3PM "How to Survive a Poison Apple" Mindy Dillard's electric one-woman musical story-scape, a fractured fairy tale that features an abandoned princess dealing with her evolving self-image as she faces down her eating disorder. Inspired by Jungian thought, the writings of Clarissa Pinkola Estes and personal stories Mindy sings and plays electric guitar with Eric McEuen on ambient electric guitar back-up. "Candid! Entertaining! Courageous!" "A riveting and redeeming synthesis of music, image, story and heart."

4:15 Interactive workshop led by Lydia Rose Sifferlen, recovery coach with InterPlay cofounder Cynthia Winton-Henry. Simple storytelling and movement with body wisdom ideas and practices that support life. We welcome resources from specialists in this field.

5:30-6 Q and A and resource sharing.

"It can be so difficult for preteen and adolescent girls and their families, friends, schools, and churches to begin the important conversations around issues of eating disorders, body image, and cultural expectations. Mindy Dillard’s funny, painful, and insightful one woman musical, “How to Survive a Poison Apple,” is a wonderful place to start. The show can be done in a church sanctuary, social hall, classroom, or even in a backyard or living room: anywhere people are ready to support each other in the journey of health for ourselves and our daughters." - Reverend Lizann Bassham

"I couldn't stop clapping. Mindy's mega-talents as a singer-songwriter, actress and storyteller lifted my heart and didn't stop there. She brings us eye to eye with the dark side of the princess fable and the poison apples in our mind and culture that can result in an eating disorder. Then, she shares clues about how she broke the spell of her disorder enough to welcome a roomful of princess with zits, glasses, and beautiful spirits, a room where being real is a female birthright. I want her show anywhere girls, women, mothers, dads, educators, clergy and medical people sense that a monster lurks, a monster that only a true princess can dispel." Cynthia Winton-Henry