Could You Need Less Mindfulness?
As a long-time student of meditation, I have been studying and practicing mindfulness for years. As a psychotherapist I have been even more interested in it as of late from a clinical perspective. I have seen how mindfulness can be both a force for healing at times...
6 Steps Toward Revolutionary Body Love
As the wise and powerful artist May Erlewine sings “Love isn’t a possession, it’s a moment, a blessing.” I won’t tell you to love your body. Love emerges beyond our will. However, there are steps we can take, and things we can choose, that cultivate love toward...
Inhabiting the Body (vs. Controlling it)
As I look around at the way people are in relationship to the body I see: loathing distancing numbing hopes for change plans to fix A fair question to pose seems to be: When are we allowed to exist fully in our bodies exactly as they are? In working with...
Arguing with Hunger
One of the core principles of Intuitive Eating is learning to honor your hunger. What does this mean? Here are some things that indicate you are honoring hunger: You know what it feels like to be hungry You eat when you are hungry You eat enough food to feel your...
5 Secret Benefits of Failure
We live in a culture with a focus on success and an avoidance of talking about failure. The drive for perfection is sold everywhere we turn. We do not celebrate failure. However, failure is worth celebrating. If you fail that means you are alive and you tried. That is...
Nutritional Bypassing: When Food Won’t Fix It
I want to put a name to something I see emerging in the world of health and healing when people turn again and again to diets, lifestyles and plans to help ease their suffering. Even when these efforts fail to ever really help them in any lasting way... This idea ...
Bridging the Chasm: Science, Logic, Evidence and the 3 M’s
"Take your practiced powers and stretch them out until they span the chasm between two contradictions" Rainer Maria Rilke... In our often polarized world, we witness the clash between the logical and the mystical. Science, logic, and evidence are commonly pitted...
Beyond the Bottom of a Probiotic Bottle
There is a lot of buzz lately around the idea that the root of all healing is in the gut. So many sensitive souls get stuck policing their food intake to "heal their gut" and end up in worse condition than when they started, often overly stressed and disordered in...
Body Image, Shame and Yearning
I work with people in healing chronic negative body image. Body image issues are often a manifestation of body shame. Each of us has unique lived experiences where our shame has been cultivated; part of the healing is letting these body stories be told and witnessed....
All Body Sizes Welcome
Growing-up in a culture, and a family, that consistently confirmed that fat was bad and unlovable, I had a huge disconnect for many years. To the young and innocent me, fat was good, because logically I loved people who were good and also were fat. As a little girl...
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Jennifer DiGennaro MA LPC 1324 Lake Drive Suite 8 Grand Rapids, Michigan 49506
Tel: 616.446.6728
E-mail: Jen@NourishedEnergy.com