eople today can become anything they choose at any age. Yet the pressure we feel to live up to social expectations is enormous. This leaves both women and men vulnerable to stress and low self-esteem--especially since we often care for others much better than we care for ourselves. Sadly, many focus on outward accomplishments such as appearance or material success to compensate for a sense of inadequacy. In addition, many also overuse food, work, alcohol, nicotine, aggression, and other potentially unhealthy choices to cope with pressured lives and a sense of inner emptiness. Rebecca's honest discussions uplift audiences and help them create healthier, more meaningful lives; overcome intolerant and superficial attitudes that lead to low self-esteem and even violence; and find personal and professional balance by exploring creativity, spirituality, simplicity, and wellness. In a future that promises to offer each of us a longer life than anyone ever expected, the ability to dream and create lives of purpose will be key to remaining vital and vibrant. For more information, see topics below, call Rebecca at 800-470-4769 or email her at rebecca@rebeccaradcliffe.com. Enjoy!

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Dance Naked In Your Living Room: Handling Stress & Finding Joy

Rebecca gives a light-hearted, uplifting talk on creatively coping with our stressful world. She encourages us to find positive outlets--other than eating, drinking, working, spending, using drugs, having inappropriate sex, getting angry, or becoming depressed and isolated. Rebecca asserts that that we have never been taught how to cope, and we can't change unhealthy habits until we learn something new. The wonderful surprise with this new approach is finding more joy. By taking time to unwind, we open to quiet moments of joy that nourish us and help us create lives that fit us and that help us go after our dreams.

Enlightened Eating: Understanding and Changing Emotional Eating

Rebecca asserts that we do not have to be thin and perfectly fit to be vibrant, happy, and fulfilled. She explores why so many girls and women have learned to hate their bodies and spend endless time, energy, and money trying to control weight--instead of using their talents to enrich personal lives and make a contribution to the world. In addition, she sheds light on our use of food and dieting to cope with emotional stress. This is a powerful antidote to the body shame and depression that affects so many.

Finding Body Peace: A Journey of Self-Acceptance

Rebecca inspires women and those who care about females of all ages to consider a path of tolerance and self-appreciation toward the wonderful bodies that carry us through our lives. In a gentle combination of affirmation, alternate images of beauty, and warm-hearted ritual, Rebecca helps us to find a spirit of self acceptance and appreciation for our bodies.

Hot Flashes, Chocolate Sauce, & Rippled Thighs: Body Image for Real Women

In this fabulous and fun affirmation of adult women's journeys with their bodies, self-esteem, personal growth, and the unending possibilities of age, Rebecca reminds us that we are vital and beautiful at every age. This lively exploration of body image takes women who are past the "fashion doll" era helps us find peace for the bodies that have carried us through so much. Together, we explore an alternate definition of beauty, need for our culture to change its narrow definitions of body acceptance, the wonderful benefits of positive self-care, and the deep satisfaction that comes with creating an authentic self.

Women's Wellness: A Matter of Balance

Rebecca believes that finding balance in life is at the heart of our wellness. Caretaking others and often not ourselves, women's and men's spiritual, creative, emotional, and physical lives need compassionate self-attention. This lovely program for gentle introspection and re-alignment sets a new direction for personal growth.

Dreams Grow In Every Heart: A Special Mother/Daughter Event

Rebecca Radcliffe, together with her teen-aged daughter, gives a light-hearted and uplifting talk to warm the hearts and inspire young girls and the mothers and women who love them! Together, they talk about the wonderful potential girls and women have for making their lives and the world around them better. They encourage women and girls to utilize their creativity and generous hearts to improve the well-being of all people in our complex and challenging world. After taking a lively and honest look at society's insensitive messages regarding appearance and body size, they explore how this deflates self-confidence and self-esteem and adds to the increasing stress of both girls and women. They encourage mothers, daughters, grandmothers, sisters, and aunts to be good to themselves in our busy world, keep learning, dare to dream,make a difference, and stay connected with those they love.

Body Wisdom: Loving & Supporting Our Bodies

Body wisdom is a wonderful, holistic look at ways to love and support our bodies. By choosing to positively handle stress, eat nutritiously, keep moving, love what we do, actively learn, make choices for wellness, and stay spiritually centered, and question definitions of beauty, we become wise, peaceful, and optimistic women.

Spirituality, Food, and Body Acceptance

Rebecca shares a comprehensive and stimulating overview of eating and body issues unlike any other today. She examines at these issues from a multidimensional, sociocultural standpoint involving: changing gender roles, increasing technological change and stress, depleted spiritual inner relationships and resevoirs, emotional challenge, cultural intolerance and discrimination, the ability to dream, and the need for balance, artistic expression, and purpose.

Living To Grow: Choosing to be Conscious, Courageous, and Creative

Rebecca reflects deeply on key issues facing women intheir search for happiness and personal expression. Examining the exponential cultural changes which have already deeply affected women's lives and exploring the changes yet to come, Rebecca inspires women to seek personal growth as a doorway to unfolding life purpose and fulfillment.

Dare To Dream: Creating the Lives We Want

In this encouraging program, Rebecca discusses how a person realizes it is time to follow a dream, musters up the courage to go after the dream, and finds enough heart to continue into the unknown. Believing that many men and especially women often cherish values that are not rewarded by the working world, Rebecca explains how many individuals are finding creative outlet and economic satisfaction by starting their own volunteer, artistic, or corporate ventures. Using her publishing and consulting experience, Rebecca talks about the challenge of undertaking something both terrifying and deeply gratifying, and the personal growth that comes with this leap.

Living To Grow: Choosing To Be Conscious, Courageous, and Creative

Rebecca reflects deeply on key issues facing individuals in their search for happiness, authenticity, and personal power. Examining the exponential cultural change of the 20th century--which has deeply affected women's roles and consequently, the roles of men, this presentation inspires us to seek personal growth as a doorway to unfolding life purpose and fulfillment in the 21st century.

Living With Vitality: Finding Lives of Meaning and Purpose

Rebecca shares an enthusiastic spirit for the future in which many of us will live much longer and healthier lives due to medical advances. Rather than being caught by surprise with empty, depressing, and impoverished lives, Rebecca encourages us to imagine a longer horizon for ourselves, be proactive about our health and vitality, and pursue the dreams we have not had time or courage to explore.

Skinny Dreams: How Stress, Eating, & Body Hatred Impact Women's Success

Rebecca examines tHow extreme standards of thinness erod self-esteem and undermine women's success. She advocates questioning narrow cultural dictates so that women of all ages can be free to pursue their dreams instead of a number on the scale.

A Gift To Be Simple: Down-Sizing Life Stress

Rebecca explores the toll our high-paced lifestyles take on health, relationships, finances, and well-being as we pursue the American Dream. Some are declaring "enough" and leaving big homes, demanding jobs, fancy cars, and designer clothes to find peace of mind and heart. Remarkably rich in countless ways, a lifestyle of greater simplicity helps free up time and energy for what really matters. This revolutionary perspective will help keep us vital as we live longer lives.

New Millenium, New Rules: Work, Wonder, and Wisdom

The new century and millenium are already bringing new rules and expectations for everybody as our communications and technology revolutions continue to explode. Changes accelerate, the world shrinks, stress mounts, and people suffer--unless we learn to make new choices that keep us healthy, open to learning, tolerant, and excited for what is to come. Rebecca explores how the rules for work, productivity, happiness, and health are rapidly changing--and how each person can make choices that help us enjoy being in the flow instead of feeling pounded by change.

Creating Peace: One Person, One Decision, One Moment at a Time

In this simple and inspiring presentation, Rebecca reminds us that our every action has an effect. When each of us realizes the quiet power we have and then seeks to choose peace one moment at a time, we can create a more peaceful world whenever we drive, interact with strangers, deal with challenges in our work and home environments, and make our way through each and every day.

About to Burst: Handling Stress & Ending Violence

In the midst of growing pressure for today's young people and adults, Rebecca asserts that we must help create resiliency by teaching coping skills. We assume that kids will stumble through life's challenges somehow. But this leaves teens (and the adults they become) vulnerable to drug and alcohol use, overeating and eating disorders, rage and aggression, inappropriate sexual encounters, depression and isolation, low self-esteem, violence, and suicide. By learning positive options to use when over-stressed along with an approach to reduce the source of stress, young people can avoid doing harm to themselves or others.

Other Talks by Rebecca Radcliffe…

• Narrow Images: Size Intolerance in the Media
• The Silent Scream: Eating Disorders as a Form of Violence and the Path to Peace
• Lost in a Box of Chocolates: The Misplaced Search for Meaning in Food
• Visual Bytes: How the Media's Helps Erode Female Esteem
• Bellies, Boobs, & Buttocks: A Closer Look at Body Hatred
• Stress and Women: Surviving the Superwoman Culture
• The Silent Struggle: The Inner World of Eating Disorders
• Guidelines for Intervention and Assessment of Eating Disorders (In-service)
• How Can I Help?: Understanding & Living with Someone with an Eating Disorder
• Surviving the Holidays: Beyond the Binge
• Emotional Eating: Using Food to Cope

For : Keynotes, Talks, Panel Discussions, Workshops, Wellness & Women's Events, Men's Events, Employee Programs, Professional Luncheons or Conferences, In-services, Commencements, Orientation/Peer Counselor/Residence Assistants Training, Assemblies, and Eating Disorders, Substance Abuse, Women's History Weeks/Months

Learning To Live In Our Bodies: Untangling Emotions, Food, and Body-Hatred

In Rebecca's insightful workshop, she inspires the audience to untangle stress, emotions, and eating patterns to learn new ways of coping with stress and overloaded lives. She explores the destructive influence of media and weight on self-confidence and how this has led to widespread body-hatred, repeated dieting, depression, weight gain, and even eating disorders--and encourages a path of active awareness and alternate images to counteract its powerful grip. She looks at the particular stresses of life as we begin the new millennium and explores the need to find balance, spiritual centeredness, and creative expression.

Making An Impact: Helping Women Come To Healthy Terms With Their Bodies, Eating, and Weight

Many of the women we see in our practices and classes struggle with the cultural dictates that have led to wide-spread dieting, body-hatred, weight gain, eating disorders, compulsive eating, and low self-esteem. They are especially vulnerable to these issues during periods of stress. As professionals, we have the responsibility to help them become free from the demoralizing effects of trying to control their bodies. We must provide them with a new vision--a different way of looking at themselves, their life experiences, and their bodies. And we can have a powerful impact when we teach women healthier ways to nurture themselves.

Body Wisdom: A Journey of Insight & Peace

This delicious and encouraging workshop helps women explore and change their attitudes toward their bodies and eating patterns. With insight and acceptance as the goal, Rebecca uses a variety of approaches to help women release narrow judgements about physical beauty, tune into their bodies' deeper needs, identify dreams that lie dormant, make lifestyle choices that support their journeys, and begin to forge a path of personal change toward wholeness and joy. May be offered in half day, full day, one and one half day, or two day versions.

Note: These workshops can be offered in evening, half-day, or full-day formats. When requested, Rebecca will provide the sponsor with any necessary outlines and abjectives to obtain CEU's for attendees.

Honorarium & equipment

Honorariums vary for a single event (30-90 mn), half-day (2-4 hours), or full-day events (4-8 hours). All travel expenses such as airfare, airport parking, mileage, rental car, hotel/guest house, and meals in transit are additional. To discuss designing a program for your organization, call Rebecca Radcliffe at (800) 470-4769 or email her at rebecca@rebeccaradcliffe.com. The equipment needed for each presentation includes: a lapel microphone (or hand-held microphone), Power Point projection system (or slide projector), bottled water, and CD player.