Hi, I’m Emily Rosen, Director of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.
Most of us have been taught that good nutrition is simply a function of eating the right food and taking the right supplements. Of course, these factors are important, but there’s more to the nutritional story. The other half is about who we are as eaters. What we think, feel, and believe; our levels of stress, relaxation, pleasure, and awareness; and the inner stories that we live out all have a real, powerful, and measurable effect on our metabolism.
Recent advances in science have proven what ancient wisdom traditions have been saying for so long – that the mind and body exist on an exquisite continuum, and profoundly impact one another. This means that you can literally change your metabolism without changing anything you eat, but by changing you, the eater. I’d like to share 7 key insights from the fields of Dynamic Eating Psychology and Mind Body Nutrition that everyone who’s interested in nutrition should know: