High school is harder than ever

Comparison, limited independence. Cafeteria Meals. Unhealthy food behaviour leading to sickness and distractions from life. Eating and moving our bodies is the foundation of life. Do you identify with any of the following:

• Obsessing/thinking about food constantly

• Excessive body monitoring/body checking

• Hating how your body looks 

• Chronic dieting without the desired results 

• Exercise addiction

• Disordered eating

• Having fear or anxiety around certain foods/food groups

• Feeling guilt and shame for eating

• Binge eating

• Food restriction

• Punishing yourself for eating a certain way

• Using food to cope with emotions

• Feeling brain fog, anxiety, and fatigue

  then…

The BODY ACCEPTANCE MOVEMENT (BAM) PROGRAM is for you

The BAM program is designed to help you release unhelpful ways of being in your body once and for all. Grace has taught this program with groups and in high schools for the last three years, with over five iterations and great success.

This course can be delivered digitally, but has proven success in the in-person format. Since the BAM program is designed to create in person relationships and support for people struggling to release strongly conditioned ways of being with food and their bodies.

This program is perfect for your school, your work or your community group.

Here’s a Sneak Peak of Your Course Content

A- Foundations of Diet Culture and the Willingness to change.

-Learn the way we have been culturally programmed to think and behave within the diet mentality even if we are not consciously on a diet or attempting to lose weight.

-Come to understand terms such as weight stigma, diet culture and fat phobia, Health at Every Size and Intuitive eating. We will work with these terms through the course.

-Learn the history of diet culture; how it became ingrained in our culture and understand the harmful narratives it has produced which influence us today. 

-Work with Intuitive Eating Steps 1-5

B- Wellness and Beauty - The Good, Bad and the Ugly

-Demystify beauty and wellness culture. With too much information, misinformation and people trying to sell you stuff - learn how to wade through wellness and beauty industries to identify what holds the intention of health and what is actually weight loss or social conformity in disguise. 

-See the truth of thin privilege, learn about intersectionality and reveal fatphobia in ourselves and others. See how fear of fat and fear of becoming fat keeps us all shackled no matter what our bodies look like. 

STRUCTURAL MATERIAL

Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating

Discover and practice a way to support your own health independent of body size with the 10 principles of Intuitive Eating: 

• Reject the Diet Mentality. ...

• Honor Your Hunger. ...

• Make Peace with Food. ...

• Challenge the Food Police. ...

• Discover the Satisfaction Factor. ...

• Feel Your Fullness. ...

• Cope with Your Emotions with Kindness. ...

• Respect Your Body.

• Movement - Feel the Difference

• Honor Your Health - Gentle Nutrition

INTEGRATION AND MOVING FORWARD

  -Use intuitive movement to change the way you approach exercise. Learn to move your body in a way that feels good and benefits your health in more ways than you ever thought possible.

-Discover how to respond to coworkers, colleagues, friends and family who are still dieting and fighting fat.

-Celebrate our successes and witness each other as we remember who we are and why we showed up in our bodies in the first place.