Soft Belly, Open Heart: Body Shame Healing Circle

Name: Soft Belly, Open Heart: Body Shame Healing Circle
Start: 2025-04-06T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-06T20:45:00-04:00
Location: The Hidden Temple

Schedule

Sun Apr 06 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:45 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Hidden Temple | Florence, MA

In-Person Cohort
🌞SUNDAYS
🗓️April 6 - May 11th
📍The Hidden Temple
Suite #320, 221 Pine St Florence MA
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“A sweet, supportive space for holding and examining painful patterns and beliefs in gentle community, with loving witness. Participating was a gift of catharsis and repair for a deeply damaging, mostly silent, internal struggle.”
-Ananda, past participant
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Many of us who are socialized as women or identify as femme have experienced the constant preoccupation with the size and shape of our bodies, often in ways that deeply affect our lives. The quest for harmony and joy in our relationship with food and our bodies can feel daunting and isolating.
Healing begins when we come together in community to share our stories and experiences.
This intimate in-person support group is specifically for cis women, trans women, and femme-identifying non-binary individuals who have struggled with body shame, body dysmorphia, and/or a challenging relationship with food. It is for those who are currently navigating these patterns, as well as those who have encountered them in the past and wish to revisit and heal on a deeper level.
Over 6 weeks, we will engage with somatic, vocal, and ritual practices as pathways to healing, resourcing, and transformation. You will have the space and support to be fully seen by the group, with a focus on providing tools for nurturing a healthier relationship with food and your body. Together, we’ll engage in story-sharing and ritual work to release shame and trauma and reclaim a sense of peace and ownership over our bodies.
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This container is for you if:
⭕ You are cis woman, trans woman, or femme-identifying non-binary person*** who has struggled with body shame and/or a difficult relationship with food.
⭕ You currently struggle with these issues or have a history that you would like to revisit and heal on a deeper level.
⭕ You want to use holistic, somatic, and ritual modalities to address the underlying issues in your behavior & beliefs.
⭕ You are learning how to express your truth and you have the courage to be witnessed in that expression.
⭕ You understand that the issues we face in our bodies are reflected in cultural sickness, in the repression of feminine wisdom and power over centuries, and our separation from a sense of belonging to the Earth – and you are tired of carrying these old stories in your soma.
⭕ You know that healing happens in community and we are not meant to do it alone.
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This container is NOT for you if:
🔴 You identify primarily with masculine energy (please note – I know that men and masc-identified folks ALSO struggle with this. Know that I see you and I intend to grow into holding spaces for your healing.)
🔴 You are in a critical condition of disordered eating. (If that is the case, know that I have no professional therapeutic training in this field, and please seek immediate professional support elsewhere)
🔴 You would feel safer doing this work in individualized 1:1 space. Know that I also offer 1:1 mentorship in this work.
🔴 You are looking for a quick fix in relationship to your body image.
🔴 You are deeply uncomfortable being witnessed by a group.
🔴 You understand these issues as primarily behavoiral and you are not interested in underlying energetic/systemic/ancestral/somatic contributors.
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HOUSEKEEPING:
Group size: maximum 8 participants
Investment:
Sliding scale $200 - 375
[Please pay what feels right to you in accordance with your current financial situation, your socioeconomic position, and your generous and abundant heart]
TO REGISTER:
Please write "Soft Belly Open Heart" in note
Paypal - [email protected]
Venmo- @charlotte-malin
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Meet your facilitator:
Charlotte Collins, also known as Althaea, is a performer, teacher, and healer guiding people into direct, communal, and transformational encounters. My artistic identities include violinist & violist, improviser, songwriter, group facilitator, dancer, priestess, and healer. I’m passionate about bringing audiences, clients, and students into aliveness, authenticity, and attunement through music and awareness practices.
My life is an ongoing journey toward healing and wholeing. In my early years, I struggled with perfectionism, over-achieving, people-pleasing, and disordered eating. I developed bulimia nervosa at age 15 until about age 25. I have learned many somatic, vibrational, ceremonial, and therapeutic practices that have allowed me to find peace with my body. I offer this work from my own healing journey in full trust of each person's body to show the way towards their healing.