Have Your Cake and Eat It Too! A Gentle Approach to Food, Your Body, and Yourself 2-hour workshop with Rivka Simmons

We are all born with a natural, easy relationship to food and our bodies, but for so many of us this healthy relationship gets disrupted. We spend unnecessary amounts of mental and emotional energy worrying about our eating and our bodies, which leads us to diet/binge cycles, using food for emotional rather than physical hunger, and feeling shame or frustration about our behaviors as well as how we look and feel.

Through lessons, exercises, and guided meditations, you’ll learn how to recover your natural relationship with food and your body using mindfulness, curiosity, and compassion. Rather than following external rules, you will learn how to listen to and trust your body’s hunger signals, enjoy the foods you love the most, eat mindfully, and respond gently and effectively to emotional eating, finding ways to nourish yourself when food is not what you truly need.

You will leave this workshop understanding the root causes of eating and body image struggles, gain tools to free yourself from these struggles, and most importantly, you will learn to cultivate self-compassion throughout the process.