How to create a healthy, high-energy holiday so you can love your loved ones, enjoy your winter and lose (not gain) weight this holiday season!

Join Gretchen Heilman, MS, CHHC, at the Belfast Co-op to create an authentic, joyful holiday season to nourish your body, focus your mind and  rejuvenate your spirit! Learn 3 healthy meals, 4 powerful herbs, and 5 healing practices to keep your heart open to all of the joy the season has to offer! This year give the gift of "being present" to yourself and others! Bring your favorite holiday recipes and Gretchen will upgrade the first 5 submissions!

This free talk which takes place on Thursday, December 10, 2009, 6:00p.m.-7:30p.m. at the Belfast Coop, is part of the Belfast Co-op Monthly Education Series. For more event information visit the Co-op website at www.belfast.coop. The Belfast Co-op is located at 123 High St. in downtown Belfast, (207) 338-2532.

To find out more about Gretchen visit http://www.aliveandawakehealingarts.com.

Gretchen Heilman is a Holistic Health Counselor, Clinical Herbalist and founder of Alive and Awake Healing Arts. She is a graduate of The Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York and earned a Master’s of Science in Herbal Medicine from The Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts in Laurel, Maryland. A ”masterful coach” with an “infectious enthusiasm for life,” Gretchen works with individuals, couples, and organizations, sharing the practical wisdom of healing with food, herbs, and healthy lifestyle. She lives in Morrill, Maine with her partner, hound dog, and cool cat, and is joyfully expecting her first child in April.