Body Image Healing

Dandelion Festival
Saturday, May 27th, 9:30am - 10:30am
For-rest Retreat, Salmo, BC

This workshop is designed to encourage you towards a more peaceful and joy-filled relationship with your body. Discussion will include common challenges associated with negative body image, society’s role, common signs and associated emotions, and how a positive body image may influence other areas of your life. We will evaluate several modalities of healing; discuss specifics around mindset shifts, emotional healing, negative self-talk, and reworking ingrained habits & behaviours. This workshop will include open discussion, in-class exercises, and provide a safe environment for expression and reflection. Participants will receive take home handouts, journal entry suggestions, and worksheets.

Positive Body Talk - 2nd Session

We had so much to talk about and much more material to cover in our first session, that we decided to continue the discussion! (I don't have a date set yet for a 3rd, but it is my intention to run another class early June :) )

Don't worry if you missed the first class, join in at any time, on this powerful, transformative conversation & connect with other women, parents, educators, and come together on a subject that deserves our attention!

If you are a parent/woman/teacher/educator that has concerns about how to raise children with a positive body image and relationship with food,
THIS IS A WORKSHOP FOR YOU!

Body image distortion & dysfunctional eating, both continue to greatly affect our growing children, their self-esteem & decision making, their overall health, and respect for the body. In this 3 hour workshop, we will explore this intricate relationship between developing kids and food & body, how to talk to them about this relationship, and how to recognize signs of struggle. We will discuss dietary habits, the affect of social media and mainstream marketing, self-esteem, and intuitive eating practices. We will explore the role of Mind-Body Nutrition, as well as cover topics such as dieting, toxic dietary beliefs, fear foods, guilt & shame, and language. The goal is to provide parents with practical tools to apply and support positive positive body image & food relationships in our young ones. Workshop will include informational handouts, discussion, in-class exercise, dietary focus, and suggestive homework. Snacks & tea provided.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

✔️Increasing awareness of the role body image plays with self-esteem and mental and physical health
✔️Understanding our role as parents
✔️Increased understanding of internal and external influences that help shape one’s body image
✔️Exploration of the correlation between media trends and body concerns
✔️Recognizing signs of low self-esteem, negative body image, and food dysfunction
✔️Providing practical tools to help our kids understand risks, media messaging, social pressures, and seeking support
✔️Supporting one another as parents

Sunday, May 5th, 9am - 12pm
Central School (Wildflower), 811 Stanley St, Nelson BC
$25/person

Nourish + Nurture

Building Positive Relationships with Food & Body

4 week course, every Thursday, Jan. 17th – Feb. 7th , 6 – 8pm
@ Manistone Wellness Centre, Nelson BC

 In this 4 Part Workshop Series, we will explore and deepen the relationship with food and body. We will introduce Mind-Body Nutrition exercises and Intuitive Eating Practices as well as cover topics such as fear foods, body image, guilt & shame, chronic dieting, toxic dietary beliefs, and language. There will be offerings of guidance and support throughout each session with in-class work-shopping & exercises, as well as homework assignments to explore.  The goal is to provide practical tools and exercises to bring awareness and healing to past, current, and future issues with food & body, while learning how to integrate positive food relationships into our present lives. Each workshop will include informational handouts, discussion, in-class exercise, dietary focus, and suggestive homework. Snacks & tea also provided.