“Spend time with people who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.”

—Unknown

For the past seventeen years I have conducted Post-Op Weight Loss Surgery Support Groups at local hospitals.  

Patients share their unique weight loss surgery challenges, and encouraged to pay attention to the psychological and physical hungers, and stress factors impacting their weight loss journey and surgery restriction.

Thought-provoking and skill-building coaching sessions in a safe environment empower bariatric patients with the tools for achieving physical and emotional well-being and a positive weight loss surgery lifestyle.

Subjects include:

• Mindfulness-based stress reduction for anxiety reduction, depression and addiction relapse

• Rewiring your anxious brain; using Neuroplasticity to calm your nerves

• The powerhouse of the Amygdala and the Cortex in self-regulation

• Non-judgmental present-moment centeringLiving the life you image: optimism is better than pessimism

• Ten strategies for professional success

• Your thoughts create your reality and your body experiences every word you say

• Free yourself from compulsions and addictions: emotional logic and cultivating self-awareness

Subjects include:

• Understanding eating disorders and distorted body image

• Identifying and releasing thought patterns which contribute to anxiety and emotional eating

• Strategies for declaring peace with emotional eating and weight regains

• The difference between emotional and physical hunger

• Action steps for achieving food sobriety and permanent weight loss

• Mindfulness eating and weight loss

• Self-esteem tools and 12-step recovery

Subjects include:

• Understanding the pathways of grief for healing and transformation

• Resilient grieving and positive expectations

• Transforming mourning into meaning

• Turning adversity into an advantage

• Mindful Interventions for acceptance and moving forward

“You never know how strong you are when being strong is the only choice you have.”

— Unknown