The Conscious Eating Coach
Your weekly guide to mindful living, delivered with heart and expertise. Have it // Made it // Want it Wednesday brings you a curated blend of stress-relief strategies, culinary wisdom, and wellness discoveries in three engaging segments. From science-backed nutrition insights to practical self-care tools, each edition helps you navigate life's daily stressors while building a more balanced relationship with food and well-being. It's like having a supportive friend and health expert in your inbox, sharing exactly what you need to know to feel more grounded and nourished each week.
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🌹 Doors are open! Come on in and look around...
Dear Reader, As I mentioned last week, I've spent many hours over the last month upgrading, enhancing and beautifying the community end of my Substack publication, Just One More Bite with Jenny Berk. The essays and writing still happens on my Substack, while the community chat and live events happen over on heartbeat - a place we can actually work on, and not just lament about the eating, meal planning and body image issues we all struggle with today (which is so different than even 5 years...
READ POST{HMW} The secret word is STRAWBERRY 🍓 (and it unlocks two bonus courses)
Dear Reader, Heyyy! Remember last week I shared that I have been working for the last 3 months on completely rebuilding my online community? We officially go live on Monday - but this week, I'm opening the doors for early birds who want first access to look around and take the tour. And because you're on my list, you're first! Just One More Bite with Jenny Berk is for women who are done with dieting but don't quite yet know what comes next. You might feel exhausted from the mental noise...
READ POSTMeals shouldn't require this much mental energy
Dear Reader, If you've ever stood in the kitchen at 5pm, opened the fridge, closed it, opened it again, and then ordered takeout because deciding felt like too much — I've got something just for you. Cooking and Meal Planning for Distractible People is my contribution to the Pretty Productive Bundle, which just opened today. It's a collection of 15 resources for women who want their days to feel more manageable. The kind of tools that actually reduce friction instead of adding new systems to...
READ POST{HMW} Can you guess the top 10 comfort foods in America?
Dear Reader, Pre P.S. - **Heads up that on May 18th, I'm opening something I've been working on and upgrading for months. Its a free dedicated space for us to actually connect, practice together, and go further than what's possible in an email. More details coming very soon.** Everyone craves a little comfort food sometimes, right? According to this research article, there are 4 categories of Comfort foods: 🥧Nostalgic foods (your aunt edna's famous apple pie, etc) 🍕Indulgence foods...
READ POST20 resources for the midlife body, at no cost
Dear Reader, Something shifts in midlife. Not just physically, but in how your body responds to food, stress, sleep, and the habits that used to feel automatic. The information most of us were given doesn't account for any of that. Luckily we can change that. I was invited to participate in the 💜EmpowerHer Midlife Bundle, a collection of 20+ expert-created resources built specifically for women navigating this chapter. Nutrition, hormones, energy, stress, and the kind of context that actually...
READ POST{HMW} Soft fascination: why staring out a window is actually good for you
Dear Reader, One of the terms I've become familiar with in the few last years is the concept of Soft Fascination. Soft fascination is a term used to describe a kind of gentle, effortless attention that allows your mind to wander while still being engaged with the environment around you. Unlike activities that demand intense focus or concentration, soft fascination occurs when you're involved in something that captures your attention just enough to keep you engaged, but not so much that it...
READ POST{HMW} The word you keep using against yourself
Dear Reader, 🖐 Ever feel a disappointment in your life and think it just "should" be different? 🖐 Ever get hungry when you feel you "shouldn't" be hungry? (I just ate 2 hours ago!) 🖐 Ever not fit into an outfit that you feel "should" fit on you? 🖐 Ever tell yourself you should only eat "one" but end up with greasy fingers and a pile of crumbs left in the bag? We spend a lot of time in the world of should. What if we didn't cling to should's so tightly? Could you learn to Shift your Should?...
READ POST{HMW} Becoming your Own Eating Advocate
Dear Reader, It's been a long time since I've said goodbye to dieting and diet culture and said hello to mindful & intuitive eating. It's changed my life for the better in so many ways. One way I healed my fraught relationship with food was to learn how to become a "dietary detective" for my own body taking in consideration all aspects of health, psychology and previous eating experiences, not to mention my lifestyle. Here are just 5 practices I adopted over the last 10 years that have helped...
READ POST{HMW} Why eating alone might actually make food taste better
Dear Reader, I have a ritual that I look forward to doing in the Spring. I take myself out on solo dining dates at a new restaurants with lots of plant-based options. In previous years, I've driven as far as Maine to find cute little cafes and eateries to dine at. My dirty little secret is that I love going out to eat by myself. I used to see solo diners in restaurants and project loneliness onto them for no good reason. Now I see that many people choose to eat alone and love it. Here are...
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