Aware: A Weight Loss Self-Study Course

I’ve recorded a course for you to lead yourself to your heart, where the answers to your questions of “why can’t I lose weight?” and “why do I eat like this?” reside.

This video course is split into six sessions, with 10 guided meditations and exercises housed within the modules, too.

You will need to supply a notebook and pen/pencil for yourself as you answer the questions I’ll ask you within the course.

The beauty of your relationship to food is that it is the springboard for your relationship to life—meaning, this work not only will help you cultivate the experience you want with the foods you eat, but it will spill over into other areas of your life in a positive manner. I truly believe that how we do one thing is how we do many things. And building a more compassionate way of being with yourself at meals can’t help but impact you during the rest of your days, too.

This course is for anyone (I refer to women in the course, but the teachings apply to anyone regardless of gender or sex) who wants to find peace and contentment with how you exist in your body and with the foods on your plate. Whether there are 150 pounds you’d like to lose or 1.5 pounds (or 1.5 ounces), you’ll find the same principles apply.

If you want to stop using food as a way to numb yourself from the beautiful experience of your life, from your boredom to your loneliness to your confusion, this course is for you.

If you desire to learn how for it to feel normal to eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full, so that you can naturally and really see your life clearly in the peaceful and joyful ways available to you in this very tender moment, you can start the course today.

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*please note, the hosting platform has changed for this program since the time of this video. All materials are the same.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • You have ongoing access to the course and its materials. If for whatever reason I close access to the course, I’ll provide you with plenty of time to download the materials.

  • A notebook and a pen.

  • The course itself is a 2.5 hour time investment. You may listen at any pace you prefer. Beyond the course, you will need the time you will need to eat your meals mindfully. Usually this is about 20 uninterrupted minutes at each meal, and snack.

  • If you think about food more than you prefer.

    If you have tried multiple diets and have lost and regained the weight.

    If you feel unkind feelings about your body and its size.

    If you eat when you are not hungry.

    If you want to stop counting calories, macros, and points.

  • If you’re open to changing your beliefs around food, your body, and yourself, this course will work for you. The pace of your journey is individual, so I cannot state how long it will take you experience changes.

  • No. Please ensure you have read the other FAQs before you thoughtfully sign up.

  • Yes. Peruse the Course Outline below for details.

Course Outline

Mindfulness & Self-Compassion

  • Understanding Your Awareness of the Present Moment

  • Expansion of Daily Self-Compassion Practices

  • Integrating Interoceptive Awareness (body sensation awareness)

  • Exercise: Compassionate Touch

  • Exercise: Breathing

Eating When You Are Hungry

  • Identify Your Hunger

  • Create Your Sensation Spectrum

  • Guided Meditation: Hunger During The Day

  • Exercise: Mindless Eating

Stopping When You Are Satisfied

  • Interoceptive Awareness with Body Signals

  • Integrating Present Moment Senses

  • Cultivate Inner Kindness Before, During, and After Meals

  • Guided Meditation: Satisfaction During Meals

Eating What Your Body Wants

  • Opening To Loving Choices

  • Exercise: Which Foods Are Loving Choices?

Eating With Enjoyment & Presence

  • Honoring Your Pleasure

  • What To Do When Your Brain Wanders

  • How To Cultivate Enjoyment With Meals

  • Exercise: 5 Foods Practice

  • Exercise: 2 Week Food Journal

Backdraft & Resistance

  • Assessing Your Relationship With What You’ve Learned

  • Noticing Resistance

  • What To Do With Backdraft

  • The Role of Disenchantment

  • Guided Meditation: Identifying What We Really Want

  • Exercise: This Is a Moment of Pain

Bonuses:

  • How Thought, Consciousness, & The Mind Work

  • How to Build Any Plate

  • Flour and Sugar

Course Inclusions

  • Six core video lessons split into sections

  • 10 Guided Meditations and Exercises

  • Three Bonus Modules

 

Who This Course Is For

  • You want a thoughtful invitation into your relationship with food and your body

  • You are open to being with yourself in this compassionate process - to trust your inner knowing, even if you think you haven’t fully met it yet

  • You’re ready to stop thinking about your thinking so much

  • You want to change your eating behaviors for a truly enjoyable lifestyle, as created by you

  • You understand that this work is emotional as well as tactical - it’s a homecoming to the tangibles of wellness (what you eat) and intangibles, too (why you eat)

  • You really do want to get off the train of self-punishment and low compassion—many of us say we want this, but engage in the same self-loathful, fearing ways

  • You thrive with self-paced education

Who This Course Isn’t For

  • You have an active eating disorder - this is not the time for self-study. Please contact me for referrals to licensed mental health practitioners, or please call 988 immediately if you are in a mental health crisis

  • You desire a shortcut for weight loss or believe that feeling your feelings is another pass/fail thing to add to your never ending to-do list

  • You want to practice thinking about your thinking even more instead of accepting your thoughts as transitory and meaningless

  • You have already purchased multiple courses surrounding the subjects of thoughtwork and eating habits, yet haven’t completed the courses or shown up fully to the support offered to you. If this is you, you may need more support than a self-paced course can offer. Please reach out to me for a referral to a licensed mental health practitioner

  • You thrive with live support. If this is you, please inquire about individual coaching.

 

After taking the course, you should come away with:

  • More feelings of peace and contentment with your relationship with yourself and your meals

  • Fewer weight-related worries

  • The ability to be present in any moment you choose

  • A better quality of life

  • Increased health markers from reduced stress, and from weight-related concerns as you begin losing pounds

  • No more concerns about why or when you eat

  • Increased confidence to lose weight and keep it off