Beyond the Plate: Part I — Understand
This course lays the groundwork for transforming your relationship with food by examining the psychological, emotional, and behavioral patterns that drive your eating habits. Through weekly interactive sessions and worksheets, you'll develop essential awareness and skills that serve as building blocks for long-term change.
Course Overview
Throughout this six-week program, you'll learn to identify and understand the psychological patterns keeping you trapped in cycles of food attachment. Each module provides fundamental concepts and practices that create a comprehensive framework for beginning to shift your relationship with food and your body.
Is This Course Right For You?
This course may be right for you if:
• You've tried multiple diets or eating plans but find yourself returning to the same patterns
• You experience guilt, shame, or anxiety around food choices
• You use food to cope with emotions or stress
• You feel disconnected from your body's hunger and fullness signals
• You're tired of the mental energy consumed by thoughts about food and weight
• You're ready to explore the psychological aspects of eating rather than just focusing on what to eat
• You're open to gentle self-reflection and incremental change
• You want to develop a foundation for a more peaceful and intuitive relationship with food
• You're curious about how your past experiences might be influencing your current food behaviors
• You're seeking understanding rather than quick fixes or rigid food rules
This course focuses on awareness and fundamental concepts rather than prescribing specific meal plans or promising dramatic physical transformations. It's designed for those ready to begin the internal work necessary for lasting change
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Lesson 1: Your Relationship to Food Begins With You (Copy)
Explore the fundamental difference between an attachment to food and a relationship with food. Learn how food behaviors often mask deeper emotional needs and begin identifying your authentic self beneath habitual patterns of eating.
Explore the fundamental difference between an attachment to food and a relationship with food. Learn how food behaviors often mask deeper emotional needs and begin identifying your authentic self beneath habitual patterns of eating.
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Lesson 2: Our Beliefs and Stories Shape Our Relationship with Food (Copy)
Uncover the hidden stories and beliefs that influence your food choices. Examine how these narratives were formed, why they persist, and take initial steps toward questioning their validity through awareness and curiosity.
Uncover the hidden stories and beliefs that influence your food choices. Examine how these narratives were formed, why they persist, and take initial steps toward questioning their validity through awareness and curiosity.
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Lesson 3: Patterns and Rules vs Intuition and Trust (Copy)
Identify the rigid rules governing your eating habits and discover how they disconnect you from your body's wisdom. Learn foundational practices for moving from external control toward internal trust and intuition.
Identify the rigid rules governing your eating habits and discover how they disconnect you from your body's wisdom. Learn foundational practices for moving from external control toward internal trust and intuition.
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Lesson 4: Standards and Boundaries (Copy)
Understand the essential concept of boundaries and their role in creating safety in your relationship with food. Begin establishing personal standards based on how you want to feel rather than how you want to look.
Understand the essential concept of boundaries and their role in creating safety in your relationship with food. Begin establishing personal standards based on how you want to feel rather than how you want to look.
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Lesson 5: Emotional Boundaries (Copy)
Develop awareness of emotional boundaries as containers for your feelings. Practice fundamental techniques for holding space for emotions in your body and distinguishing between your emotional experience and external influences.
Develop awareness of emotional boundaries as containers for your feelings. Practice fundamental techniques for holding space for emotions in your body and distinguishing between your emotional experience and external influences.
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Lesson 6: Getting Off the Drama Triangle (Copy)
Learn how the Drama Triangle (Victim, Rescuer, Persecutor) manifests in your relationship with food. Discover initial strategies for stepping out of these roles and moving toward an authentic connection with yourself and your needs.
Learn how the Drama Triangle (Victim, Rescuer, Persecutor) manifests in your relationship with food. Discover initial strategies for stepping out of these roles and moving toward an authentic connection with yourself and your needs.
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What You'll Gain
Foundational understanding of your relationship patterns with food
Basic tools for recognizing limiting beliefs and stories
Introduction to boundary-setting practices with food
Initial skills for emotional awareness and containment
Preliminary shift from control-based to connection-based thinking and eating
First steps from attachment to food toward a secure relationship with food and your body
Each session includes simple "Tiny Action" assignments designed to help you begin applying these concepts through small, manageable steps that establish a foundation for continued growth.
Begin the journey of transforming your relationship with food by laying the groundwork for a new relationship with yourself, one bite at a time.
