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Thank you for providing a wealth of information through this website. During slow times at work, I'm able to visit and absorb pieces of inspiration. I live in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and began therapy to work on my compulsive eating/dieting/exercising. I thank God everyday I've had the courage to seek help. Although it's not always easy, I know that if I've come this far, I can hang on to the faith that I can overcome this and inspire others. I can ask more, forgive more and love more. The best is when I *try* to open others up to my process of liberation -- Some get it, and some don't. But, I can keep loving myself, and hopefully, others can follow my example. Please keep up the good work -- I can feel this is becoming a life passion -- to rid women and men of diet mentality. To break free. To start living and loving.

Michelle Morand is an excellent speaker who presents useful tools to aide in an individual's success.

This course is the first authentically helpful material about obesity (and emotional eating) that I have ever co me across-and I am 51!

Michelle Morand makes her courses fun, she's able to get people to open up quickly.

It really helped me to find more acceptance around my eating behaviors. Excellent course!

Michelle was an excellent instructor who was really aware of the participants needs and attended to them.

I finally have a clear distinction between emotional eating and and eating for physical hunger after attending this course.

Excellent! Michelle is extremely knowledgeable, sensitive, to issues and inspiring!

You truly are a marvelous teacher, healer, and companion on this Journey. And I thank you from all of me.

I admire you and the work you do very much. Your honesty and openness allow transformation to happen!

You gave me back my life!

I feel like I've just grown up and I'm only just beginning to get to know myself since I began my sessions at The CEDRIC Centre.

Overeating is a thing of the past for me.

Through you, I've learned about patience, compassion, integrity, trust and authenticity, and how to implement them in my life to make an enormous difference, both for myself and for others.

Thank you so much for opening my eyes, I am grateful!

I thought disordered eating was a problem teenagers had, not fifty year old women. Until my teenager pointed out how disordered my eating and thinking actually are. Now that I have proven to myself that I won't eat everything in sight if I stop dieting, I have more time and energy to spend on relationships and hobbies like gardening.

Thanks for being the bright light in my life!

No more diets! No more pretending to be full on a salad than secretly binging later. I am through with all of that and I feel wonderful!

Thank you so much for your support thus far. The self-exploration and the resulting insight is both liberating and baffling. To realize I've reached 52 years and developed this overwhelming "Diet Mentality" mainly just as an avoidance mechanism! I intend to persevere-I'm up for the personal challenge. One day soon I will be able to overcome my compulsive eating and face my scariest feelings effectively. I look forward to a fuller, happier lifestyle in my retirement years.

I used to dread Summer, having to get my shorts and tank tops out of the closest was torture, my body image was so distorted and I was so uncomfortable with the way I looked, I didn't go swimming for a decade, and I have always loved swimming! What a shame. After your retreat I went out and bought a bathing suit then took a refreshing swim at Beaver Lake. Thank you.

My group was great, I felt comfortable and able to share right away.

Compulsive eating disorder cannot stop me now!

Thank you for everything during these past six months- your compassion, kindness, insight, and sincerity, have meant more to me than I could ever express.

Thank you so much for your help this last year. You have helped me change my life and I am so grateful to you. When New Year's comes around, I will be content and happy, looking forward to a year of nurturing myself, and those I love - not obsessing about my body and food. What a beautiful change that is!

My teenage daughter was diagnosed with bulimia last year and our doctors told us to be prepared for the worst. I heard war stories from other parents and I worried she'd have to miss years of college to treatment, miss out on dating and all the other special milestones that come with being a young woman. And it was hard, the hardest year of my life. But she's better now, in college, and I know in my heart she would not be there if it wasn't for all you, the kindest, most generous women in the world. Thank you for giving me back my daughter.

Thank you for the best year I've ever had.

Michelle you really are a wonderful and helpful person. You are greatly appreciated.

Michelle you were terrific during my group! Incredibly sensitive and skilled at pulling out people's feelings. Thanks!

Thank you for all your support and help. You are a great role model and I find my support group and your leadership so beneficial.

My life has changed for the better since I started at the (CEDRIC) Centre. I wish I could find the right words. Thank you sounds so paltry when it comes to all you have done. Like night to day, my life is transformed, and will never be the same again. I have the courage to go on and discover who I really am, and I am ready to love what I find.

I am able now to ask for what I need and I realize that so much of the resentment I had built up inside me towards others was not about their not wanting to give me what I need, it was all about me not telling them what I needed and expecting them to read my mind. I now communicate with the important people in my life, about many things, on a deeper level. It feels great and best of all I feel like I have true control in my life for the first time ever.

I thought getting help for binge eating would mean I was giving up and resigning myself to being fat forever. But I learned it's not about food and I am stronger than my compulsion to overeat. Thanks!

Compulsive overeating was taking over my life until I found [T]he Centre. I finally feel as if I can be in the same room as a box of cookies and not obsess about them.

I like the fact that I'm doing things that are new and different - things I would never have done before - I have allowed myself to step out of the box and live the life I always wanted to but never dared.

I didn't know that I felt so much anxiety. It was always there so I never realized I could live a life without it. Talking with you has helped me to realize that I'm not doing something wrong - I am growing into something. I am getting glimmers of what life can be and it is very exciting.

I'm finally finding myself again. This is who I am. Wow, that feels good.

One day I just gave in and typed "Anorexia Nervosa HELP" into my browser, I ended up at The CEDRIC Centre. It was the best decision I have ever made.

I have had years of receiving various forms of bodywork, acupuncture, Reiki, cranial sacral therapy, massage therapy. But never have I experienced such a shift of deep release and energy connection through my body than with my Zero Balancing treatments with Karen Stein. Every session left me more grounded and peaceful with myself and the world.

It means a lot to me to have such a caring lifeline. Even though we only had a few sessions, I have noticed personal improvement and awareness of my own actions. I have been feeling better, strong, and not so overwhelmed. Thank you for all your help Karen.

Karen, for me, it was such an important and comforting hour spent with you and my daughter. I sense that Sarah will benefit greatly from your wisdom and the community created in your centre.

When I came to The Cedric Centre, (virtually and over the phone, as I was living in Halifax ), I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't stop eating and I couldn't diet anymore. I was in school, but I couldn't work, I couldn't sleep, I wasn't taking showers or changing my clothes, and I couldn't pretend that everything was OK anymore. I felt completely and totally hopeless. I had really hit the bottom (what I thought was the bottom). I searched the internet for anything that could help and when I read on The CEDRIC Centre's website that I had to be willing to do the work, I knew I was ready. I had to be because I was going to die if I didn't. I think it helped to talk on the phone because I didn't have to look anyone in the eye when I admitted things I was ashamed of, when I cried, or when I tried to avoid accepting something about myself. My therapist's way of describing my self-defeating beliefs and behaviours as coping techniques helped me accept myself and take steps to change. Basically, I have had to learn how to give myself all the comfort, company, support, caring, and nurturing I needed from food without the food. I also had to learn when to put the food down. This was difficult to do, but as I learned to accept myself and support myself, my gut screamed out to be heard: deep down I knew I didn't need food anymore. As long as I trust that, I can handle anything. Recovery is a difficult thing to explain because it sounds so simple. Simple yes, easy, no. I have had to give up a lot of behaviours which I wanted to hang on to, especially my perfectionism and critical voice. Life isn't suddenly perfect when we put down the food, but if I wanted to recover, I had no choice. I had to want to change, which meant that I had to hit bottom first. The past brought me to where I am, and for all the gifts I have been given in the past year, even the hardships and the struggles, I am eternally grateful. Being freed of my food obsession tastes better than anything I have ever eaten.

Our [Nursing] students greatly appreciated your presentation style and the knowledge they gained. Thank you so much for your excellent information on eating disorders. I look forward to having you back next year.

Thank you! [Michelle] had a practical way of explaining the information with a relaxed and intimate approach.

[I liked] the instructor's excellent knowledge and presentation style, and her empathy and compassion for her clients.

Simply the Best. Thank you.

[I liked the] clarity of presentation and examples given. Everything was covered.

[The course] gave me some understanding of how clients use food as a coping strategy and how to help them identify and work through the underlying issues.

Easy going atmosphere, well presented. Thank you.

[Michelle is an] excellent speaker, clear [and] concise. Thank you for sharing your knowledge [and] experience.

[I liked the] manner in which Michelle presented the information. [She is a] very calm, knowledgeable person with much empathy and understanding.

Well done! [I liked the] richness of the presenter's knowledge and her clarity in presentation.