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 hese programs are designed for people with compulsive eating, anorexia, bulimia, food addiction, and for people using a Twelve Step recovery program.
All the programs listed below can be formatted to fit a half day, whole day, or a weekend program. Special programs, one day, weekends, or week-long programs are scheduled through the year with topics such as body image, trust, and relationships. Check the "Current Programs" section to find our next regular program. Please call our office if you want to arrange a program at your location.
 What is Abstinence? |
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Why is it that diets don't help long term? What is the problem that keeps us returning to abusive food use? What does it mean to be a compulsive overeater? A food addict? What is abstinence? How do I find or create an abstinent food plan that works for me? How do I begin to follow it? This program helps you answer these questions and begin a process of change. |
| Creating Abstinence |
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Using principles of good nutrition and of recovery, participants will define and describe their own eating problem, establish principles of abstinence, and begin to create an abstinent food plan that meets their nutrient needs and their individual food goals. |
| Real World Abstinence |
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How to follow an abstinent food plan in an addictive world. Tips, tricks, and suggestions for real life situations: family gatherings, restaurants, and vacations, as well as handling day-to-day food issues. |
| Top Ten Traps for People in Recovery |
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People recovering from food disorders often encounter powerful resistance within themselves. This program looks at powerful barriers to long-term food abstinence. Learn to limit your exposure, decrease your susceptibility, and change your response to these triggers using Theresa's Tremendous Tips. |
| Staying on Track |
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How to keep going when the going gets tough. Handling the struggles and difficulties of your busy life while remaining abstinent and following your food pan. Topics include:
Boundaries - what they are, how to draw and maintain them;
Managing Difficult Situations - restaurants, airports, worksites, weddings, funerals, etc;
Self Care - putting a priority on meeting your needs without hurting others;
Taking Care of Business - getting your important work done. |
| Straitjackets Into Sweatshirts |
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Transforming a rigid or difficult food plan or process of recovery into a more comfortable, easy situation is the purpose of this program. It examines four essential principles of recovery: Surrender, Self Care, Skills, and Spirituality. If you have struggled with food and eating behaviors, dieting, bingeing, and deprivation for a long time without success, this program can help you find a solution and begin to change your life. |
| Relapse Prevention and Recovery |
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Relapse is common, but not required or inevitable. This program helps you look at relapse as part of the recovery process and shows you how to turn relapse into a precious opportunity for long-term abstinence. The program includes relapse prevention and planning, red flags and warning signs, and tools for recovery from relapse. |
| Marching to the Beat of a Different Drummer |
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Eating abstinently in today's world often makes recovering people feel different, left out, or strange. This workshop is designed to help you handle difficult situations with grace, and move beyond the struggle to conform. |
| Spirituality in Food Recovery |
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An eating problem affects all areas of our lives, but especially our sense of who we really are and of our place in the world. This program examines the spiritual nature of food abuse and food recovery. It will explore the effect of your relationship with food on your relationship with yourself and your Higher Power. It will help you use this relationship to solidify and enhance your food abstinence. |
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