Mindful Eating Institute Organization

Mindful Eating Institute (“MEI”) is a Santa Barbara, California weight loss management and self-care counseling service that helps clients develop a healthy relationship with food. With a Master's Degree in Psychology, Petra Beumer founded the Mindful Eating Institute in 2017. The comprehensive treatment program provides customized strategies, which produce long-term weight management results while emphasizing to clients to be at peace with food and their body, and to practice good emotional self-care. At MEI, we explore the triggers that lead to emotional eating and develop the tools, strategies and rituals for establishing a healthy relationship with food.  Clients gain an understanding of how to free themselves from this cycle and how to transform mind (and body) along the way.

The  program represents a comprehensive, in-depth non-dieting approach, which aims at producing lifelong results. End the familiar pattern of worrying about calories and dieting and gain a new understanding of the true need for comfort and relief. Receive tools for practicing good emotional self-care and incorporate new healthy rituals in your everyday life.

MEI's mission is threefold:  To teach clients how to achieve their goals, guide them toward a new and maintainable lifestyle, and ultimately enjoy peace with food and their body.

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