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.

Building a personalized recovery toolkit is a great way to support yourself when recovery feels difficult. Through guided reflection and group discussion, you will identify your recovery anchors such as coping strategies, supportive people, routines, and reminders that help you stay connected to healing. This workshop is co-facilitated by the Silver Linings Peer Support Program Coordinator and peer mentors with lived experience in eating disorder recovery.

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.

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Art Therapy for Eating Disorder Recovery

This experiential workshop offers participants a preview of the upcoming group to explore how thought patterns influence emotions and behaviours, and how creative practice can support a shift from scarcity thinking to a mindset of gratitude and abundance. Using found objects, colours, shapes, and forms, we’ll engage in guided art-making to access deeper self-understanding and reflection.

This group will go more in depth to allow participants the opportunity to explore how thought patterns influence emotions and behaviours, and how creative practice can support a shift from scarcity thinking to a mindset of gratitude and abundance. Using found objects, colours, shapes, and forms, we’ll engage in guided art-making to access deeper self-understanding and reflection.

Discover the power of presence through creative reflection in this gentle introduction to Canvas of Gratitude. Blending Eastern and Indigenous wisdom with mindful art-making, this workshop invites you to explore how brief, intentional moments of creativity can cultivate self-care, gratitude, and inner clarity.

This group will go more in depth to allow participants the opportunity to explore how thought patterns influence emotions and behaviours, and how creative practice can support a shift from scarcity thinking to a mindset of gratitude and abundance. Using found objects, colours, shapes, and forms, we’ll engage in guided art-making to access deeper self-understanding and reflection.

Yoga for Eating Disorder Recovery

Join a relaxing and grounding practice that focuses on breathwork, allowing gravity to work with your body to release built up tension. This is a slow paced posture-practice that focuses on establishing comfort and peace of mind. Creating intentional time to feel at ease provides a safe container to be present with our minds and bodies. Being present is foundational to building a mindfulness practice, which can help cultivate supportive thinking patterns.

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Our Recovery Navigator has in-depth knowledge of the wide array of public and private recovery options in the province.
We are here to help support you on your path to recovery. Learn more here.

DBT For Eating Disorders

Learn practical tools to help you understand and manage emotions without turning to harmful coping strategies. You'll learn how emotions work, how to recognize them early, and how to build resilience and increase positive experiences.

DBT Workshop #2

Distress Tolerance

Facilitator: Jessica Sauerwein

Introduction of DBT-based strategies for getting through painful emotional moments. You'll learn grounding techniques, distraction tools, and self-soothing practices to help you stay steady when emotions feel overwhelming.

DBT Workshop #3

Interpersonal Effectiveness

Facilitator: Jessica Sauerwein

A focus on building healthy communication and relationship skills to support your recovery. You'll learn how to ask for support, set boundaries, and maintain self-respect in challenging interactions.

DBT Workshop #4

Mindfulness

Facilitator: Jessica Sauerwein

Introduces mindfulness practices to help you reconnect with the present moment and your own experience. You'll learn to observe thoughts and emotions without judgment and respond to discomfort with greater awareness and compassion.

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We know that navigating eating disorder (ED) recovery options can be overwhelming.
Our Recovery Navigator has in-depth knowledge of the wide array of public and private recovery options in the province.
We are here to help support you on your path to recovery. Learn more here.

This workshop seeks to understand binging through a  psychoeducational lens that will help you understand factors that perpetuate and maintain binge eating behavior.  We’ll also explore steps you can take towards breaking the binge cycle.

Recovering from binge eating involves more than stopping the behaviour, it requires understanding and shifting the thoughts, emotions, and patterns that fuel it. Backed by research showing the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in treating Binge Eating Disorder, this compassionate, evidence-based workshop offers practical CBT tools to help you build a strong recovery toolkit.

If you struggle with impulsive behaviors, intense emotions, or black-and-white thinking, our Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) workshop may be a powerful fit. Designed for adults with Binge Eating Disorder or binge eating behaviours, this workshop teaches mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation skills to help you better understand and manage the emotional patterns that drive disordered eating.

In this workshop, we will unpack aspects of the restrict/binge cycles and how to offer compassion and support to oneself while experimenting with changes to nutritional intake and relationship to food and body.  Together, we will dive into the language created around food and eating from past and present messaging/experiences and consider new ways of thinking about, speaking about, and interacting with food, and then matching food choices to best honour unique needs.

In this supportive space we will explore practical tools to nurture your well-being, reduce shame, and build a more compassionate relationship with yourself and your body. Together we will learn how self-kindness and mindful care can be powerful steps on the path to healing and recovery.

In a world that focuses so much on how you look, come learn how to rethink your relationship to your own  body. We will explore together the connections between binge eating and self-image and dive into new ideas that may be driving the binge eating.

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Family Support for Eating Disorders

Family Focused Support offers a range of specialized programs designed to meet the distinct needs of individuals impacted by eating disorders in different ways—whether as teens experiencing the illness firsthand, parents navigating daily challenges, or loved ones seeking to better understand and support recovery. Each group faces unique emotional, relational, and practical struggles that require targeted guidance and connection. By offering dedicated spaces for each audience, these programs provide more relevant support, deeper understanding, and practical strategies for coping, communicating, and healing—whether you're part of a biological family or a chosen one.

Holidays can be a particularly triggering time for teens that are struggling with body and food. This workshop is grounded in empathy, compassion, and the belief that everyone deserves to feel seen and heard. We will explore unhelpful thoughts around food during the thanksgiving season and find ways that can help you to move forward in recovery.

The holidays can be a stressful time of year when you have a child or family member with an eating disorder. This workshop will focus on adressing specific questions you might have and finding ways to help your child navigate the difficult emotions and challenges that come with food during the holidays.

This 3-hour workshop will build your foundational knowledge of eating disorders, effective treatment and sustainable recovery. You'll gain a deeper understanding of eating disorders, explore practical ways to support your loved one, and care for your own emotional well-being in the process. Whether you're feeling helpless, burnt out, or just looking for connection—this workshop is here for you.

Holidays can be a stressful time of year when you have a child or family member with an eating disorder. This workshop will focus on addressing specific questions you might have and finding ways to help your child navigate the difficult emotions and challenges that come with food during the holidays.

Christmas can be a stressful time of year when you have a child or family member with an eating disorder. This workshop will focus on answering any questions you might have and finding ways to help your child navigate the unpleasant emotions and challenges that come with food during the Christmas Season.

This 3-hour workshop will build your foundational knowledge of eating disorders, effective treatment and sustainable recovery. You'll gain a deeper understanding of eating disorders, explore practical ways to support your loved one, and care for your own emotional well-being in the process. Whether you're feeling helpless, burnt out, or just looking for connection—this workshop is here for you.

OUR FACILITATORS

Need Help Getting Started?

We know that navigating eating disorder (ED) recovery options can be overwhelming.
Our Recovery Navigator has in-depth knowledge of the wide array of public and private recovery options in the province.
We are here to help support you on your path to recovery. Learn more here.

ARFID Support for Eating Disorders

Our ARFID Focus programs and specifically designed to support individuals struggling with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. All of our ARFID workshops and support groups are led by an experienced facilitator. We provide a compassionate, non-judgmental space to connect with others facing similar challenges, whether or not you have an official ARFID diagnosis. Through our programs participants will gain a deeper understanding of what ARFID is—and what it is not—while learning about the four types of ARFID, the factors that maintain the disorder, and actionable steps toward recovery. We also offer programs for Caregivers, who may be supporting a child or loved one struggling with ARFID.

Holidays can be a particularly triggering time for teens that are struggling with body and food. This workshop is grounded in empathy, compassion, and the belief that everyone deserves to feel seen and heard. We will explore unhelpful thoughts around food during the thanksgiving season and find ways that can help you to move forward in recovery.

The holidays can be a stressful time of year when you have a child or family member with an eating disorder. This workshop will focus on addressing specific questions you might have and finding ways to help your child navigate the difficult emotions and challenges that come with food during the holidays.

OUR FACILITATORS

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Get 1-on-1 Recovery Navigation Guidance
We know that navigating eating disorder recovery options can be overwhelming.
Our Recovery Navigator has in-depth knowledge of the wide array of public and private recovery options in the province.