The Deep Den Membership ANNUAL PAYMENT

(This is the ANNUAL payment version of the Deep Den membership.

For the quarterly payment version CLICK HERE.

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From Amanda Rose, Ph.D., Eat Like a Bear! Founder:

The Deep Den is the private, member-funded community of Eat Like a Bear.

This is an annual membership option for people who would like deeper levels of support from the Eat Like a Bear! community. A quarterly payment option is available as well (CLICK HERE for that.)

Special Masterclass, Ridiculously Big Skillet, Oct 2024

Join the Deep Den and join us for this special video-based masterclass, a value worth a quarter's membership in the Deep Den itself. Here's what it looks like inside:

What the Deep Den Is: Additional Support

At its core, The Deep Den is a place where we, the leadership of Eat Like a Bear!, provide additional support to community members, with far richer discussions than we are able to have in our large (and growing) Facebook community forums.

What we offer in those public forums has not changed over the last two years, and I do not expect it to change, but people have expressed a need for more.

The Deep Den is the place for more, for anyone who would like more.

Deep Den members have special Facebook posting privileges.

As a Deep Den member, you will have access to all of our digital recipe-centered tools and community that is available in our lower-priced community membership option that focuses more on food choice. Our Swanky Bear food-centered community content includes these key resources:

• Access to the Eat Like a Bear Recipe Finder tool, a browser-based app-like recipe database with meal planning functions and shopping lists.
• Weekly Tasty Tuesday emails, with content on upping your game in eating for weight loss and weight maintenance.
• Access to the Swanky Bear Facebook group for open-posting and engagement opportunities with other self-sponsored members.
• For your STORIES posts, you have the opportunity to be white-listed for posting in our 100k-member Facebook Eat Like a Bear! Stories group. This is really an exceptional opportunity for posting your progress, especially in some of our community challenges. (Only members of our funded areas have posting privileges there.)
• Access to specific challenges throughout the year, with prizes and deeper content than is available in our public areas.

In addition, with Deep Den membership you have access to the following:

• Deep Den exclusive: Twice monthly live videos, first and third Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time, focused on Deep Den psychology topics.
• Deep Den exclusive: Access backstage in live videos to appear on camera for comments and questions.
  
• Deep Den exclusive: Access to core psychology video content and community discussions housed at the Den at EatLikeaBearDen.com

The Deep Den Has Morphed Over Time

Increasingly, the Deep Den is the core leadership community of Eat Like a Bear. We conduct our long-form video interviews inside the Deep Den before they become public on YouTube. The Deep Den is our "live studio audience" for those recordings, and members join us backstage in the videos to ask questions. Those videos end up on the public YouTube channel for members of our larger community.

We are currently working on our community-wide Big Goal project inside the Deep Den. More than likely, any community travel will come out of this community. We have investigated ways for the community to meet up at various destinations, and those opportunities will likely come out of the Deep Den, so if you're interested in traveling with the community, this is the group to join.

Support in The Deep Den: Think Of These Resources As Your "Buffet of Support"

Very few people are going to eat up all of the support we serve in this buffet of support here in the Deep Den.

(Boy, we should scrap food analogies around here.)

You can simply pick and choose what works for you now, given your schedule and other aspects of life. Cherry-pick around to grab what you need right now.

In general ...

We go deeper in conversations that are important to us, as a community focused on losing weight to achieve our long-term health goals.

Deeper Discussions Rooted in Research

In our Eat Like a Bear! Stories community on Facebook, members post daily about how they got off track and are having difficulty getting back on track. We approve the post, and that person gets a lot of advice from the main community. I personally do not have time even to approve the posts, much less respond to them. But in The Deep Den, community members receive a Deep Den response from me. In my responses, I will likely direct you to deeper video content, content that is rooted in the social science research on strategic food choice.

Way back when I was working on my doctoral dissertation, I applied these theories to voting and public opinion. Back in the 90s, it simply never occurred to me to apply them to my weight. That's what I do these days. :-)

This is simply more support than I could ever offer in our large and growing main community on Facebook.

In fact, I make new content all the time based on our discussions in The Deep Den, so you could end up with a video response, a video series, or a guide as a response.

In past sessions, we produced some cool content based on the discussions we had:

• I conceived of the Big Bear Blueprint course while engaging in The Deep Den. Members were asking questions about food. I was laid up on my couch with COVID. I had an epiphany about how to communicate it all better. Some weeks later, community members had access to all that new content.
  
• The big "declutter" theme you see in The Deep Den rose out of the real-world need we have all had to work on our home environments. How we approach it as a community has developed over time based on member discussions.
• Members worked together with our leaders to create a strategy to help make weekend food choices easier.
  
• The course "Wrangle the Regain" was launched inside the Deep Den. Though it's a $97 course on its own, it was included in the August 2023 Deep Den as part of the membership.

Your deeper questions get deeper answers in The Deep Den, and not just from me but from other community members.

Members of The Deep Den have access to deeper content that informs their decisions and their responses to other members. Overall, the quality of discussions is far higher in The Deep Den.

Those richer discussions are the core source of support you will find in The Deep Den.

Deep Den Emails

Several times a week you will receive an email from me that directs you to core content in The Deep Den.

Weekly Live Videos

We currently offer LIVE videos weekly on Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time (noon Eastern). The topics fit with the topics of the week and month and allow you to ask questions and receive live feedback.

Yes, the live videos are available to watch as replays, and they are really great community-centered discussions.

A How-To Library

I want you to have easy access to high-quality "how to" content. This content is food-related but does not focus on our Ridiculously Big framework content specifically. (We have other learning content on the specific food framework.) We find that these videos support some of our deeper discussions about food choices, stalls, and other setbacks.

Jump into the The Deep Den and also get:

• The Eat Like a Bear! Weight Loss Video Library: 20+ videos on what to eat to lose weight.
• The Deep Den Content Library dedicated to the psychology of eating, with 30+ volumes, mostly video-based with transcripts.
• The original digital Bear Bones Blueprint, a 50-page digital book first released in January 2019 and the original manual many early members used.

The Very Biggest and Most Impactful Thing I Hope to Achieve with The Deep Den: Easier, Not Harder

I want to increase the chances that we all stay connected through the good days and the bad days. It is pretty obvious to point out that weight loss and especially weight maintenance, fall apart on "the bad days," largely because we disconnect and disassociate from the pain and struggle of weight loss.

Here's what I've noticed: When bad days come and decisions become difficult, and we lapse into old behaviors, one of those old behaviors is, of course, eating in the way that caused us to gain weight in the first place. (Obviously.)

Then because of the potential for shame and self-judgment, we disconnect from the goal and the weight piles back on. (Obviously.)

I can easily gain a pound a day if I'm not paying attention. On the flip side, I'd have to be pretty focused to lose 1/3 pound a day. It piles on FAR more quickly than it comes off. (Obviously.)

It doesn't take much disconnecting to return to how we were (or in a worse condition).

I don't want you to disconnect!!!

Ever!

The Deep Den is a key place to stay connected.

The Deep Den Philosophy

Make no mistake: Getting to a place where all of this is much, much easier is a target to shoot for. We have good days, bad days, and imperfect days. We are hopefully in continuous movement toward our goal, and that focus is what will help keep us from ricocheting back into the more painful situation we've come from.

Some of us head off in a positive direction faster and more directly than others. It is the whole diversity of struggles and approaches that help us learn how to get there in a more straightforward fashion and how to hang in there on bad days.

That said, if you are in The Deep Den and struggling, your story will help the community grow stronger. Struggles are also called experience, and we use experience to make tomorrow easier.

Content Delivery

Much of the core content in The Deep Den is delivered via video, both pre-recorded and live.

The pre-recorded video content includes video transcripts, making the content easy to skim if you would rather read it.

Some content is delivered as downloadable PDF files.

All content is 100% digitally-based.

The Deep Den Price Tag

Here in California, the cost of The Deep Den for three months is cheaper than filling up my Ford Explorer. That full tank of gasoline gets me only to Los Angeles (but not back again!).

We're way cheaper than a tank of gas!

If I were me and reading this page, I'd forego that jaunt to Los Angeles and instead stay home and take shelter in The Deep Den. That decision would, in fact, save me money because I can only get to L. A. on that tank of gas. (Cue the jokes about getting stuck in L. A.)

Other notable comparisons:

• Each week in The Deep Den costs you about US$7. That's the cost of one fairly atrocious fast food meal.
  

• What we eat at Eat Like a Bear! also saves us a good bit more than $7 a week. Reinvest those dollars into your future self, and use it today to make tomorrow easier.

• The Deep Den costs far less than a decent pair of shoes. Shop for shoes at a thrift store to save for The Deep Den!!! (Yes, I continue to be a bad influence on the thrifters.) 

At the end of the day, this is the price it costs to provide this additional support, and our pockets are pretty empty, so we do pass the hat.

With the fairly extreme amount of weight loss success we've had in these past several years, I expect we could ask a good bit more than seven dollars a week.

Annual Cost with a Recurring Charge

This community has a recurring charge, recurring annually if you select the annual option.

Cancel at any time

Cancel your membership at any time, but remain a member through the term that you have paid for. (For example, if your membership renews on February 21st, and you cancel on January 1st, you will remain a member until February 21st.)

Financial Risk?

This is not a very expensive membership with a lot of risk.

All of our digital products (including this one) come with a 7-day no-questions-asked full refund.