Body-shaming isn’t just something we do to others, it’s something we do to ourselves...all the time.
The words we say to ourselves, about ourselves, are powerful. Self-talk and body image are intricately woven together: what we feel, think, and say about the skin we’re in can dictate how we walk through the world, for better or worse.
BODY TALK is an interactive workshop by WANT and HELEN PHELAN STUDIO to help you develop a healthy and positive relationship with the skin you’re in. Through a combination of movement and mindful discussion, Katie Horwitch (WANT) and Helen Phelan (HPS) will guide you through a series of physical and written exercises to rework your limiting beliefs, shift your self-talk, boost your body confidence, and believe in your self-worth.
*If you can’t make it, no worries! A recording will be sent to attendees to replay or work through on their own!
Sunday, August 30th1:30-3:30PM EST
45-minute signature HPS Pilates-based movement class
45-minute discussion and written prompts
All fitness levels encouraged
All participants will receive a downloadable workbook of all written exercises post-class
Come prepared to move with a journal and a writing utensil!
Choosing your energetic exchange:
This workshop is designed to help people manage and learn from their negative self talk and body shaming, and the more people that have access to it, the greater collective healing we can all do.
When choosing your payment option, we kindly ask you to consider that the creators are two female identifying small business owners, and offerings like this are what sustains us financially. The goal of WANT and HPS for BODY TALK is to provide the space to address and the tools to learn, grow, and ultimately heal from negative body talk. To make this dream a reality, we’re counting on your integrity in choosing a fair exchange for our work planning, creating, and presenting workshops like this one. If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that life is always changing. By choosing to give more when you can, you are helping create more accesible spaces for those who can’t, and opening a karmic opportunity for to be helped the next time you’re in need.
If all of the options in this sliding scale are still inaccessible, please email us directly at hi@helenphelanstudio.com. No one who wants to learn will be turned away for lack of funds.
10% of all proceeds will be donated to NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association). NEDA supports individuals and families affected by eating disorders, and serves as a catalyst for prevention, cures and access to quality care.
Special thanks to Dive In Well and Holisticism for inspiring us to use the sliding scale model and for providing the framework to help us build our tiers.
Tier 1: $24
(use code: BODYTALK1 at checkout)
This is you if you:
OIften stress about meeting basic needs + don’t always meet them
Have major debt that contributes to difficulty meeting basic needs
Are experiencing housing instability
Are unemployed or underearning for your basic needs
Have no savings and little if any expendable income
Never buy new items because you can’t afford them
Can’t afford to take vacations or time off
Tier 2: $36
(use code: BODYTALK2 at checkout)
This is you if you:
Sometimes stress about meeting basic needs but still meet them
Have some debt but it doesn’t interfere with your basic needs
Have housing stability
Are employed
Have some savings and expendable income
Are able to buy a mix of new and used items
Can take vacations without major financial repercussions
Tier 3: $72
This is you if you:
Have all your basic needs met regularly and with ease
May have some debt but it doesn’t interfere with your basic needs
Make rent payments without stress/own your property
Are employed or do not need to work to meet basic needs
Have savings
Can buy items new for the most part
Can take time off and vacation annually
Helen Phelan is a Health At Every Size aligned pilates instructor, intuitive eating coach, and Reiki practitioner, who works with women to heal their body image and find joy in movement and food. Her approach is creative, anti diet-culture, and designed to enhance your intuition to feel better on and off the mat. Helen is dedicated to improving the collective body image and diet culture issues within the wellness industry by proving that fitness can be good for both the body and soul. Her method is designed to elicit STRONG sensation to encourage improved body awareness and mindfulness while strengthening and mobilizing the body to unstick any energy we don’t need, and make room for feeling good. Helen has been featured in Well + Good, Huffington Post, Bustle, Betches Media, InStyle Magazine and more. When she’s not dismantling the fatphobia in the wellness world, she’s learning French, and snuggling with her rescue pitbull, Hugo.
Katie Horwitch is a writer, speaker, mindset coach, activist, and the founder of WANT: Women Against Negative Talk. Founded in 2007, WANT is a platform that gives women tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to move forward fearlessly in life by shifting their negative self-talk patterns. Its podcast counterpart, WANTcast: The Women Against Negative Talk Podcast, tackles subjects like loneliness, jealousy, self-worth, and interviews visionary women about taking a pragmatic, proactive approach to the full spectrum of life's high highs and low lows. Katie has been featured on CNN as a "women are empowering others around the world," and has spoken across the country - from SXSW and Lululemon to corporate workshops and body-positive pageants - about self-confidence, living fearlessly, and shifting the emotional DNA that's helped shape our negative self-talk patterns. She’s also been teaching group fitness since 2007, and currently leads mindset-focused, beat-based running, walking, elliptical, and indoor cycling classes on the audio fitness app Aaptiv. Her middle name is Joy. Literally.