Posted by mmorand on July 23, 2010
Well! It’s been another transformative week here at CEDRIC. Sarah Atkinson facilitated a great Phase I workshop in Victoria to a full house! And based on the feedback, it is clear that a lot of fun and learning was had by all.
Our Kelowna events for Professionals and for the general public are starting to fill up which is very exciting as it’s my first offering outside of the lower mainland. I’m looking forward to it on all fronts! My sweetheart and I may even try to fit in a holiday which would be lovely in that region in the summer (if you like heat and lakes and wine…which I most certainly do!).
We have a Phase II workshop the last weekend in August in Victoria which has 2 spaces left at this point (August 27 – 29th) and many more Phase I and Phase II events in Vancouver and Victoria in the fall and beyond.
We are also having fun planning our first ever CEDRIC Centre tropical destination retreat! Oh Yeah! If you have suggestions on where that might be held (your favorite destination) let us know. We welcome your suggestions. This event will likely be the first of many annual, all-inclusive, CEDRIC events and we anticipate it will happen in late February, early March, 2011 Again, feedback is welcome.
Below you’ll read just some of the great feedback from our Phase I participants of last weekend. And I trust you’ll enjoy the article for this week as I respond to a question from a reader about her nighttime binging.
Have a fantastic week, and don’t forget to check out the new little video we’ve got as an intro to the CEDRIC Centre on our home page. I think the folks who made it did a great job!
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Phase I Weekend Workshop Feedback, July 16 – 18, 2010
“The resources were great!”
“The honesty and personal disclosures of the counsellor really helped and gave me hope and faith in this process.”
“I loved the Drill Sgt. dialogue!”
“It was absolutely amazing!”
“For the last 3 days I was able to feel relaxed about food!”
“I am so grateful that I now have concrete tools I can take with me and use when I need them!”
“The breathing exercise was so helpful!”
“This is a great workshop and it has definitely opened my eyes!”
“It was such a safe, comfortable and supportive setting.”
“I liked how, if I wasn’t able to express myself fully on an issue, someone else always touched on it for me inadvertently.”
“I loved the lunchtime exercise and how I was able to check in about my hunger and fullness and then talk about it later as a group.”
“I loved the healthy assortment of food and teas!”
“I liked the progression of the weekend from food, to self, to others.”
“You are a personable facilitator, Sarah, who was perceptive in your interactions with the group!”
Tags: all-or-nothing thinking, anorexia, binge eating, body image, bulimia, core beliefs, exploring, recovery, self care, self esteem, self love, self worth
Posted in: 2010, CEDRIC Centre, Relationship with Others, Relationship with Self, workshops
Last week’s article: Stop Sleeping Through the Alarm generated an amazing amount of heartfelt sharing which touched me deeply. I think we all intuitively know that we’re meant to listen to our emotions rather than tune them out. But ironically, the whole reason that we struggle with our emotions and with food at all is that we’ve been forced, due to life circumstances and by the mentoring we received from key people in our lives, to tune our own intuition out and to ignore our own authentic and appropriate reactions to situations. We are forced into, or talk ourselves into, buying the opinions, needs and perspectives of our primary caregivers. Our survival depended on it at one point, at least our emotional survival did, and for many others their physical and sexual integrity did as well.
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