This was informative and empowering and would be helpful for anyone looking to establish a healthy outlook on food and eating. I especially appreciated tools to dismantle toxic habits and thoughts about eating. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC e-book.

Intuitive eating is something I’ve always struggled with. Intuitive Eating for Life was really helpful and I was able to change some negative habits. I myself use eating as a stress mechanism, and reading about having self-compassion for myself brings around a whole new perspective for me.

This is an insightful guide that offers a refreshing approach to finding peace with food and body image. The author's mindfulness-based techniques, rooted in the Four Foundations, make intuitive eating feel attainable and sustainable. With her practical wisdom, this book empowers readers to break free from dieting struggles and embrace a healthier relationship with food, with lessons and reminders to trust themselves. It would be a good resource for anyone ready to ditch the diet roller coaster and nourish both body and mind.

Thank you to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC.

This is a interesting book. A hard time keeping with the book. I might have not been motivated just with a lot going on. But it's definitely interesting perspective on how we even how we internalize food.

Intuitive Eating for Life: How Mindfulness Can Deepen and Sustain Your Intuitive Eating Practice by Jenna Hollensteincis a good supplement for anyone trying to implement intuitive eating. Here, the author brings mindfulness in detail and explains how it is important in correctly implementing it intuitive eating. Good resource overall. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher with no obligations. These opinions are entirely my own.

I wasn't aware of the Intuitive Eating mindset before reading this book but I was fascinated. Despite never having been a slave to dieting, I recognised some of the misconceptions about eating that are presented in this book - and the tools given to dismantle these and create positive eating experiences are respectful and powerful.

What I found most appealing is the emphasis on mindfulness, self-awareness and self-regulation. If you don't know yourself, who does?

Jenna Hollenstein's Intuitive Eating for Life made me think differently and more thoughtfully about how and what I eat. Hollenstein structures the book about the Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of Body, Feelings, Mind and Phenomena. Stories about clients illustrate the Intuitive Eating process and many chapters end with Mindful Moments - exercises that encourage you though the process which I found very helpful. I would absolutely recommend this book.

I was really curious about what the author had to say, and I wasn’t let down!
Intuitive eating is something I’ve always struggled with and it was really helpful and changed some negative habits I used to have.

Intuitive Eating is something I wanted to learn more about, so this book came along at the right time. It is written in a way that is easy to digest (sorry...I had to!). Be gentle on yourself when it comes to eating and your body.

This is an un-diet book. An in-depth instructional to change your eating habits. To listen to your body and get away from diet culture.

This is a much more comprehensive guide than it initially appears. While this is a thorough and helpful primer on intuitive eating, it really touches on the whole human experience and offers techniques and advice for living a fulfilling, well-examined life on every front, not just personal nutrition. Mindfulness is held as the root of everything and it's considered in the context of movement, emotions, thought process, and relating to the world as a whole.

There was a troubling section in the beginning that asserted that the human nervous system had developed over hundreds of millions of years (even the most generous estimates of human existence are that we've been around about 2 million years at most--closer to 300,000 for anything recognizably similar to modern humans) and that did cast a little doubt over the credibility of any scientific claims in the book. Still, the ideas explored are worth pondering and have value. As with anything, take what you can use and leave the rest. There is a lot of useful insight to be found in this book.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

Intuitive Eating for Life is not a diet book! The premise behind Intuitive Eating is the it is only by listening to our bodies that we can break the diet cycling that so many of our practice.
This book focuses on the role that mindfulness can play in practicing Intuitive Eating and breaking the diet culture mindset. For those of us who struggle with weight, that mind/body connection is real.
I appreciated the message and tools of this book and appreciate receiving an advance copy from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Intuitive eating is something that I have been trying to get into for a while now. I have skimmed the original book that this particular book is a companion to (of sorts) but Hollenstein breaks it down in a way that is much easier to understand. I will keep going with her exercises and hopefully get a better understanding of the process. Definitely recommend to anyone who's struggling to get away from diet culture.

I'm a woman of a certain age and a certain weight, which means that I've tried nearly every diet on the planet. A couple of years ago I read the original book "Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works", by Tribole and Resch. The title makes it seem like another, well, "program", but in actually, that book is about breaking *out* of diet culture and learning to trust what your body is telling you. I bought into the idea, but struggled to implement it. (I rated that book 4 stars.)

Which brings us to *this* book, "Intuitive Eating for Life: How Mindfulness Can Deepen and Sustain your Intuitive Eating Practice". Author Jenna Hollenstein is a dietitian and meditation teacher who was trained in Intuitive Eating by the OGs themselves, Tribole and Resch. This book certainly deals with Intuitive Eating, but it is much more accurate to read it as a call to mindfulness and the practice of loving, respecting and caring for our bodies at any size. "Intuitive Eating For Life" encourages (and facilitates) meditative journaling, gentleness, and it draws connections between the way we care for our bodies and the way we show up in the world at large.

While the original book was helpful as an introduction, I actually found this book to be much more practical and useful for concrete action steps. Recommend!

Thanks to the author, publisher and #NetGalley first providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
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With all the concepts of dieting and health related books that tell you what you must do, Intuitive Eating for Life gives you the ability to find why you have the eating habits you have, and to find ways to adjust them.

The concept of Intuitve Eating is simply to listen to your body telling you what you need versus trying to force your body into an eating pattern that doesn't work for your individual physiology. We know not everyone has identical inner workings based on genetics, medical treatments, and the many various diets that don't work for everyone.

Within the pages of Intuitive Eating for Life, Jenna brings a basis to start the exploration of being mindful of food and what emotions it creates for you, and to acknowledge what emotions you use it to fill. The journal work becomes a key component in a way to start the journey prior to working with someone capable of helping you dig deeper.

One of the best parts is that Jenna explains the beautiful basis of mindfulness that can be applied to every part of life.

An important read for anyone who struggles in their relationship with food or weight loss. This is not a diet book, but a mindset shift. This book gives the reader the freedom they won’t give themselves when it comes to diet culture.

“Welcome to the first page of the rest of your life” and so begins Intuitive Eating for Life by Jenna Hollenstein.

It seems like intuitive eating has really reached a far and wide audience now, though it was first introduced sometime around 1995. The book by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resh is the bible for learning how to eat intuitively, how to gain freedom around food. This book is a great companion. The author of Intuitive Eating for Life (Hollenstein) was infact trained by Evelyn Tribole.

I feel like Hollenstein expands a little more with mindfulness here. She includes “mindful moments “ and asks thoughtful questions, giving exercises and journaling prompts. The book is framed around four foundations of mindfulness. “Mindfulness” she states, “changes the brain.”

The goal of intuitive eating is giving yourself full and unconditional permission to eat. Any kind of restriction- physical or mental- has the opposite effect, causing us to crave and obsess about the foods we are restricting.

This is a great addition to anyone’s intuitive eating practice and provides much insight on how the ways we eat affect every part of our lives.

Thanks to New Harbinger Publications, NetGalley and Jenna Hollenstein

This was a heavy subject to tackle, but well worth the read. I myself use eating as a  stress mechanism, and reading about having self-compassion for myself brings around a whole new perspective for me.

It's great that this book focuses on mindfulness and how it affects not only your body but also how it's tied to your emotions. The chapter on finding peace with food was appreciated, as most people just focus on how food is the enemy, but Jenna Hollenstein has gone in another direction and wants us to make nice with food.

Thank you, New Harbinger Publications and NetGalley, for this ARC.

This book is not easy to read... it's a paradigm shift. It will challenge everything you heard about healthy food, diet, losing weight, good and bad food, etc. You will have to think and trust yourself, things we were never encouraged to do.
It starts a bit heavy on symbolism and concepts. But I stuck with it and I warmly encourage you to do the same. The second half of the book is chockfull of tools to help you embrace the philosophy. Lots of ideas on where to get help. I loved it so much that I ordered the physical book to keep on my nightstand and fill it with idea post-it notes.
I can't wait to go through it again and I'm sure it will be a constant companion and a good friend.

Thank you to #partner New Harbinger for our copy of Intuitive Eating for Life.

This books is available December 1, 2022.

Rating: 4 star
Genre: Nonfiction

Thoughts: As a dietitian who uses Intuitive Eating in practice, I was so excited to receive an early copy of this book!

I think that this book does a great job of expanding Intuitive Eating with mindfulness and tools to use. I enjoyed many of the activities in this book and can see using them in practice. I loved some of the resources around self-compassion!

I think that this book makes a great addition for anyone that is learning about Intuitive Eating and learning to connect more with eating and their bodies!