About Elizabeth Scott
I have been working since 1988 to help people identify what they need to become free of conflicts with their bodies to lead happier, more productive lives. Connie Sobczak, The Body Positive’s Co-Founder, and I created the Be Body Positive Model to provide a sustainable framework for living in one’s body that is free from double binds, judgment, and blame. Each component of our model is supported by substantial research validating its use in reversing eating and body image problems. Using our model, professionals can help people reclaim their health, beauty, and intuition, and the ancestors who are represented in their unique bodies. The Be Body Positive Model can be applied to clinical work, as well as for conducting positive body image campaigns in schools and community-based settings.
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The Challenge
Combating body image and eating problems is strenuous, often frustrating work. Whatever your role is in helping people make peace with their bodies, you’re working hard to fight negative body image, which is linked to poor self-care and overall life quality, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, self-harming behaviors (e.g., cutting, suicide), substance abuse, weight cycling, and relationship violence.
Consultation Available
Individual Consultation is available for treatment providers who want to develop their clinical skills and expand their knowledge of the Big-Hearted Embodiment model. Please contact me to arrange a consultation session. I charge $250 per 50-minute session or $200 for providers who join my Big Hearted Embodiment Collaborative. I can offer reduced fees if your circumstances require it.
Big Hearted Embodiment Collaborative
Ongoing Consultation and Community for Professionals: I am developing a community of treatment providers who specialize in eating and body image work and who are committed to social justice as a core value in treatment Additionally, once you have fulfilled the training requirements you can join my Big-Hearted Embodiment Collaborative and receive discounted individual consultation, participate in monthly team training and group case-consultation and post your offering in my referral directory.
Supervision for CEDS available
I am a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist – Supervisor (CEDS-S). I train hundreds of professionals nationally and supervise a number of therapists pursuing their CEDS. For 27 years I have been developing my Big-Hearted Embodiment approach to treatment in my psychotherapy practice. In this approach, I blend The Be Body Positive model with the exciting findings from Niva Piran’s fifteen-year qualitative study on the Developmental Process of Embodiment as well as psychodynamic and trauma-informed approaches. If you like you can collect supervision hours individually as well as in my Big Hearted Embodiment Case Conference which is part of the Collaborative.
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Community-Based Prevention:
As Co-Founder and Director of Training for The Body Positive. I train educators, students, community organizers and treatment professionals to use the vibrant, Be Body Positive model to prevent eating disorders and poor body image and to promote body positive communities in schools, community organizations and treatment centers. My work is guided by the Be Body Positive Model I developed with The Body Positive Co-Founder, Connie Sobczak over the past 25 years. The Be Body Positive model is a framework for addressing suffering related to body image, weight, and identity that motivates people to shift their focus away from ineffective and harmful weight-loss efforts, and towards sustainable, positive, self-care behaviors. It is an intuitive approach to health and wellbeing and is rooted in the philosophy that people inherently possess the wisdom necessary to make healthy choices and to live in balance. Using our model, people reclaim their health, beauty, and intuition, and learn to embrace their ancestors as they are represented in their unique bodies.
I offer workshops for treatment professionals, educators, and students teaching Body Positive’s research-based prevention model that promotes a positive body image and excellent self-care. During my workshops and trainings participants are immersed in a process of self-exploration through creative activities that teach the five Competencies of the Be Body Positive Model. Participants examine societal and familial messages about health and weight; how to become the expert of their own bodies and improve physical health through intuitive eating and exercise; why cultivating compassion for oneself and others leads to improved self-care; the power of declaring our own authentic beauty; and the importance of developing a supportive Be Body Positive community. Workshop lengths can vary from a few hours to a daylong, according to the needs of the organization.
People who achieve positive embodiment are:
- Capable and comfortable in their bodies
- Attuned to their bodies’ needs and have excellent self-care
- Able to expand their definition of beauty to include themselves and diverse peoples
- Skillful at cultivating self-compassion
- Passionate about their goals and life’s purpose
Read this article to learn about the history of the development of the Body Positive’s prevention model.
To learn more about The Body Positive’s work go to thebodypositive.org.
“Center for Discovery had the opportunity to bring our program directors and clinicians together to participate in The Body Positive workshop with Elizabeth and Connie. In my more than twenty years of experience working with eating disorders in residential settings, I can honestly say that I have never been a part of something so transformational.
Body image has historically been a place where even experienced clinicians get “stuck” with clients and feel a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. The concepts and tools taught in The Body Positive workshop gave our group instant access to powerful interventions that they immediately began using with clients.”