Specializing in the following areas:

From Chaos to Connection with Food, Eating and
Self-Worth:
A Model for Transformation and Sustainable Wellness

Food holds meaning for all of us. It is a symbol of connection, love, history and survival. Our
relationship to food can be a gateway into our inner world.

Cyclical dieting, chronic health
and weight issues and disordered eating often highlight a crisis of self-worth. Unresolved issues and trauma can become masked in our eating behaviors, as we attempt to meet unmet
needs with food.

This workshop offers a depth approach to emotions and eating, highlighting
the transformative role of creativity within the chaos of diet culture. We will unpack the layers
inherent in our relationship to food, explore common patterns, identify steps toward healing and offer new perspectives for addressing our chronic striving for wellness.

We will engage participants in an art process that will bring awareness to who might be “sitting with them” at the table when they eat.
Erica Westby, M.A., LPCC, (right) specializes in disordered eating, and food addictions. Francie Healey, M.A., LPCC, CHC, (center) focuses on the psychology of eating and blends psychotherapy with health counseling. She is the author of Eat to Beat Alzheimer’s. Tiannon Christine, M.A., LMHC, (left) focuses her art therapy practice on women, wellness and worth.
Register for the Creativity, Consciousness and Connection in Challenging Times Conference today!
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Date: August 22-26, 2018
Location: Southwestern College and The Center for Spiritual Living

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Emotions & Eating: The Psychology of Wellness & Worth

Food is a gateway to our inner world, and wellness requires putting our self-worth into action.

Learn skills for taking clients deeper into rebuilding self-worth and upgrading their relationship to food. The way we relate to food holds keys to how we relate to the self, and to nurturing.
Date: September 8, 2018
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Cost: $125 (6 Counseling CEUs available)
Location: TBA

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Eat to Beat Alzheimer’s – Delicious Recipes and New Research to Prevent and Slow Dementia

offers a practical guide and an empowering tool to bring nourishing, healthful, and delicious food into the lives of people concerned about Alzheimer’s and other cognitive problems. Almost 9 million people in the U.S. suffer from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, and the toll is rapidly increasing. This book will appeal to everyone concerned about dementia and memory loss in either themselves or a loved one.

Recent research makes clear that the impact of aging on the brain can be reduced by simple diet and lifestyle modifications. The delicious food choices and easy-to-prepare recipes in this book are based on the latest findings showing that they can help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s and other conditions like it, or prevent them entirely.

Readers will gain the knowledge and tools to take charge of their health by incorporating tasty, healing foods into their diet. The information in this cookbook will be as relevant and useful 20 years from now as it is today. And the recipes will still be just as delicious.