Lesson Summary

A PATHWAY TO SELF LOVE by Corina Stupu Thomases invites readers to quiet the noise of the world and listen to their inner voice. It proposes a more mindful approach to daily living based on observation without judgment.

Mindful Living Workbook:

• Week 1 features exercises on body and mind-body connection after exercise sessions.
• Mindful Eating prompts daily reflection on meals and habits, encouraging gratitude, self-acceptance, and goal-setting.

Sample Mindful Eating Prompts:

• Reflect on daily meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, including timing.
• Identify ways to be less critical of yourself and list things you love about your life.
• Plan new habits to adopt and bad habits to break for a healthier lifestyle.
• Consider motivations for embracing a healthier lifestyle and list your best qualities.
• Share three ways to let go of stress and focus on self-discipline and perseverance.

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“ Mindful Living” is a colourful, creative, healthy living workbook. It is a companion resource for women who are ready nurture their body and souls, start new habits and enjoy a more balanced life.

The workbook is guided by self-observation and repetition - without self-blame or guilt. From the very first pages you are invited to approach self-observation with CURIOSITY and fascination. You will notice how adopting the workbook’s values provides you with deep insight into your daily eating and exercising habits - and how you feel as a result. With this knowledge you are gently guided to incorporate the changes, big or small, that you feel will make your life more balanced.

At the end you will feel empowered - because you did it your way. " Mindful Living" works really well with all eatingand exercising regimes because it is guided by the changes you yourself make to the way you adopt them. Its reflective approach is designed to make change an enjoyable journey. It is for personal use but it can also be a valuable source of knowledge for those you entrust to be your coach or professional therapist.

It has sections, with prompts, which invite you to record and reflect on your daily and weekly observations and discoveries - and your progress towards your own personal goals. It has creative breaks every week-endto provide food for your imagination and the wellbeing of your mind - which invites you to colour-in, to create messages to yourself in the form of collages and, so importantly, it has spaces and places to express your own gratitude for all that is good in your life.

The workbook includes:

* 49 daily observation pages to enable you to record your eating and exercising activities

* pages for your prompted reflections,

* each week for 7 weeks, aimed at helping you to consider your progress, to record your discoveries and to explore your feelings and attitudes

* as well as to enable you to cultivate mindful eating and exercising patterns, to inspire you to take mindful walks and to record your feelings, stories, and emotions through collages;

* includes 10 food recipes to experiment cooking;

* mindful colouring-in

- writing practice and collage prompts aimed at bringing a sense of relaxation and clarity to your thoughts;

* as suggestions and links for your exercising routines to choose from

* inspiring quotes and prompts

* a daily gratitude practice.

My role as a creative author, for five years and six workbooks now, will continue to be to empower women to make their own life choices.

You can buy the Mindful Living workbook from Amazon. Here is an outline of the workbook: