Un-Less: Mindful Journaling for Body Positivity, Wellness & Unconditional Self-Love

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"Un-Less: Mindful Journaling for Body Positivity, Wellness and Unconditional Self-Love", provides a scientific yet intuitive approach to improving your eating habits and body image. Mindfulness involves paying attention, to the present moment, without judgment, and with loving-kindness. The book contains 122 journal prompts and space to reflect on how to change your thought patterns, nourish yourself without judgement, and cultivate self-compassion. This new orientation to eating creates liberation from the degrading self-criticism that Diet Culture creates. The Un-Less journaling exercises are grounded Motivational Interviewing, a proven way to help people create strategies to improve health behaviors for the long-term. With Un-Less you write your own guide to coping with stress and making peace with food, creating holistic health, balance, and radiance.

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Caitlin Hildebrand is a Nurse Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, and Mindfulness Teacher at the San Francisco Veterans Healthcare System. In Un-Less: Mindful Journaling for Body Positivity, Wellness and Unconditional Self-Love, she combines her personal story of overcoming eating disorders and obesity, with current scientific knowledge on holistic health, providing numerous exercises to prompt mindful self-reflection. Her many years of clinical practice, teaching, and coaching patients to take charge of their health enrich her approach. NP Hildebrand is a Fellow in Integrative Medicine at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, has a Masters in Healthcare Administration from the University of California, San Francisco, a Bachelors and Masters in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts, in Psychology and English, from Swarthmore College.