I wanted to let everyone know that Donna Gates is doing another Certified Body Ecologist training in beautiful Whitesburg, Georgia – just outside of Atlanta – in August. I highly recommend this training for several reasons:
- You will learn how your body works – what can go wrong and how to fix it.
- You will better understand how eating disorders, digestive problems, cravings, fatigue and other illnesses are created – and how to heal them naturally.
- You will feel empowered to take charge of your health.
- You will meet other people striving for better health – including people who have overcome cancer, candida, eczema and other chronic illness through Body Ecology principles.
- You will learn how to develop an awareness about your body’s reactions to the foods you eat.
- You will learn how to guide others to health – and if this is something you’d like to do as a career, this can be a great start!
- You will get to try all of the delicious Body Ecology products each day during the training – see how great you feel afterwards – I admit that I liked this part a lot!
- You will get to eat balanced, Body Ecology meals to see how they work for you – without having to think about it or cook for yourself. It’s a great chance to be in a beautiful, structured environment where you can learn, while taking a step back into healing, traditional diets.
- You will get to meet Donna and ask her questions – she is such a wealth of knowledge. Like me, I can imagine you’ll be impressed by how well she gets the human body – and she shares so much of this with us.
Yes – You Can Eat Your Favorite Foods if You Choose Body Ecology!
Being on the Body Ecology Diet does not mean you can never eat your favorite foods again. It means you take some time out to heal your body – and once it’s back in balance again, you can add your favorite foods back! As you add them back, you’ll be even more aware of how they affect your body & moods, so you can make conscious choices about what you eat. As you know, I’ve chosen to be on the diet longer than the initial 3 months that are recommended for stage 1 – mostly because I am so sugar sensitive.
Also, because I developed a taste for this healthy, delicious food — which is not uncommon. After you start eating really healthy, grounding food, it’s entirely likely that you’ll start to feel more satisfied by it than by processed foods. One of my clients called me this week to tell me she couldn’t believe that she was craving vegetables and healthy foods — and no longer wanting sugar! But everyone is different and Donna always teaches about the principle of uniqueness. You will learn to use your own intuition and awareness to create a roadmap for yourself in this training.
More Than A Way of Life — Also A New Business!
Going to this training made Donna’s book, The Body Ecology Diet, come alive for me. I would actually take this training again if I could – just to have the amazing experience I had when there in April. I met the most incredible people, who I still keep in touch with today. One of them is even coming to see me from Turkey next month – others I have been corresponding with through e-mail and by phone. It’s like having a network of people who all support one another with respect to health issues – not to mention celebrating the birth of our new Body Ecology businesses.
A Cure for The Incurable
This Certified Body Ecologist training is one of the best experiences I have ever had because it not only qualified me to coach people in the Body Ecology system of healing – it also opened my eyes to a new way of living. I could be myself with this group because we were all there after searching high and low for a “cure” to an incurable illness. Some of us had found it in the Body Ecology Diet before we got to training – and others found it upon returning home. Some of the stories my new CBE friends have told me since getting home are incredible – and the best part is that we all feel empowered to take our health into our own hands.
Body Ecology Newsletter
If you sign up for the Body Ecology newsletter, you’ll see my recent story about attending the CBE training (“Confessions of A Coconut Kefir Convert”) – check it out if you want to know more about what happens behind the scenes at CBE training.
Questions? Share Your Experience!
If anyone has questions about the training, I would be happy to answer them. One of my friends – and a reader of my blog — is going this time – maybe she’ll write in and let us know what she thought. Better yet – if you’re thinking of learning how Body Ecology could help you – and how you might be able to help others, consider taking it yourself. I’d love to hear what you think!
Details:
- Body Ecology Website
- August 14th – 17th, 2006
- Historic Banning Mills
Whitesburg, GA
This Georgia Country Inn, Executive Retreat and Spa has a warm Bed and Breakfast atmosphere and rests among 700 beautifully wooded acres overlooking the Snake Creek Gorge in Whitesburg.
If you sign up, tell them Heather sent you!
by palmtreechick
28 Jun 2006 at 19:23
Hey Heather,
This is unrelated to this post, but I read what you wrote about O blood types and working out. Very interesting. I workout everyday for 90 minutes to 2 hours. Any less is unacceptable.
by Heather
28 Jun 2006 at 20:26
Hi Palmtreechick — the blood type thing is interesting, isn’t it? I learned about it in my CBE training — Donna taught us about the studies done in Japan. Very fascinating. We learned about different things people might tolerate better depending on blood type for work, food, exercise, etc.
It’s great that you are so aware of what is right for you!
With love,
Heather
by palmtreechick
28 Jun 2006 at 20:52
Yeah, I NEED to workout everyday or I will freak. I know a day of recovery is very important and as an aerobics instructor I tell people that, I’m just not good at listening to my own advice. I freak if I can’t work out.
by Maya
30 Jun 2006 at 12:12
Hi Heather-
This query isn’t directly related to your post, but perhaps on a more tangential level it is- with your experience of healing your mind, body and spirit through a range of methods, including by dietary means, I wondered what your opinions were regarding the use of antidepressant medication? I’ve often been told by medics that SSRI or SNRI antidepressant drugs will lift my mood and mitigate the severity of my eating disorder symptoms. Do you have any views on the interface between mainstream medical and more complementary approaches to eating disorder treatment?
Many thanks
Maya
by Heather
30 Jun 2006 at 13:29
Hi Maya, good question. I may want to write a whole post on this because it’s very involved. Keeping in mind that I am not a medical doctor, I will share my opinion. I also heard, like you that anti-depressants were really helpful — however, if you look at the research on bulimiaguide.org — there is a whole study on the correlation of cures or effectiveness of drugs for bulimia (and anorexia). Drugs are the strongest WEAK correlation — and cognitive behavioral therapy, while it doesn’t have a strong correlation seems stronger than drugs. So doctors are saying do both together.
Anti-depressents typically move serotonin from the gut to the brain — something like that. Often, other side effects occur, like constipation — which for some of us, is what got us in this mess in the first place. Other side effects could be weight gain — which is exactly the opposite of what a bulimic would want to have happen in most cases.
In general, I like to take a natural approach to health, unless the situation is acute — any really serious illness or thoughts of suicide, etc., I would say drugs could really help there. But for chronic illness that no doctor has been able to really, successfully cure — the ones that still confound the medical & pschological industry – these seem to respond better with a whole approach to health involving healthy diet, healthy lifestyle, healthy attitude.
I’ll do a post on this where I can share more research, once I have some time to look things up. It’s pretty fascinating how the body works and how it can heal itself. Drugs could be a temporary crutch — especially if they have to be used for the rest of your life — they can mask the true problem and control some symptoms (while making others worse). Taking charge of our health is more empowering — there is so much we can do ourselves. It requries making a commitment to our health and moving out of the mainstream conveniences, which can be frustrating — but once you get a taste of how it feels – the frustration falls away and you feel powerful, peaceful.
I’ll write more — thanks, Maya — for a really great, thought provoking question! All of your questions are always so good!!!
With love,
Heather