Mindful Eating – Eating For Real
The pervasive truth about women and food
For over twenty years now, I’ve helped women and teen girls who are from different places all over the country and the world. They have come from different ethnicities and religious or spiritual faiths. They have been rich, middle class or poor, old, middle aged and young. They have had good family relationships, okay family relationships and terrible family relationships. They experienced abuse as a child and they didn’t experience abuse as a child. And, no matter what issue it was that brought them in to see me, at some point the inevitable relationship with food, beauty, and body image arose and called forward to be addressed, untangled, deciphered, and decoded hopefully once and for all. For many women the relationship between these worlds is profoundly multidimensional and linked to just about every aspect of life, especially their internal relationship with desire, peace, pleasure, possibility, change, excitement, aliveness, transcendence and love.
What is eating for real?
Eating for real is about completely and compassionately undoing all the projected everythings onto all food and eating processes. Participants will be completely supported in decoding and deciphering the secret meanings behind every attachment they have to food and eating, as far as they wish to and dare to go. It does not matter if you feel overweight, just right or too skinny. It is not about weight but more the relationship with food and how you “weight” your relationship to what you put into your body at every turn and step and moment of your day and night.
Program Details & Format
The Mindful Eating – Eating For Real Group brings women together who long for liberation from the complex and challenging food and relationship eating matrix. Each woman will have a chance to share her unique journey with the group in an atmosphere of safety and openness. We’ll utilize many awakening and embodiment tools including meditation, yoga, visualization, mindfulness eating exercises, eating a meal together and being in conversation while it’s unfolding, and many others from the recommended reading list below. In the process we’ll discover what’s real, natural and true allowing an awakening space for food to be restored to its mundane function – nourishing our bodies and keeping us alive and vital.
The Mindful Eating – Eating For Real Group will begin on Wednesday January 5th at 6:15 pm to 7:15pm at 2282 Union Street, San Francisco, CA. Group requires a ten week commitment. Cost is $45 per session and receipts are available for insurance reimbursement purposes. A pre-group interview is required and is no charge. Please call (415) 923 – 0481 or email to register now. Group space is limited. ONE SPACE LEFT.
Recommended Reading
Women, Food, and God, by Geneen Roth
A Course in Weight Loss, by Marianne Williamson
Optional Reading
Addiction to Perfection, by Marion Woodman