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Freedom from Binge and Emotional Eating
Thursdays, May 18 – August 3, 6:45 – 8 pm ET (3:45 – 5 pm PT)
Join Vanita Rahman, MD, Karen Smith, RD, CDE, and clinical psychologist Liana Abascal, PhD, for a 12-week online program to help you gain freedom from binge and emotional eating!
The program will help you understand and identify the patterns that lead to binge and emotional eating and learn strategies to break the cycle. This interactive program is based on well-researched approaches like CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy) and will provide skills for dealing with emotions and food cravings. Additional areas will include: increasing mindfulness, letting judgement go, managing setbacks, and plant-based nutrition.
Program Details
- Dates: every Thursday from May 18 - August 3
- Time: 6:45 – 8 pm ET (3:45 – 5 pm PT)
- Cost: $349, save $50 when you register early
What to Expect – Each Session Will Include
- Developing skills to stop binge and emotional eating
- Weekly homework and goal setting
- Check-in to monitor progress
- Strategies to maintain successes and deal with setbacks
- Small group discussion and goal setting
- Time for Q&A with program instructors
Class Topics:
- What is binge and emotional eating and what causes it?
- What are the roles of addictive versus healthful foods?
- Step 1: Accountability
- What are the pros and cons of binge and emotional eating?
- Step 2: Planning ahead and decreasing emotional vulnerability.
- Step 3: Stopping binge and emotional eating.
- Tool 1: Understanding the role of our emotional mind, wise mind, and dialectical thinking.
- Tool 2: How can we use mindfulness and urge surging?
- Tool 3: The power of emotional regulation and radical acceptance
- Tool 4: Increasing positivity
- Tool 5: Developing distress tolerance.
- How to continue long-term success
All participants will receive access to a resource portal with helpful recipes, worksheets, and handouts, in addition to free copies of Simply Plant-Based by Vanita Rahman, MD, and Breaking The Food Seduction by Neal Barnard, MD, FACC.
The early-bird discount rate ends May 1st. If you have any questions about this program, please contact us at 202-567-2546.
This program will not be recorded or available to view on-demand. All classes will be live on Zoom Meetings and will include interactive elements.
Registration is full for this program. Please contact 202-567-2546 if you are interested in being added to a waitlist.
