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Mindful Eating Program

What is Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being?  

Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being is an 8-week course that explores how mindfulness-based practices can be applied to nourishing one’s body with food and drink. 

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What Can I Learn in a Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being Course?

Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well-Being is an 8-week journey into eating with kindness, awareness, and non-judgment. Through mindfulness-based practices, you'll learn to bring attention to your eating habits, explore your relationship with food, and cultivate gratitude and self-care. 

What are the Benefits of a Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being?

While each student's experience is unique, the published research has shown changes like these are common.

Reduced over eating and binge eating • Healthier food choices • Enhanced enjoyment of food • Increased awareness of hunger and fullness • Improved digestion • Stress reduction • Increased satisfaction with food • Reduced emotional eating 

Course Registration Options and Pricing

Pay-It-Forward

$675

This is an opportunity to support those with limited resources, making courses accessible to those that cannot pay the standard rate. Paying at this level is an act of generosity.

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Standard Rate

$525

The standard rate covers the costs of these courses, making it possible for MHI to continue to offer them.

Scholarship

$375

This rate is available for those who cannot afford to pay the standard rate. We ask you to use this rate only if paying the higher rate creates a hardship for yourself and/or your family.

Mindful Eating Program

Course pricing is set to allow for generosity while meeting individuals needs. Course prices include Pay-It-Forward, Standard, and Scholarship rates. We encourage you to pay what you can afford and we appreciate your care and thoughtfulness when deciding.

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Upcoming Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being Courses

September 16 to November 4, 2025 - Instructor Sarah Kinsley     

Live Online via Zoom, Classes: Tuesdays, September 16, 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, Times: 6:30pm – 8:30pm ET

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“I think Sarah Kinsley is an outstanding Mindful Eating instructor. The aspects that stand out to me include: her ability to cultivate a kind, inclusive classroom environment; her ability to relate compassionately to her students on the subject matter; her listening skills and genuine caring; her ability to bring a certain joyfulness to class; and the educational materials included in her Mindful Eating course.”

Mindful Eating: Awareness and Wellbeing

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“Sarah provided a safe space to explore a complex topic that was targeted to the needs of all participants. It was a wonderful experience and I have definitely walked away with a lot of knowledge and a lot to think about.”

Mindful Eating: Awareness and Wellbeing

What is Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being?

Mindful eating is eating with kindness, awareness, and non-judgment. Practicing mindful eating promotes gratitude, self-care, and a healthier internal and external experience. 

Explore your habitual patterns with food. 

This 8-week series explores how mindfulness-based practices can be applied to nourishing one’s body with food and drink. Student will learn how to bring awareness to the direct experience of eating. There will be opportunities to explore one’s relationship to the thoughts, emotions, and body sensations associated with food preparation and eating. 

Discover the possibility of freedom.

Practices to increase one’s ability to notice and respond to body sensations will be offered each week and students will be invited to practice in between sessions. The role of your automatic pilot, the importance of “Vitamin T” (Time), and how to skillfully respond rather than react to internal and external stimuli will be explored.

What is the Weekly Overview of Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being?

The Mindful Eating curriculum presented here serves as a general overview and is subject to potential modifications based on the unique needs, insights, and discussions that may arise during class.

Week 1:  

  • Introduction to mindfulness-based eating for health and well-being 
  • Intention/aspiration setting
  • Principles of Mindful Eating
  • The Window of Tolerance (Siegel)
  • Mindful eating activity
  • Intuitive Eating Hunger Scale
  • Orienting and grounding practices
  • The Three-Step Breathing Space (MBCT) and Loving-Kindness meditations

Week 2: 

  • What is nourishment?
  • Role of the nervous system (Interoception and Neuroception)
  • Multi-tasking and eating (automaticity-automatic pilot)
  • Stress and Stressors in relationship to eating
  • The Three-Step Breathing Space (MBCT) and Loving-Kindness meditations

Week 3:

  • Exploring hunger and fullness
  • Identifying the difference between physical and emotional hunger
  • Ways to complete the stress response
  • The Three-Step Breathing Space (MBCT) and Loving-Kindness meditations

Week 4:

  • The Nine Types of Hunger (Bays)
  • The physiology of self-criticism and self-compassion (Neff and Germer) in relationship to mindful eating
  • Compassionate Inquiry (Maté) 
  • The Three-Step Breathing Space (MBCT) and Loving-Kindness meditations 

Week 5:

  • Nourishing the whole person through self-stewardship
  • The difference between fullness and satisfaction
  • The grasping quality of addictive mind states
  • Nourishing and Depleting Activity (MBCT and Deeper Mindfulness)
  • The Three-Step Breathing Space (MBCT) and Loving-Kindness meditations

Week 6: 

  • The Role of Gratitude
  • The Blue Zones Power 9: Lifestyle Habits of the World’s Healthiest, Longest-Lived People
  • The Three-Step Breathing Space (MBCT) and Loving-Kindness meditations

Week 7:

  • Cultural and Familial Influences on Eating
  • Mindfulness of Thoughts and Emotions
  • Food rules and the diet cycle
  • The Big 3: Fat, Salt and Sugar
  • Sensory Specific Satiety
  • The Three-Step Breathing Space (MBCT) and Loving-Kindness meditations

Week 8: 

  • The Slow Down Diet (David)
  • Course Integration: Using what we have learned
  • Next steps
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