Ending The Great Escape With Food

I’m adding final touches to the new Eating Peace 8 week teleclass starting this Wednesday Jan. 15th.

Only 2 spaces left.

If you didn’t get the updated eguide with six of the important factors I found most crucial to my own recovery, then click HERE to get it in your Inbox.

I would have loved a better map for my own recovery and peace when I was in great despair about simply eating.

Other people have spent years of their lives drinking alcohol, doing drugs, smoking, gambling, isolating, surfing the net, hunting down the next fun sexual encounter…..or……

….seeking for the answer to life.

Spiritual Seeking.

Where’s the enlightenment??!!! Is it here? Or over there?

Picture a crowd of raving fans running back and forth when someone shouts “The Beatles are about to come out of this door! No wait, it’s the other one!”

Sigh. Chuckle.

It’s my commitment to support others in finding their own freedom and peace, in the most direct route possible.

Maps are good.

They aren’t absolutely required, but oh so helpful. They save time, and energy. They can be shared, you can work with maps as a part of a team. Often, they are aesthetically beautiful.

Good ones include the essentials: side roads, scenic views, construction zones, speedways, oases, places to avoid.

Back when I was in agony about eating…when I didn’t know how to feel peaceful when it came to hunger, fullness, health, weight, exercise or eating…

….or my mind….

…I would have done anything to find that peace.

I spent thousands of dollars and a decade of life on therapy, in-patient treatment, diet books, nutritional programs, and classes. I spent thousands of hours in meetings, meditation, reading…..and circular thinking.

I dropped out of college, I cancelled career pursuits, I didn’t take the usual path (I couldn’t if I wanted to).

Fortunately, life revealed answers and my violence and fear around food began to dissolve, and neutrality, sparkling clarity and peace eventually shone through.

But if through my experience and teaching this awareness might happen sooner and more solidly for even one person, so you can give up the pain of fighting or despair around the natural process of eating…

…then oh JOY!

I’ve had the great privilege to be introduced to Scott Kiloby this past year, a man with an easy, loving and regular-guy way who has been studying his own, and others’ experiences of addiction, for years.

Here are his wise words from his new book Natural Rest for Addiction:  

“Seeking energy is any movement of energy that propels one toward the future in order to escape negative thoughts or feelings or a present sense of lack.”

The Work of Byron Katie and self-inquiry, including what Scott offers, bring the simple idea that awareness is all that’s needed to heal.

Instead of unconscious, compulsive, grabby thinking….you can stop, question, and as Scott says….REST.  

I can ask myself “what do I really think is missing, in this uncomfortable moment, when I feel like eating the entire cake, or graze-eat all night at my desk?” 

We’ll do this together of course, during Eating Peace. There are no rules and regulations about diets, quitting, starting, or demands about your behavior.

This work is about investigation.

And I love the image of “eating peace” from the title that was unintentional….

…of me eating peace, as food goes from plate or hand into mouth and down into stomach. The food is peace. Not war.

It’s my friend. It can be yours, too.

If you would answer a few short survey questions, anonymously, on eating and food, please click HERE. Your thoughts and ideas can really help remind me of what’s important to you.

No obligation to sign up for anything if you complete the survey, I won’t even know who you are.

Click HERE if you’d like to register for the class. Write grace@workwithgrace.com if you have questions or need scholarship help.

With love and gratitude,

Grace