Let’s take this journey together: a deep dive into breaking the spells of eating wars and discovering an unshakeable peace within around food, eating and our bodies.
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No matter how far down the road of suffering you’ve gone, or for how many years you’ve been struggling and upset with eating or your weight….there’s a place for you at this table of life. Join us in Eating Peace Experience.
Not another diet, exercise and willpower program, or complicated psychological analysis of compulsions. This program supports people who are tired of the pain of *thinking* about eating, food and their weight to shift how they think and feel, and act, when it comes to eating, food and their weight.
This is possible for anyone who is willing to shift and question their belief systems. You don’t have to know how….you only need to be willing to try.
New Program Beings: January 27-April 23, 2020.
You can join from anywhere in the world, and do this program from the privacy of your own home. You will learn foundational practices for eating peace on key topics to deprogram stressful belief systems and rebuild your self-love, understanding and confidence around eating and your body image.
Schedule for Eating Peace Experience 2020 each week:
- Monday a Presentation/Learning Video is released by 10:00am Pacific Time
- Tuesday 9am Pacific Time AND/OR Thursday 5:00pm PT: Q&A and Self-Inquiry/Coaching on Zoom (choose one or both to attend)
- Meditation and Journey of the Living Turnaround: Weds meditation 20 mins 9:00am Pacific Time and/or Sundays 5pm PT
- Group sharing in a special app
- Private forum, a place where all our information and recordings are stored and we share in writing
- FB Live Fridays Q&A once a week–send your questions beforehand or join live on facebook for weekly support
A very high-touch connected program: come to what you can. Everything is recorded.
Eating Peace Experience is a robust, thorough immersion in identifying and deleting the beliefs that drive off-balance and disordered eating, and dissolving them through self-inquiry and peaceful thinking.
- Eating Peace Experience: If you have important questions or want to speak with me before enrolling, Schedule a consult call now (no fee). Or write to me at grace@workwithgrace.com to set one up.
- Enroll with one payment (saving $367) HERE.
- Payment plan of twelve payments–sign up HERE.
Eating Peace Experience is a unique program of its kind that focuses on the original energy, belief or birth of a craving, or a stressful thought about the body, food or eating.
We apply inquiry and practices in shifting upsetting mental habits using The Work of Byron Katie, mindful awareness and compassion, to end the obsessive thinking or behaving with food.
We find when we address the stressful thinking, and can observe with an open mind, we get to face the thoughts that declare “I’m ugly” or “I must eat” or “I can’t lose weight” or “this is urgent” (including the urge to eat immediately). When we see it and investigate, and understand it, it can fade away.
We don’t have to believe everything we think.
Eating Peace Experience is a PROCESS. It is a practice in transformation. We orient ourselves towards kindness, gentleness, safety and forgiveness when it comes to what we’ve done and felt with food (and with our thinking about life)! You can find freedom from obsessive eating quickly.
Solutions to address eating problems have existed for decades. Most of the solutions involve finding the right diet, and a priority on weight loss. The focus is on grabbing the bull by the horns, growing your willpower and discipline, and concentrating your efforts on tackling this “problem” full out.
Often there are menus, shopping lists, measurements for portion sizes, and a concentration on measuring, data, weighing and memorizing what you’re allowed or not allowed to eat.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Controlling the intake of food, and examining the contents of the food itself, is a fascinating and amazing study.
But most of us are experts at nutrition and dieting! And yet, still tortured by eating….we know what “should” or “shouldn’t” be eaten, but we find the cravings and emotional experience overwhelming.
Eating peace, I never found, focuses on the diet.
Diets generally live in the realm of control and adding knowledge and documentation to each day, each meal, and each bite. It meant I could not be trusted to eat freely, so I needed structure and rules.
And it seemed like I couldn’t trust myself! I never knew what would happen if I walked into a room with a table covered with food! All hell could break loose! I felt so powerless!
However, treating myself like someone who needed shackles and a leg bracelet that would beep if I went into a fast food joint was so sad, and something seemed off about it. Was this really the solution? Was I really simply unable to cope in certain situations without eating? Is the only solution to powerlessness to tighten up the control?
Was it true that if I EVER took one bite of sugar, I’d keep eating from one end of town to the other, inhaling all the sugar in sight? Was it true that certain foods would forever freak me out? Was it really true I was unable to trust I could be in a room with loads of delicious food without obsessing about it, wanting it, and consuming it against my best interest?
The Eating Peace Experience is a program of transformation, awareness and deep practice in self-inquiry, so that we can access our true balanced relationship with eating. We move step-by-step through common stressful thoughts that cause reactive eating.
It is your privilege and birthright to be in the world at a natural, right-sized body, freely enjoying the taste of food and not fearing it. In the Eating Peace Experience, we’re lightening our thoughts and hearts, so our bodies and relationship with food follows.
You can do this, with the tools we use. It doesn’t matter if you’ve felt mild concern with food and eating, and a constant need to lose ten pounds, or an intense rigidity around maintaining a thin physique…..
…..or if you’ve felt completely insane when it comes to food, like I did.
I once saw a video somewhere long ago, where one person I admired in the art scene was in a green room with others for a little pre-show fun and conversation, all being video recorded. There was something sweet on a large plate–either cupcakes or special cakes with elaborate designs, apparently expensive desserts shared with this group of entertainers.
One young man saw the plate and proceeded to ask the others in the room who wanted to save one for later, because he needed to do something with the plate so he wouldn’t start consuming it with a vengeance. People looked at him curiously, or made little jokes knowingly. Some took a treat and placed it near them. He asked one more time “does everyone have a cake who wants one?!”
Then, he reached beneath a cabinet in the room, took out some kind of cleaning fluid, and sprayed the entire plate of the remaining beautiful treats with poisonous cleaning fluid, used to clean bathrooms. “Now, I won’t eat them all later!” he exclaimed.
When I saw that video, it had been many years since I had binge-eaten, or obsessed about plates of food like they were the enemy, and something to “fight” or wrestle with. But I still remembered the torture of feeling like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when it came to eating. I understood what that young man was doing when he sprayed the beautiful cakes with cleaning fluid.
I also did NOT want to live like that, ever again.
Violence, counting, control and willpower is often the only thing we consider will ultimately work, when we’ve been suffering with food.
But there is another way.
It requires energy and “work”, but it’s an investigative work, not a laboring drudgery work or a forceful work, as so often offered in solutions to eating woes. We question our conditioned responses to life, to food, to eating, to our thoughts about ourselves.
Our Eating Peace Method is a path is to regain power, instead of feeling powerless when it comes to food. To work with our fear in a way that brings true safety and self-respect. And to be with emptiness or boredom by discovering satisfaction, fulfillment and joy.
It’s a method of permanent healing and change through un-training, un-doing, un-conditioning yourself.
A process or method or experience is a series of steps and actions taken that add, enhance, shed light, offer discovery, and give you clear support for ending the imbalanced and agonizing experience you’ve had with eating.
Eating Peace is really a way of life. It’s a practice of uncovering hidden agendas, hidden fears, and the places we feel conflicted.
It becomes easy to simply enjoy food, whatever kinds of food you eat or don’t eat. Acceptance and open hands becomes the approach, not defending and closed fists.
Eating Peace is a live program where we rediscover our innate ability for sanity and freedom when it comes to eating–we were born with this ability to eat in balance.
If you’re ready to foster and grow true eating peace (and body peace) through thinking peace, while avoiding diets, drudgery, shame and willpower…..here’s how we’ll get you there.
New Program Beings: January 27, 2020
Frequently asked questions:
How much time will this take?
First, it may be helpful to consider how much time your eating and relationship to food and your body has taken? I spent hours with my head thinking about food, acquiring food, eating food, and hating myself. We have simple exercises you’ll be engaged with daily.
We have two virtual meetings per week: both for Q&A and coaching in self-inquiry (the primary tool is The Work of Byron Katie). Each meeting is 60-75 minutes. These are recorded and many participants listen to the recorded session as soon as they can instead of attending live. There is also a recorded presentation released each week, and a daily very simple practice.
When will I stop eating or change the way I eat?
You will intend lovingly to observe yourself and learn with the deepest kindness you can find within, as your peaceful approach. You will immediately begin to challenge your old stories. Eating your true way is not eating out of control, panic, rage, rebellion or self-hatred.
Some people stop their extreme behaviors within a week or so, some take it more step-by-step over the weeks they’re in the program, some make big headway in transforming their experience to peace and then plateau awhile, then make a big jump to new awareness again.
Can I participate from Europe or in another time zone? When are the live calls?
You can participate from anywhere. We meet on zoom. You can check your timezone here to see when we meet in your local time. Our calls are scheduled for 9:00am Pacific Time on Tuesdays and 5:00 pm Pacific Time on Thursdays.
Refund or cancellation policy:
This program is very high touch and you are signing up for live calls, an ongoing tribe of committed peaceful eaters, course content, and regular access to our private forum. Please cancel within 9 days if you find you need to withdraw.
One element I am incredibly honored to offer and openly give everyone who enrolls is MEMBERSHIP FOR LIFE. Sometimes people want to join the program again to address a new uncovered awareness of stressful thinking around any kind of self-sabotage or fear, and find peace in their thinking.
*You will have DAILY contact in this program with the group, this is extremely high touch, I am devoted to supporting people to end their suffering around eating, food and body image.
*Emotional Eating groups or treatment settings for eating “addiction” or disordered eating range from $100-$200 per session 3 times a week ($300-$600 per week) for a minimum of 3 months and generally only focused on emotional awareness and support. Outpatient emotional eating groups are $1000 per week.
*Mindful Eating Programs are abundant but teach only the specific experience of eating mindfully at a meal and body awareness–these are included inside Eating Peace Experience. Most of these programs in mindful eating range from $497-$8000.
*Inpatient Treatment or Health Stays start at $15,000 for 2 weeks, and are often more.
To register for Eating Peace Experience, a comprehensive deep immersion in online thinking, feeling and eating freedom:
- sign up in one payment HERE.
To register for EPE with the payment plan:
- sign up in twelve installments (you will be invoiced) monthly HERE.
Praise for Eating Peace Online:
I like this format a lot, the presentation, which I like to watch and hear via the recording so I can pause it. And then the interactive work on live calls. Also, this particular subject, with its emphasis on feelings, seems to be particularly “opening” for me. With gratitude!
Thank you Grace! The format was great. I enjoyed hearing the beautiful ways that people wrote their own responses. I also like how you summed up the techniques we already have been given at the end… it makes me feel more organized and less confused.
In this program, I never lost interest, there was never anything that did not feel like it didn’t apply to me in some way. Some things really stuck for me, like the Stop/Go dialogue and the emphasis on using imagination – who would I be? I SO appreciate this topic – this is so huge for me and I’m so glad you gave this class. I would take the entire program again!
Grace is like the fairy godmother who is objectively and lovingly looking at what’s going on in behavior, thoughts and feelings. The content of the class felt comprehensive and well thought out. I would certainly recommend the course. Thank you.
Thank you for the wonderful writing and videos. I had a big breakthrough that came after watching a few of your videos again. I’ve realized that what’s been happening for me since the EPP course ended is that my inner mentor has been coming forward more and is now ready to be fully in charge….It’s been powerful for me to see that this is ME and not an external character….It’s so clear now. I feel an indescribable peace.
Grace, you have a REMARKABLE ability to embrace anything that comes into our Work, and weave it in. I love your light-hearted but serious style, and that you can tell your own stories. Looking back at what I wanted to get out of the program, I can say that I got a lot more than I imagined. Thanks, so much.
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