The Program

The Out of the Cave Group Program is a transformational 12-module coaching experience designed to empower you with the skills, tools, education, and support you need to use your struggle with food & body as a path to mind-body-soul alignment so you can embody a life of freedom. Designed for anyone struggling with “disordered” eating habits (over-eating, under-eating, mindless eating, stress eating, emotional eating, yoyo-dieting, compulsive dieting, etc.), this holistic, trauma-informed curriculum is designed to support participants in understanding how they got “here” (where exactly did the mind and body become disconnected in the first place and why has “intuitive eating” become so elusive), how to get “out” (reconnect to themselves, embody authenticity, and feel safe honoring their body’s needs), and how to maintain it (design a lifestyle supportive to a regulated nervous system and sustainable mental, emotional, spiritual, social, physiological and physical well-being moving forward). This strengths-based program is rooted in the belief that using food to cope is a normal, human, and valid method of managing stress, coping with emotion, and regulating energy, AND that it is possible to heal from the inside out.
The Modules
Module 1 | Orientation: Mind-Body-Soul & True vs. False Self
Module 2 | How You Got Here: “Macro” [Culture]
Module 3 | How You Got Here: “Micro” [Neuroscience]
Module 4 | “Addiction” → Recovery & Chronic Conditions
Module 5 | Nutrition & Food
Module 6 | Weight vs. Health
Module 7 | The Psychology of Feeding
Module 8 | Love vs. Fear & Energy
Module 9 | Feelings, Resistance & Re-Parenting
Module 10 | “I’ll Be Happy When…” Trap, Limiting Beliefs & Codependency
Module 11 | Exercise & Body Image
Module 12 | Lifestyle, Maintenance, Relapse & Recovery

“If you’re a doctor, and you see 100 kids that all drink from the same well, and 98 of them develop diarrhea, you can go ahead and write that prescription for dose after dose after dose of antibiotics, or, you can walk over and say, ‘what the hell is in this well?’”
- Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
The Philosophy
Evidence-Based Influences
Mind-body Medicine [Dr. John Sarno]
The Cure for Chronic Pain [Nicole Sachs, LCSW]
Mind-Body Weight Loss [Jon Gabriel, The Gabriel Method]
Intuitive Eating [Evelyn Triboli, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S & Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, FAND]
Health at Every Size [Tarra L. Penney, BSc, MA and Sara F.L. Kirk, PhD]
Neurobiology [Loretta Bruening, PhD.]
Adverse Childhood Experiences, ACE Study [Dr. Nadine Burke Harris]
Internal Family Systems [Richard Schwartz, PhD.]
Self-Compassion [Dr. Kristen Neff]
Addiction and Recovery [Dr. Gabor Maté]
Somatic Psychology [Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD, Peter Levine, PhD.]
Psychology of Feeding [Ellyn Satter, MS, LCSW, RD, BCD]
Raising Health Children [Dr. Patricia Riba]
Power of Vulnerability [Dr. Brené Brown]
Stress Management [Kelly McGonigal, PhD.]