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Women's Emotional Eating Group


This eight-week group based on the book "Why Weight" by Geneen Roth will help you to explore your conscious and unconscious motivation that results in your eating more than you physically need to feel satisfied.

The focus will be on increased awareness of hunger and fullness, reconnecting eating with hunger, "legalizing" all foods, healthy expression of emotions, learning how to say no and identifying other ways to nurture your self without food.

Olimpia Etts LCSW-C is a licensed social worker and certified hypnotherapist with experience treating eating disorders.








Are you eating when you're
not
hungry?
 
Eight week group held in La Plata


Meeting Number Meeting Agenda
Meeting #1 Introductions.
Meeting #2 Chapter 1 - Compulsion and Awareness. What need does emotional overeating serve? What would life be like without overeating for emotional reasons? What does your weight enable you to do? What does being thin mean to you?
Meeting #3 Chapter 2 - The Basics. Learn the guidelines to break free from emotional overeating.
Meeting #4 Chapter 3 - Why Weight? How do we move from self-disgust to self-care? Acknowledge and express feelings from the past and present.
Meeting #5 Chapter 4 - Dieting and Bingeing. Feelings of deprivation: how do I keep myself deprived? Uncover your beliefs about bingeing and discover the need for down time. Introduction to "legalizing" food.
Meeting #6 Chapter 5 - Eating When you're Hungry. How do you know when you're hungry? Introduction to the Hunger Scale, plus meals versus eating on demand.
Chapter 6 - Focusing. The concept of distracted eating, snacking and grazing.
Meeting #7 Chapter 7 - Eating What You Want. Foods I (think) I want to eat. What do I want versus what do I need?
Chapter 8 - About Satisfaction. How do you know when you are full? Identify five prerequisites to help you understand when you are physically satisfied.
Meeting #8 Chapter 13 - Self-Care. Setting limits and identifying and practicing ways to nourish your self without food. Explore the idea of treating yourself with kindness. Asking for what you need.
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