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Тoday I’m going to give you the most important tip of parenthood.
You are your children’s first love. How you show up for them, how you love them, the quality of your presence, the quality of your interactions with them, the way that you speak to them, the way you hear them, is going to affect who they become and what they believe love to be. It’s going to determine the type of love that they request and require in their future, and the types of relationships that they’re going to be willing to have.
You are your children’s first love. That is a very, very important thing and never take it lightly.

Today I want to talk to you a little bit about my book “Extraordinary You.”

 
This is the first book that I wrote and, originally, it was titled “Be Your Own Therapist” because, as a therapist, I help people master their lives from the inside out.
What that really boils down to is learning how to deal with our feelings and thoughts, because they create our behaviors and actions in life.
If you think of what’s going on inside of you as a blueprint for your life, and if you look at your life’s circumstances, and they’re not where you want to be, rather than try to change the external things, it’s really important to focus on figuring out how to address the internal, the blueprint. If you don’t change the blueprint, other things in your life don’t actually change.
These are the core principles that I actually use in sessions with clients. I took all of my nuggets out of my head, and I put them onto paper so that you could do for yourself what I do in session with clients. It integrates psychotherapy, coaching, mindfulness, and meditation, and gives you all the tools necessary to master your life from the inside out.

Here’s my third and final tip about conscious eating.

 
Before you eat, it’s very important to center yourself. The idea of centering yourself is getting yourself really present in the moment. Before you put anything in your mouth, try to take deep breaths and put yourself in the present moment.
One more thing that I really recommend on top of taking deep breaths is saying some sort of blessing. Acknowledging where the food came from, acknowledging how long it took to get there, acknowledging the history, the people, the energy, the life that went into making the food possible. There’s so much beautiful energy and so much effort that went into making that incredible food possible for you, that it would be disrespectful to just stuff it in you.
When you take that moment to breathe and bless your food, you become a much more conscious eater.

Here’s the second tip about conscious eating.

 
When you feel like eating, there’s one question to ask yourself: “Is my mouth hungry, or is my stomach hungry?”
When your mouth is hungry that means you just want to taste something. You either see something and it looks delicious, or you’re procrastinating and you just want to put food in your mouth, or there’s some sort of oral stimulation that you want to get from eating, but it has nothing to do with your real hunger. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just important to understand that it’s your mouth that wants food, not your stomach.
If you’re going to eat because your mouth wants food, pay a lot of attention to tasting, enjoying, and experiencing the food. You will notice that, when you start eating food and you’re tasting it, the first bite is more intense than the next few bites. Because of that, a lot of times we start taking bigger bites to get the same satisfaction as we got from the first bite. But if you pay attention, and you notice that your taste buds are desensitizing, and you’re not getting as much satisfaction from them, don’t take bigger bites. Take that as a sign that you’re done, you got all the satisfaction you need from that moment.
On the other hand, if your stomach is hungry, then pay attention to that. In addition to enjoying the food, which is always the best part, pay attention to your stomach, and when your stomach is full, stop eating.