An audio coaching program from one of the people who wrote the book on Body Trust!
Build trust with yourself.
Remember your humanity.
Find what sustains you.
Develop a holdfast in an activating world.
Because many of us are expecting ourselves to live our complicated lives on little sustenance- figurative crumbs.
And we get nothing for it. Not reciprocity. No extra love or support that means anything.
We come by this honestly. We learn from our lineages and our conditioning. We learn how world responds to our identities and how we cope.
We need more than the minimum to relish, grow and be content in our relationship with ourselves.
Knowing this, I wonder what sustains you?
What keeps you going and truly feeds you?
What does support feel like?
What connects you with you?
What within you feels like home?
The Sustenance project will be an ongoing conversation about what sustains you, feeds you, supports you and feels like home.
It will not be the usual self-care, make yourself a project BS or mindset suggestions. Because they are not sustaining or sustainable for most of us when placed upon a shaken center.
This program is a continuous reminder, in both whispers and declarations, of your most essential and sacred self. And how yourself can become a more sustaining, rich and meaningful place to land.
Hi, from me!
I'm Hilary, the co-founder of Center for Body Trust and co-author of Reclaiming Body Trust. I have been teaching and coaching this material for 20+ years. In Sustenance, I'm distilling all the learning into audio coaching lessons that keep you connected to your healing path while cutting through the BS that was never yours to begin with. Continue the conversation with me. Offer yourself sustenance.
Here, we want sustenance to be regular and something you can metabolize - to process and use as you see fit.
Here, Sustenance will keep coming.
The Sustenance project is a simple offer with a foundation of consistency. Drawn from 20+ years of my work with people pursuing freedom from body loathing and food obsession, I will create messages and lessons to be sent to your email box as many times the month as you choose. These messages will help you remember how your humanity and your effort. They will remind you of the wisdom of your coping and will highlight what is possible in your relationship with yourself. They will also invite you into practices and ideas to consider for your own life.
Have you heard people say "You are always practicing something..."?
What are you practicing?
The aim of our work is to help move the problem outside of your self and your body so you can hold your truth generously. Sustenance is a wildly simple program meets you where you are. Over and over again.
How does this program work?
I believe we need to uncomplicate the way we access support for ourselves. I believe we need to uncomplicate the ways we show up for ourselves. Slower. Gentler. Imperfect.
Hilary will create a 10-25 minute lessons. Topics will support your healing process and will include ideas from Body Trust and her 23+ years of work as a therapist and coach. Each message will encourage you to reflect, with direct questions to help. At the end, I will make a suggestion about how to take the learning into your week/life/practice. There will be transcripts available for each recording.
You:
- Make time to listen to as many lessons as you choose to sign up for. - for one to four times a month (with the option of one live call per month)
- Listen to the lessons as much as you like. At the same time each week or month, or whenever you can fit them in. On a walk, in the car, on a break or when you need some reminder of your humanity.
- Take what you want from them and leave the rest.
- The expanded package option will include a monthly live call and practice.
- Practice C work or self-compassion when you don’t listen, forget, or don’t practice or otherwise do not live up to your own expectations.
- Come back again. I show up. You show up. As we are.
FAQs
How long do I have to commit to this?
Does Hilary ever take time off?
Will we all meet as a group?
Do you have to already know about Body Trust?
Will this help me lose weight?
Is this like recorded therapy sessions?
How long will you offer this?
Will there be a conversation forum or online group to talk with other participants?
Is this a program or a project?
Sustenance is personal. Sustenance is political. Sustenance is necessary. Sustenance is where we meet ourselves. Sustenance is a form of care for each other. Sustenance grounds us. Sustenance expands us.
It takes support and community to keep our perspective wide to remember the wisdom of your own path. It’s hard to go it alone. We can’t.
This program is about creating a quality of relationship with yourself that you want to be in for your lifetime. Developing a sustaining way of living for and with yourself that feels like a beloved relationship.
Use this program to:
- Support your relationship with yourself (which includes your body).
- Set smaller expectations that cumulatively evolve over time
- Explore a more expansive frame for your body, your self and the world around you.
- Strengthen a commitment to the ways you are evolving
- Develop a ritual of attention and care
