EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUPS

As much as an eating disorder and diet culture separates us from ourselves, our hearts, and the world, the homecoming process of healing happens when there is support and holding alongside other kindred spirits.

These Eating Disorder Recovery Support Groups are open to anyone at any stage of their healing path. Each group is a closed container and is open to eight people.

Somatic healing modalities, nervous system regulation tools, and group sharing and witnessing are included, offering perspectives and skills that can be applied to wherever you find yourself on the recovery road.

Sessions are informed by an embodied approach to eating disorder recovery, and each session progressively builds upon each other as trust, safety, and familiarity within the container develops.

Whether you struggle with restrictive eating, binge eating, bulimia, over-exercise, orthorexia, body image issues, disordered eating, dieting, or you feel like something just needs to shift around your relationship to nourishment, you are invited to join.

This intentional group container aims to serve as a reminder that we are not meant to heal alone.

Returning to the body is a collective movement. When we unite together with the intention to anchor into our unique embodiment, and celebrate one another in that process, we have the opportunity to shift the dominant collective narrative of what it means to be a human in a body in relationship with the world.

Groups are anti-diet, HAES-focused, trauma-informed, and is a confidential container in rooted acceptance, gentleness and care.

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Who Is This Online Eating Disorder Recovery Support Group For?

This group is open to folks who are curious about incorporating embodiment practices as a way to establish a trusting relationship with their bodies and eating, and who believe that this sincere work is strengthened when in community.

Individuals who are actively working on their eating disorder recovery
Anyone who is desiring to be free in their bodies and with food
People who are looking to connect with others from around the world who understand what it means to be walking the recovery road
Anyone who desires to co-create a more embodied and compassionate world

All of you is welcome. Regardless of belief system, gender expression, sexual expression, class background, physical and intellectual ability, age, ethnicity, race, or country of origin, you belong in this space.

We are here to learn from each other, and encourage one another to rise into our fullness of being.

We return to our embodied wholeness when we remember that we inherently belong - and community reinforces this essential need and inherent state.

A kind reminder: It is normal to feel shy, apprehensive, intimidated, nervous or resistant when joining a support group. These feelings are the doorways to your healing and point you to your potential.

These feeling may also come up to protect you from entering into something new. This is a beautiful opportunity to feel these feels and to say yes anyway, knowing that this space is specifically designed to hold the vulnerability we inevitably encounter when we step from the known to the unknown and say yes to transformation.

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Testimonial

“I've been working with Francesca over the past year and find her groups to be light-filled, grounding and safe containers to help me as I navigate my own complicated path of living with an eating disorder and exploring recovery. I am grateful for the somatic practices she works into each group and for the opportunity to learn from her and others in an open, supported environment.” - Damaris

Eating Recovery Support Group Details - April - May 2024

6-week group container, with live weekly sessions

Dates: 23 April, 30 April, 7 May, 14 May, 21 May, 30 May

Time: 12:00pm - 13:30pm EST

Hosted on Zoom (sessions are not recorded)

Open to 8 people (no drop-ins)

Support and communication offered between sessions

Receive weekly downloadable guided embodiment practices

Cost for South Africans: R1 900

Cost for people outside of South Africa: $190

To join the waitlist for the next group, contact me below.

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Themes and Flow

Each session has an arrival embodiment practice, topics of discussion, reflective questions, group sharing, and a closing practice. Whilst an outline for the six weeks has been established, the container is organic and adaptive, responding to the needs and curiosities of the group.

Session 1 (Land): Acknowledging the body as a way to deepen into embodiment, grounding the body into the present in relationship with the external environment, establishing foundations

Session 2 (Clarify): Exploring interoception, centering the body, clarifying values, exploring somatic adaptability

Session 3 (Expand): Understanding the connection between digestion, attachment and safety, resourcing the body through the senses, awakening the social engagement system

Session 4 (Embrace): Creating somatic space, becoming curious about patterns related to self-intimacy, finding meaning in the journey

Session 5 (Weave): Exploring developmental movement patterns as a pathway to understanding the attachment and defense systems

Session 6 (Integrate): Digesting and landing, envisioning and clarifying next steps

Learn how to trust your body and find freedom with food with the support of body-based practices, nervous system tools for regulation and empowerment, and heart-centered community-based practices for embodied eating disorder recovery.

A Personal Story

In 2009 I attended my first eating disorder recovery support group. It was a life-changing experience for my own journey, and I continued to attend the weekly group for months thereafter. Connecting with familiar faces each week built trust and safety to share vulnerably and listen compassionately.

It was a relief to be with people who understood the complexities and nuances of navigating disordered eating. Each person was at different stages of their healing, making it a rich environment to gain clarity, perspective, direction for my own growth.

I remembered I was not alone and found refuge in other people's shares. I could relate and resonate. There were many gifts that I could take away from every session; each person had raw and real wisdom that helped me see myself in a new light.

Through the group’s reflections, compassionate witnessing, empathetic understanding, I felt seen, that I belonged, that what I was experiencing was ok, and that at my core I was ok - and in that, I felt closer to myself and to my own body. I could reside at home in my own skin.

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