Hi everyone. Some of you know a tad about my past funkiness with food and health. I grew up in a really extreme environment when it came to food. I was put on diets from the time I was 8 years old. Growing up, I was given the incredibly mixed message that I was supposed to be my mom’s eating buddy but also supposed to be thin. I developed binge eating and bulimia to cope with that impossible demand. I couldn’t figure out what food was “safe,” or how I was supposed to eat. Mom and I went on endless fad diets. There were years when we only allowed ourselves to eat 500 calories a day, but then ate until we were sick on the weekends. All that undependable nutrition and body abuse resulted in a variety of health issues. And the health issues in turn amplified my uneasiness, anxiety and misunderstanding about food. My friends, believing all those mixed-up thoughts, I behaved in truly crazy ways. I felt such massive, overwhelming confusion and was so steeped in my thinking that I couldn’t access basic common sense.
Now I see so much. I am far more free, trusting, healthy and happy. And I know what my thinking is now, which changes everything about my relationship to life itself, not just food and body. I know that what I’ve seen could be helpful to you too. Regardless of whether you suffer confusion about food and health, or you obsess and worry about other stuff. I know it can help because I’ve watched this new clarity help my clients – with food and with every other topic imaginable.
So I want to share it with you. I met a new friend named Sarah Parker who wants to share with me! Sarah lives in the UK and works for the National Health System, working with people with eating disorders. She’s able to help because she dealt with anorexia for over 15 years and then with her own resultant health issues. But like me, the major reason she’s able to help is because of what she’s seen about how human minds even create our “realities” and why that’s so confusing to us. Sarah and I have been talking a lot about “The Feast” as a metaphor for understanding and reorienting to joy around food – and everything else in life.
We really hope you’ll join us for this 4-part webinar workshop. You can come to one or all of them, and you can come even your own struggles have to do with something other than food. In this, our first workshop, we ask that as your “fee,” you write a testimonial and give us some feedback on what you experienced.
We’re sending you all our love and celebration of The Feast!
Christina and Sarah
