One of my favorite things to do is train other therapists.

My graduate program didn’t spend much time teaching us about eating disorders, which is extremely unfortunate because so many of our clients are engaging in disordered eating patterns. And what I did learn in grad school was highly weight-centric and heavily influenced by diet culture. Because of this, I had to piece together my own education, experience, and supervision. I’d love to save you the time, energy, and money of having to do the same.

The Unburdened Bites series is a two-module course (the second module will be coming in the fall of 2025!) totaling four hours. And yes, you get FOUR CEs! The first course in this series contains three educational videos.  Video One details the common parts that those with food and body concerns tend to have in their internal system, such as parts that restrict food, use food for comfort, binge eat, and step on the scale daily. The video provides general case examples of a restricting, manager-driven system as well as a firefighter-led system that tends to numb with food. Finally, the video discusses how you can help your clients begin to know these parts. Video Two focuses on the goals of the work.  While our clients' parts may have such goals as weight loss, improved dietary adherence, or completely stopping their emotional eating, these are not Self-led goals.  This video discusses common client goals, our own parts' potential goals, and finally the true goals of the work.  And finally, Video Three focuses on polarizations and begins with the common polarizations found in clients with food and body concerns. It also provides case examples of a polarized system as well as instruction for working with polarizations. 

Because understanding your own parts' relationship with food and your body is of utmost importance to doing this work, the course also includes a workbook and two prerecorded meditations to help you get to know your own parts.  The first meditation is a parts mapping meditation that will help you to identify the parts in your system that have any thoughts or feelings regarding food and/or your body.  The second meditation walks you through an IFS session so that you may get to know a specific part that relates to food or your body.

Head here for more details and to purchase the course!