Providing psychological and wellness counseling
helping you to be your best self
Dr. Jessica Buss,
Registered Psychological Assistant (PS35736)
(working under the supervision of
Dr. Diana Weiss-Wisdom (PSY 12476) Licensed Psychologist).
Mindful Eating Training Group Starting in February 6th, 2012
(please see below)
Services:
◦Individual Therapy ◦Biofeedback
◦Marriage & Couples Counseling ◦Stress Management Training
◦Child/Adolescent Therapy ◦Relaxation & Meditation Training
◦Family Therapy ◦Psychological Assessment
◦Group Therapy ◦Weight Management Counseling
Specialties:
◦Pain management ◦Weight Management
◦Chronic illness ◦Eating Disorders
◦Trauma/PTSD ◦Self-esteem Issues
◦Anxiety ◦Marriage Counseling
◦Depression ◦Step-families
Mindful Eating Training Group
Group Leader: Dr. Jessica Buss, Ph.D.
Time: Mondays from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
First Meeting: February 6 or 13, 2012 (depending on participants’ availability)
Length: 8 weeks
Location: The Cottage Clinic
(Carmel Valley/Rancho Santa Fe, Cross streets of Carmel Valley Rd. and Rancho Santa Fe Farms Rd.)
Cost: $320
(please contact Dr. Jessica Buss if cost is an issue)
Group Topics:
●What is mindfulness meditation
●How to eat mindfully
●Improving body awareness: Hunger awareness,
Stomach fullness, Taste satisfaction
●Understanding the different kinds of hunger
●Understanding our habits around food and
creating healthier behaviors
●Understand how thoughts and emotions impact
our food habits
●Ending unhealthy eating: Automatic eating,
Bored eating, Stress eating, Emotional eating,
Social overeating,
●Becoming mindful about food choices,
portion sizes, exercise
●Making peace with our bodies
●Let go of our inner critic
This group is a skill-building program to help you overcome struggles with food and establish a healthy relationship with food, eating, and your body. Mindful eating is a simple but extraordinary approach that involves bringing one’s full attention to the experience of eating, including tastes, sights, sounds, smells, touch, thoughts, feelings, and body sensations.
Most diet programs focus on rigid rules and deprivation. People are given information about “what” to do to lose or maintain weight, but are not given the “how” to do it. We become focused on rules and ideas about food, rather than enjoying and experiencing food. We may lose weight for a short time, but our old cravings, eating habits, and underlying issues surrounding food often return. We gain weight and experience shame, blame, and guilt. We promise ourselves we will do it better this time, but the harder we fight our food struggle, the more intense our suffering becomes. Dieting often does not work because it does not promote inner wisdom and an understanding of our bodies. We become so intellectually focused on food that we lose awareness of our internal cues of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction. We also do not address the many mental and emotional reasons we overeat and make bad food choices. Without inner wisdom, we are unable to stop the many types of mindless eating.
With mindful eating, we become present when we eat. The skill of mindfulness allows us to be fully aware and accepting of what is happening inside ourselves—body sensations, emotions, thoughts—and around us in our environment, without judgment or criticism. When we eat mindfully, we are in tune with our body’s signals and are able to differentiate them from our mental, emotional, and environmental triggers to eat. We find pleasure and satisfaction in eating. Mindfulness connects us with our inner wisdom and allows us to be fully present. With this increased awareness, we are able to make mindful choices about food, eating, exercise, and our bodies. With these skills, we are able to overcome our negative patterns, lose weight, maintain a healthy body weight, and finally find peace with eating and our bodies.
The group will involve experiential practice with mindfulness meditation and mindful eating exercises. Participants will practice integrating their new skills in between meetings and will learn to integrate mindful eating into their daily lives, as well as approach their diet, bodies, and exercise from a mindful perspective.
Information about Dr. Jessica Buss:
Dr. Jessica Buss has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Health Psychology. Dr. Buss provides treatment to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and groups as a Post-Doctoral Psychological Assistant (PSB 35736) under the supervision of Dr. Weiss-Wisdom, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist (PSY 12476). Dr. Buss specializes in weight management and eating disorders, chronic illness, pain management, trauma/PTSD, anxiety, depression, and psychological assessment.