Setting The Table for Recovery
Eating Disorders Conference
June 7 & 8, 2012
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Key Note Speakers
We are very excited to welcome Jenni Schaefer and Tracey Gold to Winnipeg as our keynote speakers for the first Setting the Table for Recovery conference.
JENNI SCHAEFER
Jenni Schaefer is an internationally known author and speaker whose work has helped change the face of recovery from eating disorders. Her appearances on shows like Dr. Phil and Entertainment Tonight, in publications ranging from Cosmopolitan to The New York Times, and performances before live audiences have brought a world of hope to men and women seeking real solutions.
Jenni's recent book, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me highlights the freedom of full recovery, with its many challenges and its endless joys and surprises. Her first book, Life Without Ed describes her escape from the prision of her eating disorder. Both are must-reads for anyone suffering from an eating disorder, as well as those who wish to understand their loved-ones struggle.
------------------------
TRACEY GOLD
Considered one of the first celebrities to bravely go public with her experience battling anorexia while growing up in front of the camera, actress Tracey Gold has since become one of the world's most recognized advocates and role models for educating people on the emotional and physical dangers of eating disorders. In 2003, she released the book, Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life, which offers a personal look at her triumph over anorexia. Now, she is reaching out and helping women one-on-one to face their life threatening condition with Lifetime's new unscripted series: Starving Secrets with Tracey Gold.
Room to Grow uses fairly simple language to show the development of a problem, the recognition and the conquering of it. Throughout the book, one accepts that acting was simply something that Tracey did. It didnt' define her and it wasn't the cause of her anorexia. Like most young girls, Tracey had grown up wanting to please and (with a little help from movies and books)began to beleive that if she was thinner, life would be better. More informative than autobiographical, the book shows how the disease kills, with Tracey's life as a backdrop.