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May 8
10 to 11:30am
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In honor of International No Diet Day (May 6) - a day to stop dieting and engaging in hazardous weight loss practices - we'll host a free discussion on our Health at Every Size approach.
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| Yoga for Body Acceptance |
| Fridays, noon to 1pm
$12 for drop ins
$50 for five class card
Taught in the Kripalu tradition by
Dana Sturtevant
Yoga is for Every Body! All sizes and levels welcome
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| Intuitive Eating |
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Fridays, 10 to 11:30am
June 25 to August 18
$35/week
Learn to make food choices without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma, honor hunger, respect fullness, and enjoy the pleasure of eating.
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Dear Reader,
What an amazing world of color the season brings! We are excited to share our new colorful newsletter format with you. In each newsletter, we plan to include resources to help you on your path to body and self acceptance. You will find links to interesting articles, book reviews and much more. We often post information like this on our Facebook page, so become a fan if you want to be part of our Facebook community. Another way to be be part of a non-dieting community in this weight obsessed world is to attend our Body Trust Network this Saturday, May 1, from 10am to 1pm. Our topic is social connection and support.
May 6 is International No Diet Day (INDD). We'll be hosting a free event on Saturday, May 8 from 10 to 11:30am. There are several goals of INDD: challenge the idea of one "right" body shape; raise awareness of weight discrimination, size bias, and fatphobia; declare a day free of dieting and obsessing over body weight; present the facts about dieting and the inefficacy of commercial diets; show how diets perpetuate the violence against women; and honor the victims of eating disorders and weight loss surgeries. More information about our upcoming events can be found at www.benourished.org/events.
We love hearing from you! Let us know if you come across an article, book, or other resource that is helping you lead a more conscious, authentic life.
Warm regards,
Dana, HIlary and the staff at Be Nourished
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Women, Food and God
A new book that has caught our attention recently is Geneen Roth's Women, Food and God. Roth has written many books on the subject of healing from compulsive eating, but this time she explores one's relationship with food as a pathway to knowing ourselves with wonderful depth, great understanding and deep compassion. She believes "the great blessing of our lives is our relationship with food."
When we turn to food, it is often because we don't know what to turn to, especially in a culture that often doesn't support or teach inquiry into our deepest self. Instead of regarding our compulsion about food with compassion and hearing it as a voice from our wiser self, we become focused on ridding ourselves of the obsession, risking disconnection from a core part of our being. Roth gently reminds us that "Your body is a piece of the universe you have been given. Our minds are masters at blame, but our bodies don't lie. Which is, of course, why so many of us learned to zip out of them at the first sign of trouble."
Similarly, at Be Nourished, we believe that reconnecting with our bodies and ending the obsession means listening with compassion, and learning that our bodies are not to blame, and neither are we. It just is, and we are in this together.
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Body Trust Network
 First Saturday of each month
10am to 1pm
May 1
Social Connection and Support
June 5
Appetite and Hunger
Be part of a new conversation about health, one that celebrates who we are and who we can become...regardless of body size, shape or age.
Location: Be Nourished, 3719 N. Williams, $35-50 sliding scale
To register or for more information, visit: www.benourished.org/bodytrust |
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Be Nourished is a collaboration between nutrition therapist Dana Sturtevant, counselor Hilary Kinavey, and other community partners who believe the capacity and potential to change is within every person. Our passion is helping people explore how an enjoyable relationship with food happens naturally when the focus is more on nourishing the body and mind, and less on dieting. for more information about the events listed in this newsletter, visit www.benourished.org.
We encourage you to try different, not harder!
Warm regards,
Be Nourished
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