxious before you open your eyes,
searching for coffee to brighten your energy,
fading and shaky by late morning,
spacey and slumping in productivity after lunch,
people irritating you in the evening,
so exhausted but can't sleep,
waking at 4 AM with regret and the to-do list…
Imagine being deeply nourished...
When you are engaged on a path toward nourishing mood, you’re more able to connect with your beloveds and create a better world.
Enjoy this orientation to learn more about how nourishing your mood can help.
This orientation is a guide to find out if you would like to take a 9-month program, Nourish Your Mood: Meditation and Eating with the Brain in Mind, https://www.centerforstressreduction.com/nourish-your-mood-program.html, or refer others to the program.
Ticket holders will receive link to online event.
We’ll learn:
self-compassion practice
eating meditation
how our amazing bodies come in a normal range of sizes
what one of the missing pieces might be to support your:
o mood
o anxiety
o concentration
o sex drive
o pain
o memory and cognitive health
- We will also do a brief ritual to grieve those lost to COVID-19, state violence, and violence against transgender people
All attendees will receive free gifts:
- A tool you can use to track the connection between your mood and food
- An evidence-based guided audio meditation to use in a moment when life is hard or you're being hard on yourself
Nourish Your Mood: Meditation and Eating with the Brain in Mind
Is a comprehensive program for your mood that:
- is evidence-based and open-hearted,
- gives you accurate support for your physiology and respects you as your own best teacher,
- lets you discover your own answers and gives you mutual support.
Eating with the Brain in Mind involves:
- treating oneself with compassion and love
- eating in ways that prioritize the incredible functions of the brain and body
- taking digestion seriously
- individually discovered solutions
- pleasure and abundance
How this Program is Different...
Body-positive, fat-positive, food-positive, transgender/LGBTQI-positive
Nourish Your Mood is committed to a body-positive, fat-liberation approach.
Nourish Your Mood is transgender and non-binary-affirming. We welcome bodies living with disability and health conditions.
Eating with the Brain in Mind does not involve:
- Deprivation
- Weighing yourself or calorie talk
- Using nutrition or mindfulness as more reasons to criticize yourself
Continuing Education
Teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as the general public. CE credits for psychologists, LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT, and RNs are provided by the Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC) which is co-sponsoring this program. More info on CE here: https://www.centerforstressreduction.com/continuing-education.html
watercolor by Sally Baker
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Generosity experiment:
No one turned away for lack of funds.
The teaching is donated.
This event is a fundraiser for Urban Tilth. Please help Urban Tilth in giving free farm boxes to low-income people during the pandemic. Urban Tilth hires and trains local residents to cultivate agriculture in west Contra Costa County to help our community build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system. Learn more about Urban Tilth here: urbantilth.org.