03/22/2021
Psychologist Rossy (The Mindfulness Based Eating Solution) explores in this middling guide ways to accept one’s body and correct poor dietary habits through mindfulness. Encouraging readers to jump around and choose from the 52 thematic chapters, Rossy sprinkles her advice across five pillars—exploring one’s senses, soothing emotions, eschewing limiting thoughts, choosing happiness, and savoring every moment. Rossy opens with basic tools of mindfulness, such as offering physical “Savoring Practices,” yogic massage, and meditation techniques, before digging into ideas of surrendering to a slower pace and “weaving intentions more deeply.” Rossy maintains an overtly positive vibe: “Slow down before you eat, before you make plans, before you make a decision, before you send an email, before you say yes or no to something, and before the many other choices you make each day.” Unfortunately, the saccharine appeals become cloying, and the many painfully obvious filler statements (“Fullness is determined by the quantity of food you’ve eaten” and “If we’re not present, where are we?”) fail to move forward the basic concept of slowing down and savoring one’s meals. Readers looking for useful health tips will be disappointed. (May)
A beautiful and poetic guide to awakening our senses, inhabiting our bodies, and opening our hearts to the richness of life. I highly recommend!”—Shauna Shapiro, PhD, author of Good Morning, I Love You
When we bring a mindful attention to what we truly hunger for, we enter a path of authentic healing. Savor Every Bite is an outstanding guide to transforming our relationship with food and learning to nourish our spirit.”—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion
I love these bite-sized chapters and embodied practices. You can read all you like about mindfulness, but it won’t take root until you feel it in your body. Lynn Rossy’s Savor Every Bite helps you do just that with compassion, the benefits of her personal experience, and the backing of scientific data!”—Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, nutrition therapist, meditation teacher, and author of Eat to Love
Anyone who has ever fought, planned, gobbled, tried to control, or in any way felt at the mercy of food will appreciate the kindness and sanity with which Lynn Rossy approaches this topic. Leaving the dictates of diet and helplessness behind, Rossy gives the reader permission to listen to their own body and engage in a vital and intimate relationship with the food they eat.”—Deborah Adele, author of The Yamas and Niyamas
Savor Every Bite is a handbook to life that is taught one bite at a time. Its five-step approach to mindful eating is an essential guide to discover the present moment. The book provides a life-affirming, health-supporting approach to stop worrying about food and start enjoying eating. This much-needed Health at Every Size (HAES®) mindful eating book is filled with delicious bites of insight, compassion, and wisdom that you will savor reading.”—Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDCES, mindful eating pioneer, diabetes care and education specialist, author, and cofounder of The Center for Mindful Eating
This book takes a compassionate look at our lifetime relationship to food and eating. We find ways to identify the authentic need behind our cravings. Rossy gives us doable practices to bring a mindful pause to our food choices and a mindful attentiveness to our bodies, too. I was also impressed by how we can find the Dharma on a table or in a mirror.”—David Richo, PhD, author of Triggers: How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing
Savor Every Bite is an engaging, well-written, and easy-to-digest guide filled with thoughtful practices that will not only help you change your relationship with food, but your life overall. Rossy is a well-recognized expert in the field of mindful eating, and she doesn’t hold back in sharing her wisdom with her readers.”—Alexis Conason, PsyD, CEDS-S, founder of The Anti-Diet Plan and author of The Diet Free Revolution
Savor Every Bite hits all the right notes. Its goal is to teach readers not only how to recover from dysregulated eating but how to enjoy life more. Rossy does this by laying out a path to whole-body engagement using thoughts, feelings, and senses. Guiding the reader through a five-step process and simple, targeted practice exercises, this empowering book makes change seem less frightening and more doable.”—Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, MEd, award-winning international author of eight books on eating, weight, and body image (https://www.karenrkoenig.com)
