8 Weeks to Body Acceptance
Happy, Healthy & Confident at Any Size!
New Dates Coming Soon!
It's time to learn how to be comfortable in the skin you are in!
Just like you learned to hate your body, you can learn to accept it too.
By removing the restrictions of diet culture and the traditional metrics of health, wellness, and beauty, you will discover that you can become the expert on yourself and create lasting confidence and happiness.
Lisa Dahl Wellness- Be Body Positive works to teach you the skills to improve your self-care, disordered eating, depression, anxiety, and weight cycling.
This program will help you create a positive relationship with your physical self to allow you to embrace your here and now body and thrive in all that you want to do.
This support group, based on the Be Body Positive Model, will teach you five powerful Competencies to help you develop resources and a renewed energy to take care of your body!
Reclaim Health
Practice Intuitive Self-Care
Cultivate Self-Love
Declare Your Own Authentic Beauty
Build Community
These core Competencies are fundamental skills we practice daily to live peacefully and healthfully in our own bodies.
When we become confident in using these skills, we can care for ourselves in body, mind, and spirit from a place of self-love and appreciation.
We’ll come back together each week to share our triumphs and struggles.
8-week session details below
““As a lifelong yo-yo dieter, I hired Lisa to lose some weight, but what I found was that I needed to examine why I thought I needed to lose weight. With Lisa’s coaching, I examined my relationship with food and the messages about weight that were so ingrained, I didn’t even realize they were messages. It wasn’t a comfortable process, but Lisa’s gentle yet consistent guidance opened new doors. She allowed me to set my own pace in discovery and taught me to listen to myself - no rules, no judgment, no restrictions. I’m still a work in progress but I know Lisa’s in my corner any time I need caring, open-minded reassurance.””
8 Week Session
February 21 - April 11, 2023
Tuesdays, 7:00 - 8:15 pm EST
Week 1.
Intro to Be Body Positive
Explore messages about bodies, health, gender beauty, food, and exercise.
Create a safe and brave space.
Week 2.
Body Stories
Gain an understanding of the messages from the past that affect our current relationships with our bodies
Introduction to Health at Every Size®
Week 3.
Reclaim Health
Break down myths about weight and health
Explore “sizeism”
Understanding and principles of Health at Every Size®
Week 4.
Cultivate Self Love
Understand how our critical voices affect the way we relate to ourselves and others
View ourselves through eyes of love, and to develop a kind, compassionate voice that can speak our internalized critics
Week 5.
Practice Intuitive Self-Care
Practice Intuitive Eating
Explore Intuitive Movement
Week 6.
Pleasure, Shame & Intuitive Sexuality
Explore pleasure as a component of positive, healthy self-care
Examine the role of shame in blocking pleasure, self-love, physical health, and emotional well-being
Week 7.
Declare Your Own Authentic Beauty
Learn about intersecting identities
Discuss identities, oppression, privilege, and beauty
Re-envision beauty
Create an environment to speak about yourself in a positive light without fear of being called conceited
Week 8.
Beauty Stories
Declare your own authentic beauty
Create community
The results are in…
A Stanford University pilot study showed that The 5 Competencies of the Model had a positive effect on participants’ self-reported guilt, belief in the thin ideal, body satisfaction, and social determinants of body image. Further improvements on all measures were shown eight months after group participation.
A California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) three-year pilot study showed improvement on all measures—including body satisfaction and self-compassion—at the end of the intervention, and even greater improvement after three years.
Cornell University recently completed a two-year pilot study on their adaptation of our curriculum. Results from the Cornell study will be published soon.
The Be Body Positive Model was developed over a decade of listening to diverse people share what they needed to feel confident in their bodies and to practice excellent self-care.
Interested in hearing the wonderful results experienced?
““Before the Body Positive Series, I was not confident, scared of my choices and I spoke badly to myself. I didn’t think I was pretty enough. After the body-positive group, with the help of the facilitator and community, I discovered through nurturing, encouragement, and kindness, I found my confidence and discovered self-love. I got amazing guidance from them that will not only help me now, but also my future.” ”
““Learning about other people’s struggles helped me realize I was not alone in my struggles. Being a part of Body Positive has changed me. I used to be critical about everything I do in my daily life from how I dressed, to how I wore makeup. Always comparing myself to others and coming up short, never satisfied. Going through the Body Positive programs and competencies, helped me break down those messages change my self-talk, and create my own happiness and future outlook.””
““Being in the program for 8 weeks transformed my life. It allowed me to have a new career path that I didn’t even know how to get into at that point. It allowed me to have this new outlook and a different relationship with my mother, with my boyfriend, and with myself. It has really just been so powerful. I think if I had this as a kid I would have made a lot of different decisions. I would have made decisions that were right for me instead of thinking I should just follow what everyone else was doing.””