Nourishing the Hungry Heart: A 12-Week Workshop for Compulsive Overeaters

Do you want to change your relationship with food and body image through mindfulness, emotional processing, and body awareness exercises? You might be ready to participate in this 12-week series of experiential exercises conducted in 90-minute sessions and designed to explore all dimensions of hunger (mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual), promote self-acceptance, and motivate sustainable, long-term behavior change. This workshop offers a non-diet approach to healthy eating that encourages self-awareness of eating behaviors and triggers to achieve balanced eating by addressing and extinguishing the underlying issues contributing to overeating. The workshop will teach the use of body-awareness, mindfulness, yoga and movement, and concrete emotion regulation skills to alter disordered eating patterns and achieve a healthy, biologically appropriate weight.

Objectives:
1. Monitor eating behaviors and identify triggers (“what are we really hungry for?”)
2. Increase motivation to change behaviors by identifying obstacles and discovering solutions with support from other group members
3. Learn basic mindfulness, emotion-regulation and stress-reduction skills to maintain healthy eating and eliminate chaotic patterns
4. Enhance awareness of the internal cues that tell us what is “too much” or “not enough” and learn to live from the “inside out.”
5. Develop tools to cope with emotions, manage body-image dissatisfaction, overcome compulsions and celebrate progress!

Dates: January 11 through March 28, 2012
Days & Times: Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm
Location: The Counseling Group, 2840 SW 3rd Avenue, Miami, Florida 33129
Cost: $50/session (insurance may cover and we can check your benefits)

Facilitator:
Inge Sengelmann, LCSW, SEP is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner who specializes in eating disorders and the resolution of disorders of extreme stress resulting from overwhelming life events.

Group will be limited to 8 participants, so please contact me for more information at The Counseling Group by calling 305-857-0050 or emailing info@counselinggroupmiami.com