Eating in the Light of the Moon

🌙 Wednesdays 11:00 AM Pacific

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Surrender School Presents

Eating in the Light of the Moon

How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food through Myths, Metaphors and Storytelling

🌙 Wednesdays · 11:00 AM Pacific · Spring–Summer 2026

Linda T.

Facilitator

Facilitated By

Linda T.

Group Facilitator & Recovery Guide

Linda brings warmth, deep listening, and years of experience guiding women through recovery. Each week she creates a space that is gentle, nonjudgmental, and rooted in the wisdom of story.

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📹 Zoom Details

Day / Time: Wednesdays, 11:00 AM PT

First Session: March 25, 2026

Last Session: August 19, 2026

Meeting ID: 847 7514 1290

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About the Book

Eating in the Light of the Moon

by Anita Johnston, Ph.D.

This beautifully written book uses story, myth, and metaphor to help women uncover the deeper emotional and spiritual roots of disordered eating. Through the wisdom of fairy tales and ancient traditions, Dr. Johnston guides readers toward a more compassionate relationship with themselves and their bodies.

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Who Is This For?

Every woman is welcome, exactly as she is.

This group is open to any woman who has ever struggled with food, eating, body image, or simply feeling at home in her own skin — whether you are in active recovery, just beginning to explore, or somewhere in between.

🌱Women new to recovery or just beginning to question their relationship with food

🌀Those in long-term recovery who want to go deeper into the emotional and spiritual roots

📖Anyone curious about the book — no prior reading required, we read together

💛Women who simply want community, reflection, and a gentle space to be heard

What to Expect

A gentle hour and a half of reading, reflecting, and sharing.

Each week we gather on Zoom to read a chapter aloud together, reflect on its wisdom, and share in whatever way feels right for you. There is no pressure to speak — just come as you are, and open yourself gently to the ever-growing compassion for yourself that you have always deserved.

🕯️ Safe & welcoming space

📖 We read the chapter together

📓 Guided reflection

💬 Group sharing & connection

🆓 Always free

🌙 2026 Session Schedule

Wednesdays at 11:00 AM Pacific · March 25 – August 19, 2026

Date	Chapter & Title	Reflection Questions
Mar 25 Next	Preface	Did you or do you feel like a misfit – like you don’t quite belong? Were you made to feel that your perceptions were wrong? Were you made to feel that something was wrong with YOU? How did you dim your light? Does your food addiction operate as a distraction from other problems in your life? Did you or do you feel like everything in your life would be perfect if you just lost weight? How does being unable to lose weight and/or keep it off shape how you see yourself? Can you see that your thoughts about being broken, flawed and less than were given to you by others? How have these thoughts/beliefs affected your recovery?
Apr 1	Ch 1: Woman Spirit: The Root of Hunger	What do you think being female has to do with your addiction? What kind of relationship do you have with your body? What are some of your greatest feminine aspects? How do you shut them down or hide them to fit in or be taken seriously? Because she has banished her feminine spirit she lives in a state of perpetual spiritual hunger. Her starving soul yearns for nourishment. Do you resonate with this statement? how? “Is it any wonder that she overcompensates for her starvation? Is it any wonder that her body becomes a battleground for the war between food and fat? How does this battle between food and fat show up in your recovery?
Apr 8	Ch 2: The Buried Moon: Rediscovering the Feminine	When you think of the word feminine, what comes to mind? We have come to value only the masculine principles of direct action: single-minded focus; clear, logical thinking; goal-oriented, competitive behavior; linear structure; productivity; and achievement. We are uncomfortable with the feminine qualities of stillness, ambiguity, and emotion. We become impatient with cooperative relationship oriented attitudes and see aesthetics, intuition, nurturance, and earthiness as unimportant. Does this make sense to you? What does it mean to you? Are you dominated by one side (feminine and masculine) rather than the other. Where are you with balance? Women who struggle with disordered eating, more often than not, have an overly dominant inner masculine aspect that continually attempts to control the inner feminine. Their masculine side unlentingly critical, even hostile, toward their feminine side.” What kind of things does this voice say to you? Action without meaning – how does this work in your attempts to control your food addiction?
Apr 15	Ch 3: The Beginning: Revisioning the Struggle	What did you have to hide from your parents and other adults? What did the perceptions of others tell you about the world and most importantly, about yourself? Do you still reject parts of yourself now? How does this impact your disordered eating and relapses? Who are you really? Who told you who you are? what did they tell you? How do you react when you overeat or binge? What do you say to yourself? What opinions do you hold about yourself? What skills do you need to develop to replace the “log” of your disordered eating?
Apr 22	Ch 4: The Red Herring: Food is Not the Issue	When we struggle with disordered eating it is often difficult to believer that food in not the issue that is causing us such grief. Compulsive eaters find themselves thinking about the foods they are not supposed to be eating and scolding themselves for what they did eat and for how fat they look. And ye, food is not the real issue. It is a smoke screen. It is the red herring. Do you agree with this statement, why or why not? “Read herrings are distractors. With disordered eating, food becomes the red herring. It can distract those struggling with an eating disorder and we start looking for solutions in all the wrong places. What are you distracting yourself from? What wrong solutions have you tried? When you focus on your food addiction, do your other problems seem to disappear? How? When you embark on a journey to uncover and resolve underlying conflicts or feelings, and don’t allow yourself to be fooled by any illusions of what is truly troubling you, you may learn something important about the function and purpose of your disordered eating. Are you firightened to look at the conflicts and emotions underneath your disordered eating? What has happened to your real problems and issues over the years as you’ve applied the disordered eating band aid over them?
Apr 29	Ch 5: Addiction: Spiritual and Emotional Hunger
May 6	Ch 6: Symbolism: Hunger as a Metaphor
May 13	Ch 7: Feelings: Gifts from the Heart Part 1
May 20	Ch 7: Feelings: Gifts from the Heart Part 2
May 27	Ch 8: Relationships: Singing the Truth
Jun 3	Ch 9: Power: Dominion Vs. Domination
Jun 10	Ch 10: Nurturance: Mother as an Archetype
Jun 17	Ch 11: Intuition: The Inner Seeing, Hearing, Knowing
Jun 24	Ch 12: Dreamtime: The Journey Within
Jul 1	Ch 13: Moontime: Reclaiming the Body’s Wisdom
Jul 8	Ch 14: Sexuality: Embracing the Feminine
Jul 15	Ch 15: The Descent: Meeting the Shadow
Jul 22	Ch 16: Assertiveness: Speaking the Truth
Jul 29	Ch 17: Nourishment: Physical Vs. Emotional
Aug 5	Ch 18: The Journal: Recording the Truth
Aug 12	Ch 19: Recovery: Out of the Labyrinth
Aug 19	Ch 20: Storytime: The Tales of the Three Women ✨ Final Session

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Come as you are. Stay as long as you need.

First session: Wednesday, March 25 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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