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I found this book captivating; I was expecting a cookbook of sorts but instead found a wonderful blend of nutritional handbook and spiritual guide. The author wants us to return to a time when eating food, the “most natural and innate part of existence” was “an enjoyable part of life” and not “an obstacle to surmount, a chore, or a situation to fear.”

The first step toward achieving this state of affairs is to change our mental approach toward selecting, preparing and consuming food.

The first section of the book addresses the ten key concepts of consciously changing the way we think about and choose food. Along with these changes will come a spiritual and emotional transformation that will affect all other areas of our lives. Whitehouse emphasizes that this transition must be gentle and gradual and leave us feeling fulfilled, not deprived. The author’s tone throughout the book is never preachy, and always infused with sympathy and understanding. She intersperses her own experiences and research into these subjects which helped her own personal transformation and which she hopes will help ours.

Each chapter in the second part of the book, Know Thy Food, “informs us about a different aspect of nutrition, such as the role of enzymes, genetically engineered foods, protein, dairy products, water etc. She also devotes chapters to the trouble with caffeine, sugar and salt intake. Whitehouse managed to very succinctly answer all my questions and doubts about water filtration, probiotics, organic products, and artificial sweeteners.

“Stepping Up To A New Plate, “ the final section of Soul-full Eating discusses different dietary practices such as juice fasting, eating raw food, ayurvedic, kosher, macrobiotic, food combining and others. Whitehouse also provides guidance to overcoming emotional eating, losing weight, and healing yourself with food. Each chapter ends with a thought to ponder and an exercise to put into practice what you learned and initiate change. She also provides resources and recipes when it’s called for.

This is a book you will return to again and again for inspiration. On every page, this author’s mission and vision is evident: “When you begin to see the entire world on your plate each and every time you eat – when you see how your choices impact you and the world – you automatically align with a deeper truth and commit to living it. Love yourself and everything you consume and then pass this awareness on, one blessed plate-full at a time, to another.”

What a wonderful way to begin a new year!

Beatriz F. Fernandez is a university Reference Librarian. She holds a Masters degree in English Literature and Library Science. She is a freelance writer working for Natural Awakenings Magazine.

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(HealthNewsDigest.com) - There are so many obvious ways we can miss the opportunity to live a supremely fulfilling life. But what surprises most people is that fulfillment can be found through eating… that is, when you are choosing foods which resonate with your Soul! Here’s the key: Eat with love what’s grown with love, prepared with love, and served with love.

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Spiritual Living by Graham Christian — Library Journal, 7/15/2007 Whitehouse, Maureen. Soul-Full Eating: A (Delicious) Path to Higher Consciousness. Axiom. 2007. c.422p. ISBN 978-0-9745869-6-0. $26.95. Diet/Nutrition/Health/Spirituality

Whitehouse’s journey toward this book is in itself a wonder: she was a model and talk-show host before her encounter with A Course in Miracles. Since then, she has become a popular speaker and writer and the creator of a process called the “E3 Transformational Triad”—none of which is required reading for this charming book. Neither a recipe book nor a diet plan, Whitehouse’s book helps readers negotiate their way through a variety of food choices while remaining aware of the spiritual implications of food and diet. For most collections. sourceDowload PDF

Eat with love, what’s grown with love, prepared with love and served with love…nutrition expert and former model Maureen Whitehouse reveals the easiest, most straightforward and most sustainable “diet” there is. In her new book, Soul-Full Eating: A (Delicious!) Path to Higher Consciousness, Whitehouse explains that people approach eating and dieting from an empty and self-defeating stance (think back to the last time you tried to cut carbs or lose ten pounds), one of solitary deprivation, when what we really crave and need is to feel more connected and satisfied with life. That’s the reason so many people feel empty no matter what or how much they eat.

With stunning and sharp insight, Maureen shows us how a deep sense of personal fulfillment and well-being can be found at mealtime — just by paying attention to ourselves and the food in front of us. She balances cutting-edge nutritional and spiritual information (backed up by comprehensive and documented research) with personal stories that everyone can relate to and practical tips for integrating her information into everyday life. Learn how to select, prepare and eat food that will make you feel more vibrant and energetic; learn how to make diets last and how to “diet” without feeling deprived of what you love; use food to rejuvenate and heal your body; and deepen your daily connection and commitment to a compassionate, sustainable world.

Maureen Whitehouse has served us a mouthwatering menu of insights, facts, resources, practices and a fresh looks at perhaps the only thing all humans, planet-wide share in common: FOOD. Soul-Full Eating is an impressive addition to anyone’s food book collection, especially for those with an interest in not only diet and nutrition but also spirituality, health, ecology, and alternative medicine. No matter your current relationship to food, this book will meet you where you are and help you add the piece d’ resistance to your life — love!

About The Author

Maureen Whitehouse’s expansive knowledge of nutrition grew from the demand to maintain a “picture perfect” image as an international model and commercial actress. This initial goal led to decades of experiences traversing the globe voraciously studying the world’s diverse nutritional and spiritual traditions. You can find out more about her, her new book Soul-Full Eating book and The 30 day Soul-Full Eating Non-diet Program at www.soul-fulleating.com

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“Soul-Full Eating” is informed, informative, and thoroughly ‘reader friendly’, June 10, 2007

In “Soul-Full Eating: A (Delicious!) Path To Higher Consciousness”, author and nutrition expert Maureen Whitehouse explains just how a deep sense of personal fulfillment and well-being is to be found in eating foods that resonate with the human soul.

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In Soul-Full Eating, A (Delicious!) Path to Higher Consciousness, nutrition and spirituality expert Maureen Whitehouse helps you become aware of simple, yet dynamic changes you can make in how you select, prepare and eat food that will increase your vibrancy and personal energy.  Explore the best approaches to diet available today, including raw foods, macrobiotics, ayurveda, acid/alkaline balance, food combining, and the “new” kosher.  Deepen your spiritual connection on a daily basis while you take a stand for a compassionate and sustainable world, and eat your way to enlightenment.  Available in stores or visit www.experienceaxiom.com.

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Getting in Touch With Your Feelings… About Raisins

A friend put me in touch with Maureen Whitehouse, a former model and now author of a new book, Soul-Full Eating. Maureen sent me a copy of her book to review. Now, it is a pretty book with a serenely beautiful cover photo it’s a lettuce leaf (I think) and something that looks like a animal bone stuck in something that could be some sort of fruit. It is all a little blurry and abstract. But it does remind me of the decor of some of the nicer high-end spas I have frequented.

The subtitle of the book is ” (Delicious!) Path to Higher Conscious.” Oh, oh, I’m thinking, this may be a little too zen for me. I practice yoga because it is a great exercise and my main stretching activity. But I have never really been the meditating sort. I avoid the silent dinners at my annual visit at Rancho La Puerta, not being able to imagine how someone could pass up the chance to blab with the terrifically interesting people who attend that spa.

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Yummy!, January 12, 2007

Maureen Whitehouse’s Soul-Full Eating is a stunning book! I received it just a few days ago and have relished every morsel. The author has gifted us with a mouth-watering, artful menu of insights, facts, resources, practices, and fresh looks at something all humans planetwide share in common: FOOD. There are many books on the market about eating right, staying fit, maximizing nutrition, managing weight and consuming with conscience, but Maureen offers us all the best of these PLUS a practical guide to shifting our experience of breaking daily bread from the mundanely physical into the joyfully soulful. By simply opening the way to choosing consciously what nourishes our bodies, Maureen hands us the tools to shift forever our very fundamental core beliefs about nourishment across the board. When we learn to feed only our truth, then only truth will face us wherever we turn. Chew on a copy of Soul-Full Eating and never see life the same way again!

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This is a whole new diet twist – forget you’re a body and instead see yourself as a Soul. That’s right, in her provocative new book, Soul-Full Eating – A (Delicious!) Path to Higher Consciousness, former international model turned Transformational Life Coach Maureen Whitehouse gives us a path to higher consciousness that cleans up our dietary habits along the way to enlightenment.Whitehouse’s mantra is: Eat with love, what’s grown with love, prepared with love and served with love. (more…)