Overcome Emotional Eating
Develop Effective Alternative Coping Strategies for Strong Emotions & Make Peace With Food
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"I eat my feelings, I just can't help myself. I come home after a long stressful shift and I work nights sometimes so I often skip meals. I'm just so tired and stressed when I come home but I know that crisps, chocolate and wine are waiting for me. In the moment I feel better.. but the guilt kicks in afterwards."
Does this sound like you?
Many people struggle with emotional eating or 'comfort eating' and use food as a self-soothing mechanism for strong emotions.
The difficulty with emotional eating, is that our society shames people for comfort eating, and then pushes them towards dieting or restricting food in an attempt to curb food intake or counter-act emotional eating.
This approach actually exacerbates it and often leads to further eating problems (like binge eating disorder, for example).
The approach we take in this course (and the exact approach I use with my coaching clients) is to first increase your emotional awareness through mindfulness and meditation and then help you understand the purpose of even the most negative emotions you feel. We then look at how to build alternative coping strategies to meet your emotional needs and finish off by setting life goals instead of weight-based goals.
In taking this approach, you will no longer feel shamed for comfort eating, or destroy your relationship with food further by dieting. Instead you will feel free of food anxiety, empowered to meet your emotional needs and able to take control of your life path.
"The emotional eating [course] was LIFE CHANGING for me! I never realised that comfort eating was benefiting me on some level but it all makes sooo much sense for me now. I've been working really hard the last few months to tune into my emotions and pick apart my thoughts to figure out what I really need (it isn't wine - who knew! haha!). The worry journal exercise has stuck with me the most, it's been so helpful, thank you so much for all your help and the videos and workbooks!)"
- A client from The Health Mindset Programme, May 2018
After taking this course you will:
- Understand what is meant by 'Emotional Eating'
- Understand the difference between Binge Eating Disorder and emotional eating.
- Be able to recognise emotional hunger and tell it apart from physical hunger
- Recognise how emotional eating is benefiting you (yep, really). In this lesson, we look at what you're getting from emotional eating, so that we know specifically what it is we need to seek from other sources, in order to overcome emotional eating.
- Understanding your emotions, the purpose of them and the symptoms of them to help you label what you're really feeling.
- Recognise the full spectrum of emotions you may be feeling in a situation - this will help increase your emotional awareness.
- Recognise your beliefs about emotions - this lesson and exercise will help explain why you're trying to avoid or distract yourself from particular emotions and help you view your emotions differently so that you're not afraid to feel them.
- Notice your emotions and triggers - in this exercise, we'll practice noticing the emotions and actions you take in an emotive situation. We'll then reflect on how to interpret and respond to the event differently in the future.
- Develop a basic plan of self-care and understand why it's so important for your emotional health
- Develop coping strategies for difficult emotions - this is where we put in place alternatives to emotional eating.
- Be able to carry out a holistic life assessment. In this lesson, we'll look at the different areas of your life to see where you may be lacking in satisfaction and pleasure (causing you to rely heavily on food as a source of pleasure).
- Have drawn up action plans for the other areas of your life. This is a huge step, but it'll encourage you to take massive action towards improving your life overall and getting as much satisfaction and pleasure from your life as possible (without having to resort to food).
Included in the course:
- Access to the community support group on Facebook - where you can ask me questions at any time.
- 12 Video lessons, including practical exercises based on CBT. These are kept short and to the point so that you can easily fit it into a busy life and take action straight away.
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3 PDF workbooks for you to download and work through, containing all the worksheets and cheat sheets you'll need
- Understanding Your Emotions
- Self-Care
- Life Assessment.
Your Instructor
A former Social Worker with a background in Psychology and Sociology, Karen is the Founding Editor of the feminist health psychology blog, Beyond The Bathroom Scale. Juggling the demands of parenting, work and caring for her parents, Karen understands what it means to be busy and why putting your own health first can often feel impossible.
Karen has successfully reversed hypertension and pre-diabetes and overcame her childhood and teenage eating disorders. She credits a huge change in mindset for being able to do this, which is why she launched The Health Mindset Programme.
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By enrolling on this course you acknowledge and agree to the following.
This course is not appropriate for people with active eating disorders; if you are suffering from an eating disorder, or have suffered from one in the past please seek professional advice from your GP instead.
Although this course is intended to help heal your relationship with food and eating, for some it may be triggering for anyone who has a underlying eating disorder.
If at any point in the course you suspect you have the symptoms of an eating disorder, you must seek the appropriate care immediately. Eating disorders must be treated by suitably qualified individuals such as general practitioners, registered psychotherapists, or a registered dietitian who specialises in eating disorders.
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