LOVE FOOD. LOVE YOUR BODY. LOVE YOUR LIFE.
Rediscover the magic of eating for pleasure, weight loss is a joyous consequence
ARTFUL EATING SUMMER SEMINARS 2022
Monday evenings from 8pm-10pm
6th Jun 2022 – 11th Jul 2022, Dublin GMT (UTC +01:00)
Location: Online, Playback available
Life is too precious to spend any amount of time feeling ill at ease about your body, ruminating about what or how much you've eaten, what you should or shouldn't eat, or how you feel in your own skin. There is so much joy and magic to be had, so much adversity to navigate, personally and globally, that feeling vital, energised, at ease in your body is an invaluable baseline.
Privileging the pleasure and nourishment of food is an easy, necessary position which we can all learn to inhabit.
A LIFE CHANGING PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH
Let go of unhelpful ingrained beliefs and behaviours around weight loss and your body. Learn a new language where the focus is not on what you eat, but on why and how you eat.
The Summer School merges science, psychology, and spirituality. Together we will create a new way of being in the world where you enjoy food and your body. This is a wholistic approach which extends far beyond how many calories you consume or how much you exercise. This is about relearning the joy, creative possibilities and nourishment of what you eat, how you eat, and how you show up for yourself and others in the world. Once you learn the language of Artful Eating it is a knowledge and way of being that you will carry throughout your life. It will touch those around you and it will lighten your heart as well as your body.
THE FREEDOM TO EAT THE FOOD YOU LOVE
Rediscover the magic of eating for pleasure, weight loss is a joyous consequence
The food we eat shapes us inside and out, but in recent times for so many of us, our relationship to food has become distorted. Food is a source of nourishment, it is an opportunity for pause, pleasure, creativity and rejuvenation. When trying to lose weight we tend to focus on controlling what we eat as opposed to relearning how to listen to our bodies and eat as much as we need in pleasure, love and appreciation- this is about conscious eating, focusing on pleasure. For far too long controlled eating and dieting has resulted in weight gain as opposed to harmony. It is time to look at the underlying causes; which are personal, social, psychological and cultural, as opposed to the symptom- our disease with our bodies.
COGNITIVE HYPNOSIS AUDIO REPROGRAMMING
This course will provide you with knowledge, skills and perspectives which will transform your life. You will create and live a new story of ease, freedom and pleasure around food and your body.
The story we tell ourselves shapes us inside and out. In some ways the story you tell yourself serves you, but in other ways it may be holding you in unhelpful positions and patterns. This summer school will help you uncover the fixed and limiting aspects of your story which are holding you back from truly living the life you desire and deserve. Change your story. Changer your life. We have a tendency to focus on the symptom, not the cause of our struggles in life. This course will help you come to know and truly understand the underlying struggles which have lead to your particular symptoms around food and your body.
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR
Join bestselling author and psychologist Karina Melvin for the Artful Eating Summer School and immerse yourself in a new language, a new way of feeling and being in your body and with the world around you. Weight loss is a joyous consequence.
Karina is a lecturer and clinical supervisor of Psychoanalysis in The UCD School of Medicine. With over 15 years of experience in this field, she works in private practice both online and in Dublin helping people come to feel at ease in their body and their lives. If you feel you would benefit from working individually with Karina you can contact her at karina@artful-eating.com
THE DETAILS:
LOVE FOOD. LOVE YOUR BODY. LOVE YOUR LIFE.
Life is too precious to spend any amount of time feeling ill at ease about your body, ruminating about what or how much you've eaten, what you should or shouldn't eat, or how you feel in your own skin. There is so much joy and magic to be had, so much adversity to navigate, personally and globally, that feeling vital, energised, at ease in your body is an invaluable baseline.
Privileging the pleasure and nourishment of food is an easy, necessary position which we can all learn to inhabit.
A LIFE CHANGING PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH
Let go of unhelpful ingrained beliefs and behaviours around weight loss and your body. Learn a new language where the focus is not on what you eat, but on why and how you eat.
This course merges science, psychology, and spirituality. Together we will create a new way of being in the world where you enjoy food and your body. This is a wholistic approach which extends far beyond how many calories you consume or how much you exercise. This is about relearning the joy, creative possibilities and nourishment of what you eat, how you eat, and how you show up for yourself and others in the world. Once you learn the language of Artful Eating it is a knowledge and way of being that you will carry throughout your life. It will touch those around you and it will lighten your heart as well as your body.
THE FREEDOM TO EAT THE FOOD YOU LOVE
Rediscover the magic of eating for pleasure, weight loss is a joyous consequence
The food we eat shapes us inside and out, but in recent times for so many of us, our relationship to food has become distorted. Food is a source of nourishment, it is an opportunity for pause, pleasure, creativity and rejuvenation. When trying to lose weight we tend to focus on controlling what we eat as opposed to relearning how to listen to our bodies and eat as much as we need in pleasure, love and appreciation- this is about conscious eating, focusing on pleasure. For far too long controlled eating and dieting has resulted in weight gain as opposed to harmony. It is time to look at the underlying causes; which are personal, social, psychological and cultural, as opposed to the symptom- our disease with our bodies.
COGNITIVE HYPNOSIS AUDIO REPROGRAMMING
This course will provide you with knowledge, skills and perspectives which will transform your life. You will create and live a new story of ease, freedom and pleasure around food and your body.
The story we tell ourselves shapes us inside and out. In some ways the story you tell yourself serves you, but in other ways it may be holding you in unhelpful positions and patterns. This summer school will help you uncover the fixed and limiting aspects of your story which are holding you back from truly living the life you desire and deserve. Change your story. Changer your life. We have a tendency to focus on the symptom, not the cause of our struggles in life. This course will help you come to know and truly understand the underlying struggles which have lead to your particular symptoms around food and your body.
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR
Join bestselling author and psychologist Karina Melvin for the Artful Eating Summer School and immerse yourself in a new language, a new way of feeling and being in your body and with the world around you. Weight loss is a joyous consequence.
Karina is a lecturer and clinical supervisor of Psychoanalysis in The UCD School of Medicine. With over 15 years of experience in this field, she works in private practice both online and in Dublin helping people come to feel at ease in their body and their lives. If you feel you would benefit from working individually with Karina you can contact her at karina@artful-eating.com
6 WEEK STRUCTURE
Beginning MONDAY 06TH JUNE until 11TH JULY, 20:00 - 22:00 GMT ON ZOOM
Meeting weekly in our online space, we will undertake a journey through the language of Artful Eating
The Four Tenets which will ground this approach are: Pleasure, Ethics, Structure and Image.
Week One: 06/06 L'Aperitif
Pleasure is at the heart of it all. The old paradigm of willpower, control and limitations doesn’t work and is unsustainable long term. Mental reprogramming, realignment and intuitive eating, recognising that one size/approach/diet does not fit all. Rediscover your own inner wisdom, intuition and needs around food, your body and your life.
Week Two: 13/06 Hors d'oeuvre
Pleasure continued…Overcoming emotional eating, create healthy rhythms and rituals around food and your body for ordinary time and special occasions. Every day deserves to be revered, cherished and enjoyed through how you feel in your skin, to the food which nourishes you to the way you look and feel and carry yourself. Life is filled with opportunities for little pleasures which create the conditions for resilience, tolerance and consistency.
Week Three: 20/06 Main course
Ethics- what are your ethics when it comes to food and your body? Do you treat it with respect, love and compassion? Do you listen to it? Do you notice the little changes in mood, complexion, appearance, energy which are subtle communications from your body which deserve and need acknowledgment. What decisions guide and ground the food you eat? Do you know where it comes from? Do you know what’s in it? Create your own coordinates, language, thoughts and feelings around food and your body which will guide your choices and behaviours.
Week Four: 27/06 Desert
Structure- creating an environment and lifestyle which serves, supports and nourishes you. What comes into your orbit shapes you inside and out, not just the food we eat, but the media we consume, the music we listen to, the apps on our phone, the people we spend time with, the clothes we wear and products we use. Everything we consume gently and subtly impacts and shapes us. The life we live, how it is set up in so many ways is a default mode of being. Being considered and really creating a life, rhythm and cadence which supports a positive way of living, with an emphasis on attending to pleasure and joy is a marvellous platform for weathering the exigencies of life and maintaining a healthy relationship to food, ones body and ones reality.
Week Five: 04/06 Cheese
Image- this is central to the Artful Eating approach, how we view ourselves, the story we tell about ourselves is the reality inside and out that we experience. We cannot change our bodies if we first don’t change the story we have about ourselves. There is so often a disconnect between how we look and feel and how we want to look and feel. And often, when one does reach their dream size, they struggle to maintain it, because their story hasn’t changed. The image they have of themselves hasn’t changed. Its time to uncover the deep seated and engrained beliefs you have about who and how you are and to identify a new story, a new image which is still you, but a lighter, brighter, more at ease, liberated you which is in line with how you want to feel most of the time.
Week Six: 11/07 Artful Eating for life
Finding inner balance and ease with your body, mind and soul. Confidence and creativity with food, preparation, thought and planning for the life you desire now and always
OVERVIEW
6 × 2 hrs Live Workshops
We meet weekly on Monday evenings, for a 2 hour live session delving into the psychological, scientific and spiritual aspects of enjoying food and your body now and always. Weight loss and sustaining your desired weight will be a joyous consequence of these new perspectives. Playback will be available for those who cannot attend liveResources & Homework
Each week you will receive a cognitive hypnosis audio to help reprogram your mind and spirit. You will also receive homework in the form of actions, tasks, and practical exercises which will change your perspective, position and help support the new ideas and awareness which will come to light during our sessions.A-E partner
Your ticket provides access to two people to enjoy the six sessions, so you can share the cost, or gift access to a friend, parent, son or daughter, someone who you feel will benefit from it as much as you. Together you can be each others support, accountability and really enjoy the journey and reinforce the learning though deeper personal discussions.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS AND POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF THIS COURSE?
You will learn to become fluent in the language and culture of Artful Eating, this is a liberation from old, unhelpful and ineffective approaches to weight loss.
You will discover why it is not so much about what you eat, but more why and how you eat that is the key to easily inhabiting your body with confidence, comfort and vitality.
You will learn how to overcome emotional eating and how to shift from being a controlled eater to an intuitive eater.
You will come to untangle the old unhelpful ingrained beliefs and fixed ideas around your body and size. You will change your story which is an essential element in changing how you see yourself, which in turn will change how you carry yourself in your life. Great, effortless, lasting changes will come from this shift in perspective.
This is a far reaching process which will encompass so much more than the food you eat and how you eat it. Get ready for a life-recalibration as you choose to change how you feel about yourself and how you see yourself. Wonderful unexpected and powerful changes will come from this.
To note...
Although the effects of this work may be therapeutic, it is important to know it isn't therapy. If you are moving through something extremely challenging, such as trauma or an eating disorder we strongly recommend that you combine this work with a therapist who can offer you one on one support.
WHY PARTICIPATE?
Life is too short to feel uncomfortable in your body or dissatisfied with how you look and feel. Vitality, health and body confidence are a wonderful starting off point for the challenging, exciting and exhilarating journey that is your life. Now is the time to move forward in a way where you feel at ease around food and in your body. There are plenty of other things to give your thoughts and energy to!
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If you are curious and want to find out more, or are unsure and want to have a little taste of the work before you commit, then get in touch with Karina at karina@artful-eating.com
Testimonials
“I’ve lost 30 pounds so far and its really been the most enjoyable process! This is like no other weight loss approach I’ve tried. I can eat the food I love, I just now understand how to eat. Artful Eating has changed everything for me. I am finally happy with my body and with food, my diet is not what I think of every minute and I don’t constantly feel guilty about what I eat- it’s so liberating!”
“ I feel totally ‘different’ after listening to the Cognitive Hypnosis Audios - It’s so easy now to only eat when I’m actually hungry and eat the right amount for me. The audios make it so effortless, I set my goals and have easily stuck to them. But mostly I discovered that I can lose weight by changing the way I think about food and my body. I’ve reached my goal and lost 3 stone, this way of feeling around food has truly changed my life.”
“Working through the Artful Eating programme was utterly transformative for me. So much of what you taught me and guided me through has stuck. I’m amazed. Really big positive lifestyle changes. Deeply ingrained unhelpful habits, cut loose.”
INVESTMENT: €250.00
Your ticket provides access to two people to enjoy the six sessions, so you can share the cost, or gift access to a friend, parent, son or daughter, someone who you feel will benefit from it as much as you. Together you can be each others support, accountability and really enjoy the journey and reinforce the learning though deeper personal discussions. If you feel strongly called to join but cannot afford the fee, please get in touch to discuss something that can work for you. Once you buy a ticket, send me the name and email of your nomination and I will include them in all correspondences pertaining to the Summer Seminars going forward. Click the link below to purchase your ticket:
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PRACTICAL INFO
To join this event you’ll need to create a free zoom account which you can set up here: https://zoom.us/ Instructions on how to join the call will be sent the Friday before the first session
Please note that we do not arrange refunds or exchanges. We welcome swapping or reselling your tickets with people you know or via Ticket Swap
For enquiries please email Karina at: karina@artful-eating.com
REFUNDS POLICY: Please note, we do not arrange refunds or exchanges. When possible we encourage reselling or swapping your ticket
ACCESS: We do our best to include everyone in our events, regardless of health circumstances. If you have access requirements please email karina@artful-eating.com directly to discuss.
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PRACTICAL INFO
To join this event you’ll need to create a free zoom account which you can set up here: https://zoom.us/ Instructions on how to join the call will be sent the Monday before the first session
Please note that we do not arrange refunds or exchanges. We welcome swapping or reselling your tickets with people you know or via Ticket Swap
For enquiries please email Karina at: karina@artful-eating.com
Website: artful-eating.com
REFUNDS POLICY: Please note, we do not arrange refunds or exchanges. When possible we encourage reselling or swapping your ticket
ACCESS: We do our best to include everyone in our events, regardless of health circumstances. If you have access requirements please email the event organiser directly to discuss.
Many facilitators are able to offer reduced ticket prices for those truly unable to afford the ticket price. If this is you, do please get in touch with the event organiser.
A LIFE CHANGING PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH
“Working through the Artful Eating programme this year was utterly transformative for me. So much of what you taught me and guided me through has stuck. I’m amazed. Really big positive lifestyle changes. Deeply ingrained unhelpful habits, cut loose.”
THE FREEDOM TO EAT THE FOOD YOU LOVE
“I’ve lost 30 pounds so far and its really been the most enjoyable process! This is like no other weight loss approach I’ve tried. I can eat the food I love, I just now understand how to eat. Artful Eating has changed everything for me. I am finally happy with my body and with food, my diet is not what I think of every minute and I don’t constantly feel guilty about what I eat- it’s so liberating!”
COGNITIVE HYPNOSIS AUDIO REPROGRAMMING
“ I feel totally ‘different’ after listening to the Cognitive Hypnosis Audios - It’s so easy now to only eat when I’m actually hungry and eat the right amount for me. The audios make it so effortless, I set my goals and have easily stuck to them. But mostly I discovered that I can lose weight by changing the way I think about food and my body. I’ve reached my goal and lost 3 stone, this way of feeling around food has truly changed my life.”
Individual Weight Loss counselling online and online weight loss program in Ireland
When is the last time you remember food being EASY and feeling good about your body?
You were born to eat. You were born to move. You were born to be outside and enjoy life. You were made to feel good swaddled up in clothing, and without a stitch of clothing on.
The diet industry is a multi-billion dollar business designed to make you (and me and everyone else) feel inadequate, so they can sell elaborate and unnecessary products which we hope will be the magical weight loss solution. And guess what? Diets don’t work. I could review all the research with you, but just look at yourself, your friends, and your family… how many people continue the same cycle of famine, feast, shame, and yo-yo dieting around you?
Unfortunately no amount of dieting or new nutrition information can make you love your body or enjoy food. It all comes down to your mind.
My name is Karina Melvin, and I am a psychoanalyst who takes a completely different approach to food, body, weight loss, and body love. I can help you address the cause of this old unhealthy pattern, by dealing with weight and body image issues from a psychological perspective. Its such a liberating approach, which teaches you how to rediscover the magic of eating for pleasure and feel at ease in your body, physically and mentally.
I’ve taken everything I’ve learned from over 10 years of formal studies, within the fields of psychology and psychotherapy, and my experience as a weight loss therapist, to create an approach that results in feeling freedom with food and your thoughts. Weight loss is a joyous consequence. It’s a holistic guide to lasting body confidence that focuses on your thoughts, beliefs, behaviours, lifestyle and actions.
Unlike other theories and practices out there that tell you to eliminate carbohydrate, cut out sugar, eat within a certain amount of ‘points’, our work is based on sound psychological principles - which means, it’s different to anything you’ve known before, and it actually works, because it gets to the root cause of the problem, not just the surface symptom.
I provide individual weight loss counseling online and in my Dublin office and a group weight loss program that you can access from anywhere in the world. Contact me today for your free 15 minute phone or video consultation for weight loss counseling here, or learn more about the Artful Eating Summer School which starts on Wednesday the 4th of June here.
My aim is to help you overcome your weight struggle so that you never have to feel controlled around food again. You can feel freedom around food. You can eat what you want and have a body you enjoy.
If you are ready to change your relationship with food and your body for life then get in touch and we can see if the Artful Eating program is a good fit for you.
“Karina’s approach is completely unique- I lost 30lbs without cutting out the foods I love!! This is like nothing else I’ve tried. Thank you!”
I am not a nutritionist, or a trained fitness expert.
I will not be giving you a strict food plan, and telling you to eliminate whole groups of foods, you will not be asked to commit to a painful and strenuous workout regime.
How does it work?
This is a one to one therapeutic program tailored to your individual needs and designed to reprogram your mind to slim your body. This approach will teach you how to eat what you want, when you want and still lose weight. The psychological skills and strategies I teach will help you overcome issues such as overeating, emotional eating, binging, yo-yo dieting and self esteem struggles linked to your body issues. This program is also designed for people who just want to lose weight and love their body! I can promise you that if you take the action steps provided on the program and apply them to your life, together we can start to re-awaken a healthy love of food.
We will meet for one hour a week and create a bespoke plan and approach which will change your relationship with food and your body in a sustainable and enjoyable way.
What is the fee?
This is an investment of time and energy so please get in touch to see if the time is right and if this process is a good fit for you.
The fee is €280 euro per session and we will meet once a week for the first month. Then depending on your needs, we will meet once a month thereafter until you meet and sustain your ideal weight and relationship with food and your body.
This is a truly transformative process do get ready for wonderful changes which will last a life time.
The best part?
Through your actions you will
· Lose weight and keep it off for life.
· Spread the artful eating way to your whole family.
· Learn to eat, live and enjoy a life free from discomfort, ill health and confidence struggles.
· Enjoy shedding the pounds and wearing a whole new wardrobe!
· Learn how to destroy the blocks to weight loss and break down the walls that have been holding you back from having the body you have always dreamed of and deserve.
· Learn the incredible power that the mind has over what you eat and how you eat.
· Address your belief systems and how you can begin to use these powers to lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your life
· Learn a series of simple and specific strategies for addressing the cause of your weight gain and struggles with food.
By committing to make these simple and effective changes you will allow yourself to have a happy healthy and fulfilling future. A future where you experience a healthy relationship with food so that you will experience body vitality change yourself, and you will also share this new way of being with your family. This process will make your body dreams real. These are not exaggerated claims, but are achievable goals.
Make an appointment
If you would like to find out if the weight loss counselling program would be suitable for your needs, then fill out the form below or give me a call on 085 2313476 and I will do my best to get back to you within the next working day.