The Eating Peace Experience is a way of life focused on one thing only: your peace.
To learn about the latest version of this powerful group program, please visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace
With looming thoughts in our minds and hearts about eating, foods, diets, weight management, food dangers, bodies, perfection vs mediocrity…..as we try to navigate our lives, we become anxious, suspicious, defensive, fearful, angry, or lonely.
And then? We eat even more.
For me, my angst with eating began around age 14, although I felt stressed about weight and awareness of the fear of fatness at age 8.
My trouble with food….just happened to coincide with a driving passion….for thinness. And in direct opposition, a driving passion that seemed almost beyond my control….for eating!
Thus began a battle with food, eating and my body for many years. Never peaceful, never enough, often too much, never just right.
My stressful thinking went like this, and you might relate:
- My body is disgusting
- I can’t succeed in eating the right amount
- I feel more attractive if I’m thin, I hate being fat
- I feel empty, and I can fill the hole with food
- I can’t handle hunger, fullness, feelings, being seen by others, figuring this out
- eating normally is impossible
- cravings are maddening and insanely hard to control
- I don’t know what to eat
- something terrible is going to happen (and I’ll break my diet, or binge)
- none of this matters anyway–I can’t win, I can’t be happy, I may as well enjoy food
What I know now is that anyone can end the fight, struggle, argument or stress involved with eating, food, or body….It’s your birthright to live peacefully with the experience and joy of eating.
Eating was not created to hurt.
If you don’t feel peaceful with eating, then likely somewhere in your life, like me you began to believe painful thoughts about thinness, fatness, weight, attractiveness, joy, love, foods, connection and eating.
There is a way to enter into the experience of peaceful eating, permanently.
How do I know?
Because it happened for me.
I was a binge-eater, bulimic for a decade (binge-eating and vomiting or over-exercising), borderline-anorexic for several years, and constantly tortured by violent thoughts about food, weight, and eating. I weighed too much, then too little, yo-yo’d up and down, and hated my body. I felt nervous around large quantities of food. I said things like “I can’t keep x in my house!!” because I’d think about it obsessively until I ate it.
But it’s over now.
Food can be wherever it is, including covering a huge buffet table in my presence, and it doesn’t scare me or create anger or make me say things like “careful! stay in control!”
That kind of unrest can be over for you, too.
I used to isolate, stay home, avoid gatherings with large amounts of food, go to gatherings with food just to eat it instead of pay any attention to people. I felt lost, lonely, terrified and thought I was going crazy.
I spent hundreds of dollars on binge food. I drove into fast-food restaurants for meals one after the other trying to act “normal” to the employee working behind the counter instead of desperate and almost in tears.
I went to Overeaters Anonymous, weight watchers, therapy, in-patient treatment for eating disorders at Porter Memorial Hospital in Denver, completed Living Binge Free program, People House, more therapy, Beyond Dieting program, Course in Miracles, Alcoholics Anonymous, est, Context Trainings and group therapy.
All of these helped a little, my eating slowed in its excessiveness, but nothing cured my compulsive thinking.
And then, between a very powerful group therapy program and learning The Work of Byron Katie, I found a lightness and freedom from eating wars I always dreamed of but never thought possible.
This approach to Eating Peace gathers three vital and important principles together, and lives out of them:
- Eating (or any activity and consuming) is a part of the flow of in and out, up and down, of life….and everyone can live eating peacefully with that flow, like the tides going in and out…..everyone. Without any upsetting fluctuation in weight. You are not a special case that can’t be cured, no matter how long you’ve been suffering with this problem.
- Eating, food, and body image has grown to have more importance in your world than it should because of your perceptions and unconscious, limiting, very stressed mental activity. You can find out what you need instead of food or eating. You’ll learn what you need to say “no” to in your life, and most importantly, you’ll question the stressful lies you’ve been believing that drive off-balance eating.
- Eating that isn’t peaceful is a deep, internal, often unconscious invitation to growth and expansion, a deep desire to return to balance. Instead of placing focus on your eating and body, you may long for more in other completely different areas of your life. It may not be as difficult as you think.
You don’t have to figure out all your feelings, resolve dilemmas, or feel good all the time. (You won’t). But you can stop overeating or eating or starving obsessively or thinking about food or your weight….and bring your focus to where else you don’t feel free, and question your mind.
The Eating Peace Process approach dives into changing at a profoundly deep level, so you actually become free and find a balanced weight without any dieting. We work in the realm of mindfulness, feelings, questioning our old beliefs, and living in freedom–we address our eating obsessions at the root level.
To learn all about the next NEW Eating Peace Process Immersion Online visit HERE.
You do not have to be controlled, or to follow, the directives of your unquestioned thoughts. You can end the cycle of insanity. Your life includes the possibility of joyful, balanced eating.
It is possible to end your obsession and concern with food, forever.
I’m living proof. So are other people who have done this work.
No control or rigid plans are necessary. (Although you will learn how to review, refine and clarify your own eating and continue to stick with peace).
Eating Peace Experience Online Program: Along with the video presentations each week we have a Q&A and a smorgasbord of ways to stay connected. Come and go as you wish and need. You can’t do it wrong. Your inquiry leads to peace. Eating Peace.
To read about the program in it’s entirety when it’s open, or to make sure you’re on the mailing list so you can be alerted when it opens again, please head over to this page HERE.