Food, Feelings, and Body Image-Connect Emotions to Food Behaviors Group

About this event

This program focuses on understanding the relationship between stress response and emotional regulation in food behaviors. Connecting feelings to food through the Feelings Wheel Tool creates healthy reframes to combat Negative Self-Talk and body shaming, ultimately fostering a healthier relationship with oneself and viewing the body and food as allies rather than adversaries.

Week 1: Review of Stress Response and Emotional Regulation as it relates to food behaviors

Week 2: Connect Feelings to Food Behaviors- Name, identify, and label specific feelings using the Feelings Wheel Tool

Week 3: Creating Healthy Reframes when identifying Negative Self-Talk or Body Shaming-Identify your Negative Self-Talk “story,” criticisms, and judgments of yourself and/or your appearance

Week 4: Returning Home to your body- starting to create a healthier relationship with yourself and relating to your body and food as an ally and not “the enemy.”

*Only for ages 24+