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Eating Your Heart Out

 Freedom from Emotional Eating

In this workshop we will look at different types of eating distress including anorexia, bulimia and compulsive eating - how they begin, and their effects.  

We will explore our relationship with food, how it is labelled “good” or “bad”, and how feelings affect our eating patterns.  We will look at eating disorder cycles and use creative exercises to challenge those cycles and find a balanced way out of them. 

Sometimes we eat unhealthily as a way of ignoring our problems.  Compulsive or binge eating may seem to help dampen down feelings we don't feel comfortable with.  At first, this may seem to offer a solution to some of life's problems, but we can get stuck in this unhealthy cycle.  Controlling our eating may become obsessive, and in some cases, life threatening. 

Eating alone or on social occasions, shopping when hungry, leaving long gaps between meals, the smell of fresh cooking or the sight of treats like chocolates or biscuits can often be the triggers for eating unhealthily.  Often an eating disorder is a crisis of self-esteem where food becomes a metaphor – for attention or love or reward.  These are some of the issues we will discuss and explore in the workshop. 

The next workshop will take place on 25-26 September 2010, 10am - 4pm daily 

£195

To reserve your place, or for more information, please contact Sue on 07720 404710.

I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist with practices at Spectrum and North West London. I have worked with eating distress as a result of my own experiences with unhealthy eating and am interested in the triggers and compulsions, which can keep us in this cycle.