CEDRIC’s Weekly Update
Hello.
Welcome to the CEDRIC Centre’s blog. This is the best place online to make lasting and complete changes to your stressful relationship with food, as well as any other stressful circumstances whether in relation to your self-regard, your relationships or your career.
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So whether you overeat, restrict, purge, drink, procrastinate, get stuck in harmful or unsatisfying relationships, feel unfulfilled in your career, or struggle with family connections, our method will show you, simply and speedily, how to create the change you seek in all areas of your life.
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Latest Happenings: This past weekend I was in Vancouver to give a presentation on Friday which went exceptionally well and on Saturday which worked out perfectly! Saturday’s event was a new venture for me in tandem with the Ayurvedic centre and there were, undeniably, a few glitches getting the word out. As it was I had a lovely talk with my sole attendee for an hour and a half and enjoyed connecting with her very much. I am looking forward to more presentations throughout the Spring and into the Summer at various centres and health shows. Come to a Workshop in Vancouver or Victoria! In the meantime, if you or someone you know has been thinking that maybe it’s time to try an approach to food and to your life overall that really works and produces lasting change to all areas of your life, I urge you to join me for our next 3-day transformative workshop on April 23 – 25th in Vancouver. The event is being held at office 901 – 675 West Hastings St. The cross street is Granville. It’s a great space, a great area and so far, a great group of people signed up! I’m really looking forward to this event. You know, these 3-day events really are the best way to get all the tools in a short period of time with the practical training so you can leave the workshop on Sunday with absolute confidence in your ability to approach your life in a new way. No restriction, no nagging voice in your head, just peace and motivation that lasts. I do hope to see you at the Vancouver workshop – but if Victoria suits your life better these is one May 14 – 16th at our centre in Victoria in the heart of our lovely downtown core. Join our Web-Based Food is Not the Problem Program: Special Price for April only! Oh, and don’t forget our web program which is available for April with no initial sign up fee and our low monthly fee of $33.00. It’s the best way, with the least amount of effort on your part, to begin to make sizeable changes to your stressful relationship with food. Even if you only take part in the daily centering exercises (which come straight to your inbox every morning) and monthly teleclasses (a simple group call), I guarantee you’ll find it more than worth your while. Have a fabulous week!!! Love
This post is part of a series about Complete Recovery on our blog. If you’d like to read all of the blog posts in the series, see 
This post is part of a series about Complete Recovery on our blog. In this article we are exploring the first and most fundamental step to eating disorder recovery.
Two weekends ago, I was in Vancouver with my husband Alex – Olympic Fever Reigned! Holy cow, what a hockey game!!! While there, I treated myself to a trip to the Ayurvedic Clinic. I met with the physician, Dr. Shiva Varma, who I had met with a handful of times before, always with great success for whatever had been ailing me.
On this trip, I was going to see him for his thoughts on why my sleep hadn’t been so great the past month or so. He immediately assessed my situation perfectly, stating that the only problem I had was that I was feeling a sense of a lack of community in Vancouver as I plan my transition there and he encouraged/insisted that I join him and his team at his new, state-of-the-art, clinic in Richmond, as well as out of the centre in Kitsilano and begin to offer lectures, seminars and workshops there. So, of course, I said…”Yes! Thank you!!!!”
“When I use my tools, they work! Things are easier, more peaceful. I just don’t feel the need to use food to cope when I use my tools.”
I hear this a lot from clients. And it’s true.
However, from clients who are a little new with the process, there is usually a “…but” attached to the end of it and the rest of the statement sounds something like, “…it’s just so hard to use my tools.” Or “….it takes too long and I don’t have the time or energy to do anything other than eat.” Or even “….what if they stop working? I need to hang on to my use of food to cope just in case my new tools stop working.”
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A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation at the Victoria Health Show entitled: Practical and effective tools for overcoming emotional, psychological and physical barriers to optimum health.
Yes, quite the mouthful, but….interestingly enough it was the most well-attended talk I’ve ever offered in my 10 years of Health Show lecturing. Things that make you go, hmmmmm.
Obviously one reason for the increased attendance is that the topic is broader than my usual “Food is not the Problem: Deal With What Is!” educational presentation. But based on the feedback I received after the lecture and in the weeks that have followed, I am quite clear that the real reason for the greater turn out were the words “overcoming” and “barriers.”
Last week one of those group chain emails came across my desk. I normally just delete them immediately as I’m not a big fan of the “pressure” / manipulation / magical thinking they usually apply at the end to send it along. The threat or promise that something significant will happen to me based on me forwarding a mass email – the good old chain letter superstition – has never been anything I felt a genuine desire to agree to. And, with rare exceptions, the messages don’t seem all that noteworthy (speaking for my own in-box of course, perhaps your friends send you better ones!).
Following on the theme of approaching conversations with people, this week I want to invite you to consider a new way of thinking about issues that are sensitive or have the potential to impact your relationship with someone.
In my 17 years of freedom from emotional eating I have come from being a very scared, extremely doubtful, negative, all-or-nothing, insecure little person (who thought she was absolutely the fattest, ugliest person on the planet and that everyone else thought so too) to become the person I am today. I’m certainly not issue-free or any where near perfect as my friends and family will happily attest, but open, loving, happy, optimistic, confident and secure, able to know that, while I may screw up, drop the ball, or hurt someone’s feelings, I am not bad or unworthy of love, rather I am always deserving of dignity and respect from myself and from others.