Let’s take guilt and shame out of eating.

We invite you to stop focusing on diets and explore what really serves you.

Do you like how you feel when you eat or don't eat certain foods? 

What degree of structure or freedom do you prefer around food? 

What level of hunger and fullness is the most comfortable for you?

How do you like to move your body?

Discover what works best for YOU and your unique body.

We're not here to tell you what or how to eat. 

Instead, we will help you recover a feeling of empowerment and authority over your eating, by gently supporting you in finding your own answers within yourself.

Drop the story and get curious.

For most of us, our relationship with eating and our bodies is deeply entangled with disempowering and shame-ridden messages from society. We work on building awareness of our unconscious thoughts and beliefs, and how they make us feel, react, and behave. We practice connecting with our direct experience rather than our mind's story about it, letting go of beliefs that don't serve us, dropping the "shoulds" and "shouldn'ts," and discovering what is actually true.

What Is Conscious Eating?

Conscious Eaters work to define their own middle path with food that is something between rigid food rules and constantly overindulging in response to craving. We strive for a balance that involves listening to the body’s hunger and fullness cues, orienting toward cravings and discomfort with curiosity, and practicing self-compassion when we miss the mark.

What We Offer:

😌 Mindfulness Practices Focused on Eating, Food, Body, & Emotional Mastery

We teach secular, science-backed mindfulness practices that help you turn less and less towards food to avoid or fix emotional difficulty. By regularly practicing these techniques in seated meditation, you will find yourself taking your tools off the cushion into life, helping you navigate swirly food and body moments more skillfully from a calm center.

🧘 Daily Live Guided Meditations

Our daily guided meditations are at the heart of our work together in Conscious Eating Community. Every morning at 7am PST, Annette guides a seated meditation to help you start your day feeling grounded in your body and connected with your wise inner guide. This daily 15-minute session also includes an uplifting gratitude practice and short, written daily reflection.

🍽 Live Group Coaching w/ Annette

Twice per month, Annette offers a coaching call in the form of a fun "mindful dinner party" on zoom, followed by insightful discussion and coaching. Participants bring a snack, meal, or beverage and participate in a guided mindful eating or drinking practice, followed by practice reports and discussion. For the second part of this call, Annette offers individualized feedback and coaching around applying the Conscious Eating practices to members' specific challenges.

🧑‍🍳 Monthly Cook-Alongs w/ Katie

On the second Saturday of every month, Katie hosts a fun cook-along to introduce new ways of preparing delicious, healthy meals. Prior to these gatherings, Katie chooses a type of meal and provides a highly versatile meal template, encouraging everyone to personalize the recipe to whatever ingredients they like or have in their kitchen. We chop, chat, and cook together, and swap cooking tips about whatever random questions people bring to the table.

🗓 A New Community Theme Every Month

Each month we choose a topic or theme to dive deeper into as a community. This theme informs our Saturday workshops, the practices we choose for our daily meditation sessions, and our discussion topics. Past themes have included Working with Cravings, the Joy of Eating, Mindfulness and Technology, Self-Compassion, Body Positivity, Mindful Eating, and Mindfulness in Relationships.

💕 Support of a Vibrant Community

You’ll be inspired and lifted up by others who are implementing mindfulness tools in creative ways, cooking healthy and delicious food, and who understand where you’re at and where you’ve been. Join our lightly structured community connection calls on Sundays at 9 AM, or attend our Thursday night member-led support calls for extra connection during the week.

👥 Member Led Groups

 Occasionally, groups organically form in the community around a shared interest or activity. These "extra-curricular activities" are organized and led by members outside of our official community offerings.

🌟 Meaningful, Live Connection OFF Facebook

Throughout the week we offer multiple opportunities for meaningful, live connection via Zoom. Our members log on with intention and feel inspired and supported, not distracted and drained. We use a platform called Mighty Networks that is well designed for human engagement and connection.

Questions? Send us an email at contact@consciouseatingcommunity.com to get in touch!

💜 What Members are Saying:

“I’m amazed at the amount of self-discovery that seems to be unfolding after just one week in this community. This community is the best gift I could give myself for the coming year.”

"It has taken me decades of work to grasp what you both, each in your own unique ways, have embraced and are now so lovingly and clearly teaching and sharing."

”The workshops, Annette’s daily meditation practice, the food inspiration, and weekly challenges are just part of the positive impact this program is having on my relationship with food. The kind encouragement helps me to stop berating myself and just keep coming back to the present acceptance and willingness to keep at it. The profound and comprehensive core program feels like we are all in this endless pool of wisdom together sharing our successes and redefining our failures as part of a wisdom path.”

"Just recently I experienced eating food for comfort that didn’t lead to guilt.  I truly enjoyed it.....this was a huge step for me.  I felt free."

”I joined this community a little over a month ago, and what a change a month makes! The combination of community, shared gratitude, mindfulness, joy around nourishment (and farmer’s markets!) strikes a wonderful, resonant chord. I am more aware of the world around me … sights, sounds, tastes, smells; and with that awareness, comes peace. My body is moving more freely, my clothes are fitting more comfortably, and my mind feels at rest. Here, I am home”

“Here you will never encounter any of the subversive messages to lose more weight or be thinner. You will find true freedom here, and the joy and safety to share with people who are truly accepting.“

”Tonight for the first time I wrote down what I will cook for my family and eat for myself completely painlessly… joyfully really. I think the attitude in this community of trusting myself rather than monitoring my motives has started to sink in to my being.“

“I love the underpinnings of this group, that we have cultivating community, daily mindfulness practices, and leanings towards nourishing healthy food. All foundations for a thriving life.”

👋 Meet The Community Hosts!

Annette James

Certified Mindfulness Coach & Community Host

Annette is a certified mindfulness coach with Unified Mindfulness. She brings a warm, non-judgemental, open presence to support you in the self exploration that is your mindfulness practice, especially as it relates to the inner dramas of eating and food. She will help you develop self-compassion and clarity about your values, as well as helping you act in alignment with them. She is also a huge mindfulness nerd and lover of the mundane.

Katie Gates

Defender of Deliciousness & Community Host

Katie is a food blogger and cookbook author known for her love of vibrant, satisfying & healthy recipes. In the Conscious Eating Community, Katie manages most of the behind-the-scenes aspects of running the community, hosts the weekly community connection calls, welcomes and orients new members, and bares her soul frequently as an active participant. She loves that her role is always changing to meet the needs of our community members.

We are not accepting new members at this time, but we will be open for enrollment again at the beginning of May 2021.

Join our E-mail List to be the first to know when we open.

Membership Options

We offer both annual and monthly membership options, the annual option being the most cost-effective. We have found that our annual members get much more out of our community than monthly members. Transforming your relationship with food is ongoing and won't happen overnight. Investing in the year helps people commit to this work, benefit fully from our offerings, and really settle in.

Sliding Scale Options

We know that many people are on fixed incomes and tight budgets right now. If the price point we have listed on our landing page doesn't work for you but you think you would benefit from our community, please do reach out to us   at contact@consciouseatingcommunity.com and let us know a price point that works for you and your budget. We don't want anybody to be shut out due to the membership cost and are happy to offer a sliding scale up to a 70% discount. Please note that our discounted memberships are annual only, but a 1 week free trial is included so you can decide if you want to commit for the full year.

Refund Policy: Refunds for annual memberships will not be available after the first two months. Within first the two months of an annual membership, refunds will be pro-rated based on monthly rate rather than discounted annual rate.