Finally Speak Up Without Fear:
How to Find Your Voice in Recovery and Everyday Life
Do You Ever Feel Like Your Voice Has Been Silenced?
Maybe you stay quiet to keep the peace.
Maybe you nod and smile even when your heart says no.
Maybe you swallow your words, just like you’ve learned to swallow your feelings, because it feels safer that way.
You tell yourself it’s not a big deal. But inside, you can feel the weight of everything you don’t say. And sometimes, that weight shows up in unexpected ways… in your relationship with food, in your body, or in that familiar sense of guilt and exhaustion.
You’re not broken. You’ve just learned to silence yourself to survive.
And that survival strategy has worked...until now.
This is the quiet struggle no one talks about.
But here’s the truth: you can’t heal your relationship with food or yourself without finding your voice.
That’s exactly what Assertiveness: The Essential Recovery Skill helps you do.
Why Assertiveness Is the Missing Link in Recovery
For so many women, the struggle with food or body image isn’t really about food at all.
It’s about the words left unspoken.
The “no” that never got said.
The feelings that had no place to go.
When you can’t speak your truth safely and confidently, that energy doesn’t disappear it turns inward.
It can show up as restriction, overeating, people-pleasing, or that constant feeling of walking on eggshells.
Assertiveness isn’t about being loud, forceful, or pushy.
It’s about finding the courage to speak from your heart with kindness and clarity without guilt or fear.
It’s about honoring your needs as much as you honor everyone else’s.
When you learn this skill, something profound shifts:
That’s why this isn’t just another self-help class.
It’s the bridge between silence and self-trust...the missing piece in your recovery puzzle.
“This is new and exciting! I can now see how my communication style is related to my disordered eating. When I became aggressive I would just want to eat everything, like a monster eating a village. When I became passive I would just stuff food down to keep from speaking my feelings. Now, the odd thing is when I am in similar situations because I'm assertive those feelings are not there. I don't feel like I have to stuff food in my mouth to stay quiet or the monster eating the village up. It's freeing and odd because I haven't been like this in decades.”
Imagine What Life Feels Like When You Find Your Voice
Picture this… You’re sitting at the table and someone says something that used to make your stomach twist.
But this time, you take a deep breath, feel your feet on the floor, and calmly say what’s true for you.
No shaking voice. No guilt. No second-guessing yourself later.
That’s what happens when you learn to speak your truth with confidence and compassion.
You stop walking on eggshells.You stop apologizing for existing.
You stop using food or silence to protect yourself because you don’t need to anymore.
Most Importantly: Food loses it power over you and you put disordered eating out of a job
This is what freedom feels like. Not a perfect body or a perfect plan—but peace in your own skin, knowing your voice matters.
And that’s exactly what you’ll practice inside Assertiveness: The Essential Recovery Skill.
““Assertiveness is a way I can directly honor my own experience and truth and speak it out into the world. It is also a way to honor and respect other people. It’s so freeing!””.
Available 24/7 - 365 Days a Year
““I felt that I lost my 'freedom' when my eating disorder returned, but with a little assertiveness and determination, I know I can balance things out without feeling like I have regressed in my life and without feeling guilty for taking care of my needs, while still being nice to others. Wow! I feel really good about this! I feel like I finally solved the mystery!”
Thousands have discovered how being assertive put their disordered eating out of a job. So can you!
What are the Hours? Always open 24/7 for your convenience. You can take this self-study course whenever you want, show up as often as you like, take part in all the activities at once, or do a little here and there. You get to choose.
What’s on the Menu? This Assertiveness: The Essential Recovery Skill course is one of a series of “mini-plate” offerings. It consists of four easy to follow lessons, with short teaching videos and audios, self-reflective questions, and downloadable practice worksheets and journal. So you can learn how to communicate in a way that honors your experience and the experience of others.
Take out Available? Once you sign up, the teaching videos are available for you indefinitely. You can watch them over and over if you like. The audios, worksheets, and journal can be downloaded into your personal library, and are yours to keep and review in the comfort of your own home. Forever.
Here is what You Get:
Digital Online Course w/Printable Material
This self-study course is designed so you can learn and explore at your own pace. It’s based on the powerful teachings of Dr. Anita Johnston, clinical psychologist and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, who’s spent over 35 years helping women heal their relationship with food, body, and voice.
“Wow -- I can assert myself and get my needs meet...and I do not have to do it in a way that is hurtful or damaging to others. I think the reason I rarely made the effort to assert myself is my fear of hurting others...but thanks to this course, I now know it is possible and can be done.”





