This module is for registered participants only. If you have successfully registered for Session 1, your spot is secured for the rest of the module. You do not need to register for this session unless you need to update us on your medical conditions or you are making up a missed session.

Food Addiction Recovery 2.0 ~ The Next Chapter. This is what you’ll learn:

• How to stay on track and keep up the motivation
• Mastering your thinking to end the mind chatter that comes with compulsive overeating
• Overcoming triggers
• Creating new neural pathways to end the addiction loop
• Deal with intense feelings without using food
• Heal at all levels - Body, Mind, and Spirit

Join us on this journey to a healthy and peaceful relationship with food.

This session is facilitated by internist, Dr. Sylvie Galindo. Obesity is a progressive, relapsing, chronic, medical disease that requires ongoing evaluation and treatment like any other chronic disease. In this group, we will discuss other interventions for obesity management beyond long-term lifestyle changes (diet, physical activity, and mental wellness). The physician will review medical interventions (pharmacotherapy/medications and bariatric surgery) and when they might be necessary for a patient to consider and possibly undergo. Medical and surgical interventions do not take the place of lifestyle intervention, but they do provide a patient with additional support for the management of their obesity. Even if you do not wish to consider medication or surgery for weight loss, it is important that you are fully aware of the most up to date options to assist with the management of serious weight problems. This group is mandatory for patients with a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 40, or BMI over 35 with at least one obesity-related health condition, and you will receive an e-mail if you have not yet been told about these interventions.

This is a special topic offered to people who have completed the 8-week Mayo Clinic Advanced Stress Management Course. Cultivating joyful attention and the principles of gratitude, compassion, acceptance, higher meaning, and forgiveness takes time and intentional practice. In this session we will check in to see where you’re at with your stress management program. We will also be discussing some of the remaining concepts of The Mayo Clinic’s Guide To Stress-Free Living book including: meditation and relaxation strategies, as well as strategies for building and investing in your support system.