Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RD, CDN, is a nutrition therapist, meditation teacher, and author of five books. Her work combines intuitive eating, trauma-sensitive mindfulness, polyvagal theory, and other embodied modalities. Her latest books include Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life and Intuitive Eating for Life: How Mindfulness Can Deepen and Sustain Your Intuitive Eating Practice. Her work has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Self, Health, Lion's Roar, Mindful, Vogue, Elle, Glamour, Women's World, and U.S. News & World Report.

We discuss topics including:

• How sobriety and recovery helped Jenna establish connections with intuitive eating and mindfulness
• The four noble truth of having a body
• There has to be a somatic piece to address recovery
• Our natural tendency as humans is to focus on what's wrong with us instead of celebrating what is right
• Not to have expectations when you begin a meditation practice
• The importance of developing language to offer compassion to oneself

SHOW NOTES:

• www.jennahollenstein.com
• https://www.instagram.com/jennahollenstein/
• (book) Intuitive Eating for Life

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