How to Manage Your Feelings to Improve Your Relationship with Food

November 1, 2016 | Karen R. Koenig, M.Ed., LCSW

This teleconference is for over-eaters, under-eaters, binge-eaters and anyone whose relationship with food or feelings could use improvement. It will cover the evolutionary purpose and function of emotions (yes, there is one!) and explain why so many of us fear our feelings due to what we learned about them in childhood.

La Magia de Comer Despacio

22/29 de Septiembre | Cuca Azinovic (Spain) & Claudia Vega (México)

Estamos encantados de poder ofrecer por primera vez 

para la comunidad de habla hispana de TCME este entrenamiento creado por Jan Chozen Bays y Char Wilkins y ofrecido en inglés en anteriores ocasiones de la mano de Claudia Vega y Cuca Azinovic.

Discovering Delicious Movement

April 13, 2016 | Lynn Rossy PhD

If you and your body aren’t exactly on friendly terms, there can be some resistance to listening to its need for movement. Numerous barriers shut off the messages that your body sends you about how to take care of it. As a result, there is a dis-ease in the body that can make engaging in exercise challenging. In this program, learn how to reclaim your body while you experience the deliciousness of moving it in ways that are supportive of your health and wellbeing.

Lovingkindness as the 6th Food Group

October 28, 2016 | Ronna Kabatznick, Ph.D.

Loving-kindness is a specific kind of love conceptualized in various spiritual traditions, both among theologians and spiritual practitioners, as a form of love characterized by acts of kindness. 

Mindful Eating Resources that Promote Shame Resilience

September 20, 2016 |  Megrette Fletcher MEd, RD, CDE

Explore how mindful eating can defuse the toxic nature of shame that impacts clients young and old. Identify shame and its triggers, as well as identify a number of Mindful Eating handouts to use to help clients build shame resilience. Megrette Fletcher will review mindful eating resources that developing shame resilience and empathy.

Talking Nice: The Language of Eating Success

March 5, 2015 - Marsha Hudnall, MS, RDN, CD 

This interactive webinar explores how to bring self-compassion to self-talk about food and eating, to support eating in a way that leaves room for the many roles food plays in healthy living -- and leaves us feeling well, too. A TCME Members-only webinar

Strengthening Your Mindfulness Muscles

Three-Part Series | Summer 2015 |  Lynn Rossy Ph.D.

Part I: Concentration and Lovingkindness

Part II: Mindfulness - Sitting Makes Eating so Much Better! 

Having a mindfulness meditation practice is not necessary to be a mindful eater, but it helps. Research shows that people who are stronger in mindfulness are more likely to eat intuitively, have better body image, and have less disordered eating. Mindfulness is a skill that helps you focus and attend to sensations like hunger, satiety, and taste, as well as increases kindness and self-compassion. Meditation practice is a method for strengthening your mindfulness. It’s like going to the gym for your mind. This three part series will take all of the mystery out of meditation, show you how to apply it to mindful eating, and help you establish a meditation practice of your own.

Mindfulness and Compassion: Two Wings of a Bird

March 18, 2015 / Caroline Baerten, RD (Belgium)

In recent scientific studies we understand better how a compassionate mind do influence our brains, bodies and the way we relate to ourselves and food. During the teleconference the impact of compassion on eating habits will be explored and different tools to water the seeds of mindfulness and compassion within ourselves and our patients.