O C E A N programs are designed for those seeking permanent change through self-discovery. Whether you struggle with weight, prosperity, relationships, or right livelihood, at O C E A N you will learn essential tools and processes to create success! Expanding awareness, deepening compassion, and dissolving obstacles reinforce healthful new ways of success in every area of your life.
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin
On the Horizon:
• O C E A N's programs are a beautiful, compassionate, delightful, and nourishing space for you to grow, develop, and bring your innate fullness and aliveness into every area of your life. Be the most alive, connected, radiant, and capable person you can be. We're offering incredible packages including Assessment, Private Sessions, and our exclusive Online Community. If the timing is right for enlivening change, we hope you'll check out our soul nourishing No Fail approach.
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• Plus, read more about O C E A N and our founder, Dr. Rebecca Coleman, including her story of maintaining 170 pound weight loss after weighing nearly 300 pounds – twice.
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Chocolate Is Not the Enemy |
[Excerpt from Jan Henrikson's article from Chicken Soup for the Dieter’s Soul about her experience with Dr. Rebecca Coleman]
It wasn’t yet 7:00 in the morning and already I was chain-eating lime chili tortilla chips. I stood at the kitchen counter, emotionally hung-over from yet another fight with my boyfriend. I was crunching the anger, salting the wounds. Crunching and salting with bites of chocolate for good measure. I couldn’t stop. Even the tortilla chip bag had a wickedly furious crinkle. I couldn’t eat fast enough to block the tension of not wanting to abandon my relationship, not knowing how to go on. I was broken, a whir of helplessness, powerlessness. This echoed my drinking days. Twelve years I’d been sober. How did I get this way with food? This had to stop. Had to stop! What had been an occasional binge followed by days of deprivation had become a near-daily nightmare.
A prayer flashed through my mind, one that my friend Marti Matthews shares in her book, Pain: The Challenge and the Gift. It goes like this: “Help! Help! Help! Help! Help!” Which, she suggests, can be repeated with hands thrown in the air.
I repeated it silently all the way to a breakfast with one of my best friends, a bearer of wonders and wise words. While I collected myself, she whipped out a flyer from her bag and slapped it on my empty plate. “Taking Your Own Shape: Explore Your Relationship with Food and Body,” it said.
What? Oh my God. The most important part of praying for help is recognizing it when it arrives. Darn, I’d have to go.
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Women's Aliveness Programs |
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From Dr. Rebecca Coleman: "Twenty years ago I went on a search to discover the cure for obesity – my own. Despite being intelligent and successful in other areas of my life, I weighed nearly 300 pounds twice. At 26 I made a commitment to understand the truth about how to heal my weight issues for good, and also to pass on everything I learned to health professionals and other women struggling with weight.
Despite billions of dollars in research, the best efforts of medical professionals are lost on what appear to be difficult, resistant patients contributing to statistics as dismal as one-half of 1% of people who lose more than 100 pounds without surgery will keep it off for more than five years. Even 95-98% of those with less weight to lose are unable keep it off long term. Despite the availability of expert knowledge, almost no one is successful. Most women I work with know enough about diet and exercise to teach their own weight loss class, but they are unable to apply what they know in their day-to-day lives.
These facts motivate my teaching, writing, speaking, and continuing research. I am passionate about helping women who are suffering under the burden of weight issues (mental, emotional, and physical) to find their enlivening, affirming, and complete solution. I won’t stop doing what I do until everyone has access to the truth about weight loss. Beginning with the truth that it’s not just about diet and exercise, but, in fact, attention to one’s inner life is truly the key to lifelong success." |
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