Nourish Your Solstice Mood: 
Meditations & Holiday Foods for Winter Blahs

Part of the Nourish Your Mood: Integrative Health Education for Anxiety and Depression series

Call 510-594-8224

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Coming Sunday, December 11, 2022
2-4:30 pm, Pacific Time - Live online

Reduce isolation
and boost mood
during the Winter Solstice.

This nourishing meditation retreat will be full with:

• eating meditations,
• energy psychology self-calming practices,
• Emotional Freedom Techniques/tapping,
• mindful movement,
• and stillness and rest.

We’ll learn: 

• the magic gift of spices: ginger, mint,  and pine for mood
• how the Hanukkah miracle of oil might relate to brain health
• tips on how to ally with the dark of the year to get the rejuvenating sleep you need
• that our amazing bodies come in a normal range of sizes and some of the sneaky influences driving “obesity" talk
• how social injustice and weight stigma affect health
• what one of the missing pieces might be to support your:
  • mood
  • anxiety
  • concentration
    
    
  • sex drive
  • pain
  • memory and cognitive health
    
    

All attendees will receive free gifts:

• A packet of delicious holiday recipes to boost mood (including no-cook recipes!), drawn from a range of cultures.
• A tool you can use to track the connection between your mood and food
• An evidence-based guided audio meditation to use in a moment when life is hard or you're being hard on yourself

In our time together we will:

• Practice eating meditation
• Light a candle to illuminate the winter
• Practice self-compassion meditation
• Make a toast to bring in the joys we seek in 2023

Click here for a video interview about Health at Every Size.
 
BODY JUSTICE, FAT JUSTICE, FOOD JUSTICE, TRANSGENDER/NON-BINARY/LGBTQI JUSTICE

Open to people of all spiritual paths. 

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Welcoming:

•  Therapists and Health care providers
•  People who get sad around the holidays and with seasonal affective disorder
  
•  People with depression, anxiety, and autoimmune conditions
  
• People living in large bodies, fat bodies, and all bodies
  
•  Humans of all genders and sexualities, including transgender and non-binary folx,  and LGBTQI people who want to be happier this December​

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​Generosity experiment:
Sliding scale for donations, $5-80.
If you have comfortable resources, your choosing Generosity Level  supports people with little or no income in participating.
No one turned away for lack of funds.

The teaching is donated.

This event is a fundraiser for Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. Sogorea Te’ Land Trust cultivates rematriation. Sogorea Te’ calls on us all to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do. Learn more here: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/

Thank you for practicing generosity!

About Reba 

I’m Reba Connell (she/they), Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional and clinical social worker (CA LCS 19814). I teach therapists, health care providers, and stressed-out people to balance their mood and investigate the connection between mood and food with curiosity and self-compassion.
 
I have studied with Dr. Leslie Korn and many of the leaders in Mental Health Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
 
I have completed professional training in teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction under the direction of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Dr. Saki Santorelli and a training in teaching Mindful Eating through UCSD.  I enjoy sharing Energy Psychology, Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping), Qi Gong, and yoga. I am a member of Integrative Medicine for the Underserved and the Association for Size Diversity and Health.

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For information, call 510-594-8224.