Satisfy your Deepest Hungers and Restore a Healthy Relationship with Food and Weight

When:   Summer 2008
Where:    Boulder, Colorado
Cost:  $480 for 15 sessions – 2 hours each
Info & Register:  Flyrobinrr@yahoo.com

This group is designed to restore the balance of body, mind, and spirit. The group will be based on the principles set out in Dr. Anita Johnston's book, Eating in the Light of the Moon, a gentle and supportive guide for women who want to recover from disordered eating. 

From Dr.Anita Johnston and Robin Richardson comes an active and inspirational program for healing, which includes storytelling and meditations, a conscious eating guide, inspirational cards, and journal writing themes and questions. In addition, this group will feature weekly acupuncture sessions to help member’s access healing states and facilitate emotional and physical connection. 

Eating disorders create great stress on the body’s systems; acupuncture can restore the function, health, and balance of these systems.  Acupuncture has been proven to reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms, aid in emotional regulation, balance mood swings, restore healthy digestion, and lower stress.

The group will be facilitated by Robin Richardson, MA, CMT
and Rachel Fisher, MSOM, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

Robin has a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Psychology from Naropa University.  Her psychotherapy practice focuses on eating disorders, addictions and sexual abuse.  She has worked with individuals with Eating Disorders for 20 years and is also a singer/songwriter, a certified massage therapist, a singer asdfds  with 15 years of international performing experience and an inspirational speaker for all age groups.

This will be a dynamic, interactive Group designed to guide you through the Labyrinth of healing.
You will learn to:

• Recognize and honor the wisdom of your body
• Know your physical hunger and fullness signals
• See your challenges with food as symbolic of deeper hungers
• Identify your soul’s real longing
• Develop the necessary tools and skills to nourish yourself
• Access your true feelings, instincts, and intuitions
• Balance your masculine & feminine energies

The group will include a variety of activities to deepen and integrate the concepts presented. Tools for learning:

• Journaling exercises
• Art activities
• Music and meditation
• Ritual
• Storytelling and metaphor
• Interactive sharing and connecting
• Weekly Acupuncture sessions

Nothing in life is sweeter than accepting and loving yourself. The Healing Journey: 

This group will help you to develop a deeper connection and commitment to yourself and greater awareness of your own patterns and behaviors.

It will provide you with the skills you need to make permanent changes in your life and restore a healthy relationship to food and weight