This presentation sets off by grounding the audience on a singular definition of mental health using definitions and examples. That sets the context for the affects of loneliness, isolation, vulnerability, and healing. We will jump on a slight tangent to breakdown the effect of digital adversaries on mental health as they are so prevalent in society today. Finally, there is a section on Dos, Don’ts and FAQs to set audience members up for immediate ways they can be mental health stewards in their communities, and to help kick start questions and conversation on the presentation.
When: Thursday, July 25th
Time: 5:00-6:00pm Mountain Time
Who: Everyone is welcome
Where: Virtually on Zoom
Cost: Free
Can’t make it? A recording of this workshop will be posted on our YouTube channel.
Brought to you in collaboration with Jinhyun Shin
Jinhyun has a passion for suicide prevention, focusing especially on its prevention through loneliness. As an ethnographer, he has spent much of his time reflecting with people on the tension in between the circumstances of their challenges and the conditions of their hearts. Along his journey, he developed language to make mental health tangible, actionable, and communal. He has since worked with professional athletes, Fortune 500 companies, veterans, and recovering addicts to provide actionable definitions and frameworks around mental health.
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Last Friday of every month at 9AM MT
Join The Eating Disorder Foundation on the last Friday of each month for focused discussions on themes regarding balancing recovery while holding a professional identity. This monthly connection intends to provide a confidential and trusting fellowship amongst professionals in the caring professions including doctors, nurses, school counselors, therapists, nutritionists, social workers, coaches & others.
These discussions are virtual. Please register using the form here.
This mobility series is designed to be a supportive way to tune in to your body and ease back into consistent movement. June 29th-Aug 3rd
This is a 6 week series – every Saturday at 9am MT for 6 weeks. Tickets are for the full series.
SERIES TAKEAWAYS:
- A better knowledge of mobility, stretch tools and techniques.
- A better connection with sensations in your body.
- A way to practice listening to your body and responding to it.
- A better sense of where your body is at the moment.
SERIES SCHEDULE:
Week 1 – 6/29/24: Root & Breathe
This session will focus on connecting to the ground, foundation movements and moving with our breath.
Week 2 – 7/6/24: Connect & Reflect
This session will focus on tuning in with our body and how it feels before, during and after gentle movement and breath.
Week 3 – 7/13/24: Move & Groove
This session will focus on moving through our joint’s and their range of motion and exploring how gravity can help us stretch.
Week 4 – 7/20/24: Rock & Roll
This session will focus how to use the room and myofascial release to explore stretching and it’s sensations.
Week 5 – 7/27/24: Contract & Release
This session will use the science of reciprocal inhibition to increase our mobility, but also how to use your body to support your body.
Week 6 – 8/3/24: Ebb & Flow
This session will use all of the tools and techniques to meet our body where it is today and how to support it in the moment.
About the Facilitator:
Abigail Ladd is a health coach, fitness trainer, yoga teacher, and fat lady! She have been working in fitness spaces most of my life, but her relationship with food & movement wasn’t always a healthy one. Shestruggled with an eating disorder for most of her life and sadly that created a disordered relationship with fitness.
In recovery, she not only had to heal her relationship with food, but I also had to rediscover a healthy relationship with movement, which is no easy task in our fitness culture of “no pain, no gain.” It was a slow and intentional process. It involved a lot of self-compassion, permission, and an anti-diet & Health at Every Size approach.
It is now her life’s mission to help others make sustainable changes to their life while healing their relationship with food and movement. She is committed to reducing barriers to access and making health & fitness spaces more inclusive, welcoming, and completely shame-free!
In-Person Garden Circle for Individuals 18+ Struggling with an Eating Disorder
This support group is ideal for individuals at least 18 years old who are struggling or in recovery from an eating disorder, disordered eating, or body image concerns.
2nd and 4th Saturdays
10:00 – 11:00am
June – August
This group meets outdoors. Please come prepared.
Please register using the form here.
Last Wednesday of every month at 4PM MT
If you are 18+, identify as neurodivergent, and are seeking connection amongst the eating disorder community, please join us! No diagnosis is required or requested. We will meet on the last Wednesday of each month to explore and discuss different topics and themes regarding being neurodivergent and in recovery.
These discussions are virtual. Please register using the form here.
This mobility series is designed to be a supportive way to tune in to your body and ease back into consistent movement. June 29th-Aug 3rd
This is a 6 week series – every Saturday at 9am MT for 6 weeks. Tickets are for the full series.
SERIES TAKEAWAYS:
- A better knowledge of mobility, stretch tools and techniques.
- A better connection with sensations in your body.
- A way to practice listening to your body and responding to it.
- A better sense of where your body is at the moment.
SERIES SCHEDULE:
Week 1 – 6/29/24: Root & Breathe
This session will focus on connecting to the ground, foundation movements and moving with our breath.
Week 2 – 7/6/24: Connect & Reflect
This session will focus on tuning in with our body and how it feels before, during and after gentle movement and breath.
Week 3 – 7/13/24: Move & Groove
This session will focus on moving through our joint’s and their range of motion and exploring how gravity can help us stretch.
Week 4 – 7/20/24: Rock & Roll
This session will focus how to use the room and myofascial release to explore stretching and it’s sensations.
Week 5 – 7/27/24: Contract & Release
This session will use the science of reciprocal inhibition to increase our mobility, but also how to use your body to support your body.
Week 6 – 8/3/24: Ebb & Flow
This session will use all of the tools and techniques to meet our body where it is today and how to support it in the moment.
About the Facilitator:
Abigail Ladd is a health coach, fitness trainer, yoga teacher, and fat lady! She have been working in fitness spaces most of my life, but her relationship with food & movement wasn’t always a healthy one. Shestruggled with an eating disorder for most of her life and sadly that created a disordered relationship with fitness.
In recovery, she not only had to heal her relationship with food, but I also had to rediscover a healthy relationship with movement, which is no easy task in our fitness culture of “no pain, no gain.” It was a slow and intentional process. It involved a lot of self-compassion, permission, and an anti-diet & Health at Every Size approach.
It is now her life’s mission to help others make sustainable changes to their life while healing their relationship with food and movement. She is committed to reducing barriers to access and making health & fitness spaces more inclusive, welcoming, and completely shame-free!