Body Liberation in Midlife: Online Mini Retreat
with Heidi Andersen of Reclaiming Beauty & Deb Benfield of Aging with Vitality & Body Liberation
Midlife is a time women are invited to become more authentic to ourselves, dismantle systems that have been unconsciously guiding our lives, and redefine how we want to move forward in relationship with food, our bodies, our community and living life in alignment with our hearts.
Wear your coziest clothes, grab a journal and your favorite pens, and join us for some sweet space dedicated to connection and skill building for women in midlife seeking a different way to relate to food and their bodies.
We will explore these topics:
Aging with Body Liberation
Reclaiming Beauty in Midlife
Dismantling internalized ageism
Dismantling diet and wellness culture beliefs
Embodiment practices to develop body liberation in midlife
SATURDAY November 4th, 2023
9 AM - 5 PM EST
ONLINE
Included in our day will be a 1.5 hour break for lunch on your own
Registration Open until October 28th
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
Heidi Andersen
Heidi Andersen (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor, Certified Body Trust® Specialist, Certified Safe and Sound Protocol Provider, Registered Yoga Teacher and Embodiment Specialist finishing up her 40’s.
Heidi’s midlife mantra is, “Free at last!” As a part of her midlife reclaiming she has started taking voice lessons, joined a community chorus, is dabbling in storytelling and practices yoga nidra for yield and rest most days.
Heidi believes embodiment heals and combines her studies of Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders and the Center for Body Trust® in support of her clients and leadership of her small group practice, Reclaiming Beauty. She offers individual psychotherapy, consultation and mentoring and Safe and Sound Protocol healing journeys. She is also the author of the Reclaiming Beauty Journal and Wisdom Deck, a resource created to support women developing a self-compassionate relationship with their body.
Deb Benfield
Deb invites you to blaze a liberating new path to a respectful, nurturing relationship with your aging body. She has helped hundreds of women heal their relationship with food, eating, and their bodies in her more than 35-year career as a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist and Registered Yoga Teacher specializing in preventing and treating disordered eating. Now in her 60s, she focuses her research, training, passion, clinical, and lived experience on the intersection of pro-aging and body liberation.
Her work is rooted in helping you:
Shift your relationship with your body from your life’s project to your life partner
Nourish your body in midlife and beyond to support growing older in alignment with your values
See midlife and beyond as a time of Emergence and Authenticity
Deb centers accessible practices so you can apply principles to your daily life and experience true transformation.
She offers 1:1 coaching, small group coaching, a membership community, and professional consultation. She also founded Body in Mind Nutrition, a group practice of big-hearted and highly skilled Registered Dietitians specializing in weight-neutral care and treating eating disorders. Deb is also a lover of rivers, words, and her grandkids. She is currently envisioning life as a semi-nomad.
Kathryn Andersen, Virtual Community Weaver
Midlife… the years when you keep tearing down your own tower, scramble around in the rubble and then stand up… bruised and disheveled and disoriented, and yell out to the universe, fists held high, “Here I am! You want a piece of me?!?” And you hear an echoey call back… “It’s about damn time!”
You can learn more about Kathryn and her work as a somatically oriented Integral Coach with individuals and organizations at her website.