{"id":19434,"date":"2018-11-20T23:52:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T23:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amihungry.com\/?post_type=personal_stories&#038;p=19434"},"modified":"2023-10-04T19:16:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T02:16:28","slug":"dawns-story-mindful-eating-and-yoga-taught-her-how-to-listen-to-her-body","status":"publish","type":"personal_stories","link":"https:\/\/amihungry.com\/personal_stories\/dawns-story-mindful-eating-and-yoga-taught-her-how-to-listen-to-her-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn&#8217;s Story: Mindful eating and yoga taught her how to listen to her body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this heartfelt conversation with Dr. Michelle May, Dawn Hopkins talks about her struggle with disordered eating and body image, and how <a href=\"https:\/\/amihungry.com\/programs\/mindful-eating-and-yoga\/\">mindful eating and yoga<\/a> brought her healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dawn explains that she developed an eating disorder while in a body-conscious sport in high school. 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Instead, I was really embracing this unfolding that takes place when you&#8217;re practicing yoga.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dawn learned a new way of relating to and caring for her body through &#8220;deep listening, starting to hear my body, starting to listen to my body, starting to trust my body, and then respond in a way that would be healthy and beneficial, to the information I was getting from my body in terms of my eating and my physical yoga practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dawn uses her personal experience and <a href=\"https:\/\/amihungry.com\/train-with-us\/\">Am I Hungry? training<\/a> to offer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amihungry.net\/index.cfm?p=amihungry_mindful_eating_workshop&amp;fid=22\">Mindful Eating and Yoga classes<\/a>. She is also one of the highly-rated instructors during our <a href=\"https:\/\/amihungry.com\/mindful-eating-and-yoga-retreat\/\">Am I Hungry? 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