Mindfulness is a practice in which you allow yourself to suspend judgement, and focus on your moment to moment experience of the present with full acceptance and without trying to change anything about it.

Mindfulness is good for our health because it helps us reduce stress, calm our nervous system, and help us manage anxious and depressive thought patterns and pain. Engaging in mindfulness strategies helps us increase our own self-awareness. Mindfulness strategies typically involve engaging in an exercise to help you focus on the present moment, develop acceptance, and let go of judgement. It's easy (and free!) to practice mindfulness in your everyday life.

Most of us have wanted to create some kind of change in our behavior patterns or habits at some point. There are lots of ways to conceptualize change, and how to make change, and one useful model that comes from Motivational Interviewing is the Transtheoretical Model of Change.

The Transtheoretical Model of Change is a stage-based way of thinking about change. These stages include: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination.

There’s a lot of misinformation about food and healthy eating out there, so a friend of a Registered Dietitian (RD) might not know exactly what nutrition coaching looks like unless they’ve experienced it. While not every dietitian will take the same approach, here are a few things you can expect (or expect not to see) when you work with a dietitian at Outdoor Women’s Wellness.