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Are you enough yet?  Welcome to the October
2010 Newsletter.

Many of us with eating issues spend our lives waiting. Waiting to be thin enough, waiting to be good enough. Waiting to like ourselves. Many of us think we would be happy, energetic, and more confident if only we didn’t have these issues with food. We think every problem in our life is about not being thin enough because we spend so much time thinking about food and weight and if only I could lose the weight, then my problems would go away. We think dieting is our only choice to change how we feel about ourselves and our lives. But there is an alternative.

 Change won’t happen by beating yourself up and punishing yourself. The way out is not through deprivation, judgment, and self-loathing, but through loving yourself, respecting yourself, relaxing and trusting a kind of inner intelligence.

If you can’t start liking yourself, respecting yourself and treating yourself with tenderness and love right now, it is not going to happen when you get thinner. It’s not through changing your body that you change your attitude, that you change your feelings about yourself. The way that you talk to yourself is the way that you talk to yourself. If you punish yourself you will find a way to do it wether it’s through your body, your work, or your relationships. It’s a self talk, an attitude; it’s the way you were talked to when you were growing up. It’s what you believe about yourself (your fundamental being).

So how do you begin liking yourself if you are not the weight you want to be, if your life is not the way you want it to be. You don’t keep waiting for life to begin. It’s about how you treat yourself. What you say to yourself. The day to day messages you give yourself about everything. The only thing that can change is changing what you say to yourself. Changing on a fundamental level. Changing the way you live your life.

Ask yourself “If I was my natural weight now how would I treat myself. How would I dress, walk, what would be the things I would do. What difference would it make in my day to day living”. Then live like that. One step after another. One insight, one behaviour change. It is a journey within, an exploration as you turn your focus inwards.

After what feels like a lifetime of exploring food and weight and finally finding a freedom within myself. I am excited to be now offering my insights through weekend workshops, weekly inquiry groups and one on one personal sessions. See below for details on my next one day workshop.

I hope to see you at the Cinema for the Soul to watch Geneen Roth's movie; Breaking free, where I will also be talking more about my work and what I offer.

Tracey


BEYOND DIETING? 

The Journey Within 

EMBRACING WHOLENESS ONE DAY WORKSHOP

Many of us with eating issues spend our lives waiting. Waiting to be thin to start living, to start liking ourselves. If you can’t start respecting yourself and treating yourself with tenderness and love right now, it is not going to happen when you get thinner. It’s not through changing your body that you change your feelings about yourself. If you punish yourself you will find a way to do it whether it’s through your body, your work, or your relationships. It’s a self talk, an attitude; it’s the way you were talked to when you were growing up. It’s what you believe about yourself (your fundamental being).

We have to understand that our truth is wholeness, that we were never meant to have suffering and addictions and eating issues, that the way back to ourselves is through accessing the whole being within.

 The way out is not through deprivation, judgment, and self-loathing, but through loving yourself, relaxing and trusting a kind of inner intelligence! 

In this “embracing wholeness” one day workshop you will;

- Begin to explore your relationship with food and uncover the real issues of why you turn to food.

- Understand the importance of healing the feelings that drive emotional eating, and learn some vital tools to set about resolving these issues.

- Learn the value of self love and begin to make changes out of a desire to love and respect yourself rather than deprive yourself and beat yourself up.

 

Book Now; Tracey Mullen 49 485358 or email 

Investment; $150.00

Where; TBA where in Newcastle

When; Saturday 16th Oct 9.30am-4.30pm

           
Course Facilitator; Tracey Mullen
                                            Dip.Med.Herb.Dip.Irid.Dip.Rem.Mass
                                               Specialising in Weight Management and Emotional Eating Issues  

Cinema for the Soul
Movies that Inspire Truth

FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER & NOVEMBER

OCTOBER;

Come along 2nd and 4th Friday of each month.

Fri 8th WHEN FOOD IS LOVE Geneen Roth explores the role food plays in our lives addressing the way we look at and deal with food through overeating and the diet-binge cycle. A must see for anyone who has had challenges with food and dieting in their life.

Fri 22nd VISIONS OF A UNIVERSAL HUMANITY Barbara Marx Hubbard brings together some of the finest minds who present cutting edge perspectives on humankind's potential to create a positive future for the Earth. VISIONS is a movie that takes us beyond now, beyond 2012, into a future filled with infinite possibilities.

NOVEMBER;

Fri 12th THE DRUGGING OF OUR CHILDREN Do these drugs really help our children cure symptoms of supposed mental illness, or do they tend to increase depression, violence, and suicide? Are we really treating the root causes of mental illness, or are we just eliminating annoying symptoms?

Fri 26th 2012 SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION The Mayan calendar ends in the year 2012 Leading researchers, writers and scientists in the field tell us exactly what the date 2012 means to them. They examine the competing interpretations of this ancient prophecy that may forecast utter destruction, or a miraculous rebirth.
 
Cost $5.00 unless stated otherwise. Starts 7.30pm Open discussion after every movie           
The Royal Exchange, 32 -34 Bolton St, Newcastle.
For more information on the movies or to book online click here


Social Events

Picnic in the Park 

Each month we will meet in a different park and we'd love you to come along!

Date: Saturday 16th October, 2010
Time: 12 Noon for BYO picnic LUNCH
Park
: Contact Sharon for more details.

ContactSharon 0425313309 (In case of rain or wild winds, picnic will be cancelled)

Interesting Resources

True Food Guide Download
(Support GM Free foods).

Making people think with Humour

Today Tonight comes good on the truth of how poisonous Flouride really is

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