Oooops, I screwed up! And while we’re on the topic: 3 steps to being more gentle with ourselves

June 17, 2017 / Jenna / Intuitive Eating, Meditation, Mindfulness

So I screwed up the free Chat with an IE Pro this past Tuesday. I miscommunicated, sent out the wrong information, and there you have it. I sincerely apologize. What can I say? I’m an imperfect human being. Like a lot of us, I’ve been carrying a lot lately so something was bound to fall […]

Five Mindfulness Lessons Every Coach and Therapist Can Use

April 22, 2017 / Jenna / Mindfulness, Intuitive Eating, Meditation

Within the first few nutrition therapy sessions with a new client, I inevitably ask her (or him) to do something that seems impossible: to stay in the icky, fearsome, claustrophobic space between having a painful emotion and automatically reacting to it by overeating. This might not sound like much, but to someone struggling with emotional […]

On working with physical pain: The first and second dart

October 16, 2016 / Jenna / Mindfulness, Meditation, Mindfulness practices

I couldn’t pick up my son on his first birthday. We were in Sicily celebrating with his grandparents and cousins, aunts and uncles. It was a joyous occasion in every way except for the stabbing pain that extended from my middle back to beneath my left shoulder blade and the dull ache I felt down […]