Eat for Life: Learning to Savor Your Food, Respect Your Body, and Love Your Life
Speaker: Lynn Rossy, PhD
Format: Audio

This experiential workshop will introduce teachers of mindfulness-based interventions and other conference participants to a method of adapting mindfulness and intuitive eating principles to help heterogeneous populations of people with a range of eating concerns. Participants will learn the major concepts developed for a 10 week program entitled Eat for Life. Eat for Life has been validated in a control group trial which demonstrates the ability of participants to significantly increase mindfulness, intuitive eating, and body appreciation as well as decrease disordered eating.

Specifically, we will explore the relevance of each components of the acronym "BASICS" which represents a model of mindful eating. We will explore the paradoxical teaching of the "Three Food Wisdoms" (no forbidden food, eating the right amount, and knowing and respecting your patterns and triggers with food). We will identify commonly reported challenges of participants in mindful eating classes. There will be a combination of lecture, dyads, guided meditation, and other experiential exercises covering the key themes of the program.

The presenter developed and researched the Eat for Life program. She regularly teaches the program in person and online at the University of Missouri and other community venues.