Archive for 2012
Laura’s Story: Help for Anorexia, Orthorexia, and Chronic Dieting
Posted by mmorand on December 7, 2012 Laura was 19 when she first came to see me for help for anorexia, orthorexia and chronic dieting. She was wafer thin, and with the exception of her face and hands, every inch of her yellowed skin was covered in layers of thick clothing. It was June. She sat across from me, arms folded, legs crossed, eyes firmly attached to a spot on the floor that seemed to have captivated her interest rather keenly for a tiny speck of lint. Her opening volley, which she directed generally towards my side of the room through clenched teeth, was something along the lines of: “I’m only here because my mom thinks I have a problem and she said if I came to see you once she’d lay off and leave me alone.” (more…)Tags: anorexia counselling, anorexia nervosa recovery, Counselling for restricting food, Eating Disorder Counselling worldwide, eating disorder treatment, Overcome Anorexia for good, rebalancing, self esteem, Vancouver Eating Disorder Help
Posted in: 2012, All-or-Nothing Thinking, Anorexia and Bulimia, Complete Recovery, Relationship with Food, Relationship with Self
Leave a Comment (2) →Food and the Holidays
Posted by mmorand on November 23, 2012 Are you eager to make it through the holidays without succumbing to the stresses of the season, without feeling restricted and without overeating and gaining weight? We’re revisiting ‘Helpful Tips for a Food-Stress Free Holiday Season’ to help you through all of the food and the holidays traps that people often fall into. If you’re a natural eater then the holidays are nothing special in terms of the abundance of food and the treats that are unique to this time of year. If you’re someone who would define themselves as having to “watch their weight” or who has a stressful relationship with food, the holidays can be a particularly stressful time. Learning how to navigate stress without losing your grip on healthy eating is fundamental to enjoying the holidays fully and freely. The easiest way to make this your reality is to educate yourself on the ways that you might get tripped up in your use of food to cope this Christmas season and to have clear and effective strategies for turning yourself into a natural eater rather than a mindless eater. (more…)Tags: attain balanced eating, avoid packing on weight at Christmas, compulsive eating, eating disorders, Help for binge eating, holiday eating, holiday stresses, Holiday Temptations, how to avoid overeating, how to control eating, how to deal with Christmas treats, overeating, triggers
Posted in: 2012, Relationship with Food, Relationship with Self, Tips for Natural Eating
Leave a Comment (2) →Workshops
Posted by Cedric on October 30, 2012Master Series 3 Day Eating Disorder Workshops:
– ‘Master Your Brain – Master Your Behaviour’: Feb. 22nd to 24th, 2013 in Vancouver and March 8 to 10, 2013 in Victoria. Our ‘Master’ Series of workshops is designed to help those who are emotional or stress eaters, struggle with bulimia, anorexia or binge eating, or are caught in the diet cycle with no lasting results, find peace and freedom with food and maintain a natural weight for their body, without the need for chronic dieting and rigorous exercise programs. CEDRIC Counsellors teach everything participants need to know about what is triggering their frustrating thoughts and behaviours around food and other aspects of life, and how to change them once and for all!
(more…)Tags: binge eating, compulsive eating, counselling for binging, counselling for compulsive eating, eating disorder clinics, Eating Disorder help Vancouver, Eating Disorder Help Victoria, eating disorder treatment, emotional eating, help for bulimia, how to stop binging and purging, overcome anorexia, overeating, recover from stress eating, recovery from eating disorders, restricting food too much, stop overeating
Posted in: 2012, Complete Recovery, Upcoming Events, workshops
Leave a Comment (0) →How to Make the ‘Right’ Decision
Posted by mmorand on October 19, 2012How to Make the ‘Right’ Decision About Food
If I could give folks who want to change their stressful relationship with food, weight and other humans once and for all, just one piece of advice I’d say this: Make a commitment to yourself that you are not going to force yourself to do anything ever again! (more…)Tags: Compulsive Eating Help Victoria, counselling for binge eating, Counselling for bulimia, don't force yourself into bad decisions, Eating Disorder help Vancouver, eating disorder recovery linked to thought processes, Expert on Eating Disorders offers advice, Help for binge eating, how to make good decisions, Make life-enhancing decisions, Overcome Compulsive Eating, overcome overeating, Recover from Anorexia with Expert help, worldwide
Posted in: 2012, Relationship with Food, Relationship with Self, The Law of Attraction
Leave a Comment (2) →Maryanne’s Recovery From Daily Binging and Purging
Posted by mmorand on October 5, 2012Read about how she transformed from Daily Binging and Purging to Peace and Freedom in 6 Months
Her Last Resort Six months ago Maryanne called me, feeling totally down and stuck. A 30 year old, divorced mother of 2 children (10 and 12), she said, through tears, that I was her last resort. I’ve been at this work long enough, and have my own eating disorder history and longstanding recovery so I understood what that statement meant. It meant she was desperate. She’d tried every diet out there and maybe even some sort of residential treatment or ‘weight loss retreat.’ (more…)Tags: anxiety, binge eating, bulimia, compulsive eating, counselling for binge eating, eating disorders, growing, natural eating, rebalancing, Recovery from binging & purging, self esteem, triggers
Posted in: 2012, Complete Recovery, Relationship with Food, Relationship with Self, Uncategorized
Leave a Comment (5) →The Importance of Honesty in Overcoming Overeating
Posted by mmorand on September 21, 2012 One of the hardest things for people to do to overcome overeating, especially people who have received any co-dependent training, is to hold themselves to the core value of honesty. The reason for this is twofold:- We often (usually) don’t even know what we truly feel and want and need. We might know something doesn’t feel right or good or okay but we have our inner critic immediately judging our feelings and so we mistrust our emotions just as we mistrust our hunger and fullness cues.
- We are scared crapless to piss people off! Let’s just admit it! We don’t want to upset anyone. The way we’ve been trained to see the world makes it so if someone is upset (sad, angry, scared) by something we did or said it means we’ve done something wrong; we’ve been mean; we are B.A.D.! And we sure as heck don’t want to be the bad guy because the bad guy gets ostracised, rejected and judged and that’s not good! We don’t want anyone thinking, feeling or saying anything about us that isn’t nice and warm and fuzzy. And so we compromise ourselves and so the pattern continues.
Tags: be comfortable with body image, being honest with yourself, co-dependence, co-dependent training, compulsive eating help, core value of honesty, Let go of procrastination, overcome eating disorders, overcome overeating, triggers for overeating, underlying reasons for eating, using food to cope
Posted in: 2012, Relationship with Self, Uncategorized
Leave a Comment (2) →CEDRIC Centre 2013 ‘Master Series’ Workshop Schedule
Posted by Cedric on September 8, 20122013 ‘Master Series’ Workshop Schedule
2013 ‘Master Series’ 3-day Weekend Workshop Schedule
Hours: All workshops run from Friday to Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day. Cost: All workshops cost $636.00 + tax with payment plans available.Vancouver Workshops with Michelle Morand, MA, RCC:
‘Master Your Brain – Master Your Behaviour’ – Dates: ; Feb. 22nd to 24th; May 17th to 19th; Aug. 9th to 11th; Oct. 18th to 20th ‘Mastering Balance: Creating Solid Self-Esteem and True Inner Peace’ – Dates: March 15th to 17th; June 21st to 23rd; Nov. 15th to 17th ‘‘Mastering Relationships: The Relationship Equation’ – July 26th to 28th; Dec. 6th to 8th Venue for all Vancouver Workshops: Century Plaza Hotel, 1015 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 3B6_______________________________________________
Victoria Workshops with Dawn Cox, M.Ed., psych, RCC:
‘Master Your Brain – Master Your Behaviour’ Dates: March 8th to 10th, July 12th to 14th and November 8th to 10th Venue: Common Room at 1246 Fairfield, Victoria, BC, V8V 3B5_______________________________________________
Calgary Workshops with Michelle Morand, MA, RCC:
‘Master Your Brain – Master Your Behaviour – Dates:July 5th to 7th ‘Mastering Balance: Creating Solid Self-Esteem and True Inner Peace’– Dates: July 12th to 14th Venue: MacEwan Conference Centre, U of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW Calgary, T2N 1N4 There is a hotel at the University, if you would like to stay there as well.(more…)
Tags: anorexia, binging and purging, bulimia, compulsive eating treatment, counselling-for-eating-disorders, emotional eating help, food addiction treatment, help for eating disorders, how to stop binging, how to stop compulsive eating, how to stop emotional eating, how to stop food addiction, how to stop stress eating, overcoming emotional eating, overeating, restricting food too much
Posted in: 2012, Complete Recovery, News Release, newsletter, Relationship with Food, Relationship with Others, Relationship with Self, Relationships 101, Self-Help Services, Services, Upcoming Events, workshops
Leave a Comment (0) →CEDRIC Centre Mindful Eating Info Package
Posted by Cedric on August 30, 2012 The CEDRIC Centre’s specialized program helps people of all ages to lose or gain weight and to maintain a natural weight for their bodies, for life without diet and rigorous exercise regimes. We teach you how to establish a healthy relationship with food, yourself and others, how to deal with stress, anxiety and depression in ways that boost self-esteem and allow you to feel more secure as you focus less on what you eat and weigh. See intro video for the CEDRIC Centre Mindful Eating Info Package. The CEDRIC team provides counselling in person in British Columbia, Canada, as well via skype and phone worldwide. We offer 3-day Workshops, Hard Copy and Downloadable Resources sold separately or accessed through our Online Program and incude: CD’s; DVD’s; Workbooks; Teleclasses, Lessons, Assignments, a book entiled, ‘Food Is Not The Problem – Deal With What Is’ by CEDRIC Founder and Director Michelle Morand, MA, RCC and more! (more…)Tags: anorexia, binge eating, bulimia, CEDRIC Centre Info Package, compulsive eating, dopamine and food cravings, Easting Disorder Skype Counselling, Eating Disorder Counsellors, Eating Disorder Help, Eating Disorder Help Kelowna, Eating Disorder help Vancouver, Eating Disorder Help Victoria, Eating Disorder Help Worldwide, Eating Disorder Phone counselling, Eating Disorder Specialist, eating disorder treatment, emotional eating, Michelle Morand, negative coping strategies, Overcome Compulsive Eating, recover from eating disorders, stop binging and purging, using food to cope, Workshops for Eating Disorder
Posted in: 2012, Audio CDs, Audio Downloads, Audios, Book Downloads, Books, Content, Product Bundles, Product Bundles, Self-Help Services, Uncategorized, Video, Video, Workbooks, Workbooks, Workbooks - Downloads, workshops
Leave a Comment (0) →CEDRIC’s Online Program for Eating Disorders – Video Intro & Written Feedback
Posted by mmorand on August 25, 2012Tags: anorexia, binge eating, bulimia, compulsive eating, eating disorder treatment, eating disorders, Help for restricting food, Online Help for Eating Disorders, purging, Support for Overeating
Posted in: 2012, Audios, Relationship with Food, Relationship with Others, Relationship with Self, Self-Help Services, Video, Video, Workbooks
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