BREAKFREE I is a dynamic educational workshop for women who want to reclaim a fuller sense of who we are in relationship to ourselves and others. A safe setting is created for women to learn new skills for affirming ourselves as the unique and powerful women we are. We look at how our experiences as little girls and young women continue to impact and sabotage our lives. The focus is on identifying and healing patterns that interfere with our ability to be close to ourselves and others, freeing us to create the lives we really want.

   BREAKFREE I is truly a basis for life change. It is an opportunity to make a commitment to reestablish yourself as the center of your life: to break free from gender and family conditioning and from old patterns of distress. The group setting honors both our uniqueness and our commonality and speeds the healing process. To insure that we have enough time for individual attention, the group size will be limited.

   Two workshops will start in August and two in February. One will meet in the daytime, the other will meet in the evening. Each of the workshops includes 16 weekly three hour meetings and two full day intensive sessions. Days and times will be determined by participants' availability. Meetings will be held in my office at 1398 Manor Road, Monterey. The fee is on a payment plan with a sliding scale from $800 to $1,000 ($10.00-$14.00 per workshop hour). Please pay as much as you can afford, according to your income and family size, you decide. This is how we create a scholarship fund.

   Please call me (373-7333) to learn more about BREAKFREE I, to discuss meeting times, payment plans, and for registration. I look forward to working with you.

BREAKFREE'S Content Includes:

• Self-esteem as a decision
• Setting and maintaining boundaries
• Maintaining our full functioning adult
• Giving and receiving attention
• Inner child work
• Reparenting
• Addictions as patterned responses to distress
• Giving back carried feelings
• Adaptive child work
• Discharging old distress
• Living based on our inherent nature
• Full appreciation of ourselves and others
• Breaking free from gender conditioning

Comments From BREAKFREE Graduates:

"It's such a bonding experience: with yourself and the other women. It's healing, nurturing, and it really values women."

"I loved doing this work! I feel like I have a new way to live my life."

"For all of the years that I have read self-help books and been in counseling and therapy, I have never (until now) worked in "the solution" and not dwelled repetitively in "the problem." I feel reborn."

"The best gift I have ever given myself."

"I loved all the information. I learned things that I can use everyday in my life."

"I have a great deal of respect for the work you are doing. Every woman needs this educational program. Thanks for being here."