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Simply Mindful Meal by Meal

101 Mindful Ways to Create a Healthy Relationship with Food

With Simply Mindful Meal by Meal you’ll master mindful eating techniques to help you be at peace with all of your food choices. Instead of worrying about weight, diets, or obsessing over your last meal, mindful eating offers a greater sense of control over food plus a comforting acceptance of body shape and size.

Former Buddhist monk, psychotherapist and mindful eating pioneer Donald Altman shares daily meditations plus inspiring quotes from sources from around the world: Zen teaching stories, the 6th century Rule of St. Benedict, the Bible, the Buddhist tripitaka scriptures, Hindu scriptures, Native American rituals, and sages from all the major wisdom traditions. Simply Mindful Meal by Meal also explores hunger, emotions, food rituals, eating, and mindful food preparation.

Simply Mindful Meal by Meal is organized using the 4-Step Food Journey:

  1. Entry, Hunger & Choices
  2. Preparation & Ritual
  3. Eating & Community
  4. Departure

With the 4-Step Food Journey as a guide, you’ll learn how to make new sense of hunger messages, calm yourself when eating, leave each meal feeling satisfied, and much, much more.

Simply Mindful Meal by Meal makes the ideal gift for yourself or anyone who wants to nurture a healthy relationship with food, body and eating.

Reviews

In Simply Mindful Meal by Meal, Donald Altman masterfully intertwines ancient wisdom with modern mindfulness practices to help anyone cultivate a compassionate and conscious relationship with food. Practical meditations and thoughtful reflections provide a gentle roadmap for transforming mealtime into moments of self-discovery and emotional healing. It’s an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to embrace a more holistic, fulfilling approach to nourishment. Highly recommended for its profound insights and practical guidance!

—Sumatra Tovar, PhD, Psychologist, Registered Dietitian, and author of Deprogram Diet Culture

Top recommendations are in order for Donald Altman’s Simply Mindful Meal by Meal. This book is a treasure for introducing anyone to mindfulness exercises in relationship to food and eating. This gem of a book provides daily mindfulness practices that are skillfully thought out and easy to follow. Bravo Altman! I will for sure be using this book with clients.

—Carolyn Costin, MFT, Clinical Director, The Monte Nido Treatment Center and The Eating Disorder Center of California and author of The Eating Disorder Sourcebook

Donald Altman gently encourages self-awareness by attending to physical, emotional, and spiritual hungers. This book provides food for thought and nourishment for the soul!

—Anita Johnston, author, Eating in the Light of the Moonand Director, Anorexia & Bulimia Center of Hawaii

Simply Mindful Meal by Meal is another great book by Donald Altman that offers rich and down-to-earth guidance and graceful lifestyle recommendations on how to eat mindfully. This superb book should be on everyone’s shelf-especially in the dining room or kitchen!

—John Arden, PhD, author of Rewire Your Brain 2.0 

Our approach to food and eating can teach us great lessons if we are willing to learn. What a joy to have Altman’s generous portions of insight, courage, and loving advice that we can practice on a daily basis! Our relationship with food and eating will be transformed forever!

—Lindsey Hall, author of Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery 

Simply Mindful Meal by Meal is one of those special books for anyone who wants to know how food can heal your life and relationships. Whatever behaviors, emotions, struggles, and extremes you experience with food, this book can help you understand them and change them with mindful awareness, love, and compassion.

—Debbie Ford, author of The Right Questions