Welcome! I'm excited that the CFC message board is now available to our alumni. This can be a beneficial tool to use on your journey through recovery and to establish a healthy lifestyle. As you participate, you will find support and make new connections with others. By sharing emotions, feedback and support, this board will be a safe place to get reassurance and provide inspiration to fellow alumni. As a reminder, this board does not provide professional support and should not be used as a substitute for therapy or nutritional counseling. We also encourage you to find people outside this board for additional support.

We are excited to have a message board to share hope and inspiration with each other. Our desire is to actively promote recovery. I hope you will share your recovery stories, poems, thoughts, and milestones, and ideas that have helped you through recovery and hard times. I'd like this to be somewhere that you can celebrate victories and strengthen your recoveries by sharing with each other. Again, remember we want this to be a safe place for you as you look for understanding, support and motivation.

The purpose of the response system is to help the client and family continue with their aftercare and discharge plan.

To help support those working on recovery, we would like mentors that are strong in recovery to share experiences and milestones in our Eating Disorders Anonymous 12-step on Thursday and/or Sunday night @ 7 pm – 8pm.

In addition, we invite others to help mentor our discharging clients as they transition. The mentors would be someone that has recovered and could be a source of support and understanding. Contact me if you're interested.

While at the Center for Change you were fortunate to participate in the powerful Life Quest workshop. As part of our aftercare program, we offer a follow up booster workshop after discharge, Life Strategies.

The Life Strategies workshop will emphasize five Core Strategies that are the roadmap to living from your higher self. These principles will lead to fulfillment and personal success. As you begin to believe and use these principles, you will learn to handle your life in new and better ways. The principles and experiences of this workshop will build and expand on the lessons you learned in the Life Quest Workshop . Dr. Berrett and Dr. Hardman will present this three-day Life Strategies workshop, which was created by Dr. Roger Allen Ph.D.

The next workshop for this year is scheduled for April 11, 12, and 13, 2007

Sunday Evenings
Eating Disorders Anonymous/12-Step
7:00 pm Center for Change Bldg. A

Come and strengthen your recovery!
It Works - When You Work It!
Gain more desire for recovery as you, along with others, share experiences of strength and hope.

Lead by Alice Covey R.D.
A Yoga, Body Image, and Nutrition Program held from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

The first half of every class will be spent practicing yoga. The second half of the class will involve the following topics: body image, the media, metabolism and set-point, dieting, no good foods or bad foods, and healthy habits.

Six week session for $50 – Sign up at the receptionist desk

In addition to offering individual dietary sessions with a registered dietitian who specializes in eating disorders, the Center for Change is now offering optional dietary activities to help best meet your needs. These include:

• Going out to eat with a dietitian . The dietitian will support you in honoring your hunger/fullness cues and will discuss with you your fears and feelings regarding the eating out experience. Cost: $50 for 1 hour session. (You are also required to buy your own food)
• Grocery shopping . If you have difficulty with buying adequate food and with meal planning, the dietitian will meet you at a grocery store and help support you in deciding which foods to purchase and how to use them. Cost: $35 for hour session. (You are also required to purchase your own groceries).
  

Have you been wondering, “When is CFC going to have an alumni reunion!?!” If you've been wondering, get in touch with Rita and let her know your ideas. Also, to get this reunion going, we need alumni to serve on the committee. I know there's a bunch of you out who are interested, so give us a call and get involved.

The process group on Wednesday evenings runs from 6:30-8:00 p.m. and costs $20 which can be paid at the receptionist desk on the night of the group - $30 if we bill you. Participants are encouraged to be committed to group attendance as the group members build bonds with one another. The group focuses on issues such as trust, emotional intimacy, emotional regulation, and self-betrayal. Group goals are self-care, sobriety, and forming healthy attachments while they are working on their recovery. Group members offer suggestions, advice, constructive feedback, and support to one another. Group size is kept to under ten people.

Group members need to be in individual therapy and be working on intense issues such as sexual and emotional abuse or drug abuse, as these issues will be touched on but not dealt with on an intense level in process group. The Process Group is led by Melissa Taylor, MFT

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with concepts from Eastern philosophy. It is designed to address skill deficits in affect regulation, impulse control, assertiveness, and distress tolerance. Clients learn cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness skills to better identify and manage their emotional. They then practice applying these skills to better tolerate difficult life events and improve their ability to interact effectively with others.

Although originally developed to treat individuals with borderline personality disorder, it has since been proven effective in treating a variety of other disorders that include eating disorders. This group is appropriate for clients with severe or long-standing difficulties with mood and impulse control, eating disorders, anger management problems and self-destructive behavior. It is geared towards relatively high functioning individuals (such as those who are working, attending school, or volunteering to participate in-group). Because the group is primarily educational and skills based, clients are required to be in individual therapy as a condition of group membership.

It takes approximately 16 - 18 weeks to complete the 4 skills training modules: mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Mastery of the skills generally requires a minimum of 6 months or more of skills training and clients are encouraged to continue skills training at the conclusion of the 16 to 18 week cycle, thus repeating the four skills training modules.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy at Center For Change is led by Espra Andrus, LCSW and is held on Wednesday evenings from 6:30pm - 8:00pm . The cost per group is $20 if paid at time of service and 30$ if we bill you. Those interested are encouraged to contact Center for Change to determine the most appropriate time for them to begin the DBT training