Mindful Eating & Stress Management Services
TRANSFORM YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD
with Joseph Wieliczko Psy.D.
Transforming your relationship with food is achievable.
Do you eat when stressed out, bored, sad or not hungry?
Do you overeat because of cravings, emotions, impulses or reactivity?
Do you feel overwhelmed & struggle to make dietary changes?
We can work on your eating struggles together.
By cultivating greater awareness of one's thoughts, feelings states and conditioned eating patterns; you can empower yourself and thereby obtain a greater sense of well-being, confidence in managing your eating struggles as well as develop effective ways of coping with stress.
WHAT IS MINDFUL EATING?
Mindful eating is about tuning in to your body's signals, like genuine hunger cues, to make informed choices about what, when, and how much you eat or drink.
It's a way to avoid making decisions solely based on misleading signals, such as the mere sight, smell, or taste of food, or being influenced by your emotions, thoughts, and beliefs. It's important to note that mindful eating is not a restrictive diet; rather, it is a way of cultivating awareness which facilitates greater understanding, tolerance, insight and change without the need to struggle.
Mindful eating means:
To eat with greater awareness.
To discriminate physical cues of hunger from false hunger cues.
To make healthier food choices.
To stop eating when you no longer feel hungry.
To be less judgmental about one’s eating struggles.
To use all your senses (including your thoughts and emotions) to choose foods which are nourishing to your body.
Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years of experience. Licensed in PA, NJ, DE
Mindful Eating Certified by the Center for Mindful Eating, 2021
Hello. I’m Joseph Wieliczko, Psy.D.
After years of conducting psychotherapy, I transitioned to providing psychological assessments including evaluations for preoperative bariatric patients and other types of evaluation services. As I listened and learned from patients talk about their struggles with weight management and their relationship to food, I began to investigate how my passion for meditation and mindfulness could be utilized to help individuals in their relationship to food and eating.
Eventually I created my own 8 session program (Mindful Eating & Stress Management Program) which is a combination of mindful eating techniques and practices, and mindfulness meditation and related practices to manage one’s stress level more effectively.
Together, let's unlock your full potential and embark on a transformative path towards a healthier, happier you.
Why is mindful eating and stress management important?
For many of us, eating has become a source of great difficulty which adversely affects our physical health, emotional well-being, self-esteem, relationships, anxiety leveland makes us depressed as we repeatedly feel disappointed after failed attempts at dieting or weight loss programs.
Mindful eating techniques can help us to settle down, become centered and learn new ways to resolve our food and eating related difficulties without the need to feel deprived.
Mindful eating is about learning how to cultivate greater awareness of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors which reinforce our eating problems. At the same time, mindful eating can make the eating experience more enjoyable and health promoting.
Mindful eating practices are a way of looking at an aspect of the eating experience which is usually overlooked completely: namely our relationship to food. It is our relationship to food which contributes to the automatic reactivity cycle which perpetuates excessive eating, late night eating, unhealthy eating patterns, guilty feelings, regrets, disappointment and the sense that we can never overcome our struggle with food. As we become more aware of our unique relationship to food we can start to make more appropriate decisions.
Mindfulness practices can help to reduce ones’ stress, physical pain, anxiety and depressive thoughts, ruminating thoughts, as well as promote greater problem solving ability, self-compassion, creativity, immune system functioning, sleep, self-confidence, learning and well-being.
READY FOR CHANGE?
8-WEEK MINDFUL EATING AND STRESS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Ready to transform your relationship with food?
“IN ANY GIVEN MOMENT WE HAVE TWO OPTIONS: TO STEP FORWARD INTO GROWTH OR BACK INTO SAFETY.”
— UNKNOWN
Ready to get started?
I offer various paths to get you the transformation you’ve been waiting for!
SERVICES
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Transform Your Relationship With Food
8-Week Mindful Eating & Stress Management Educational Program
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Fueling Productivity and Wellness in the Workplace
Mindful Eating & Stress Management Workplace Educational Program
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Discover the Path to Mindful Living with Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness Meditation Educational Training (group or individual)
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Preoperative Psychological Evaluation
Preoperative Psychological Evaluation for Bariatric Surgery
By incorporating the practices of mindful eating and mindfulness, it can help one to learn how to eat more appropriately, enjoy food more, reduce daily stress and cope with the challenges of daily life more effectively.
- Joseph Wieliczko, Psy.D.
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