MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR PLATE
WOMEN’S CIRCLES
MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR PLATE
WOMEN’S CIRCLES
MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR PLATE
SO YOU CAN STOP STRESSING AND START LIVING
JOIN A CIRCLE
LEARN THE EIGHT-INGREDIENT PROTOCOL TO MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR PLATE
CREATE FOOD AND BODY FREEDOM
Online: BEGINNING JANUARY 23 2023
with Sue Van Raes
IS FOOD STRESSING YOU OUT?
You are not alone!
According to a 2017 survey conducted by Psychology Today, an overwhelming majority of women — 89 percent — are unhappy with how they eat, and (no surprise here) how they look in the mirror.
Toxic diet culture, the patriarchy, and an epidemic of negative body-image messaging is taking a destructive toll on women’s eating, self-esteem, and health, all while robbing many of us of our joy and purpose.
Rewire your relationship with food. Learn to listen to your body. Build a foundation for long-lasting food freedom and body compassion. Do the internal work around food and change your external experience of food, body, and health.
ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM FOOD STRESS?
Your daily relationship with food is wrought with overwhelm, confusion, and anxiety. What to eat, how much, and understanding what foods feel best in your body feels impossible and overwhelming
Your digestion is so sensitive, it seems like everything you eat makes you feel sick, and food has become your enemy father than your ally
You keep overriding your body day in and day out because you don’t know any other way to address your challenging food story.
The way you look and feel in your body is impacting your happiness and stealing your joy!
Every time to open your social media accounts or read through the latest health magazine, you find yourself going down an endless rabbit hole of social comparison, self judgement, and you feel like you are not doing it good enough
Life is already intense during these tumultuous times in history, but these constant critical thoughts you have about food and your body (hello comfort food eating!) are making you feel so much worse
You are overwhelmed, over extended, anxious, and not making enough time for yourself, but you are not sure how to sustainably address it and change it
You find yourself self-soothing with food (insert: cookies, ice cream, and salty potato chips) to then you beat yourself up about it for hours, and sometimes days to come
You feel that eating and your health is so hard to manage, but you know deep down it doesn’t have to be that way
“Working with the Sue has allowed me to make shifts in my life and open up to insights I didn’t realize were waiting for me. I have run up against the same walls time and time again in my life, but throughout time I slowly saw the bricks crumble down to reveal clarity to what it is that truly works for me in all areas of my life and health.”
LET’S BE HONEST, FOOD IS NEVER JUST ABOUT THE FOOD
WHEN YOU DO THE INTERNAL WORK AROUND YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO FOOD AND YOUR BODY, YOUR EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIP TO FOOD AND YOUR BODY WILL CHANGE.
While food has power –– power to nourish, to strengthen, and to connect us to one another –– it is nearly impossible for a woman to live her life to the fullest and to feel good about her contributions in the world when she is constantly stressed about what she eats and how she looks in the mirror.
Within my two decades specializing in women’s food psychology, I was called to uncover the many layers to this story for myself, and for all women.
Day after day, women find themselves stressing about what and how to eat, thinking they need a quick-fix diet, a new body, or an impossible appetite adjustment of calorie counting, restricting, dieting, or following extreme eating regimens –– to be accepted and valued in the world. The Make Peace With Your Plate Women’s Circles teaches you how to ditch the drama around food, and learn to eat to feel how you want to feel so you can stop stressing and start living.
Working in a group setting creates powerful momentum and soulful connection that transcends time and space. These groups will take you on a powerful journey (supported by myself and the other women participating) creating both individual and collective healing.
My two decades of experience have become about helping women to reclaim their wholeness within eating and living, so we can collectively cultivate a more integrated, authentic, and joyful experience with food and life.
Anchor with how to listen to your body’s intelligence –– specifically around hunger, fullness, cravings, and what you are actually hungry for (with food and beyond!)
Establish how to meet your needs metabolically with the consideration of your blood sugar, culture, lineage, race, your metabolic profile, and how to best feed your body for optimal energy, vitality, focus, mood, and sleep
Develop practices and rituals that will help you be in real-time with your eating, your body, and how to best tend to yourself in your daily life
Learn how to create emotional resiliency and heartfullness around your eating, and your life in a way that supports your well-being, as well as addressing the ways in which you use food to quell your suffering (and sometimes your joy!)
Gain momentum with elevating your internal dialogue, and how to shift your mindset to one that is supportive, kind, and self-compassionate
Lean into natures cycles and rhythms (circadian, infradian, and seasonal) that inform your eating, moving, resting, focus and wellness
Practice living with more soulfulness, gusto, joy, and pleasure with your eating and your life!
“I began working with Sue in her program, and she taught me balance and pleasure. Now I eat what my body needs as well as what I want. I continue to exercise, but only doing the activities I truly love and that make me feel good. Life is no longer a disciplined obligation”
Hi! I’m Sue. I am so glad you are here!
I am a functional nutritionist, food psychology specialist, and wellness expert who is dedicated to helping women who are stressed out about food finally make peace with their plates. After my own life-long struggle with food and my two decades of private practice, I have discovered a surprising pathway to food freedom and body compassion.
The Make Peace With Your Plate Women’s Circles are a body, heart, mind, and soul approach to stop stressing and start living.
It is my mission to help you navigate your way around food, so you can learn what is just right for you, trust the organic intelligence of your body, and bring peace back to your plate (and your life!).
HOW IT WORKS
HOW IT WORKS
MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR PLATE WOMEN’S CIRCLES WILL GUIDE YOU STEP-BY-STEP IN CULTIVATING SOUL-CENTERED AND HARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND YOUR BODY
Food freedom and body compassion can become your natural state.
When supportive science, nervous system re-patterning, mind-body healing, pleasure, and food energetics are alchemized, your relationship with food and your body can’t help but heal in a sustainable and life-changing way
HERE’S WHAT MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR PLATE WOMEN’S CIRCLES INCLUDES:
10 INTERACTIVE MODULES TAUGHT BY SUE
5 BONUS SESSIONS TAUGHT BY OUR AMAZING GUEST TEACHERS
LIFE-TIME CIRCLE CONTENT ACCESS
DURING OUR 10 WEEKS TOGETHER:
We will meet as a group on zoom for 1 hour (with camera’s on if possible) per week
Our meetings will be recorded (but live participation is recommended)
We will meet 10 times over the Winter of 2023
Our circles will be held Monday’s at 5 – 6 pm MST (Jan 23rd, 30th Feb. 6th, 13th, 27th (no circle Feb 20th), March 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, April 3rd, 2023)
There will be time to center, connect, explore new content, and share
You will receive a total of 5 incredible guest teacher sessions (and my mind is totally blown away by our guest teacher roster!)
I will offer a variety of my favorite resources, action steps, rituals, self-study prompts, and self-care practices for you to work with each week
I will also practice the “No Eater Left Behind” model, where if you have questions, concerns, struggles, I will support you as needed
“Amazing, compassionate, thoughtful that is what you will walk away with when working with Sue.”
“I have been working with Sue over the past ten years at this point. She helped me immediately with my nutrition and binge eating tendencies, but then as time went on I realized I needed her support in other ways too. She has guided me through many life changes, mental health concerns, and trauma. If you are looking for any extra support in your life, you need to work with Sue!”
“I met Sue about 20 years ago and our connection has intersected through various roads leading to wellness. Sue’s knowledge of the many modalities of whole person wellness is not a cookie cutter approach, but honed to each person’s unique needs for health-full living. Each time I engage, I learn new concepts to add to my wellness regime. Her integrity and compassion set her apart. With certainly, I trust her guidance and align the principles while continuing to advocate for my own wellbeing.”
The ability to participate fully at the majority of our live circles
A commitment to yourself that is reflected in how you show up for yourself and others
An open mind
The desire to connect with a group of like-minded women
A little time each week (under 1 hour) to explore and implement some of the resources, self-study, self-care, rituals, and practices
OUR CIRCLE OUTLINE
OUR CIRCLE OUTLINE
WEEK 1
SOVEREIGNTY
Govern your world from the inside-out.
Create a powerful intention for our time together
Embrace all of you – your gifts, your story, your failures, your strengths, and your biggest challenges.
Allow life (including all of the hard stuff) to become your greatest teacher.
Reveal your resistance, and learn how to work with it
WEEK 2
BODY INTELLIGENCE
The Science of Hunger and Fullness Cues
Food Is Never Just About the Food
Tracking Sensation and Sustenance
Interoceptive Awareness and the Body Sense
Module 3
METABOLIC HEALTH
Your Blood Sugar
The Impact Of Blood Sugar On Your Body’s Systems
Metabolism and Macronutrients
Metabolic Individuality
WEEK 4
EMBODIED EATING
Embodied Eating Energetics
Food and your nervous system
Real-Time Eating
Your Eating Archetype
Eating Rituals to Make the Ordinary Extraordinary
WEEK 5
MINDSET MOXIE
The Thoughts That Clutter Your Mind
Flip Your Internal Script
Become the Author of your new Story
Honor the Grit and Calling in the Grace
WEEK 6
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCY
The Intrinsic Purpose of Emotion
Heartful Eating and Associative Cravings
Feeling Your Feelings
Healthy and Sustainable Emotional Expression
Working with Strong Emotions and Stress
Food and Feelings
WEEK 7
SELF-COMPASSION
What is Unconditional Self-Love
Eating With Self-Love
Setting Sustainable Boundaries (with self and others)
Governing Your Self-Worth
WEEK 8
CYCLE-SYNCHING
Cycles of Body and Earth
Circadian Health
Infradian Rhythm
Seasonal Living
How Cycles Impact Your Mood, Energy, Movement, and Appetite
week 9
SOULFULNESS
Your Ultimate Love Affair
The Five Flavors
Eating With Gusto
What Are You Hungry For
Satiate Your Soul
Week 10
CELEBRATION
Embody Food and Body Freedom
Your Personal Recipe For Satiation and Success
Savor and Celebrate All Of You
“ Sue’s ability to lead is remarkable. She gracefully and intentionally adapts to your needs and is able to dig in to get to the heart of the matter in a tender and loving way. Her wisdom and thoughtfulness is evident in everything we did. Sue is a wonderful teacher and leader. Her heart-centered approach allows woman the safe container to be vulnerable and open up in ways that can accelerate growth. All of my needs were met so I could focus on our intentions and relax into the experience. ”
YOUR GUEST TEACHERS
YOUR GUEST TEACHERS
IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO INTRODUCE TO YOU OUR INCREDIBLE GUEST TEACHERS
Guest teacher sessions will be offered as PRE-RECORDED bonuses within specific modules
(not in place of our weekly scheduled circles)
Healing Our Relationship To Food Through Mindful Cooking with Lauren Lewis
Lauren Lewis is a natural chef, chef instructor, and yoga instructor in Boulder Colorado. She headed west from Pennsylvania in 1999 to attend The University of Colorado, Boulder. She fell in love with the mountains, the community and the lifestyle. After college, Lauren attended the School of Natural Cookery to follow her passion for plant-based cooking. Lauren has operated a personal chef and culinary education business for 13 years.
In 2000, Lauren found and fell deeply in love with yoga. Yoga and mindful cooking have such congruency. Lauren has found deep passion aligning these two practices in her workshops, retreats and one on one with clients.
Lauren believes that by intuitively attending to our most basic needs- breath, movement and healing food, we can show up fully to live our most vital lives. Lauren’s approachable style embodies the mantra “think less, feel more”.
When not in the kitchen or on the mat, Lauren can be found playing in the mountains with her amazing husband, adorable son and furry pup.
Cracking the Hunger Code with Dr. Anita Johnston
Anita Johnston, Ph.D., CED-S, is a depth psychologist, storyteller, and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationships with Food Through Myth, Metaphor, and Storytelling, which has been published in seven languages.
She has been working in the field of women’s issues, eating difficulties and body image distress for over 35 years and is currently the Founder and Executive Director of ‘Ai Pono* Hawaii, an eating disorders residential treatment program in Maui.
She is the co-creator of the Light of the Moon Café, an online workbook and support circle for Eating in the Light of the Moon, providing self-study and interactive courses for women from around the world.
Dr. Johnston provides virtual individual consultations and conducts workshops internationally. She is best known for integrating metaphor and storytelling into her training as a clinical psychologist to explain the complex issues that underlie struggles with eating, exercise, and body image.
You can find her at:
Food and Your Nervous System with Kimberly Ann Johnson
Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing® practitioner, yoga teacher, postpartum advocate, and single mom. She helps women heal from birth injuries, gynecological surgeries, and sexual boundary violations. She is the author of the Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It for Good as well as the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester.
As a Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner, educator, and author, Kimberly help’s women heal trauma, awaken their power and feel at home in their bodies to start living life on their own terms. I’ve always had a deep knowing that I was in this world to change things for the better.
All of that came into sharp focus though, when I became a mother. My whole life changed completely in that moment, I had to learn a new way of being in the world. That gave me the “what”. Learning the Somatic Experiencing™ tools and having my world rearranged all over again in that experience gave me the “how”. Now, I use my training, education, experience, and advocacy to help women get closer to their blueprints, unpack all those layers of habits and conditioning, so they can hear what their body’s telling them, and know who they really are.
Internal Family Systems Self-Led Eating for Food and Body Freedom with Sara Avant Stover
Sara Avant Stover (she/her) takes a yin and feminine approach to spirituality. In a container of unconditional love, she weaves ancient wisdom with modern living to heal the wounds and reveal the gifts of the Feminine – first through living her own experience fully and then through supporting others on their unique, embodied, and heart-centered journeys to psychospiritual wholeness.
A pioneering teacher of feminine spirituality for the past two decades, Sara's the author of The Way of the Happy Woman: Living the Best Year of Your Life and The Book of SHE: Your Heroine’s Journey into the Heart of Feminine Power. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Columbia University’s all-women’s Barnard College. After a cancer scare in her early twenties, Sara moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand for a decade, from where she traveled and taught around the world. Starting at that time, Sara began studying with some of our time's luminaries in yoga, Buddhism (Theravada, Vajrayana, and Zen), and non-duality.The creator of the world’s first Women’s Yoga Teacher Training, Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner (and assistant for IFS Level 1 and 2 trainings), yoga and meditation teacher trainer, and an abortion support educator, Sara leads retreats internationally and has taught at Omega, Kripalu, 1440 Multiversity, and Shambhala Mountain Center.
Her work– devoted to the remembrance of the Divine Feminine and integrating Buddhism, yoga, non-dualism, sacred femininity, and psychology– has uplifted the lives of tens of thousands of women worldwide and has been featured in Yoga Journal, The Huffington Post, Newsweek, Natural Health, and on ABC, NBC, and CBS. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, the original homeland of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute peoples.
Becoming An Empowered Empathic Eater with Wendy DeRosa
Wendy De Rosa is an international intuitive energy healer, speaker, teacher, and author. She offers education and training programs for developing intuition, spiritual growth, energy healing and personal transformation to thousands of people from all over the world wanting to develop their intuition and experience personal transformation.
She is the founder of The School of Intuitive Studies and the renowned Intuitive Healer Training Program & Certification. Wendy is a leading faculty member of The Shift Network with more than 100,000 people attending her live events and programs. She has been a featured teacher on the MindValley spiritual growth channel Soulvana and has appeared on CBS News/Better Connecticut. She also hosts her own podcast called the “Wendy De Rosa Sessions”.
She is a published author with her newest title out now, Becoming an Empowered Empath: How to Clear Energy, Set Boundaries & Embody Your Intuitive Powers, New World Library. Her other titles include her bestselling Energy Healing Through the Chakras: A Guide to Self-Healing, and Expanding Your Heart: Awakening through Four Stages of a Spiritual Opening. She is also a contributing author to Bouncing Back: Thriving in Changing Times with Wayne Dyer, Bryan Tracy, John Assaraf and other leaders in personal growth. For more information visit: www.schoolofintuitivestudies.com and https://wendyderosa.com/
FAQ
FAQ
Are the circles recorded?
While it is encouraged to be live (camera on) on the majority of the sessions, I will be recording each time we meet, and sharing the recordings with the group. They will be sent out within 24 hours after we meet (and often sooner).
Will I be able to keep up?
This journey is yours and yours alone. There is no pressure to “keep up”. That said, I will be offering little action items and practices to work with each week that should not take up much time and all, but can hopefully become part of your daily routine.
When do we begin?
Our first group session is October 17th at 5 pm MST. We will meet most Monday’s (with a couple of holiday exceptions) through the following 10 weeks.
Who are these circles for?
The Make Peace With Your Plate Women’s Circles are for women who want to repair and elevate their relationship to food and their bodies. With my two decades of experience, I am excited to share what I have learned, and to be a part of your healing.
When does registration close?
Registration closes October 16th, or sooner if the circles are filled.
What if I have to miss a circle session?
While this group is about majority participation at live sessions, each session will be recorded and set out within 24 hours of our group.
What is the refund policy?
The Make Peace With Your Plate Women’s Circle is non-refundable. Please take your time deciding to ensure you are comitted to your decision to join.