Eating disorders distort how we perceive ourselves and often affect our self worth and our body image. Even as behaviors improve, the mental and emotional impact often lingers. Our Body Image & Self-Acceptance programs are designed to help disrupt these patterns by nurturing a more compassionate, trusting relationship with yourself and your body.
Body Image: Through guided support and evidence-based practices, we explore the emotional roots of body image challenges—reducing shame, fostering self-acceptance, and shifting the focus from control to care. Whether you're just beginning or continuing your healing journey, these programs create space for meaningful recovery and lasting change.
Self-Acceptance: Deepen your self-understanding through connection, reflection, and shared lived experience. Learn from peer mentors who have walked their own recovery paths—offering real stories of resilience, hope, and growth. Their voices remind us that healing is personal, non-linear, and powerful—and that self-acceptance often starts by honoring the strength it takes to keep going.
FALL SESSIONS
ALL PROGRAMS ARE FREE
NO DIAGNOSIS REQUIRED
Lived-Experience Workshop #1
The Winding Road to Recovery - Peer Mentor Led
Facilitator: Jessica Sauerwein & Guest Peer Mentors
Date: Monday, October 6
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Hub
If you have ever felt like you’re “doing recovery wrong” or questioned your progress, you are not alone. This workshop is an opportunity to talk honestly about the realities of recovery and the winding nature of healing. Learn how to navigate relapses or plateaus with self-compassion, and what it means to redefine progress on your own terms. This workshop is co-facilitated by the Silver Linings Peer Support Program Coordinator and peer mentors with lived experience in eating disorder recovery.
Lived-Experience Workshop #2
The Winding Road to Recovery - Peer Mentor Led
Facilitator: Jessica Sauerwein & Guest Peer Mentors
Date: Monday December 1
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Hub
This two-hour workshop offers a foundational look at topics explored in our longer-running body image groups. You'll begin to unpack diet culture's impact and learn practices to support a more compassionate connection with your body.
Body Image Workshop #1
Making Peace with My Body
Facilitator: Jennie Mendoza
Date: Wednesday, December 10
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Hub
This two-hour workshop examines the impact of diet culture on body image, eating behaviors, and self-worth. Together, we’ll explore the connection between thoughts and emotions—and how understanding this relationship can be a key step toward healing. You’ll be introduced to tools that support reconnection with your body, rebuilding trust, and shifting from control to care and self-compassion. Recovery from body image struggles isn't about fixing your body; it's about challenging the culture that taught you to mistrust it.
OUR FACILITATORS
Jennie Mendoza RN
Manager of Recovery Navigation
Jessica Sauerwein
Masters of Social Work
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