"This morning I’ve been reflecting on how my relationship with food has changed since I attended your course ‘freedom from emotional eating’ at the Relaxation Centre last year. I feel really grateful for having met you and heard your ideas about intuitive eating.  I want to share my experience to let you know what an amazing impact attending your course had on me.  I adopted your approach that deprivation means craving and bingeing, and have over the last 6 months, been ‘normalising’ all my feared foods. It has been scary at times, I’d have to buy foods multiple times before I wouldn’t eat the lot in one go, but over time my fear of deprivation has decreased.  It has taken a lot of nurturing around food to regain my own trust that I won’t hurt myself using food through deprivation or over-consumption. I’ve gained around 10kg but surprisingly feel the most comfortable in my body in years, and have much less bloat, I feel slimmer and healthy. I’m not sure if I’ve fully let go of my notions around what weight I want – just recently I’ve started losing weight which has been scary, but I know I’ll work through these fears. I’ve eaten a wholesome breakfast consistently for several months, my pantry is well stocked and I feel safe around food. I’ve started trying new foods and increasing the variety in my diet - at the moment I love aromatic foods like herbs and spices. I’ve also been doing counselling to help me feel, recognise and accept my emotions. I’ve also seen that food isn’t the only coping strategy I’ve used, so there are other challenges to overcome. I think the most amazing transformation is within me, that I can accept myself and I’m starting to like and even love myself. Life is an incredible journey.  I just opened your booklet and saw the quote ‘pain is inevitable, suffering is optional’. A quote with the same meaning that inspires me is ‘suffering is resisting what is’. Thank you, thank you, thank you! It was beautiful global timing that I came to your course and I’ll be forever grateful.  Wishing you well in life, With love and light" Christina

"I was at the Freedom from Emotional Eating seminar at the Relaxation Centre a few weeks ago ... and I just wanted to say thank you so-so much.  What a truly life-changing experience it has been - I've never eaten so much fruit in my life and I cannot believe how truly awful some of my Roolly-Roolly Scary Foods actually taste ... doubt that I'll ever eat Cheese Supreme corn chips again!   I am also sure that I was simply really ready to hear what you had to say - it made so much sense to me then and it continues to resonate very deeply with me.   I always knew, deep down, that Weight Watchers and the like were not for me - thank you for confirming what I knew to be true.   I have mentioned the course and philosophy to a few colleagues - and the Diet Mentality is very, very strong, isn't it? "What do you mean you can eat whatever you like?!" is so common.   It's as though we really believe we are all repressed gluttons with no common sense, just waiting to be unleashed.   I have no cynicism or disbelief about this whatsoever - can't wait to see what my beautiful body really looks like, left to her own devices and to reveal her true self.  Thank you, Karla - thank you, thank you, thank you.  Best wishes and warm, warm regards" Melissa

"I thought I'd give you an update on my journey:  I’ve been binge-free and diet-free for 18 months now and I can’t tell you how freeing that is and what it means to me to be able to say I have a life now, before I was just going through the motions and feeling numb inside and spinning out of control.  That obsession robbed me of 8 years of my life and I'll never get those years back.  My husband and kids can finally say they’ve got “me” back too, only a much more improved version!  My biggest motivation for coming to see you was to be a great role model for my girls so they never have to go through what I did, well I'm doing it now rather than just dreaming about it.  Of course it’s been a huge learning curve for me with lots of self-discovery and a few tears shed but I have found an inner courage and strength I wasn't aware of before.   I've taken up boxing recently and even lifting weights (you should see me, I'm dangerous!)  We're planning a trip overseas next year too and I'm thinking about returning to Uni to pick up my studies, that's something I wouldn't have even considered in my other life.  My body reflects how I feel inside, which is vibrant and beautiful and strong.  It took a while, but now I can say I actually like living inside my body.  For everything you do Karla, thank you" Kathryn xx

"Thank you so much for doing these sessions with me.  You really are as warm and non-judgemental as you come across on your website.  I've been dieting since I was 12 when my mother dragged me along to a Weight Watchers meeting and I've been gaining weight steadily since then.   I look at photos from my teenage years and I want to cry.  I was not fat!  I would give anything to return to the fit and attractive look I had then.  I'm turning 40 next year and I am presently hiding in size 22 clothes.  This has to end.  This is not me.  With your help I am reclaiming my life and I will do it one peice at a time.  I only wish I found you earlier.  See you next week for more inspiration and motivation!  Tammy
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these prices effective from May 25, 2010

The Life After Diets - 6 Steps to Freedom  program is available to you in these forms:

1    One-on-one mentoring: Brisbane  in person, in private, with Karla at the Life After Diets office at The Grange

Each 90 minute session costs $120 and includes your hard copy workbook to keep.  There are a total of 6 sessions - or 6 steps to your freedom - and you pay as you go.  No contracts.  No obligations.  Your freedom is your responsibility.  See details of each of the 6 steps at bottom of this page. 

Shopping around for a great deal?  Consider this: the cheapest private practising psychologist in Brisbane, that I'm aware of charges $120 for a 60 minute consult - and you'd be lucky to get the whole 60 minutes.  I charge the same and give you an extra 30 minutes time.  You're working with a specialist in the field of eating issues.  Eating issues is all I do, plus I'm in the unique position of having had all the real life experience, not something you'd find in a text book or a case study while completing your degree.  Money issues are also the reason I provide workshops at The Relaxation Centre, to reach more people, more affordably.  Scroll further down to read details of these workshops.

1    Introduction to Freedom in person at the Life After Diets office at The Grange

Optional and obligation-free 45 minute session designed to introduce you to how the lifeafterdiets program works and how it can work for you.  Tell me your story, find out the facts, take home some reports, have a coffee, do a body image awareness exercise, take a load off and feel better.  $ 49

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2    Australia-wide and World-wide:  One-on-one Skype mentoring

All you need to access this service is an internet connection, a web-cam and an email address - and be able to speak English.  (Translation will be my next project!)  Skype sessions go for 75-90 minutes and cost $ 99 each.  There are a total of 6 sessions involved in the program.  See the 6 steps below for further details of each session.

3    Brisbane:  Small group seminars @ The Relaxation Centre, Alderley 

If money is an issue for you to come and see me privately, I highly recommend you attend one of my workshops at the Relaxation Centre.  These are very affordable for most people.  For your free hard copy newsletter from the Relaxation Centre which includes details of all their courses (including mine) please phone 3856 3733 or check their website www.relaxationcentreqld.org   CURRENT lifeafterdiets SEMINARS are on: WEDNESDAY 23rd June & MONDAY 12th July  7pm - 9pm  Life After Diets - "Introduction to a non-diet approach" and "Intuitive Eating - what is it?" - it's the same introductory-style session both evenings with $20 payable to the Relaxation Centre.  It is not a requirement to attend either evening in order to do the Freedom from Emotional Eating workshop below

SATURDAY  31st JULY  "Freedom from Emotional Eating"  $75 inc 50 page workbook.  from 10am to 5pm.  This is an intensive full day workshop that will give you many practical tools and strategies to achieve your own freedom, delivered in the welcoming and informal environment that the Relaxation Centre provides, including their famous home-made bikkies.  It doesn't matter if your issue is Bulimia, Binge Eating or Emotional Eating - exactly the same program is offered by Karla and will work for you.

4    E-books will be available in 2010. 

I have recognised the need for a portable do-it-for-yourself program and am continuing to work hard to create for you a user-friendly, effective product in the form of e-books containing the entire LifeAfterDiets program for purchase online, through my website.  This will suit those of you who do not require support every step of the way.  And because I don’t have to be there in person, this will be a most economical way to achieve your freedom.  Life After Diets Freedom-to-go is coming

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Details of lifeafterdiets 6 steps to Freedom program:

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Step 1  What are you really hungry for?  Identify your missing emotional needs and what it is you are truly hungry for physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.  Identify your strengths and your values.  Discover how you give your power away and the underlying reasons why you do this

Step 2  Thinking Freedom  Discover how your judgements, critisizms and condemnations of yourself and others sets you up for this eating issue.  Learn how to do a simple CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) written exercise to change all that and set yourself free.  The way we think influences the way we feel and the way we feel influences the way we eat (or don't eat).

Step 3  Feelings Freedom   Learn a completely new language - the non-violent communication language of feelings - to build a quality relationship with yourself first so you can then communicate with others in a much more empowered and honest way

Step 4  Eating Freedom  This session will present many guidelines on what to eat, you will get in touch with your favourite foods, you will learn a process to reintroduce your scariest forbidden foods back into your life, you will be walked through a practical process that really works to break the cycle of emotional overeating, binge eating or bulimia, identify your personal triggers and discover the art of mind-full eating or intuitive eating, a process built on trusting yourself.

Step 5  Emotional Expression Freedom  This session is all about boundaries, communication, assertiveness, reclaiming your own personal power and being courageous enough to use it in your real life, you'll also be given a handy list of 59 ways to say NO.

Step 6  Body Image Freedom  Be gently taken through 2 guided imagery exercises that bring out from your subconscious how you really feel about your fatness and your thinness.  101 strategies, tips and ideas to make a non-diet approach work for you, summarized and listed,  do-it-yourself wardrobe detox and dressing for your shape and your individuality so you feel beautiful TODAY

 

PAYMENT METHODS:  We accept cash, personal cheque with your personal details, credit card - mastercard and visa cards will be subject to an additional $5 per session charge because that's what the bank charges me per transaction.  We accept direct deposit with Internet banking.  Bank account details: Account Name: "Dean Cameron Painters Pty Ltd Trading as Life After Diets"  BSB:  064163  Account Number: 1016 6670 

 

 

 


 
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