Lesson 1
Building a Stable Table
This introductory lesson highlights the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual areas that need to be addressed in order to heal from an overeating problem. Many people make changes in one or two of these areas but are unable to sustain their progress because the other areas remain unaddressed. This lesson will pave the path of the entire course by summarizing all four essential areas of healing.
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Lesson 2
Diet, Riot, or Be Free
Our diet-crazed culture teaches most of us that certain foods or food groups are “good,” and that other foods or food groups are “bad.” This type of thinking sets us up to ride what Andrea refers to as the “diet/riot roller coaster.” In this lesson, you will learn how to challenge this unhealthy, ineffective cycle and begin building the foundations of non-restrictive, respectful eating.
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Lesson 3
How to Deal with What You Feel
When it comes to our emotions, we humans have a few choices: we can learn to deal with what we feel in healthy ways, or we can attempt to stuff down our natural emotions by turning to unnatural methods like overeating. This lesson will teach you various healthy ways to deal with your feelings so you will no longer have to avoid, deny, stuff, or numb them with excess food.
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Lesson 4
Unkind Mind, Kind Mind, Quiet Mind
This lesson will give you an overview of three different mind moods: unkind mind, kind mind, and quiet mind. Understanding and increasing our awareness of these mind moods can greatly improve our well-being and as a result, decrease the need to overeat.
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Lesson 5
Feeding Your Spirit
Overeating is an honest attempt to get more sweetness, comfort, and fulfillment in our lives. The only problem is that it has negative consequences, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and socially. In this lesson, we will explore various ways to feed your spirit that leave you with no negative consequences.
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Lesson 6
Understanding the Cycle of Overeating
In order to break out of a habitual cycle, we have to first identify and understand it. In this lesson, we will explore the cycle of overeating, as well as the pros and cons of using food to escape from life. You will also be led in a deep exploration that will guide you to imagine what your life would be like without this painful cycle and utilize your own inner resources to heal.
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Lesson 7
What’s Feeding Your Overeating?
Many people who struggle with overeating tend to blame themselves for this painful pattern. This lesson will teach you the most common reasons why people overeat and how to diminish the shame and blame that you may be placing on yourself. We will then examine the factors that most often contribute to your overeating and help you better understand what important needs you’ve been attempting to meet with excess food.
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Lesson 8
Follow the Clues of the Foods That You Choose
This lesson will help you gain an awareness of why you turn to certain foods for comfort. You will learn how to become your own inner detective by viewing the specific foods you eat in excess as clues that will lead you to discover what you are feeling, needing, and truly hungering for.
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Lesson 9
What Number is Your Hunger?
Today’s lesson will introduce you to a few simple tools that will help you tune in to your hunger, fullness, and satisfaction. Andrea will discuss how to best utilize these tools, how to aim for comfortable satisfaction, and how to avoid getting overly hungry. All this will assist you in learning how to listen to your body’s natural signals of hunger and fullness.
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Lesson 10
Binge-Busting Questions
This lesson will introduce you to three important questions that will help you differentiate between your internal restrictive voice, your inner overeater, and the wise internal voice you were born with. Instead of letting restrictive and/or compulsive inner voices let you decide what to eat, this tool will help you foster a deep connection to the part of you that truly knows.
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Lesson 11
Culture-Busting Checklist
This lesson will introduce you to a user-friendly checklist that will further assist you in learning how to feed yourself in a loving and respectful manner. Many people eat because the clock says it’s time, or because other people around them are eating. This simple checklist will teach you the basics of what a non-restrictive, respectful manner of eating looks like and help you define and integrate these concepts into your own life.
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Lesson 12
Flash Forward
This lesson will introduce you to a simple cognitive exercise that will help you pause to clarify and highlight the important reasons why you want to stop overeating, reasons that are extremely easy to forget and ignore when strong cravings arise.
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Lesson 13
An Improvement on Movement
Messages from the fitness industry lead many people to cut themselves off from their natural relationship with movement and rest. Whether you feel pressure to exercise and work out, or you experience resistance to exercise, this lesson will help you reclaim a natural, balanced relationship with enjoyable movement and peaceful rest.
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Lesson 14
The Natural Way to Your Natural Weight
Our image-obsessed culture has led most of us to believe that we are supposed to look or weigh a certain way. The truth is that we all have a natural weight range that our bodies settle into when we treat them respectfully. This lesson will define and delve into the concepts of natural weight ranges and give you specific guidelines that will lead you to discover yours.
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Lesson 15
Riding the Waves of Emotion
In this lesson, Andrea will discuss the temporary nature of emotions as well as how to ride them out, much like riding out a wave in the ocean. We will review the basic options we humans have when it comes to dealing with feelings, followed by a guided meditation that includes gentle reminders of how to soothe our emotional waves.
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Lesson 16
Healing What You’re Feeling
In the same way that most of us have been taught that there are “good” and “bad” foods, many of us have also been wrongfully taught that there are “good” and “bad” feelings. In this lesson, Andrea will discuss the importance of viewing all feelings as valid and worthy of expression and compassion. Several sentence starters will prompt you to better identify and express your emotions and you will then be guided through an exercise that will help you experience the immense power of self-empathy.
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Lesson 17
What Need is Overeating Trying to Feed?
In the same way that we all have many different emotions, we also have many different and important needs. This lesson will help you understand and identify any emotional and spiritual needs that are being unmet and possibly contributing to your need to eat in excess. An explorative exercise will then help you learn how to better clarify and meet your unmet needs.
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Lesson 18
Uprooting Your Roots
This exercise will provide you with a comprehensive list of issues that can lead to emotional pain. Andrea will then guide you through the list so you will have the opportunity to identify which relationships or situations may be contributing to your overeating. This will help you gain a better understanding of the origins and deeper roots of your need to self-soothe with excess food.
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Lesson 19
What Speed is Your Breed?
This lesson highlights the important fact that we are all born with different temperaments. Understanding and making peace with our personal breed can help foster awareness and acceptance, as well as enable us to discover the important benefits that accompany our particular personality traits.
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Lesson 20
Speaking vs. Stuffing Your Truth
Speaking our truth in a respectful manner is an essential aspect of healthy relationships. It also alleviates the need to stuff down our truth with excess food. In this lesson, Andrea will discuss four different styles of communication, followed by a practical exercise that will help you respectfully express your feelings and needs to others.
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Lesson 21
Preparation for a Carefrontation
Since relationship glitches and challenges are a natural part of authentic relationships, it’s extremely important to know the steps of a healthy carefrontation (as opposed to confrontation!) This lesson will review the important components of how to respectfully speak your truth to the people in your life.
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Lesson 22
What’s Behind Your Unkind Mind
Most people who struggle with overeating have a very loud unkind mind. They tend to be very self-critical, which often leads to overeating in an attempt to quiet or confirm those unkind thoughts. In this lesson, we will examine the deeper intentions of the unkind mind and compassionately explore its intended purpose.
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Lesson 23
Strong, Soft, Silly, or Silent
This lesson presents some creative ways to respond to any unkind thoughts that might pop up in your mind. Andrea will discuss four different options of how to respond to your inner critic and review several examples of each option. You will then have the opportunity to personalize the lesson by responding creatively to your obtrusive thoughts.
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Lesson 24
Mind Movies
Using the relatable metaphor of movies, today’s lesson will discuss the important topic of mindfulness. Four different “Mind Movies” will be introduced, and you will have the opportunity to see which movie your mind tends to play most frequently. Many people tend to believe their mind movies, which leads them to have strong feelings, which then leads them to turn to excess food. So, learning how to be on the lookout for mind movies can greatly reduce the need to overeat.
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Lesson 25
Use Your Voice for the Power of Choice
This cognitive exercise will help you distinguish between the part of you that wants to overeat and the part of you that doesn’t. A guided visualization will help you discover these important parts inside of you and an internal dialogue will help you better understand the feelings, needs, and values of each part.
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Lesson 26
Beware: It’s Unfair to Compare
This lesson will address the painful habit of comparing ourselves to others. Andrea will teach you her concept of “Story Busting” and offer you a simple tool that can help you question comparisons, decrease any sense of separation, and increase a feeling of equality.
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Lesson 27
Stop “Shoulding” On Yourself!
Using light-hearted terminology, today’s lesson will help you take a look at how much you “should” on yourself and make the life-changing internal shift from head to heart. This lesson will highlight the extremely common pattern of “shoulding” and rebelling, and guide you to live more from your authentic truth.
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Lesson 28
Reparent and Repair
Regardless of how we were raised as children, we now have the choice and power to self-parent and treat ourselves with the utmost of loving care. This lesson will delve into the qualities of conscious parenting and the importance of meeting and treating yourself in those ways.
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Lesson 29
Balanced Living Leads to Balanced Eating
This lesson addresses a very important topic in today’s busy world: balance. Most people are either totally overbooked and overwhelmed or spending way too much time checked out on their various screens. Andrea will discuss how our relationship with food often mirrors our relationship with life, and that in order to eat in a balanced manner, we need to learn how to live in a balanced manner.
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Lesson 30
Stages of Healing
In spite of the diet industry selling us the instant, happily-ever-after promises, this final lesson highlights the fact that healing from overeating is an ongoing process with specific stages. Using lighthearted language, Andrea will describe the stages of getting over overeating and you’ll have the opportunity to identify where you are and what to expect as you continue on this healing journey.
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