Wisdom

AN 8-WEEK EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP

For heart-centered souls who are curious about embodying a trusting relationship with their bodies and eating through somatic practices and community support.

Join Wisdom

Learn how to trust your body and find freedom with food with the support of somatic practices, nervous system tools for regulation and empowerment and community to deepen into embodiment.

WISDOM is open to anyone at any stage of their healing path. Whether you struggle with restrictive eating, binge eating, bulimia, over-exercise, orthorexia, body image issues, disordered eating, dieting, or you feel like something just needs to shift around your relationship to nourishment, you are invited to join.

Somatic healing modalities, nervous system regulation tools, and group sharing and witnessing are included, offering perspectives and skills that can be applied to wherever you find yourself on the recovery road.

Groups are anti-diet, HAES-affirming, trauma-informed, and is a confidential container in rooted acceptance, gentleness and care.

WISDOM Is For You If…

You are actively working on your eating disorder recovery.
You are desiring to be free in your body and with food.
You are looking for an embodied and compassionate approach to reconnect with your body.
You are yearning to connect with others from around the world who understand what it means to be walking the recovery road.
You are searching for soul nourishment in the form of inner balance, meaning and purpose.

We are here to learn from each other and encourage one another to expand into our fullness of being.

WISDOM aims to serve as a reminder that we are not meant to heal alone. As much as an eating disorder separates us from ourselves, the homecoming process happens when there is support from kindred spirits.

When we unite together with the intention to anchor into our unique embodiment and celebrate one another through that process, we have the opportunity to shift the dominant collective diet culture narratives.

We return to our embodied wisdom when we remember that we inherently belong - and community reinforces this essential need and inherent state.

Testimonials

The Details

8-week group container, with live weekly sessions

Each session includes an arrival embodiment practice, an introduction to the weekly theme, group discussion and closing practice. Some sessions will include guided movement, yoga or an art process.

Dates: 14 Aug, 21 Aug, 28 Aug, 4 Sept, 11 Sept, 18 Sept, 25 Sept, 2 Oct 2024

Time: 12:00pm - 13:30pm EST

Hosted on Zoom (sessions are not recorded)

Open to 8 people (no drop-ins)

Support and communication offered between sessions

Receive weekly downloadable guided embodiment practices

Cost for South Africans: R2 200

Cost for people outside of South Africa: $250

To join the next group, get in touch below.

I want to join wisdom

A kind reminder: It is normal to feel apprehensive, intimidated or nervous when joining a support group. These feelings are the doorways to your healing and point you to your potential. This is an opportunity to feel these feels and to say yes anyway, knowing that this space is specifically designed to hold the vulnerability we inevitably encounter when we step from the known to the unknown and say yes to transformation.

A Personal Story

In 2009 I attended my first eating disorder recovery support group. It was a life-changing experience for my own journey, and I continued to attend the weekly group for months thereafter. Connecting with familiar faces each week built trust and safety to share vulnerably and listen compassionately.

It was a relief to be with people who understood the complexities and nuances of navigating disordered eating. Each person was at different stages of their healing, making it a rich environment to gain clarity, perspective, direction for my own growth.

I remembered I was not alone and found refuge in other people's shares. I could relate and resonate. There were many gifts that I could take away from every session; each person had raw and real wisdom that helped me see myself in a new light.

Through the group’s reflections, compassionate witnessing, empathetic understanding, I felt seen, that I belonged, and that at my core I was ok - and in that, I felt connected, whole and embodied. I could reside at home in my own skin.

For more information on my approach, head here.