Weekend Workshop Q and A – Thank You
Have a listen to the Question and Answer Telecall with Michelle Morand!
Michelle will be answering your questions about our workshops and generally sharing information about the CEDRIC Centre, our goals and how we can help free you from focusing on food.
Should you have any questions, please contact us by email janice@cedriccentre.com or visit, our contact page or call us toll free at 1-866-383-0797 or 250-383-0797.
Remember, the call is recorded. Also go to our video page for the workshops to get a better idea of what to expect.
Warmly,
Michelle and The Complete Recovery Team
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Weekend Workshop Q and A
Thinking about coming to our next workshop? Listen to our Weekend Workshop Q and A call and learn about the workshop format and hear from past participants about how much they enjoyed attending and what they learned that changed their lives for good!
We’ve held a FREE Question and Answer Telecall for you to check out.
CEDRIC Centre founder, Michelle Morand answers callers questions about the workshop, the centre and how we can help you change the way you related to food, to your body and to others for good!
We’ve been doing this work for over 20 years and it all started from Michelle’s own binge eating disorder and her experience of recovery. That led Michelle to want to help others and to help them to have an easier time finding help and moving through the recovery process than she did over 20 years ago.
Anyone who has been able to work with Michelle through individual counselling, workshops or her web based program will tell you that she walks her talk and is a great role model and fount of information on the simple steps you need to take to stop your stressful and limiting thinking, stop feeling so anxious and stuck and stop using food and weight focus to cope with stress.
If you’re ready to change the way you relate to food Michelle will teach you exactly what to do. You don’t need to figure it out – you just need to show up.
You’ll immediately see how simple and intuitive a healthy and ‘normal’ relationships with food can be when you’re thinking clearly and have simple tools to help you build solid confidence and self-esteem in every area of your life.
You deserve to feel good about yourself – if you don’t believe that you really need this workshop series. And if you do believe it but can’t seem to act on it, this workshop series will teach you everything you need to know and give you the practical experience to put it into action once the workshop is over.
It’s no good getting great tools and then not using them. These tools are so simple and the education you receive at these workshops is so solid and clear, you will naturally reach for these tools and soon they will become second nature and your old stressful approach to food will be a thing of the past.
Come and join our workshop series – it’ll be the greatest gift you ever gave yourself.
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Those of you who have worked with the CEDRIC Core Beliefs booklet are probably familiar with these stages, but seeing as how June is ‘Natural Eating’ month, we thought that you might enjoy a quick reminder to help you grab the nutshell of where you are in your process, right in this moment, taken from our Natural Eating booklet. (more…)How to Stop Using Food to Cope
I’m glad you’re here at The CEDRIC Centre Website. The link below will lead you to an hour long conference call where I answered questions for a caller about how to stop using food to cope; particularly, how to stop eating so much between meals so that she could actually be hungry for and enjoy meals. (more…)Posted in: Content
Leave a Comment (0) →Too excited to sleep – Tina’s Journey
Never let it be said that just because you are middle aged, your life is merely a banal repetition of experiences that make for zero excitement quotient. I for one, am going to age with a bang, kicking and screaming all the way. What I’m talking about now is no exception. At 52, I’m too excited to sleep. I’m so full of tomorrow I can’t get today out of the way fast enough. Like a kid at Christmas, I’m so stoked.
Tomorrow is my Graduation. I’ve managed to gather enough credits over the past six years to be able to share this achievement with my alma mater and family tomorrow. I managed to hobble along with a Grade 9 education until I turned mid 40 and suddenly avenues of academia opened up to me. Six years later, I’m plotting my accomplishments in a blog made possible by what I garnered from those rigorous years of schooling. (more…)One of the Things I Know for Sure about Body Image
One of the things I know for sure about body image, from my own recovery experience and from hundreds of conversations with clients, is that your negative self-talk and feelings of loathing, disgust and heaviness in your body can change to peaceful acceptance in 24 hours, even when nothing has physically changed in your body.
Yuppers, that’s what I said, your Drill Sgt. can be happily on vacation in Mexico in 24 hours, leaving you at home to peacefully and contentedly practice life-enhancing coping strategies and self-care. And I’m not talking about trying to talk yourself into loving yourself as you are or about settling for being the weight and shape that you are now.
So, what am I talking about? I’m talking about integrity. Integrity means that your words and actions are in alignment. You want to know the secret to happiness? It’s integrity. You want to know the secret to feeling peaceful and content in your body; in your relationships; in your career; etc?
It’s integrity: Words and Actions Aligning.
You do what you say you will. And not just to others, but first and foremost to yourself. That’s where most of us who feel controlled by food and loathing of our bodies stumble; integrity with ourselves. We’re all over taking care of others and honoring our commitments outwardly at all costs. (more…)
Body Image – summer’s coming!
by Michelle Morand
Hello out there in the CEDRIC community! Has spring sprung fully where you live? It definitely has here. There’s a quality of warmth to the air that is unique to this time of year; Something with an aftertaste of cool but not at all chilling, that allows me to relax and trust that the warm weather is finally here and that thus, I can begin the glorious task of setting aside the winter boots, coats, sweaters and warmer wear and explore the lighter shirts, pants, dresses, even…..dare I say it… shorts and tank tops.
Yes, I used to hate this time of year. I dreaded it, feared it, prayed to god that it wouldn’t come – some asteroid impacting the earth and leading to a short term ice age would have suited me just fine at that time in my life. Anything to stay bundled up and covered up from the myriad prying eyes that I believed were constantly assessing my frame for it’s acceptability and finding me excruciatingly lacking every time.
For me, this time of year represents rebirth… freedom… and expansion. I get excited at the thought of wearing less and of days at the beach with my son. The ability to engage with life without first having to wade through the heavy shroud of body image insecurities and food crap every moment of every day makes me feel like I’m living in heaven. I know I’m not the only one who experiences heaven on earth with the release of the use of food to cope. (more…)
If you do what you’ve always done… ~ Another stellar tool in my proverbial belt
Drill sergeant, voice of my long gone mother, internal dialogue that diminishes and lies to me, you better be shaking in your boots, because I have discovered one more tangible thing to do to overcome you.
I have, here on my safety tool belt that I have festooned with colourful stickers of flowers of every kind, so it matches my laptop and cell phone, along with my other tools (eat nuts instead of junk, read the label to avoid eating x, y, z; track daughter’s menstrual cycles simultaneously, how to ‘ground’, what to put in homemade fresh juices and why, etc.), another tool that I picked up in my day to day media scrounges.
I’m a very curious animal and am constantly rooting through the internet and available tv media on all 400+ channels and now that I am processing all this intense evolutionary stuff through my experience working with CEDRIC philosophy, I am learning much more about myself than I ever knew possible. (more…)Tina’s Journey – It’s time to ask the important question. What makes me tick?
Today, I’m finally exercising.
Exercising my right to get off the couch
I’m in my portable office that contains a bench in the sun in a hidden corner of Saxe Point with my archaic alternative technology, namely my book and pen. My bike is parked behind me with my digital camera, a sweating, cold bottle of fresh water rounding out my ensemble. A huge military helicopter rumbles by slowly, competing with the birds as I write. My intention was to ponder the question ‘What makes me tick?’ as I rode. I am at that place in my evolution that its high time that I ask myself that very good question.
These days, as I process CEDRIC’s philosophies and tools, as I gain experience applying them to the ups and downs of my life, I’m changing, evolving, refining and in the course of that, so are the factors that comprise what makes me who I am. For instance, I’ve changed my name, my career, my home and my life almost 10o% in the past year. That tells me that I know who and what I’m not any more, but what AM I? What stirs my crank? Gets me going? Gets me motivated?
What makes me tick?
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