Diane R. Gehart

Mindfulness for Chocolate Lovers

A Lighthearted Way to Stress Less and Savor More Each Day

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Produktbeschreibung

Would you rather eat chocolate than meditate? What if you could simultaneously do both and achieve your most out-of-reach life goals? In Mindfulness for Chocolate Lovers, Diane Gehart combines wit, wisdom, meditations, and a touch of sweetness to help you uncover playful ways to transform any aspect of your life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781538129067
• ISBN-10: 153812906X
• Artikelnr.: 55505309

Autorenporträt

Diane R. Gehart, Ph.D., is an award-winning professor of Counseling and Family Therapy at California State University, Northridge, and author of numerous best-selling books for professionals, including Mindfulness and Acceptance in Couple and Family Therapy and Mastering Competencies in Family Therapy. She maintains an active psychotherapy practice in the Los Angeles area, working with adults, couples, and families to find effective and meaningful ways to address their greatest life challenges-while having some fun along the way. You can follow her on YouTube. Learn more: www.dianegehart.com and www.mindfulnessforchocolatelovers.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Introduction: Would You Rather Eat Chocolate than Meditate?
Warning: Couch Potatoes and Voyeurs
1 Chocolate Meditation: A Taste of the Good Life
2 From Chocoholism to Chocolate Snobbery: Becoming a Seeker of
Extraordinary Happiness
3 Chocolate Is a Vegetable: Mapping the Truths You Live By
4 Who Moved My Chocolate? Befriending Problems, Befriending Life
5 One Bite Is All It Takes: Mindfully Waking Up to Your Life
6 With or Without Nuts? Crazy Wisdom and the Back Door to Happiness
7 Fierce Compassion: Opening Your Heart to Milk, White, and Dark
8 There's No Wrong Way to Eat a Reese's-Or Is There? Ethics and Happiness
9 Artificial Chocolate and Comfort Foods: Dangers and Pitfalls on the Path
10 The Art of Savoring: Joyfulness as a Way of Life
Notes: Academic Bits and Pieces
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author

Rezensionen

In this interactive study, the author walks readers through meditations, worksheets, and exercises that provide a road map (not a treasure map) to joy. . . . Chocolate is used as a lure and a reward for these activities, enabling readers to understand just what does and doesn't result in happiness. It's quickly apparent that happiness lies in the present moment, and Gehart uses a sense of play and years of experience as a counselor to encourage participants to shift their thinking from an outer to an inner focus and to enjoy the journey. Readers willing to put in the effort and dig deeply into their thoughts will be rewarded with both chocolate and inner peace.