Healing Together:
Small Group Journeys Beyond Food Obsession
Take our hand. Walk with us - your guide and your new best friends - to that healing place. We will teach you about resonance. We will help you heal. We will show you that you're not alone.
Maybe you can let all that old pain go?
Imagine leaving behind the ghosts and goblins of food obsession. Imagine finding peace in a trusted space, safe in its consistency and unconditional support. The changes you'll see, the love you'll feel, the healing you'll experience - it all begins with one brave step.
Are you ready to begin your healing journey?
The Weight We've Been Carrying
We've lived decades battling the diets, riding the weight loss and gain roller coaster. Our closets tell the story - filled with different sizes, each one a reminder of our struggle. Inside our minds, a constant cacophony plays:
What should I eat? What can I get away with eating? What do I want to eat? What do I wish I could eat?
Food becomes our obsession, accompanied by an endless stream of self-judgment, shame, and guilt flowing like a firehose through our thoughts. Our inner critics lacerate us daily, leaving wounds that no diet can heal.
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Focusing on the diet shifts us from the hard work.
~The real reasons we eat. That takes time.
A Revolutionary Truth: It's Not About the Food
What if we've been looking at this all wrong?
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting different results. We're not talking about simply ending your relationship with processed foods or finding the perfect diet. Instead, we're inviting you to explore the deeper reasons why we eat:
- Emotional triggers that drive us to food for comfort
- Behavioral patterns tied to loneliness, boredom, or specific activities
- Unconscious contracts - the beliefs we hold that may not serve us
- SWCC (Stuff We Can't Control) - which we can't change, but we can transform how we respond
- The complex web of feelings underlying it all
The Power of Healing Together
Houston, we have a problem - but we also have a solution. Those moments when we turn to food? They're not failures. They're beacons, beautiful neon signs directing us to the real reasons we eat. And here's the revolutionary part: these patterns can be healed through resonance and trusted community.
What is Resonance?
When we share our stories in a safe space, something magical happens. We call it resonance - the healing that occurs when we recognize our struggles in others' experiences. Suddenly, we're not alone anymore. The shame of hiding, of covert eating, of self-judgment begins to dissolve in the light of shared understanding.
What's inside the program?
The Journey Begins
- Initial 1:1 meeting to understand your unique situation, challenges, and availability
- Placement in a small group (up to 5 members) that meets weekly for 90 minutes
- A structured yet nurturing environment where healing happens naturally
- Consistent group membership that builds deep trust and safety over time
A Typical Session
- Opens with meditative music and inspiring wisdom from spiritual leaders
- Each participant shares their weekly observations and experiences (5-10 minutes each)
- Expert coaching and resonance feedback from your group leader
- Closing circle for mutual support, including:
- Key takeaways
- Intentions for the week ahead
- Sharing hopes and positive expectations
Why Small Groups Work
Our groups maintain the same members week after week, creating a rare and precious space where deep trust can flourish. In this consistent, safe container where familiar faces greet you each time, real transformation becomes possible. When we can relax and witness others being coached, knowing we're among trusted companions on the same journey, we discover:
- We are not alone in our struggles
- We uncover insights about ourselves we never knew were there by hearing others share
- We gain clarity about our own blind spots and missing pieces
- We heal through resonance and shared experiences
- We find strength in consistent, unconditional support
- We learn from others' breakthroughs in unexpected ways
Sonja Irina Johansen
Sonja started her small groups in Sept 2021.
Sonja focuses on digging into the reasons our outsized emotions flare causing our lizard brain to trigger its safety mechanisms which for most of us, is why we pick up the bags and boxes of ultra processed substances.Â
Sonja has lived a life of food dysfunction, food sensitivities, and the neuroscience behind the reasons we go to food, from willpower depletion to outsized emotions, unconscious limiting beliefs, and alarmed aloneness. She studies daily and comes up with new and innovative solutions to the age-old reasons we go to food.Â
Your Invitation to Freedom
You deserve to be content, balanced, and free from:
- Food obsession
- Emotional triggers
- Feelings of desperate aloneness
- The weight of isolation
Take our hand. Walk with us - your guide and your new best friends - to that healing place. We will teach you about resonance. We will help you heal. We will show you that you're not alone.
Maybe you can let all that old pain go?
Imagine leaving behind the ghosts and goblins of food obsession. Imagine finding peace in a trusted space, safe in its consistency and unconditional support. The changes you'll see, the love you'll feel, the healing you'll experience - it all begins with one brave step.
Are you ready to begin your healing journey?
Imagine leaving all of that behind you.
Imagine working with others who are interested in doing the hard, deep work needed to finally shed the ghosts and goblins of food obsession.
We aren’t talking about ending your addiction to overly processed foods.
Nope.
It can be mainly quieted, however, by looking at the myriad reasons we eat.
We have seen it.
These are the things you CAN HEAL:
- Emotional reasons - we could list these all day.
- SWCC (Stuff We Can’t Control) - you know what that is and NO - we can’t change any of this. We can shift our mindset and how we show up which is EVERYTHING.
- Behavioral patterns - we eat when we are lonely, bored, certain activities, certain events (all of them, potentially)
- Unconscious Contracts: what we believe…. Is it really true? Are you sure?
- And last but not least, feelings.
No wonder we struggle.
It’s really NOT about the food….
THIS IS FOR YOU!
Whole Again is for you if you’re still wobbly with your food or want to explore resonance and incredible tools, tips and tricks to help you work less and play more in your life.
Awakening is for you if you want to focus on the 3rd phase of Recovery.
You are willing to look to the cause, the source, which is the feelings and emotions we’ve been afraid to deal with.
CLAIMING what’s going on within is vital for real recovery.
Come join us.
It's your time.
This is me! I want to Join!
Erica
Rachel
CAUTION! If you want to stay trapped in a circuit of overwhelm, isolation and the seven dimensions of food hell DO NOT join Sonja's group coaching!
Seriously, the unfailing support and encouragement, unconditional acceptance, the companionship of sharing a journey with people who get it, not to mention the gentle challenge to tired old patterns will be too much for you. If you decide to come out of the shadows though, then don't hesitate-JOIN! NOW!
My experience of this group is of a safe, dynamic, deeply caring space which has enabled me to connect and share. There's nothing you can't bring, and nothing that at least one other person won't recognizes. And Sonja's compassionate and knowledgeable holding of it all is brilliant. This lady knows her stuff.
I'm still a member and will continue to be and would encourage you to give it a try.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if I don’t like this?
I’m scared. I don’t know anyone else.
How does this work?
Why are you here?
You’ve read all the way down to this.
So let’s look at what you have.
My experience says you are clouded with expectations and judgments, blame and shame fogging your beautiful bay windows.
The dreams you had when you were young maybe didn’t look like where you are now.
What if the reason you’re here right now is to show you that it is really possible to have that life?
Ok. Maybe it isn’t looking quite like what you expected but it IS still open to options.
We see paths ahead.
You already know what the path that you’ve been on looks like.
Grab our hand and walk with us for a bit.
What if this is the path you are supposed to find?
Let’s do this!
Grab my hand!
