Thu, Oct 26
|New Albany Library - Meeting Room 1
WBC | Finding Purpose Beyond Your Body
A conversation to help break the stigma around eating disorders, body image, and mental health following a short, easy yoga practice with Ally Rae Pesta, Author, Yoga Teacher, Coach, and Advocate
Time & Location
Oct 26, 2023, 6:30 PM – Oct 27, 2023, 7:30 PM
New Albany Library - Meeting Room 1, 200 Market St, New Albany, OH 43054, USA
Guests
About the Event
Join WBC and Author, Yoga Teacher, Coach & Mental Health Advocate, Ally Rae Pesta, for an empowering event about finding purpose beyond your body. Ally will share her experience via a chat as she is now over 10 years into her recovery journey and sharing her story as a published author, in order to continue to break the stigma around eating disorders, body image, and mental health.
WBC will provide her book at no charge to the first 20 people who sign up.
6:30 - 6:35 - Attendees arrive
6:35 - 6:55 - Short yoga practice
6:55 - 7:25 - Fireside chat + Open Q&A
About Ally
Ally Rae is a Published Author, Eating Disorder Recovery Advocate & Coach, 200-HR Certified Yoga Teacher, and Certified Run Coach. She’s been in recovery for over 10 years. Her passion is to empower individuals, especially high school and college-aged individuals, in finding purpose beyond their body and reclaiming their relationship with their body, movement, and food. She shares in order to humanize mental illness and to continue to break the stigma.
You can buy her memoir, Beyond My Body: Recovering from a Complex Eating Disorder, Reclaiming Movement & Finding my Worth today on Amazon! Visit her website allyrae.co to learn more about her offerings & sign up for her newsletter. You can also follow her on IG: @allyraepesta or TikTok @allyrae_co
Wellbeing Connection will offer Ally’s book to read ahead of time or you can pick up your copy at the event. Be sure to bring your copy to the event to get it signed by Ally!
Kindness Collection
We believe that making this experience accessible and inclusive makes our community a better place. The suggested amount is $10 per class but pay whatever you can. There's no catch! We are just grateful you are here with us!
www.thewellbeingconnection.org/donate