“Breaking the Weight Loss Boomerang Cycle – The Retreat”
Healing Your Relationship with Food and Yourself
Have you been trying to heal from Emotional Eating?
Are you looking for Eating Disorder Treatment?
Do you overeat, binge eat and generally soothe yourself with food because:
- You feel stressed and struggle with problems in your daily life
- You find yourself in challenging and changing times
- You feel exhausted and overwhelmed by your present life
- You feel empty inside and out of balance
- You feel anxious
Take a step towards more happiness and ease in your life. Join Ina Stockhausen, a Vancouver therapist who has helped countless women stop Emotional Eating for 3 days of healing.
Gather with other women like you at a residential retreat that promises to change the relationship you have with your body, with food and yourself.
Retreat Dates: November 4th to 6th, 2011
Without the responsibilities and business of daily life you will be able to immerse yourself in healing self-exploration, integrating body, mind, emotions and spirit.
This residential Retreat isn’t about dieting or weight loss. It is about addressing the underlying issues that drive emotional eating and re-evaluating your connection with food. It is also about connecting with our women. As you heal your relationship with food, the excess weight comes off automatically.
“This timely retreat offered welcome relief from my unhealthy eating that had alluded me in other courses and readings. Ina is a capable, warm and very organized facilitator and the participants bonded quickly in her safe and respectful circle. We worked through many processes that helped unravel the mystery of our individual food compulsions in practical and at times, astonishing ways. I left the retreat with a positive, motivated attitude, new tools, gratitude for Ina’s teaching and the shared experience and wisdom of the other women. Many thanks!” Maia M.
“The Retreat gave me a safe place, free of judgement, to begin exploring and understanding just what drives me to eat the way I do, and to “get” that it’s not about the food. I can now use the tools I was given, and depend on the support and encouragement of Ina, Val and the other participants in the group, who all understand where I am and how I got there. The Retreat has opened the door so that I am now able to step out, be on my way and begin the work of my journey to wellness.” Heather M. (Victoria)
“The weekend retreat was so much more than I could have ever expected. I discovered so much about myself and I am taking away so many new tools to help me process through putting an end to my emotional eating.
It had been years since I put myself as a priority. Lately I had moved into a place of curiosity and desire to find out why certain things continue to come up in my life. Through Ina’s work and guidance I had many insights; I was able to explore them in a safe and non-judgmental environment. The women who participated and the retreat location were amazing! I am very grateful for finding Ina and making the commitment to myself.” Shea Davis
Incorporating art, movement, ritual and the map of Integrative Body Psychotherapy we will explore:
- Changing negative beliefs that you have about yourself that may be holding you back and are impacting your relationship with food
- Developing tools YOU need to cope with triggers without reverting back to disordered eating
- What you really long for when you reach for food
- Updating coping strategies you learned during childhood which no longer serve you well
- Making peace with your body and rediscovering your inner Goddess
- Connecting to your birth right to feel good about yourself
- Finding a new way to eat – connected to your body and your inner voice
The Retreat will be held at the tranquil oasis of Cedars at Cobble Hill on Vancouver Island. Cedars, a treatment center that offers a separate space for retreats and workshops is located on 65 acres of beautiful cedar forested land.
Retreat Faculty:
Ina Stockhausen is a Vancouver Counselor and Vancouver Eating Disorders Therapist who knows the journey. She specializes in Emotional Eating, Addictions and counselling women thru life transitions. For more information about Ina click here.
Val Wilkins is looking forward to assisting Ina and joining the Women’s Circle. She has 25 years of experience as a counselor and workshop facilitator in Women’s issues and is known for bringing warmth and humor into her work.
We value inclusiveness. At the Retreat, women of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds and lifestyles are welcomed.
Click here to request a registration form.
Retreat Dates: November 4th to 6th, 2011
Retreat Cost: $ 545.00.00 all inclusive
Last date to register: October 26th, 2011
Stop Yo-yo dieting and emotional eating. Give yourself the gift of connecting to the voice in your heart and the wisdom of your body. Join other women like you on this special Retreat and heal your relationship with food and yourself.
Click here now to request a pre-registration form.
Note: To maximize benefits and your experience, this workshop is only available as a residential retreat.
