O que você irá aprender
This course is for anyone who struggles with overeating or binge eating. Throughout these 30 lessons, you will learn a variety of emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual tools to help you transform your relationship with food. Utilizing writing exercises, visualizations, and meditations, Andrea weaves together her professional experiences as a psychotherapist and author, along with her personal journey of healing from overeating. Her style of teaching is often described as compassionate, practical, and light-hearted. If you are ready to restore your natural relationship with food, join Andrea for this healing journey.
Andrea Wachter is a licensed psychotherapist who is passionate about helping people with anxiety, depression, body image, disordered eating, grief, and communication skills. Andrea is an inspirational counselor, author, and teacher who uses professional expertise, personal recovery, and humor to help others. She is the author of "Getting Over Overeating for Teens" and co-author of "The Don’t Diet, Live-It Workbook" and "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Breaking the 'I Feel Fat' Spell.”
Andrea received her Bachelor’s Degree from Boston University and her Master’s Degree in Counseling from the University of San Francisco. In addition to her counseling practice, she is a regular contributor on The Huffington Post as well as numerous other publications....
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Lição 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.
Avaliações Recentes
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Fran
October 5, 2025
Excellent course, very knowledgeable, new insights into my overeating! Got to the ‘guts’ of my boredom, emotional, overeating issues! I will keep my notes handy to review daily! Thank you 🙏
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Carol
July 1, 2025
Thank you so much. This has helped me so much and I will do it over and over to remember all the ways I can use these tools to heal. ♥️♥️♥️
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Jen
January 16, 2025
1/16/25- this course had so much substance and content. It’s much more in-depth than anything I’ve listened to or tried. Every day of this course was full of resonating thoughts for me. Several times it “clicked” for me and I realized I’m not as far gone as I had thought. I did the first go round just listening and not taking notes.
I’m going to get a nice journal and re-do this class because there is just so much here! It’s helpful if you’re prepared with a notebook, but the first time through I participated without writing.
I was so happy too because Andrea acknowledges and responds to questions along the way. Her voice is soothing, pleasant and comforting too.
This course really digs into the root causes of overeating. I’m excited to be starting my second time through with a journal in hand.
Picture it- healthy respectful eating without obsessing about every calorie-with every number on the scale. Picture success!
“So how have diets worked for you?” Excellent question and we all know the answer.
Thank You Andrea! With Sincerest gratitude....
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Jennifer
November 23, 2024
Thank you, thank you. I’ve taken my time through your course, journaling, noticing, practicing. I have found so much more peace than I have ever known around food and feeding myself. As you say, it’s a journey. This particular remark from the last session really encapsulates what I am taking/will take away from this course: “Don’t give up. [Continue practicing whichever tools are most helpful to me . … I] will get better and and better at clarifying [my] thoughts, emotions and needs and begin to get and give myself what I have been trying to get from food.” Thank you 🙏....
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simona
November 1, 2024
Great course and the mix of info, meditation and journal prompts so valuable. Gained lots of insights through these tools and especially the journaling along the way helped me lots. Thank you so much!!!!
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Diane
July 25, 2024
An exceptional course! Andrea is a storehouse of insights, information and helpful suggestions. I have been practicing many of her suggestions and find them extremely effective. There was so much meaty content—lots of food for thought. Andrea’s compassion and encouragement come through clearly.
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Deanne
November 19, 2023
I found this course very fulfilling in so many ways. It has helped me way beyond my relationship with food. It has helped me to be more mindful of my spirituality, my physical, psychological and emotional wellbeing. It has given me some very powerful tools to take better care of myself and consequently others. It has taught me to be more gentle with myself and that I am enough. This course is a keeper for me as I know further exploring it will help me to befriend myself a little more every day with practice.
Thank you so much Andrea for creating this professional, compassionate course.
With profound gratitude 🙏
Deanne...
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Sandra
August 24, 2023
Many tools to use to help change my relationship to my body, especially the diet mindset that I have lived in for decades! The journey is ongoing but I appreciate the course. Thanks Andrea and Namaste🙏
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gina
July 27, 2023
Excellent tools to interrupt our toxic conditioning around body image. I am on the path to healing
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Liz
July 21, 2023
A great course! I learned a lot and it was all extremely helpful. Already implemented some of the tools.thank you so much.
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Tom
July 4, 2023
Terrific class. So much wisdom and techniques. Life changing.
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Brendan
May 19, 2023
This course does a very good job of presenting a multitude of tools and strategies. I believe that the ones that resonated most for me will genuinely help me as I practice living a healthier and more self-compassionate life.
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Joanna
May 17, 2023
An excellent course. I might even start over to reinforce some of the very helpful concepts.
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Mercedes
May 8, 2023
I love this course I was so blessed to take and I think I wanted to repeat it again because I learned so much about myself I learned so much about my Beijing habits and I'm looking forward to learning to apply all these techniques thank you so much for taking the time to create this wonderful course
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Meditatiedame
May 3, 2023
Thank you for so much insight in why I eat and tools how to deal with over eating.
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jada
April 29, 2023
Well designed. Lessons build on each other. Could be a course taught on Udemy or Skill share. Learned so much.
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Cristina
April 2, 2023
Thank you for sharing your wisdom! I hear a lot of IFS and compassionate inquiry in your tools.
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Alexandra
March 24, 2023
Thank you so much for this course! Your lovely soothing voice, your caring,supportive way is so wonderful to have!🌸🌱🌸 I will go through the course again. To be reminded again and again and to have your support! Thank you so much for sharing your own story and being there for so many of us. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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theodora
March 22, 2023
This was the most comprehensive course I have ever taken on this life long challenge. Andrea covers every threat and cause of overeating and offers profound & simple techniques for getting over this problem. Her poetic style includes cute slogans that help you remember what to do when cravings hit. I look forward to some personal follow up when her long waiting list subsides. In the mean time I’m going back to review her exercises, tips, & meditations...
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Sharon
March 15, 2023
Fantastic class! Practical and implementable strategies with very sticky frameworks…like the hunger scale, is it nutritious, delicious and moderate? And many more! Really well done and it probably saved me thousands of dollars and hours of time in therapy (which I still may do but this was a great jump start!)
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