Your Body is Your Life Partner

Not Your Life’s Project.

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What if you could…

Nourish your body and spirit without rules, restrictions, or apology?

Let go of body shame and reclaim trust, vitality, and deep self-respect—alongside women who get it?

Step into this next chapter feeling more connected, grounded, and free—together with a community of midlife+ rebels?

Few things will bring more empowerment and ease into your life than learning to trust yourself and your body.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by all the rules around food and movement?

Is aging bringing up fear about your changing body, worries about your health, or the sense that you’re becoming invisible?

Have you explored Intuitive Eating, but long for support from women who truly understand what midlife feels like?

Are you in recovery from chronic dieting or disordered eating and noticing how health fears and “anti-aging” messages are pulling you back toward old patterns?

As women in midlife and beyond, we’ve spent too much of our lives consumed by worries about weight and trying to follow ever-changing, restrictive rules.

It’s time to reclaim our energy and turn it toward what truly brings us alive.

There is deep power in learning to trust your body again—and in doing that within a supportive circle.

❤️‍🔥 Now is the time to nourish a relationship with your body that’s rooted in care, respect, and even appreciation.

❤️‍🔥 Now is the time to release the grip of dieting and focus on what truly matters to you.

❤️‍🔥 Now is the time to embrace practices that support vitality, ease, and joy.

❤️‍🔥 Now is the time to make space for connection, pleasure, and freedom.

Unapologetic Aging:

A Small Group Coaching Circle

An 8-week program to reclaim body trust, nourishment, and joy in midlife and beyond.

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This unique program transforms meaningful concepts into everyday practices—engaging your mind, heart, and body to support deep, lasting change.

The Unapologetic Aging Recipe

1ST INGREDIENT

We begin by untangling the harmful stories you’ve inherited about aging, beauty, and wellness. Together, we’ll challenge the diet culture and ageist messages that keep you stuck—so you can begin to reclaim trust in your body and rewrite the narrative on your own terms.

2ND INGREDIENT

Let’s shift from self-discipline to self-devotion. In this phase, you’ll explore what it means to nourish yourself with food that feels good, move in ways that bring joy, and support your nervous system with calming, grounding practices. These tools help you build a relationship with your body rooted in care, not control.

3RD INGREDIENT

Sustainable change doesn’t come from overhauls—it comes from consistent, doable shifts. You’ll learn practical, everyday tools to challenge harmful messaging and gently replace it with new rhythms of care, compassion, and connection to your aging body.

Special Sauce:

Connect with a circle of inspiring women in midlife and beyond who are ready to uncomplicate their relationship with food, eating, and their bodies—just like you. Together, we foster belonging, accountability, and bold encouragement for living more freely and fully.

What You’ll Experience Inside Unapologetic Aging-

🌿 Weekly 90-Minute Group Coaching Calls

Led by Deb, each session includes guided conversation, space for reflection, and embodied practices to help integrate the week’s focus.

📝 Curated Worksheets & Reflections

Gentle, thought-provoking exercises designed to deepen your awareness, spark curiosity, and help you translate ideas into meaningful shifts.

📚 Transformative Content Designed for Midlife and Beyond

Topics include:

Releasing ageist, limiting beliefs
Shifting from diet rules to self-care mindsets
Nourishing your body for energy and vitality—free of diet/wellness mess
Healing body shame and reclaiming respect for your body as your life partner
Finding joy and play in movement
Regulating your nervous system to support ease, presence, and resilience

💬 Weekly Q&A + Discovery Sessions with Deb

An open, supportive space to bring questions, explore practices more deeply, and receive compassionate and curious coaching.

🤝 A Private Community Space

Stay connected between sessions with a supportive circle of women who get it—because they’re living it too. (not on social media!)

What will you be learning each week?

We’ll explore how we’ve been conditioned to view our bodies from the outside in—and how ageism can deepen those critical narratives. Together, we’ll begin to untangle these inherited stories and gently shift from self-surveillance to embodied experience. Through daily practices, we’ll reconnect with what it feels like to live in our bodies rather than judging our bodies. Along the way, we’ll uncover and challenge our internalized ageism that no longer serves us.
We’ll explore how cultural ageism and the body hierarchy have shaped our experiences—and how we’ve internalized these harmful messages. Together, we’ll examine the very human urge to control our bodies as a strategy for belonging, safety, and staying “relevant” in a world that marginalizes aging bodies.
We’ll explore a mindset shift from trying to control your body’s size and shape to honoring what truly supports your vitality, energy, and overall well-being. Together, we’ll build awareness of the daily choice points that shape how we care for ourselves. You’ll begin to replace diet-driven habits with practices rooted in compassionate curiosity—tuning in to your body’s real wants and needs.
We’ll explore how learning to regulate your nervous system is essential to reconnecting with your body. This kind of regulation helps you tune into your appetite, supports the connection between your brain and gut, and promotes more restful sleep. Like all meaningful change, it takes gentle, consistent practice.
We’ll explore what shifts when movement is no longer about controlling your body’s size or shape, but instead becomes a way to support your unique needs, rhythms, and concerns as you age. This week also includes a gentle, accessible movement practice designed to nourish rather than push your body.
We’ll explore how to reconnect with your body’s innate wisdom and cues to meet its true need for nourishment. Together, we’ll focus on the importance of satisfaction, pleasure, and a more liberating, self-defined sense of balance—one that we reclaim from the grip of diet culture. We’ll also unpack the barriers that can make it hard to notice or trust your body’s signals and share strategies for gently rebuilding that trust over time.
We’ll explore the latest nutritional research to help you cut through the noise and confidently distinguish between hype and evidence-based guidance for nourishing yourself in midlife and beyond.
We’ll explore what gets in the way of caring for our bodies with intention—and how to gently move through those barriers with awareness and support. Self-compassion remains central as we navigate challenges and strengthen our commitment to meaningful, lasting change.

Meet Deb

I’m Deb Benfield, a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist with over 40 years of experience helping people heal their relationship with food, movement, and their bodies. My work is rooted in the belief that your body is not a problem to be solved, and midlife and beyond is not a crisis to be managed.

Through decades of supporting people in recovery from disordered eating, chronic dieting, and body shame, I’ve come to understand how deeply our cultural narratives — especially diet culture and ageism — shape the way we treat ourselves. As I’m moving through my own aging process, I’ve become passionate about helping others reclaim ease, nourishment, and respect for their changing bodies.

I created this small group coaching circle to offer a supportive, shame-free space where you can explore what it means to trust your body through the transitions of midlife and beyond. Together, we’ll practice moving away from punishment and toward care — with curiosity, compassion, and a sense of community.

If you’re tired of battling your body and ready to build a more peaceful, trusting relationship with it, you’re in the right place.

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What Participants Like You Are Saying

Before I joined the group with Deb, I was considering another diet plan and also felt a deep sense of exhaustion due to years, decades, of tinkering with my diet and exercise addiction. Coming now into menopause, I feel a strong pull toward healing and seeing diet/wellness culture for what it is.

Based on my work in the group, I actually took a whole week off from exercise (working out) in favor of gentle walking, yoga, and kayaking on a river (mainly floating), so I could really listen to my body as a companion [a wonderful term that I learned in the program]. I have noticed that I'm less sore and achy, and my face looks less stressed out/tense. I realized that taking these breaks is essential for my physical and emotional health.

The most significant result of my experience in the AVBL Group with Deb is my deeper sense of trust in my body. Ever since I can remember, I have automatically tried to adjust or correlate my eating to my exercise (how much to do to burn off whatever I ate). This "voice" is still there, but I am allowing other parts of me to gently emerge. I am excited and curious to learn more and be guided by these gentler parts of me.

-Amy Nolan

I got my money's worth within the first two sessions, and I've been recommending this program to all of my friends. When I signed up, I thought I had a pretty good hold on body liberation and pro-aging. But after the program, I feel so much more free. Deb has created a process to help me befriend my body in a real way throughout the rest of my life. I have a new understanding of what my body really needs, what is just hype I can ignore, and even how to support my children in creating healthy relationships with their bodies. Deb is a trustworthy expert, and she's one of a kind.

-Annie Schuessler

I am beginning to develop some good practices to help me become more body/self-aware and self-compassionate. I am becoming so much more aware of ageism in our culture and even within me. The practices and boundary setting are helping me stop trying to “control” my body and instead care for myself.

-Martha Hoey

I feel that I have made steps toward healing my long-standing struggle with body image. The practices I learned have made a huge difference in accepting myself as I am. I feel heard and understood and know that I am not alone.

-Judith Berger

Before joining the program, I felt stuck in grief about the changes in my body, knowing that I did not want to continue dieting and following food rules, but not knowing how to move forward.

I’ve made many significant changes because of this program. Still, the most significant change is that I check with my instincts and wisdom before seeking answers from external sources about my care and well-being.

Now, I have so much more confidence in my right to care for myself. To show up in this body. To claim what is rightfully mine. To be full of myself.

My creative work as a photographer has really blossomed. All that time I used to spend on maintaining my body shape and size is now freed up for me to work deeply. The more I get to know myself, the more authentic my art becomes.

-Donna Hopkins

Before we started, I couldn’t see that I would ever be friends with my body or have freedom around eating – having already done so much work but something has really clicked – I feel like I am beginning to really make friends with my body and I’m enjoying eating a greater variety of foods, feel so much freer around food and have so much more enjoyment with no judgment.

-Claire Pugh

I can’t say enough about this wonderful woman and this amazing group! If you want to change your relationship with food and have tried everything else, give this a chance. You won’t regret it. I am making great strides in healing my disordered eating and my relationship with my body. She is a kind, warm, nonjudgmental, caring person who genuinely cares for her clients and wants to see them escape the bondage of diet culture. She has changed my life infinitely for the better.

— Shanon Gaddis

Before the program, I felt besieged by messages that I needed to “fix” my changing body. I was already well into rejecting diet culture, but I still felt bad about myself. Deb’s program opened new approaches to me, and I have begun to develop an attuned and compassionate relationship with my body. I am learning to pay attention to and respond to my hunger cues and ground myself in a mindfulness practice. Deb is a wise and patient teacher and has created an environment for rich conversations and heartfelt sharing with my amazing classmates.

-Christina H.

What do I receive as a participant?

8 virtual weekly 90-minute coaching sessions with Deb and the recording
8 virtual weekly 60-minute question and discovery sessions with Deb and the recording
Some modules will include pre-work, some modules will include homework, and all will include content to support each module.
Access to this inspiring group of women via a private community forum for the length of the program.
Group Coaching sessions will take place on Tuesdays at 12:00 pm EST via Zoom.
Question and Discovery sessions will occur on Friday at 12:00 pm EST via Zoom.
Dates for the Fall 2025 Cohort:
- Early Bird Registration is open from August 19-26
- Early Birds receive a $200 discount!
- Registration closes September 2nd.
- The group program runs from September 9th to October 28th.
- Group size is small to encourage access to the group process.
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Investment- $1095 (can be paid in 4 monthly payments with no additional fee)