Weight Matters
For those who want to solve their Eating Regulation
issues once and for all.
Learn to stop self defeating dynamics between you and food.
B.I.T.E. The Body Image Transformation Experience®
Two Interconnected WORKSHOPS
Tired of Simple Answers that haven't worked for you?
Dare to delve beneath the "how to"
of dieting and food regimens.
*Applying current research in neuroscience to Clinical Practice
Despite popular notions of diets and food plans, weight loss and eating regulation is a very complicated process, physically and emotionally. The challenge can be daunting, constant, and to top it off, there is no known magic. However, there is reason to hope.
Whether you struggle with 20 or 50 pounds, similar dynamics are at work. Through exploration, action, and implementation of specific self-regulatory techniques, B.I.T.E.® works with you to effect a satisfying and healthy outside change that reflects core internal change. Your interaction with food will shift as well as your perception of yourself.
Overeating is often a 'high caloric' defense and regulation mechanism connected to feelings of shame and worthlessness. Sometimes it stems from the fear of being a sexually attractive adult. Fat may be armor against the world, or it may be a hated side effect of using food to ease loneliness and emotional pain. This is a vicious circle—the worse you feel, the more you eat; and the more you eat, the worse you feel. Usually the pain is kept secret, and the secrecy adds to the shame. Your internal world and sense of self, constructed from a legacy of attachment experiences from long ago, keeps you trapped in a body you don't like. As time goes on, the problem gets worse biologically, and your feelings about yourself spiral downward.
The Workshops will provide a safe, confidential, and supportive environment in which to explore the emotional changes required to move you to steps of action. B.I.T.E.® works well as a complement to ongoing individual psychotherapy, nutrition counseling and exercise programs.
WHO IS B.I.T.E.® FOR?
- For those who struggle with weight regulation, weight loss, size, perception of self and body image.
- For those who appreciate that one's psychological/emotional life can get in the way of maintaining a food plan.
- For those who have lost weight, yet whose self-perception is not changing.
- For those who are having trouble coming to terms with the new, evolving "you".
- For those who need help to find the courage necessary to move away from the familiar and onto unfamiliar ground.
- For those who need to develop specific strategies for integrating intellectual and emotional understanding with weight loss and body image transformation for successful long term outcomes.
Workshops
Workshop I
Owning My Body My Self
"Why Can't I Just Do It?"
See available Dates (weekly 1 ½ hour sessions)
Workshop I lays the groundwork needed for the intense and continuing work of Workshop II
Workshop II
Transforming My Body My Self
See Available dates (weekly 2 hour sessions)