The Unburdened Bites Series: Helping Your Clients Heal Their Relationships with Food and Body Using IFS, Course 2

CE Hours 2

About this course

This is the second and final course in the Unburdened Bites Series and is meant to provide therapists with more information and tools to help those clients who are struggling with their relationship with food and/or their bodies. As I stated in the first course, I strongly believe that most therapists are more than capable of working with clients who are struggling with less severe food and body concerns, and this course will help you do so. My hope through this series is that you, as an IFS or IFS-informed therapist or practitioner, feel comfortable with and capable of treating such food and body concerns as emotional eating, occasional binge eating, chronic dieting, and negative body image.

This second course contains three educational videos. Video One, Healing Negative Body Image, discusses the complexities of how we think about and relate to our bodies. It details the goals of working on this issue using IFS, which include treating the body with respect, unburdening bodily shame, and connecting to the body's physical needs, and emphasizes that the goal of the work is not to change the body. The video also identifies parts that you are likely to encounter while working on body image with your clients as well as common difficulties in this work.

Video Two, Cultural and Legacy Burdens, introduces the concept of cultural burdens and how those relate to the development of food and body concerns. It discusses how the four cultural burdens in the United States (as identified by Dick Schwartz) intersect with diet culture and the messaging about bodies that result. The video also discusses common legacy burdens that are found in eating systems as well as how to recognize and work with those burdens.

Video Three, Becoming a Self-led Eater, describes Self-led eating, the main goal of this work. The video defines what Self-led eating is and how to help your clients get there. It reviews setting the stage for Self-led eating, which includes mapping parts, identifying the people, places, and things that trigger eating, and addressing food issues with family members. The video also introduces the model of Intuitive Eating and describes the goals of this model as well as its ten principles. It discusses how well IFS and Intuitive Eating work together toward Self-led eating and details the principles that are helpful to the therapy process.

Because understanding your own parts' relationship with food and your body is of utmost importance to doing this work, the course also includes a workbook and two prerecorded meditations to help you get to know your own parts. The workbook provides you with journal prompts to help you explore your relationship with your body, possible cultural and legacy burdens in your system, and parts that may be interfering with Self-led eating. It also asks you to reflect on the parts in your system who may arise during sessions with your clients. The prerecorded meditations are meant to help you get to know your parts (and are not a substitute for therapy). The first meditation walks you through an IFS session so that you may get to know a specific part who has feelings toward your body. The second meditation walks you through a legacy unburdening.

Learning Objectives

Articulate the complexities of negative body image and the factors that contribute to it.
Describe how IFS can help clients heal their negative body image.
Identify the four cultural burdens in the US and describe how diet culture intersects with all four.
Explain common legacy burdens in eating systems and how to approach these budens.
Describe the goal of Self-led eating and how to help clients achieve this goal.
Describe the model of Intuitive Eating and identify how and why it blends well with IFS.
Identify at least two of their own parts in their Eating System who may surface during sessions with clients.

Learning Levels

Intermediate

Target Audience

This course is for mental health professionals who have a solid working understanding of IFS and who are interested in learning more about working with clients with food and body concerns.

Course Instructor(s)

Kimberly M. Daniels, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Daniels is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with a private practice in Hartford, CT. She specializes in treating clients with food and body concerns using Internal Family System (IFS), Intuitive Eating (IE), and Health at Every Size (HAES) approaches. Dr. Daniels believes whole-heartedly that all bodies are good bodies, and that we all have the ability to heal. She especially loves working with therapists who are struggling with their own food and body concerns.

References

Avellino, L., & Seaman, B. (2024). Using Internal Family Systems in the Treatment of Trauma. In Experiential Therapies for Treating Trauma (pp. 191-205). Routledge.
Bauer, W. S., Schiffman, R. F., Ellis, J. L., Erickson, J. M., Polfuss, M., Taani, M. H., & Sawin, K. J. (2023). An Integrative Review of the Use of the Individual and Family Self-Management Theory in Research. Advances in Nursing Science, 10-1097. DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000512
Brenner, E. G., Schwartz, R. C., & Becker, C. (2023). Development of the internal family systems model: Honoring contributions from family systems therapies. Family process, 62(4), 1290-1306. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12943
Catanzaro, J. (2024). Unburdened Eating: An Internal Family Systems Approach to Healing Your Relationships with Food and Your Body. Bridge City Books.
Catanzaro, J., Doyne, E., & Thompson, K. (2018). IFS (Internal Family Systems) and Eating Disorders: The Healing Power of Self-Energy. Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders, 209.
Fitzgerald, M. (2021). Cool, calm, and collected: The associations between Self-leadership and adult mental and relational health outcomes. The American Journal of Family Therapy, (50)1. 57-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/01926187.2020.1865218
Pershing, A., & Turner, C. (2018). Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery and Beyond. Routledge.
Rodgers R.F., Laveway K., Campos P., & de Carvalho P.H.B. (2023). Body image as a global mental health concern. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 10:e9. doi:10.1017/gmh.2023.2.
Schwartz, R. (2021). No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model. Sounds True.

CE Process Info

Content

Introductory Video

1 parts
- Introductory Video
Video One: Healing Negative Body Image

1 parts
- Video One: Body Image
Video Two: Recognizing and Working with Cultural and Legacy Burdens

1 parts
- Video Two: Cultural and Legacy Burdens
Video Three: Becoming a Self-Led Eater

1 parts
- Video Three: Self-Led Eating
Unburdened Bites Course 2 Workbook

1 parts
- Unburdened Bites Course 2 Workbook
Resource List

1 parts
- Resource List
Meditation: Getting to Know a Part Who Has Feelings Toward Your Body

1 parts
- Meditation: Getting to Know a Part Who Has Feeling Toward Your Body
Meditation: Legacy Unburdening

1 parts
- Meditation: Legacy Unburdening

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The Unburdened Bites Series: Helping Your Clients Heal Their Relationships with Food and Body Using IFS, Course 2

About this course

Learning Objectives

Learning Levels

Target Audience

Course Instructor(s)

References

CE Process Info

Content

Joint Accreditation (JA)

American Psychological Association (APA)

New York Education Department's State Board for Social Work (NYEDSW)

New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors (NYSEDLMHC)

New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology (NYEDPSY)

New York Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy (NYEDMFT)

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