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Eating can be a deeply troubling experience for some of us. The urge to reach for food, eat when not hungry, think about food obsessively, or create plans to restrict oneself or diet are all difficult. A battle is underway. Eating for emotional and psychic reasons seems normal. Eating industrial foods also seems normal. Food is available in abundance everywhere in many of our cultures in the world. Food can be comforting, distracting, temporarily satisfying, and even feel like a drug. It is possible to experience peace with food, eating, your body, and your mind. You can stop acting on your cravings. The Eating Peace Retreat focuses on understanding and finding empowerment and freedom with emotions, thinking, impulses, cravings, fear, powerlessness, and self-criticism. It’s a retreat about noticing, awareness, and watching thoughts that scream at you to eat (or diet), rather than following them like they’re in charge and commanding you to comply. Even if you’re an expert in diet and exercise….people who come to Eating Peace can learn how to work with the act of eating so they never have to over or under-eat again. The war you've been waging with eating, your weight, and certain foods (and feelings) can end. In the Eating Peace Retreat, you'll experience a deeper approach to understanding your behaviors, actions, cravings, and dynamics with food, and leave with a sense of freedom with food. Here are some of the keys we cover in the Eating Peace Retreat (open to men and women): *How to identify and dis-identify what you’re thinking and believing that leads to eating off-balance *The process of awareness and relaxing your mind, beginning with self-inquiry, that interrupts the cycle of reaching for food, obsessing about food, managing food and eating, or feeling guilty about food, eating, or your body *Accessing a new feeling of rest and awareness when it comes to hunger, fullness, and emotions *Mindful eating practice and following your inner discerned guidance and commitment around balanced whole and healthy food *Feeling the body and resting with it, being with it, without judgment. Noticing our sensations and welcoming them all. The somatic experience of feeling, without terror or condemnation, or disgust. *Moving meditation – you will attend a special event on Saturday morning. You'll get to practice taking care of your own body, to have fun, and to be with the body freely with a feeling sense throughout the retreat–-and to identify your stressful thoughts when they arise. *The Work of Byron Katie is our primary way of working with thoughts, being with self-inquiry and deep investigation of the patterns we are stuck in, and how to break out of them. We’ll use some important exercises to sink into our awareness of what’s going on with eating, food, and self-judgment or self-care. *You'll have a map and experience you can take with you to continue your journey in your daily life after the retreat. In the Eating Peace Retreat, we are using food and eating as a springboard for our enlightenment. The enlightenment of knowing we are accepted and acceptable as we are, nothing is missing, nothing is required. To touch this results in balance with food, naturally.

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Perfectly situated to explore the Emerald City, our home features breathtaking views of Elliot Bay, the Puget Sound, and the majestic Olympic Mountains. Designed with both comfort and style in mind, it’s the ideal retreat for large groups—sleeping up to 20 guests across split-level living spaces, two fully equipped kitchens, two large living rooms, and multiple outdoor decks with stunning water views.

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On the Eating Peace Retreat, participants will acquire and manage their own food as a part of the important experience of being with themselves, choosing their own food, and being with others as we eat together for two meals a day. There are many places to get food nearby, every kind of food you can think of, and grocery stores of several kinds. It is highly unlikely you'll be in a place where your unique diet cannot be catered to. You will not be served food on this retreat by others, intentionally. This is a powerful part of the process that helps you be a part of your food and eating process in a way most like how you'll be when you're out in the world in day-to-day life. You will feel what it's like to eat in balance and be free in the presence of the foods that most work for you, without deprivation.

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