Carolyn, Francie, and Anita have been giving these retreats for over 10 years. Most of you receiving this email have already experienced our Tending the Feminine Psyche retreats.
About CAROLYN COSTIN, M.F.T. – After decades healing severe eating disorders, including her own, Carolyn owns and runs the Monte Nido residential treatment center in Malibu, California (www.montenido.com) and its affiliate treatment center, Rain Rock in Eugene, Oregon. She is the author of several best-selling books, The Eating Disorder Sourcebook, Your Dieting Daughter, and 100 Questions and Answers About Eating Disorders, in addition to numerous articles published in E.D The Journal of Treatment & Prevention, Healthy Weight Journal, Teen Magazine, Eating Disorders Today, and Renfrew Perspective. Carolyn is a sought-out keynote speaker and teacher across the United States where she uses her wildly popular lecturing style of mixing fascinating didactic information with impromptu demonstration sessions.
About ANITA JOHNSTON, Ph.D. – Specializing in women’s issues and disordered eating for over 25 years, Anita is known for using the power of myth, metaphor, and storytelling in her expansion of themes on the feminine soul (www.DrAnitaJohnston.com). She developed Hawaii’s first inpatient eating disorders program and currently is the founder and director of the Anorexia & Bulimia Center of Hawaii and the ‘Ai Pono Intensive Outpatient Eating Disorders Program in Honolulu (www.aipono.com). She is the author of the best-selling book, Eating in the Light of the Moon, which has been published in 5 languages and a chapter in The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook entitled, Eating Disorders as Messengers of the Soul. Anita is a spell-binding international lecturer and Soul Hunger workshop leader who blends ancient storytelling, modern psychology, spiritual wisdom, and contemporary women’s issues in a unique and powerful way.
About FRANCIE WHITE, M.S.R.D. – Besides specializing in eating, exercise, and body image problems through over 25 years of private practice, Francie is an innovative theorist on consciousness raising in women’s healing and evolution. She is the original author for the newly conceptualized Exercise Resistance Syndrome. Her workshop experience began as an instructor-trainer for best-selling author Geneen Roth’s Breaking Free workshops. She then went on to create Inner Escapes Workshop Co.(www.innerescapes.com) and is the founder of the Central Coast Intensive Outpatient Eating Disorders Program (www.centralcoastiop.com). From her national television and published interviews, professionals across the country seek her training in healing adolescents and adults with tough eating disorders.
Soul Dance/Yoga: We will bring a teacher with many years experience in working with Anita’s and Francie’s groups to help us take the teachings deep into our bodies.
Dreams & Mythology: In this retreat we will weave a myth for all to experience as participants, allowing the ancient wisdom and archetypal energy to penetrate the depths of our psyches, to guide us in the experience of being alive, and to access our own inner truths.
Continuing Education: 30 CEU’s will be made available. Tax deductions can apply, as well.
Nurture your body, nourish your mind, feed your soul – and return to your practice with a new, deeper understanding of the sensuality and creativity that is the birthright of all women!
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Beginning every morning with some kind of yoga or movement experience, designed to bring you into a more joyful experience of your body and to integrate and deepen the concepts being taught throughout the workshop. And then,
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Three – four hours of daily teaching in a dynamic, academic workshop with 25 to 30 women -- where you can learn the latest strategies for treating all forms of disordered eating, exercise, and body image issues … with actual demonstrations and individual attention to each participant’s cases and questions, and exploration of issues particular to in-patient, IOP, or out-patient private practice. CEU’s available,
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Topics such as: the latest nutrition therapy strategies, dynamic group ideas, working with difficult clients, families and adolescents, metaphor work, males with eating disorders, depth psychology, ego states and soul work, exercise addiction and resistance, insulin resistance and weight training, physiology and metabolism, feminine and masculine archetypes as related to ED, sexuality and intimacy, ED and the menstrual cycle,
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Evenings spent in women’s circle with storytelling, mythology, archetypes, ritual, dream-work, and ancient traditions in a modern setting -- inviting a soul connection with the new feminine consciousness.
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A connection to a tribe of women dedicated to healing eating disorders – a reuniting of attendees for over 10 years and a welcoming place for newcomers to meet with seasoned professionals – where you can meet new friends and receive ongoing support from a growing circle of specialists in this field.
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Nurturing your body, nourishing your mind and feeding your own soul and spirit through wonderful food, bodywork, stimulating discussions, lots of play time, and our powerful women’s circle.