Vancouver Workshops:

Phase I: Oct 12 - 14

Phase II: Nov. 9 - 11

Phase III: June 8 - 10

Victoria Workshops:

Phase I: Jul. 20 - 22

Calgary Workshops: TBA

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Complete and Lasting Recovery From Your Stressful Relationship With Food

Complete and lasting recovery from your stressful relationship with food is not only possible, you can expect it with CEDRIC`s unique and supremely successful method. Simple, fast, effective, anytime and anywhere in the world.

The Pervading Belief

There seems to be a pervading belief in our society that emotional eating, and eating disorders are problems that take a long time to overcome and that even with long term therapy and drugs etc., you can really only ever hope to manage your symptoms: Restricting and overeating food, binging and purging, bad body thoughts, anxiety and depression. In other words, our society, including many mental health professionals, carries the belief that once you have a stressful relationship with food, you’ll have it for life. Many clients who come to work with us at The CEDRIC Centre have even been told that directly by their doctor or psychiatrist, or by well meaning friends and family. How inspiring is that? How motivated would anyone be to seek help and to try to generate change when the story they’re told is that it won’t really ever work?

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Unbelievably Amazing!

"Michelle Morand and the CEDRIC method did for me in a few short months what I have been unable to do for myself in over 35 years of dieting and stressing about food and about my weight. In fact, once I actually put the tools that Michelle taught me into practice in my day to day life, within 7 days I saw immediate and miraculous change to my overall stress level and to my emotional eating. I feel happy, I feel peaceful and most of all, I feel truly free! Thank you, Michelle”

Hello, I’m Michelle Morand, the founder and director of The CEDRIC Centre. The above sentiment is one we hear daily from past and present clients. It is not unusual or an exception to the rule. You can expect the same experience yourself, when you work with us, regardless of whether you binge, purge, restrict, or engage in calorie counting and body image stress, and regardless of whether you’ve been stuck in those patterns for a few years or a few decades.

Here is another quote from someone who has attended our Weekend Workshops, joined our online program and receives individual counselling:

"Michelle, I feel like you're one awesome lifesaver.  I'm sooo thankful to have discovered CEDRIC - it's revolutionized my world. Truly."
Kristy
 

Transformative Intensive Weekend Workshops

Come and join us for an intensive workshop where we teach you how to identify the route cause of why you use food or restricting food to cope with stress and tools to learn how to cope differently and adopt a new attitude towards the stressors in your life.  We cover issues that not only help you address your disordered eating, but many aspects of your life, including self-esteem, relationships, boundaries and an inner dialogue to help your 're-jig' your thinking so you are facing these issues and more with a healthier, more empowered point of view. We employ 3 simple, yet life-altering tools that help remove the need to rely on food as the answer to the stress in your life. No matter where you live or how long you've been using food to cope, you can find your way to freedom, and it's easier than you think!

Click Here to Read comments how past participants have benefited from this intensive 3-day event.

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"I was able to get down to the core issues surrounding my distorted beliefs, which I didn't feel were distorted until we picked apart some of the thought patterns that I had every single day.  I really believed my thoughts and views were not a key factor at all - but they are!  I really enjoyed that the eating issues were not the core focus; figuring out what part of our thoughts triggered the emotions to engage in a self-destructive patters were - and that is truly helpful."

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"It was helpful to hear from other people dealing with food issues - it helped me to realize that many of our core issues are the same even though it may manifest itself in different ways.  It was good to start breaking down the overwhelming feeling of anxiety into more manageable pieces that don't feel quite so daunting to face.  As hard it was t open up about painful issues with other people listening, I think it was a good jump start to being able to share more in the future.  Good venue - comfortable couches - nice to have snacks and lunch provided."

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"First off I just want to say THANK YOU!  This weekend has been such an amazing and eye opening experience for me.  I really feel that I now have way better tools too deal with my feelings, anxieties and problems. You provided such a safe and loving environment that I felt okay expressing my feelings and showing my weaknesses."

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"This weekend helped me identify the Drill Sargent and clarify the compassionate part that wants me to get my needs met. Tying in identifying my needs and Maslow's Hierarchy was also helpful to refer back to - the structure of it was a concrete tool that was great. I liked the format - going into and doing the inner 'Drill Sergeant Dialogue' and List of Stressors and reviewing that - also was great to hear other participants' comments - made the weekend dynamic and helped learning."

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"I learned about 'Drill Sergent's' messages that she sends/tells me.  I did not know that D.S. wanted best for me, except that D.S. has a very warped way of doing it.

I learned that i could use more practice in using non-violent words when I trying communicate with others.

I really got a sense of what 'all or nothing thinking' is and how it affects me.

I learned and want to learn more about co-dependence.

I learned that there is a light at the end of the tunnel for me, until this weekend I thought that this way of 'living' was going to be my destiny.

I learned new tools to help me in counselling and in my relationships with family."

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