The Power of Feelings™
This weekend workshop series teaches individuals the art and science of how to feel painful, unwanted feelings instead of using food (shopping, scrolling, stressing) to avoid, repress, reject, resist and resent them.
Why? Because when we resist feelings, we suffer. And when we suffer, we will seek external relief.
Worse… once we have suffered deep enough and long enough, it becomes a part of our identity. It becomes an unconscious emotional pattern — a pattern premised on beliefs that limit what we think we are worthy of, what we think is possible, and how good our lives can get.
If you are still struggling with your food, or you are experiencing suffering, a quiet despair or joylessness that is not responsive to doing all the right things… this workshop series is for you! Because food is just the tip of the iceberg and joy is your birthright.
A Better Way
What If?
What if you could learn to feel all of your feelings — even the painful ones — in such a way that, over time, you would rather tune in than check out with food, TV, shopping, scrolling, or other distractions?
What if turning toward painful feelings actually felt better than turning away?
Even better, what if you discovered that tuning in feels better than checking out because it brings the insights, answers, energy, solutions, and next steps that awaken, elevate, and transform your life?
This is possible.
The content taught in these workshops does not replace anything you have done to recover so far. It builds on it. This workshop helps you get to the next level.
This workshop takes you deeper into — and helps you dissolve — your unconscious blocks to better health, greater abundance, more love, more joy, greater financial freedom — in short, all the things you really want.
If you are ready to go deeper, go to the next level, and get unstuck with the food (or have a happier life on the other side of the food), these workshops are for you!
Food Rules, Restriction & a Felt Sense of Safety
The Next Step in Recovery.
One of the biggest insights I've had on my own food recovery journey over the past few years is that I wasn't simply attached to food. I had also become attached to the sense of safety that rigid food rules, restriction and the achievement of perfection with my food provided.
Structure can be incredibly helpful. In fact, I believe it's often an essential part and phase of recovery.
But sometimes our rigid food rules do far more than organize the way we eat or reduce decision fatigue. They're helping us manage what happens inside us. They're protecting us from uncertainty, cravings, urges, difficult sensations, and feelings we don't yet know how to be with.
For me, there came a point in my recovery when I realized my work was no longer about food. It was about learning how to feel safe enough inside myself that I no longer needed food rules or perfection as my source of safety.
The less I needed food — or rigid food rules — to make me feel safe, the more peace and freedom I experienced. Recovery became a journey from external strategies… to an inner capacity to be with whatever I was feeling and to expand that capacity.
That realization changed my recovery, how I coach, and how I teach and understand addiction recovery. It's also one of the reasons I created these workshops.
Weekend Workshop #1
Feeling Our Feelings
Why Welcoming Difficult Feelings Changes Everything.
August 21–23, 2026
Most of us were never taught what to do with feelings (including pleasant ones). We were not taught how to relax into them and stay present with them long enough for them to be processed and integrated, for their core insights and messages to be received.
Instead, we learned to suppress them, distract ourselves from them, push through them, numb them, intellectualize them, talk about them, analyze them, or get stuck in them (feeling the same old emotions over and over).
While each of these approaches has its time and place, they are usually subtle ways of resisting or rejecting our feelings rather than welcoming them — and in doing so, they interrupt the very process our emotions were designed to complete. And they cause us to suffer.
Feelings do not cause us to suffer; repressing them does.
To successfully repress emotions, we learned to seek comfort, relief, and pleasure outside ourselves through food, shopping, scrolling, people-pleasing, perfectionism, staying busy, achievement, alcohol, stressing, worrying, gossiping, and countless other forms.
There is a better way. A way of relaxing into our feelings, staying present with them, and allowing them to complete the natural process they were designed to complete. It is healing. It is freeing. And it is a skill anyone can learn.
Topics Covered
- The subtle ways we resist, reject, and avoid our feelings (even when we think we don't).
- How repressed feelings show up as food cravings, exhaustion, and suffering.
- A practical, step-by-step process for safely processing emotions.
- Powerful experiential practices for emotional integration.
- Working with split-off parts, resistance, and rebellion.
- How to stay present with difficult feelings without getting stuck in them.
- How to recognize negative emotional loops — and how to get out of them.
- And more!
The bottom line is this: until we can fully welcome grief, we can never fully experience authentic joy. And joy is who we are by design. That is the focus of Workshop #2.
Weekend Workshop #2
Elevating Our Emotions
Feeling Good From the Inside Out.
September 18–20, 2026
This workshop teaches you how to elevate your emotions from within instead of waiting for life to line up just how you want it, or chasing feel-good states through food, sugar, scrolling, shopping, alcohol, etc.
Recurring painful emotions are typically in response to recurring negative thoughts, limiting beliefs, and old stories. Until we know how to change these painful emotions at the source, we will spend far too much time processing our emotions and too little time in elevated emotional states.
In this inspiring, practical workshop, you'll learn to reduce painful emotions at the source — and to intentionally cultivate joy, gratitude, hope, and peace, from within. Right here, right now.
In This Workshop You'll Learn
- The recurring thoughts, limiting beliefs, and stories that create painful emotions.
- How to intentionally choose thoughts that elevate your emotional state.
- Creating a compelling vision for the life you truly want to live.
- Using affirmations, visualization, meditation, and intentional practices to change your story.
- Cultivating more joy, love, peace, gratitude, hope, and inspiration from within.
- Manifest a future you want, without spiritually bypassing your pain.
- And more!
The Series
Two Workshops. One Journey.
You're welcome to register for one workshop, or you can register for both.
If you register for both, you will receive a discount.
Why Take Both Workshops?
They work well together — here's why.
Teaches you how to process painful emotions instead of resisting or escaping them.
Teaches you how to intentionally cultivate more joy, love, hope, peace, and inspiration from within.
Together, they teach you how to be with your emotions consciously, compassionately, and creatively.
Many people assume that once they've found freedom with food, joy will naturally follow. Sometimes it does. But often, years into recovery, there's still a quiet despair or emptiness that remains.
Together, these workshops address both the pain that keeps us stuck and the joy we're ultimately seeking.
About Florence
Why I Created These Workshops.
For more than twenty years, I've been immersed in the world of food recovery — both personally and professionally.
Today, I believe addiction is, at its core, an emotional processing disorder. After all, if we knew how to be with our sensations and feelings — including the urgent and often painful sensations of craving — we wouldn't need the psychoactive hit of sugar and ultra-processed foods or the numbing effects of bingeing and overeating.
One of the biggest insights I've had over the past few years is that many of us aren't simply attached to food. We've also become attached to the sense of safety our food rules and restriction provide.
One of the most significant turning points in my journey was completing my three-year Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Practitioner training. It transformed the way I understand food addiction, emotional eating, and recovery.
Today, I understand the emotional, nervous system, and belief-based roots of disordered eating in a much deeper, more practical, and more trauma-informed way.
To me, these deeper layers are the missing link. They're what allow everything we've done so far — and everything we've learned about nutrition, recovery, and behaviour change — to finally stick.
This deeper work helps us not only find freedom with food, but also create a life that is happier, more joyous, and free.
Putting the food down doesn't automatically create that life. We need to learn how. That's what these workshops are all about.
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Choose Your Workshop.
Space is limited to 100 participantsElevating Our Emotions
The Complete Series
- Workshop One & Workshop Two
- Lifetime access to all recordings
VIP
- Both workshops
- Six private coaching calls with Florence
Payment plans available at checkout.
Everything You Will Receive
Your Workshops Include.
- A 3-day live online workshop.
- Lifetime access to the recordings and all future updates.
- Guided experiential practices — not just theory.
- Time to practice what you're learning throughout the workshop.
- Live coaching opportunities with workshop participants.
- Healing meditations.
- Stuck Energy Release techniques.
- Downloadable handouts and worksheets.
- Live Q&A with Florence throughout the weekend.
- Six private coaching sessions (optional add-on).
- And more!
In Their Words
What People Are Saying.
"Florence Christophers is the right person to work with if you're still struggling. Hers is the most comprehensive program I've found, and I've tried many. She not only provides a caring and loving container, she provides a sophisticated framework, depth of understanding…"
"I want you to know how much I appreciate you. Since my reunion with my son in Feb 2019, I have worked with several adoption therapists… None of them have accomplished what you have with me, in a much shorter timeframe. The somatic work is what I needed — I just didn't know it."
"This is a big heartfelt thank you. I have learned so much… I am taken with your humour, your vulnerability, your authenticity… Your personal journey and commitment to ongoing learning, and subsequent ability to adjust, is inspirational to me."
Questions
Good to Know.
What if I can't attend live?
Everything is recorded. Join us live if you can, or go at your own pace — you'll have lifetime access to the recordings.
What if I can't be there for all of it?
No problem. The recordings cover anything you miss — circle back around when the time is right.
What if I'm already good at feeling my feelings?
Many of us are good at feeling, talking about, and analyzing our emotions — but we often intellectualize them. Most of us were never taught to feel them long enough, and in the right way, for them to be processed, released, and integrated. That's a different skill, and it's the one that changes everything.
What is your refund policy?
All sales are final.
Why is there a VIP option?
For those who want personal and private 1-1 support to practice what they learn. The VIP option includes both workshops, plus six private coaching calls and unlimited email support.
I'm already a private coaching client — do I need to register?
No — both workshops (and all future updates) are already included in your coaching package.
Ready?
If You're Still Struggling With Food, This Is for You.
If Your Food Is Good, But Life Is Not, This Is for You.
If you're ready to learn emotional skills that support not only your recovery, but your overall quality of life — I'm confident these workshops will be life-changing.