About the Group
This group provides a safe space to explore how we can relate and care for the defeated, embarrassing, or frustrating parts of ourselves that seem to hold us back from recovery. In this 8-week group, we’ll get curious about how the inner critic, shame, and self-judgment can keep us stuck in our eating disorder. Together, we’ll understand how our whole body system – thoughts, emotions, sensations, and choices – can give us the keys to recovery, so that we can find the inner compassion, connection, and confidence that we need to experience safety and authenticity. Through interpersonal connections with others, mindfulness, vulnerability, education, and skill practice, we’ll work toward releasing your eating disorder shame and living the life you want.
This group is health-at-every-size (HAES) affirming. That means we respect body diversity and we encourage and support lifestyle choices that do not put an emphasis on weight or body size.
Facilitated by Merrill Wood, LCMHCA
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Throughout this course, you can expect to…
- Care for the parts of yourself that feel most hopeless, uncomfortable, embarrassing, or challenging
- Find the resilience and ability to navigate stressful life events
- Notice the thoughts and behaviors that keep you stuck in perfectionism
- Feel safe and confident to practice freedom from food rules
- Change your relationship to painful or critical self-thoughts
- Find freedom from questioning, “am I enough?”
- Build meaningful connections in being there for others without losing ourselves
- Learn to relate to your whole self and access your inner strength
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Is this group right for you?
- Do you often feel stuck trying to “white knuckle” or force yourself through recovery?
- Do you want to relate to your emotions differently than you currently do?
- Are you stuck in a loop where you compare yourself to others and feel like you can’t get out of it?
- Do you feel guilty setting boundaries or afraid of authentically expressing yourself to others?
- Do you often believe that you may not be enough for recovery?
- Have you been in or are you currently in individual therapy and you’d like to get some additional support with healing your relationship to your eating disorder?
- Do you find yourself worried about opening up or becoming authentic and genuine in friendships?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, this group might be right for you!
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Group Format
- The group is intended for people 18 years of age and older, and the group may have up to participants total.
- Once the group commences, membership will be closed. Group facilitator may allow additional group members to join during the 2nd week on a discretionary basis.
- All participants must have an up-to-date clinical assessment (conducted within the past 12 months).
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Payment
$65 /session, due at the beginning of each group
$400 discounted rate for full payment up front
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Location
This group will meet virtually using Zoom
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Schedule
The group meets on Wednesdays from 11:30 – 1:00pm for eight (8) weeks