Workshops & Retreats
I offer a variety of soul-filled day-long Workshops and week-long Retreats designed to nurture your body, feed your soul, and transform your personal and professional life beyond your wildest dreams.
Women’s Circle
Open to all women seeking to access and explore the archetypal Inner Feminine. In circle we are able to connect with ourselves and others at the deepest levels — so we can be truly nourished and healed in all aspects of our lives. When women gather in circle, they step into the field of immense possibility. Magic happens. Healing occurs.
Professional Training
Includes cutting-edge teachings to take your work to a whole new level, geared to advanced and beginning practitioners in the eating/exercise/body image field. These intellectual infusions, combined with a direct connection to the deep Feminine, allow you to return to your practice with renewed vitality and techniques and approaches to use one-on-one or in groups.
Past Events
New Crescent Moon Group Coaching Program
The New Crescent Moon Program 8 Week Program Starts February 13, 2022 Private Group Program from the comfort of your home The New Crescent Moon Program Do you need help understanding why you do what you do with food? You’ve come to the right place, I can help...
Soul Hunger Video Series
Soul Hunger Video Series July 6- July 26th Virtually from the Comfort of Your Home! Soul Hunger Video Series Discover Why you Struggle with Eating How to Respond to it Differently & The Essential Recovery Skills with Anita Johnston,...
iaedp Symposium 2020: Vision of Hope
iaedp Symposium 2020A Vision of Hope Using Indigenous Ways of Knowing to Heal Eating Disorders March 26-29th 2020 Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate 1500 Masters Blvd Championsgate, Florida 33896 United States http://www.iaedp.com
Nothing in life is sweeter than nourishing your Soul…
Retreat Descriptions

Soul Hunger
In our culture today, what are women truly hungry for?
How can women support one another in overcoming the self-image issues that so many of us face?
How can women empower themselves to find the spiritual strength they so desire?
To answer these questions and more, join us at the Soul Hunger Workshop with Anita Johnston, PhD. Through her passionate, energetic story-telling of myths and metaphors from around the world, Anita explores the archetypal energies of the woman’s soul while guiding us on a spiritual journey to learn how these energies relate to us personally. Anita teaches that women struggling with food, eating and body image issues are actually experiencing a deeper longing inside, one to which the world’s vast history of Sacred Feminine myths and metaphors holds the key.
Soul Union
This workshop will help women to balance the Masculine and Feminine energies within…
In this powerful one day workshop, Anita will explore how to balance and unite the inner Masculine and Feminine. We will explore the differences and aspects of both, and “The Inner Marriage”; the union between the Feminine and Masculine energies that are within us — regardless of gender.
We will see that when in an ideal balance, these two energies complement each other like a perfect marriage. They support and honor each other so we can live from our Soul, having a full and deep life. Here, you know the truth of who you are, and are able to carry forth your passion into the world.


Soul Union
This workshop will help women to balance the Masculine and Feminine energies within…
In this powerful one day workshop, Anita will explore how to balance and unite the inner Masculine and Feminine. We will explore the differences and aspects of both, and “The Inner Marriage”; the union between the Feminine and Masculine energies that are within us — regardless of gender.
We will see that when in an ideal balance, these two energies complement each other like a perfect marriage. They support and honor each other so we can live from our Soul, having a full and deep life. Here, you know the truth of who you are, and are able to carry forth your passion into the world.

Feminine Soul Cycles
What are the Four Faces of the Sacred Feminine?
They are archetypes that correspond to four significant phases in a woman’s life (maiden, mother, queen, crone) and also correspond to the four seasons of the year (spring, summer, fall, winter), four cycles of the moon (waxing, full, waning, dark), four directions (east, south, west, north), four times of day (dawn, noon, dusk, midnight) and four elements (air, fire, water, earth). These archetypal energies are available to the conscious woman for personal growth and healing — regardless of her chronological age.
In this powerful one-day workshop, Anita will teach us how to consciously and deliberately access four primary aspects of the Sacred Feminine and bring them into our lives.
Tending the Feminine Psyche
A Professional Workshop & Training for Women Treating Eating, Exercise & Body Image Disorders
For over 15 years, Anita Johnston has joined up in a creative merger with thought leaders Francie White and Carolyn Costin in magical retreat centers around the world: Hawaii, Costa Rica, Orcas Island, and the California Coast.
Here we explore Soul, Nourishment and Consciousness in the Treatment of Eating Disorders, integrating Embodied Movement, Dreams, Ritual, Mythology, Cosmology, Neurophysiology and Quantum Mechanics…as related to the Feminine Psyche.
Join us for the most unforgettable, provocative, and life changing discussions designed to push the envelope of your personal and professional experience.


Tending the Feminine Psyche
A Professional Workshop & Training for Women Treating Eating, Exercise & Body Image Disorders
For over 15 years, Anita Johnston has joined up in a creative merger with thought leaders Francie White and Carolyn Costin in magical retreat centers around the world: Hawaii, Costa Rica, Orcas Island, and the California Coast.
Here we explore Soul, Nourishment and Consciousness in the Treatment of Eating Disorders, integrating Embodied Movement, Dreams, Ritual, Mythology, Cosmology, Neurophysiology and Quantum Mechanics…as related to the Feminine Psyche.
Join us for the most unforgettable, provocative, and life changing discussions designed to push the envelope of your personal and professional experience.
Recent Articles
An Invitation to the Recovery Party
An Invitation to the Recovery Party “When we lose our job, the soul throws a party.” - Carl Jung There are many ways to rephrase Jung’s quote (see also: “a blessing in disguise”) but I rather like his wording because it implies there’s a part of our self...
Wisdom Tales
Traditional folk tales and multicultural myths can be used as powerful tools in the treatment of eating disorders because they are repositories of ancient wisdom about the human condition and because they teach the language of symbolism, imagery, and metaphor. These...
The Power of Storytelling
I told her the story of Persephone, the teenage goddess, who one day was in a beautiful meadow picking narcissus flowers with her mother, Demeter, and the next day found herself in the deep, dark underworld. The earth had suddenly parted on that spring day and she had...
