a specialty service
Mindfulness-Based Eating
A virtual therapy specialty from Oliva Wellness for adults across North Carolina.
Mindfulness-based eating offers a different approach.
Our relationship with food is shaped over time by our
experiences, environment, and the ways we’ve learned to cope, nourish, and care for ourselves.
Mindful eating isn’t a diet or a set of rules.
It’s about reconnecting with your body, your choices,
and moving toward greater awareness, flexibility, and trust.
Grounded in my training as a qualified
MB-EAT instructor in mindfulness-based eating awareness training.
A more connected way of eatinG
Mindfulness-Based Eating
helps you slow down, tune in,
and respond to your body
with greater trust.
It involves developing:
Inner Wisdom
Awareness of your body’s
signals, including hunger, fullness,
satisfaction, and emotional cues
Outer Wisdom
Using nutrition knowledge
in a flexible, personalized way that
supports your health and lifestyle
This approach creates space for curiosity rather than judgment
and for flexibility rather than control.
Step 1
Recognize Hunger & Fullness
Learn how to identify your body’s natural signals and differentiate physical hunger from emotional or situational urges.
what we focus on
Step 2
Slowing Down & Savoring Food
Reconnect with the experience of eating—taste, texture, and satisfaction—rather than eating on autopilot.
Step 3
Understand “Enough”
Develop awareness of comfortable fullness and learn how to respond to your body’s needs in different contexts.
Step 4
Reduce All-or-Nothing Thinking
Let go of rigid food rules and a food-morality mindset—good food, bad food —and replace them with flexibility and self-trust.
Step 5
Make Intentional Food Choices
Balancing satisfaction and nutrition while making intentional food choices in a way that feels realistic and sustainable for your life.
Step 6
Build Mindfulness Skills
Practice noticing thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and urges with greater awareness and less reactivity.
who it’s for
This service may be a good fit if you:
Feel disconnected from your hunger or fullness cues
Eat quickly, while distracted, or on autopilot
Struggle with stress or emotional eating
Feel stuck in cycles of being good and starting over
Want a more peaceful, sustainable relationship with food
Mindfulness-based eating is most effective when your relationship with food is stable enough to safely explore internal cues.
This service is not appropriate for individuals who are currently experiencing active eating disorder symptoms, such as:
Ongoing restrictive eating
Frequent bingeing or purging
Significant distress or instability around food
If this applies to you, a more structured eating disorder treatment approach is recommended first. I am happy to help guide you toward appropriate support.
get started
Interested in a more mindful approach to eating ?
If you’re interested, we’ll explore whether it’s a good fit for you and your goals. This service can be integrated into ongoing therapy or offered as a focused area of work within your treatment.
Schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation to see if we're a good fit.
Complete the intake paperwork so I understand your health history.
Schedule your first session, where we’ll get to know each other and discuss your therapy goals.