Do you struggle with food every day?
Are you an emotional eater?
Are you critical of your body?
Do you frequently call yourself "fat?"

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, Have Your Cake and Eat It Too! may give you the freedom and peace you deserve. Have Your Cake offers a compassionate approach to food and body image problems coupled with real solutions, skills, and strategies.

Finally a class that addresses the deeper issues behind the food and body image problems I’ve struggled with for the past 40 years. —Sandy M.

Make peace with food and your body

In small groups and individual sessions Rivka teaches how to:

• End the painful cycle of dieting and re-gaining weight
• Stop depriving yourself of the foods you love
• Develop a healthy body image and return to your natural weight
• Distinguish between physical and emotional hunger, and work effectively with emotional hunger
• Recreate your original, healthy relationship to food
• Listen to and trust your body’s hunger signals
• Give yourself the nurturing and comfort you need and deserve

Rivka teaches “intuitive eating,” which attends to the root of our eating problems. Instead of taking away the foods we love, intuitive eating enables us to eat what we love whenever we are hungry. By learning to distinguish between physical and emotional hungers, we can let go of dieting and give ourselves what we really need. No judging or self-criticism is ever necessary. By building self-trust, self-care and self-love, we can re-create our natural relationship with food and gentle relationship with ourselves.

[Have Your Cake] totally changed the way I experience food and hunger and my body. I am finally learning to listen to and trust myself around food for the first time in my life! —Amanda C.

This course has taught me how to take care of myself and comfort myself without turning to food. Food is no longer my best friend or my enemy. I finally have a normal relationship to food. —Tonya R.

Many of the people who take the 10-week Have Your Cake course go on to deepen their work through ongoing support groups, which run year-round.

Are you ready?

Are you ready to lose your worry and anxiety about eating and weight? Learn to live a more compassionate, conscious life, caring for yourself in a healthy way. Instead of spending time and energy preoccupied with eating and how you look, do more of what you really love.

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Contact Rivka to learn more.

The Have Your Cake program is open to women ages 18 and older who struggle with

• Chronic dieting
• Negative body image
• Emotional eating
• Compulsive eating
• Restrictive eating

Rivka also customizes the Have Your Cake program for adolescents, men, and community groups. Contact her for more information about bringing Have Your Cake to your group.

Rivka is a wonderful teacher, compassionate and kind and helpful. The class encouraged me to delve into my eating issues and be honest with myself. —Chris G.