September 2024.
FIND YOUR FREEDOM
A 5 month somatic group programme to transform trauma and build a peaceful relationship with food & your body so that you can live your life feeling more fulfilled and free.
The little girl who was left alone with her sadness, becomes the woman who binge eats when she's feeling too much.
Now it's time for you to love that little girl into safety.
Let her rest in the knowing that she isn't alone anymore.
WELCOME TO FIND YOUR FREEDOM ☀
WELCOME TO FIND YOUR FREEDOM ☀
Binge eating:
a wise message from your body.
We binge eat when our most vulnerable parts are in need of connection.
But if we don’t know how to access and meet those parts of us without reaching for food, we never break the cycle of binge eating.
I work with women like you, to learn how to relate to these most vulnerable parts of yourself so you can embrace them with love, offer them the connection that they have been yearning for and bring them back into safety.
While right now you might be seeing your binge eating as a huge issue within your life, in Find Your Freedom, I teach you how to see your urge to binge as a deep call for connection from within.
Your body is talking to you.
And it’s time for you to learn how to listen and communicate with it so that you can transform the stress and trauma held within you and truly change your relationship to food.
As you walk your body into safety and you start receiving what you truly yearn for, the need for comfort from food and binging lessens as the long time request for connection gets heard.
find your freedom is a one-of-a-kind PROGRAMME THAT TEACHES YOU HOW TO CONNECT TO YOUR SOMATIC EXPERIENCE AND RELEASE TRAUMA FROM YOUR BODY SO YOU CAN TRANSFORM YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD.
This programme not only supports you to take back control over your eating patterns …
But reclaim the power, choice & agency over your entire life
IF YOU’RE HERE, RIGHT NOW I’M GUESSING THAT …
You’re consumed by thoughts about food and just wish you could experience life without the constant inner noise
You regularly binge eat and turn to food as a way to cope with your emotions and you want to learn how to support yourself without reaching for food
For as long as you can remember, you’ve wanted your body to be a different shape and size. You’re always striving to loosing weight and you believe you’ll find happiness when your body is smaller.
You often feel empty and low in energy and want to feel more vibrant, alive and present to life.
You find yourself secretly eating and stuffing food into your body hoping that nobody saw you or heard you.
You have a lot of rules and restrictions around food and you’d love to approach it with more flexibility and freedom
You feel this strange conflict of feeling out of control around food and also very controlled by food at the same time and it’s limiting your ability to ease into the flow of life.
It’s common for you to eat until you are uncomfortably full and you want to know how to really attune to your bodies signals of fullness so you don’t overeat.
And all of this is creating a lot of unhappiness in every facet of your life.
you’re exhausted from all the hard work you’ve put in and no matter what you try, you still find yourself stuck in the same place.
and you’re ready to take this trauma informed approach to start living the joyful, vibrant and connected life that you crave.
CLIENT LOVE …
— Michelle Ritchie-Légère
I KNOW YOU FEEL GUILTY BUT IT HAS NEVER BEEN YOUR FAULT
If you have been struggling with binge eating, your body image and your weight for as long as you can remember, I imagine that you might also experience -
A lot of inner stress and overwhelm
Exhaustion and low motivation
Anxiety, panic and rushed thoughts
Low moods
Chronic pain and fatigue
These are all symptoms of a chronically dysregulated nervous system due to unprocessed, stuck stress and trauma living within you.
What is trauma and Why is it the Basis of this Programme?
Trauma is not what happened to you, but what happens within your body as a result of what happened to you. It is the incomplete survival responses that switched on at a time that you were facing a huge threat to your life (one which you may or may not be aware of).
And for you, food became a place that you could come to for comfort, soothing, and what we call in somatic work, resource.
So while I know right now, food is causing you so much stress and making you very unhappy, I need you to know that food at one point, served to save your life.
It was a place of refuge when nothing and no one else could support you when you needed it most. And it remains that way, until you teach and guide your nervous system down new pathways to feel and truly experience safety.
While your body is physically safe now, your nervous system still perceives that threat is present. Your body has not yet connected to and attuned to your survival. The body echos the threat of the past and anticipates the threat of the future in the present moment and you use food to disconnect and dissociate from the intensity of your inner experience.
FINDING SAFETY WITHIN //
FINDING SAFETY WITHIN //
YOUR BINGE EATING MAKES SO MUCH SENSE.
There is really nothing wrong with your eating patterns. There is nothing wrong with you, it’s not your fault and you are not to blame. They are a perfectly normal response to the kind of environment you have been exposed to and the experiences that you had to endure.
Your binge eating is a perfectly normal response to what your human body and human heart had to experience.
What we explore in this programme are gentle, approachable and sustainable ways that we can relate to stress and trauma living within your body and find safety within yourself so that you no longer need to turn to food.
this is the place WHERE THE NEED TO FIT IN ENDS AND TRUE BELONGING BEGINS.
“Alex holds space in a way I've not experienced before.
It's not easy to describe Find Your Freedom! It's something you have to experience - words will never be enough. This programme has done for me in 6 months what years of talking therapy, yoga and journalling never did. It has awoken within me the ability to process trauma and emotions that have been locked and suppressed deep in my body for decades. Find Your Freedom is life changing. I can't recall a time where I've felt this whole before. I turn to myself with compassion at almost every sensation/emotion/situation that arises and it feels amazing. Life isn't a bed of roses but I trust myself and feel safety within that guides me. It's pretty amazing.”
— Stevie Boreham
OVER OUR 5 MONTHS TOGETHER WE WILL …
Learn the language of sensation
We will come into contact with the subtle communication and language of the body so that you can build a life long connection and trusted relationship with yourself.
Discover how to find safety within your body
We will build the foundations within your body that create an inner sense of safety. As you begin to experience the safety that already lives within you, you won’t need to depend on external resources such as food.
Have a somatic awareness and understanding of trauma
It’s one thing to have a cognitive understanding of trauma and it’s another to actually be able to feel what that means inside of your body. Through developing this awareness you’ll be able to support yourself to navigate life through your own pace and capacity and make decisions that truly nourish you and support the life you want to live
How to somatically experience food
Learn how to eat food with your body instead of your mind and actually perceive the safety that food offers you. De-shaming your eating choices, whatever they are will bring a state of peace within and dissolve the need for future binging.
Exploring current food rituals and building new ones
We will explore your current food rituals and how the support they are currently providing your body, whilst also developing new practices to meet your bodies needs without binging. We’ll also explore ways in which you can create food habbits and rituals that truly nourishing you
Nourished beyond food: How to come to food, full.
Binge eating is often the result of a body that is experience deprivation; emotionally, physically, spiritually and mentally. We’ll explore how to nourish your body beyond food that that every time you arrive to food, you arrive feeling nourished, full and well.
Somatic practices to transform trauma and stress through your body
You’ll discover how to support your body through activating trauma responses and into a state of peace and safety through a library of somatic practices that you can use at almost every time of the day.
“Alex helped me to create a relationship with my body that I believed impossible but became my reality
On days when our relationship feels difficult I can give my body the tenderness she deserves. I didn’t think it was possible to love my body but now I know that it is. I love her and I know she has always loved me.
I feel like I am in a budding new relationship with my body, giddy with love and discovering so many things about her for the first time”
— Catherine Cicuttini
THE NEXT GROUP OF FIND YOUR FREEDOM STARTS SEPTEMBER 2024
5 months of gentle (and sometimes fierce) guidance, somatic exploration, embodied presence and trauma resolution to create revolutionary change in your life.
ONLINE EMBODIment portal
Deeply insightful and trandsormational
You’ll find all of the resources from the live sessions, plus many additional somatic practices and explorations that are going to support you in building up your personal protocols for transforming your relationship with food & your body.
This container has been created with overloaded and overwhelmed systems in mind and the resources offered to you are mindful of that and shared with you with careful consideration.
15 x live calls
We meet every week, 3 times a month for 5 months, for a 90 minute live call.
These sessions take you through the main teaching modules, through a trauma informed, deeply curious, shame free, explorative and spacious way of working.
ONE-TO-ONE SESSION
Included in the programme is a one-to-one session with me where we can deepen into your personal journey together.
ACCESS TO ME BETWEEN SESSIONS / COMMUNITY SUPPORT
There will be a private community group where you have access to me and the other amazing, tender hearted humans Mon - Fri between the live sessions. This space is gold and has long been one of the most valuable spaces for past participants.
“I’m so grateful for the journey. It’s been incredible.
I have much more compassion towards myself and my relationship towards my body and food has completely changed. Find Your Freedom has been soothing, nourishing and informative, opening and a safe space to be with all parts of myself. A good paced journey that never felt too overwhelming for me.”
— Samantha Heaney
this is for you if …
You’re constantly consumed by thoughts about food, whether it’s what you should eat, what you’re going to eat or what you’ve just eaten. You’ve heard it’s possible (although you can’t quite imagine it) to have a mind that’s no longer filled with these thoughts.
You feel like food has completely taken over your life, it brings you so much unhappiness and you know there’s a more joyful approach to life.
You can’t remember the last time you went out for dinner without feeling anxious about whether there will be anything you ‘can have’ and you’d love to have total flexibility to have whatever you want … and have it with total pleasure !
You find it so hard to find clothes that you feel comfortable in and you often end up spending money you don't have on huge clothes hauls to try and make yourself feel better.
You feel really self conscious about your body and you’d love to feel proud and at peace with the body that you have.
You find that you often feel overwhelmed and out of control and want to discover how you can manage the emotional ups and downs of being a human being.
You’re exhausted from all the years of feeling like you are responsible for everyone else's emotions and you’re ready to put yourself first.
THIS IS YOUR invitation to unfurl from old food patterns, to dissolve body shame and embrace a life of true power , choice, authenticity & fulfilment.
YOUR INVESTMENT
THE DOORS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED AND WILL RE-OPEN AGAIN A LITTLE LATER IN THE YEAR FOR OUR NEXT GROUP THAT WILL BEGIN IN OCTOBER 2024.
YOUR JOURNEY TO BELONGING //
YOUR JOURNEY TO BELONGING //
BOOK A CONNECTION CALL FOR FIND YOUR FREEDOM
Ok so maybe you’re feeling all kinds of excited and nervous, there’s yes’s and no’s happening at the same time inside you. Maybe a bit of inner conflict that’s stopping you from knowing what’s right for you at this time.
I’m committed to holding a space where the truth that exists within you can be explored. I’m not here to tell you to join this experience if it’s not the right thing for you. But what I am here to do, is hold a space where you can find some clarity and make an embodied decision about whether this is the right place and time for you.
So come and hop on a call & lets get clearer on what’s alive, present and important for you right now.
YOUR GUIDE, THERAPIST AND EX BINGE EATER //
YOUR GUIDE, THERAPIST AND EX BINGE EATER //
YOUR GUIDE, THERAPIST & EX BINGE EATER …
HEY LOVE, I'm Alex,
I'm so pleased that you are here.
I used to be someone who was disconnected, disembodied and lived my life in a state of shutdown. Overwhelm was my baseline (although I didn’t actually know that at the time) and my body could not cope with it, so it would regularly collapse into a state of freeze.
I would struggle to get on with doing anything that I wanted or needed to. I battled for many years with binge eating disorder, I despised my body, I always felt like I had to prove myself and I had absolutely no idea what boundaries were. I thought I had to be responsible for everyone around me, I struggled to trust people and I really did not know how to express myself authentically which greatly impacted my relationships. Through all this, I thought that where was something truly wrong with me.
Until … I learnt & discovered that I was living with chronic nervous system dysregulation as a result of unprocessed trauma.
Through working somatically & letting my body lead, I was able to stop seeking safety in external people, places and food and discovered how to find safety inside myself. This lead me to stop binge eating, stop shaming myself into weight loss and live with a deep sense of love & trust for my body.
And I have made it my lifes work to support beautiful humans, like you to experience that too.
FAQ’s
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Live calls are on Wednesd ys 6.30 - 8.00 pm (GMT).
Replays will always be available so don't worry if you happen to miss one.
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It is vital for this kind of work that we move slowly. The gentle way is the fast way. Every one of you is unique and will require a slightly different way of working with this.
I have designed this with online learning and home explorations so that you can take your time with it and so that it fits your needs, your pace and your time availability.
Live sessions are 90 minutes and then you will also receive additional resources that vary in length from week to week. I would suggest having 1 hour aside each week in addition to our calls.
This is a forever journey and you will have access to all of the resources so it's really up to you how you approach it.
What I want to add here, is that a lot of what we do, will be about micro integrations into your life - 30 seconds, several times a day. A gradual titration. -
Ok my love, this is the reason you're here though right? This is why you're in need of this space? Overworking and creating little time for the things that mean most to us is a way of living thats rooted in nervous system dysregulation and complex trauma. I'm going to be right here in supporting you to offer yourself that time that you really want to dedicate to you and to commit to the things you desire. I'm right here and I'm holding you.
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Wednesday 3rd April 2024
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Yes my love ! You have access to everything forever so that you can continue to develop your relationship with your body and nervous system way after the programme finishes.
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I hear you my love. -most people are ! I can assure you that there is so much medicine in hearing other peoples stories and having their support too. There is also so much you will learn about holding space for yourself through holding space for others through this group process.
Everything we do in group is optional and you always have the option to take space and step out where needed. -
All live calls will be held on Zoom.
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I know that feeling - even when you feel you’ve tried so many approaches like intuitive eating, talk therapy etc.
Most are missing the teaching of learning how to meet your nervous system and body in a way that lets you give yourself what you truly need in each moment.
Somatics has always been the missing piece for me and for my clients. And I believe it could be for you too.