Come to the Haven River Inn

March 21 - 23, 2014

for

"REAL COMFORT COMES

when

the COMFORTER comes"

If you've had trouble with the problem of compulsive overeating, as I have had, the next Real Comfort retreat may be "just what the doctor ordered."

Have you had time to even think about a focus on eating healthy, or getting over overeating as a coping mechanism?  The two go hand in hand, and both are required to succeed.  Summer will come soon, and life may charge ahead without any new life-giving focus on how to get healthy and stay healthy, and without addressing this very pesky problem.  Overeating.  At every retreat, someone says, "It's not that I don't know what to do; it's that I don't want to do it." Many of us have made a lot of effort in this regard but it's been about losing weight and looking better, and our efforts have not provided lasting change.

Many of us realize that we need to eat better, and avoid overeating, but we don't realize that there are some obvious medical-nutritional aspects tripping us up.  We think we have no willpower, but really we have a set-up doomed to produce the tug of certain foods.  Part of that is nutritional; part is spiritual.

 

Wouldn't it be wonderful to live with confidence and trust, making life-giving and life-sustaining choices where food is concerned?

Or at least have in mind how you will get back on track?

Maybe that is exactly where you are today.

Or maybe you've gotten just a little off course.  Maybe it's not food; it's alcohol that tempts you.

But there is a time to set into motion or to  rekindle the kind of life you really want to be living, the life of peace with God and peace with yourself, the time to begin again where diet is concerned.

This retreat in March is that time.  Recover a vision for your healthier future.  Get back in tune with your personal plan or devise a completely new one.

This is your time.

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You are invited to join Dr. Suzanne Ramsay for: 

• Two days and two nights at the Haven River Inn - A restful yet motivating experience.
• Delicious yet very healthy food.  You won't be hungry, and you just  might lose weight.  Menu design comes from the book:  Do I Eat This? D.I.E.T?
  
• Devotions offering an integration of body and soul wellness.   Explore with others the questions we all have about why food seems to fill a void we'd really rather be filled by our relationship with God and others.
  
• Teaching on current research on food sensitivites and "food addiction." There's help available from certain foods that bolster our brain health and help us get over overeating.  Well chosen foods can lighten the tug of "hyper-palatable" foods, i.e., the harmful choices we make when we are stressed.
  
• Coaching to help you develop your own food plan. 
  
• A follow-up internet group to continue encouraging and revisiting the issue.  Some of us have wandered in this desert for 40 years, and it's time for a change.
  

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 A lot of us seem to take better care of others than of ourselves.  In that case, do you love someone enough to make a serious effort at regaining and maintaining your own health?  Then we hope you will come!

  

The Facilitator

Suzanne Ellison Ramsay, MD: a family physician for over 30 years has taken a special interest in helping women stop using food for the wrong reasons. " Lifestyle change is difficult, and the effort needs to be worth it.  Dr. Ellison-Ramsay is the founder of Lamb's Tale Ministries, and she and husband, John Ramsay, have five children, aged 21-31.   When at age 50, she developed five "chronic" illnesses she began treating them all with diet alone.  With the history of shedding 50 pounds (five times), she's learned about following God's lead to address the interplay between stress and overeating.    

"In my thirties and forties, when I would think about the Biblical revelation that we are to view our bodies as the temple of the Holy Spirit, I remember wanting to skip those passages.  At that time my stressed soul seemed to say, Temple, what temple, I don't see a temple.   Now, the following quote by Oswald Chambers means so much to me, 'The biggest favor you can do for others within the Kingdom of God is to repent yourself of what you know you need to change, and then help others do the same. ' 

Women especially carry so much responsibility.  We have a very full plate.  I love wellness retreats and especially addressing why we use food for comfort sake ... because we have things on our plates that we barely know push us toward making bad choices.  With a little bit of help people can learn to live differently."

Dr. Suz, as she is called in the office, has written one book and is working on another.  The first, D.I.E.T? Do I Eat This? is an informative, readable and compelling resource guide for better food choice.  She wrote this to connect with her patients' saying, "I don't know how to pick from all the information out there these days."  See this book and a blog at www.drsuz.net

A second book with a working title of Why Do I Eat This?  Why D.I.E.T?  is due out in 2014.  In this she looks at that question from her faith that God wants people to be free from compulsive overeating so as to worship Him.  And that means, much as in this retreat, we are to consider our life stories that led to hurtful attachments to food, people, and any other eclipsing bondage.

 

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This retreat will be very important for those folks who want to put an end to overeating. 

Check out the next "Taste of Transformation" retreat, with opportunity for personal medical assessment for those people already struggling with various diseases.  In that retreat we will delve in more deeply into nutrition and the use of "food as medicine."  However, by special arrangement some of the diagnostic features of that are available and we invite you to request more information.

Registration fees include the conference fee plus all meals, with or without a lodging fee for 2 nights.  Follow this link to view pricing of both single and double occupancy rooms, and the commuter rate. 

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