Eating Disorder Professional Trainings &
Tending the Soul Women’s Weekend Retreats

Inner Escapes is an exciting workshop company offering professionals of all kinds in the field of disordered body image, eating and exercise a brand new relaxing, rejuvenating and personally deepening experience. Whether you are seasoned veteran in treating disordered eating and body image, or whether you are entering the field and expanding your horizons, these workshops are the best in the country!

BECAUSE we have groups ranging from 20-50, and we teach in a circle format with hands-on demonstration of the very latest theories in healing for women and men. Instead of slide presentations, we offer a powerful dynamic experience where you can wear your jeans or sweats and hear & watch some of those interesting ideas being presented. You get to take part in extremely inspiring processes for you to use for your own evolving inner work or to take to clients.

BECAUSE we have attracted wildly successful and helpful teachers like Carolyn Costin of Monte Nido Treatment Center, author of The Eating Disorder Sourcebook and Your Dieting Daughter. Carolyn's treatment center is considered one of the very top in the country and although she is sought out by the top conferences...she loves the "barefoot experience" of teaching to smaller groups in intensive 3 hour segments through Inner Escapes. No one is ever the same after Carolyn's always expanding ideas to feed your practice, your Center and your Soul.

We also have Anita Johnston Ph. D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship With Food Through Myths, Metaphors & Storytelling and director of the 'AI PONO Eating Disorder Center of Hawaii. Anita offers the academic alongside the Jungian mythology... a combination that participants feel awakened by in a brand new inspiration.

BECAUSE all of our retreats are in fabulous vacation spots filled with the beauty and peace of nature, rather than in hotels, we teach in centers located in intimate and lovely spots from Hawaii to upstate New York, to Costa Rica and upcoming Greece. Our retreats always offer yoga, NIA dance, meditation, massages and other inner growth offerings for weary women seeking connection to themselves, to nature and to other like minded professionals.

BECAUSE we encourage connection in the field and offer opportunities for participants to "BRING YOUR OWN EATING AND BODY IMAGE ISSUES". These are not intensive therapy workshops but do provide beautiful experiences for all of your own continued evolution. It is a non- competitive safe environment for a retreat workshop and training.

ABOUT FRANCIE WHITE, MSRD 

As seen on CNN, Francie White is a sought out theorist on treatment of disordered eating, exercise and body image.  Blazing the trail of changing  treatment effectiveness, she combines her 20 years of focused clinical work in private practice alongside an extensive workshop history.  Francie was the instructor-trainer for Geneen Roth's "Breaking Free" Workshops nationally for 10 years. She was the first-time author, naming and describing "Exercise Resistance Syndrome" as well as step-by-step treatment for exercise resistance in women.  She was the original theorist differentiating Deprivation-Sensitive Compulsive Eating from Addictive Overeating, and when to use a non-diet approach in treatment versus an addiction model.

Francie now uses a Jungian perspective through development of her and her psychotherapist husband Terry White M.F.T.'s, workshop company, INNER ESCAPES WORKSHOPS.  Throughout the incredible didactic teaching, demonstration sessions, the many hands on tools and techniques taught by Francie, Terry and the many guest speakers they bring in, the Whites weave in storytelling, dreamwork, mythology, ritual and ceremony into each workshop.

Francie has been a guest teacher at the Jungian based Pacifica Graduate Institute for therapists in training and is a sought after supervisor for therapists and dietitians working with eating disorders around the United States.  She is a contributing author for Carolyn Costin's Eating Disorder Sourcebook and Your Dieting Daughter.  She is also contributing author to Moving Away From Diets by Kratina, King and Hayes.

Francie also gives weekend retreats for the general population of women called Tending the Soul.  Each workshop offers a counsel circle, mythology, ritual, meditations, yoga, optional massages or body work and didactic teaching on the subject of soul retrieval for women.  She has 3 audio tape series available: "Tending the Soul", "Exercise Resistance in Women", and "How to Work with Breaking Free Principles".  Join Francie in an unforgettable, life changing workshop experience both personally and professionally.

Each workshop is a retreat-training for psychotherapists, registered dietitians and other professionals treating eating & exercise disorders and body image problems. Each retreat offers yoga, meditations, rituals and ceremony, Jungian style storytelling, nature filled settings with boating, horse riding, etc. They are limited to no more than 30 women per circle-based training.