MASTER COURSE
YOU CAN'T JUDGE A BODY BY ITS COVER
- Ann Pierson D’Angelo, Litigation Support Manager, ACLU
A Different Way Forward
The weight-loss industry is a $70 billion industry that banks on women's inner criticism, sexism, and body shame. And it fails most of the time as 95% of women don't sustain any weight loss after a period of time.
So why keep trying? Why keep taking their advice?
Or, more importantly, why do we keep looking at ourselves, evaluating ourselves, and criticizing ourselves through eyes that not only steer us in the wrong direction, but worse—eyes that sear and burn? Eyes that injure.
We need another way.
This program was created for looking at your body through a different lens than what others have created. A lens that sees deeply instead of shames.
And when you look through a lens of love, not shame, you will see:
The aim of this program is to radically change your relationship with your body from one of objectifying, shaming, criticizing and altering, to one of listening to its messages, dancing with its beauty, fulfilling its deep hungers, and embodying the power locked in its resistance to voices that malign, condescend or assume authority.
One live introductory session with David discussing shame, the body’s wisdom, how to access it, along with introducing the format for the program.
6 Live Ask Me Anything Sessions: These occur at the end of each month. In these sessions you can bring your questions, feelings, and difficulties. David will also model skills and techniques.
Live sessions will take place on Zoom at 12pm/noon MST. These sessions will be recorded with replays available if you are unable to make it live.
17 Pre-Recorded Sessions: There will be two the first month and 3 each of the following 5 months. Each session will have teachings, stories, inner-work exercises, readings, and journal promptings for you to tell your own story.
A digital copy of the book, "You Can't Judge a Body by Its Cover".
An online room for participants to connect, share and dialogue.
- Tanya Taylor Rubenstein, story coach
- Ayako “Aya” Fujisaki, PhD, LPC
What You Need to Know
You Can't Judge a Body by Its Cover - Digital Copy
REPLAY from Session One - Welcome Live Class
Session Two: Resistance to Weight-Loss Programs
Session Three: Coming Home to Your Feelings
REPLAY of Session Four - Month Review
Session Five: Conditioned to Shrink Part One
Session Five: Conditioned to Shrink Part Two
Session Six: The Impulse to "Fix" or Making Things "OK"
Session Seven: The Power of What You Won't Let Go Of
REPLAY of Session Eight: Month Review + Ask Me Anything
Session Nine: Co-dependence - Freeing Ourselves from Other's Addictions
Session Ten: Inner Criticism and Internalized Oppression
Session Eleven: The Need for Safety
REPLAY of Session Twelve: Month Review + Ask Me Anything
Session Thirteen: Parental Abuse and Shame
Session Fourteen: Depression and the Abandoned Self
Session Fifteen: Racism, Hiding Ourselves and Coming Out
REPLAY of Session Sixteen Month Review + Ask Me Anything
Session Seventeen: Breaking Out of Smallness
Session Eighteen: What You Really Live For
Session Nineteen: Fighting Back
REPLAY of Session Twenty: Month Review + Ask Me Anything
This program runs for 6 full months beginning May 7th, 2021
Yes, you have the option to pay the enrolment fee in 1, 2 or 3 payments over the first 3 months.
This program is a combination of live, interactive video session done via Zoom, pre-recorded video lessons and written exercises to support you through the work. The first month begins with a 2 hour live session, introducing the program, answering questions, modelling techniques, teaching about ways to access the body intelligence. Week 2 and 3 are video sessions, replete with learning objectives, exercises, and guidance to connect with your own story. The final week is a second live session, answering questions and modelling new techniques. During months 2-6, weeks 1,2 and 3 are video lessons, replete with learning objectives, exercises, and guidance to connect with your own story. Week 4 is always a live session, answering questions, modelling new techniques.
All live sessions are recorded so you will have access to the replays within 24 hours of the call.
This course begins on May 7th, 2021 and runs for 6 months. You will have continued access to all of the course content for an additional 6 weeks after the course ends to catch up on any of the material.
Yes, we do offer some partial scholarships. To apply please email David Bedrick before enrolling at [email protected].
All participants will be getting a digital copy of the book as part of the course. The seventeen stories within the book will accompany the weekly sessions in order to give participants examples of how to think about and tell their stories.
- Crystal Andrus Morissette, author of The Emotional Edge, CEO of Simply Woman Accredited Trainer Institute