A 10-Session Weekly Group Program offered in Bethesda, Maryland

Education and Supportive Psychotherapy to change your relationship to Food, Weight and Body Image.

Whether you are 10, 40, or even 100 pounds or more overweight, you are likely to have struggled for years, frustrated with your inability to take charge of your own body and behaviors. At the Centers for Motivation, we know that issues related to overeating and weight management are complicated, and usually determined by multiple factors-- medical and psychological. You are unique, and your reasons for being overweight are unique to you. But regardless of the roots of your problem, you are not alone. You suffer, along with everyone who struggles with issues of overeating, weight management, and body image, with a feeling of being out of control of a critical area of your life.

At the Centers for Motivation we have developed a comprehensive curriculum designed to help you understand and take charge of the dynamics and behaviors that have kept you stuck in a cycle of struggle, failure, regret, and self-recrimination. Our program uniquely combines psycho-education, hypnotherapy, and mutual support into a comprehensive approach, which will give you the tools you will need to change your personal psychology and manage your weight permanently.

Each one and half hour session includes a 45 minute experiential, skill building session, and a 45 minute open session for facilitated sharing of personal experience. During the skill building sections you will learn about such important topics as:

· Motivation

· Self Hypnosis for Weight loss

· Self Image

· Body Image

· Habit Forming

· Perfection

· Stress Management

· Managing Relationships

Each participant will be given a CD of self hypnosis techniques for weight management, and well as a manual summarizing the program’s curriculum.

Location: Centers for Motivation, Inc., 5410 McKinley Street, Bethesda, MD 20817

Dates: Starting Monday, September 29, 2008 and each Monday for 10 weeks

Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm

Cost: $75 per 1.5 hour session (checks or credit cards accepted)

For More Information: Please Call the Centers for Motivation (CFM): 301-593-8333 or email us at cfmworks@yahoo.com

About the facilitator:

STEWART A. ZELMAN, Ph.D. is a psychologist, trainer and founder of the Centers for Motivation, Inc., based in Bethesda, Maryland. During his 20 years of professional practice he has developed a thorough understanding of motivation and influence. He directs individuals and groups to master personal excellence. As a trainer he has authored a number of programs dealing with stress and time management, relationships, and weight loss. He has led groups through the psychology of weight loss at a number of medical and hospital programs. Dr. Zelman has had a personal history and experiences with obesity, and knows the physical, social, and emotional struggles associated with being overweight in our society. He has developed his clinical expertise into a uniquely holistic and effective approach to weight and, ultimately, self- management.

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Ameican Hypnosis Training Academy

Earlier this year, this workshop was presented for the second time. Because enrollment was limited some people could not attend. A number of people, who missed out on the earlier event, asked that this workshop be presented again. Therefore, the next Quit for Good Workshop - Help Clients Stop Smoking is scheduled for the following dates:

October 16, 17, 18, 2008 .

To open, read and print the invitation, CLICK HERE

Enroll ASAP to make sure you reserve a place. Enroll with a colleague(s) and take 10% off each registration fee.

You can enroll by mail or call the AHTA office at 301-565-0511 to register by phone.

The American Hypnosis Training Academy is an approved C.E. provider for mental health professionals by APA, NASW, and NBCC

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I received the following from a friend. I hope you enjoy reading it! Ron

Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over." I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead "I will come next Tuesday", I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.

Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyn's house I was welcomed by the joyful sounds of happy children. I delightedly hugged and greeted my grandchildren.

"Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in these clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive another inch!"

My daughter smiled calmly and said, "We drive in this all the time, Mother."

"Well, you won't get me back on the road until it clears, and then I'm heading for home!" I assured her.

"But first we're going to see the daffodils. It's just a few blocks," Carolyn said. "I'll drive. I'm used to this."

"Carolyn," I said sternly, "please turn around." "It's all right, Mother, I promise. You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience."

After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand lettered sign with an arrow that read, " Daffodil Garden ."

We got out of the car, each took a child's hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious sight. It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of gold and poured it over the mountain peak and its surrounding slopes. The flowers were planted in majestic, swirling patterns, great ribbons and swaths of deep orange, creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, and saffron and butter yellow. Each different-colored variety was planted in large groups so that it swirled and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue. There were five acres of flowers.

"Who did this?" I asked Carolyn. "Just one woman," Carolyn answered. "She lives on the property. That's her home."

Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house, small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory. We walked up to the house. On the patio, we saw a poster. "Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking", was the headline.

The first answer was a simple one. "50,000 bulbs," it read.

The second answer was, "One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, and one brain."

The third answer was, "Began in 1958."

For me, that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop. Planting one bulb at a time, year after year, this unknown woman had forever changed the world in which she lived. One day at a time, she had created something of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration.

The principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration. That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time--often just one baby-step at time--and learning to love the doing, learning to use the accumulation of time. When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world ...

"It makes me sad in a way," I admitted to Carolyn.

"What might I have accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five or forty years ago and had worked away at it 'one bulb at a time' through all those years?

Just think what I might have been able to achieve!"

My daughter summed up the message of the day in her usual direct way. "Start tomorrow," she said.

She was right. It's so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson of celebration instead of a cause for regret is to only ask, "How can I put this to use today?"

So please... Use the Daffodil Principle.

STOP WAITING...

Until your car or home is paid off

Until you get a new car or home

Until your kids leave the house

Until you go back to school

Until you finish school

Until you clean the house

Until you organize the garage

Until you clean off your desk

Until you lose 10 lbs.

Until you gain 10 lbs.

Until you get married

Until you get a divorce

Until you have kids

Until the kids go to school

Until you retire

Until summer

Until spring

Until winter

Until fall

Until you die...

There is no better time than right now to be happy. Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

So work like you don't need money. Love like you've never been hurt, and, Dance like no one's watching. And if you want to brighten someone's day, pass this on to someone special.

I just did! Wishing you a beautiful, daffodil day!

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.

Sumitted by: Edward A. Levien

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