Intuitive Eating Course
Intuitive Eating Fundamentals: a 12 module course designed to help you find food freedom and body liberation.
Reclaim your life back from diet culture!
Feel confident in your body without dieting!
You know you don’t want to go on another diet but you aren’t sure what else to do…
‘Intuitive Eating Embodied’ is a unique self-paced course to teach you the fundamentals of Intuitive Eating and Body Trust.
Learn in the comfort of your own home at your own pace.
Learn in the comfort of your own home at your own pace.
The 12 module
Intuitive Eating Fundamentals Course is designed to help you find food freedom and body liberation.
You’ll learn:
- $How to recognize and reject the diet mentality, tune into your hunger and fullness
- $Stop the restrict-binge-guilt cycle
- $Reclaim pleasure with food
- $Find ways to activate body liberation and acceptance
- $Navigate emotional eating
- $Learn self-compassion practices
- $and much more.
This is a self-paced course that you can enjoy in the comfort of your own home (and pajamas!)
There are 12 modules with 12 pre-recorded, ~20 minute videos, plus worksheets and journal prompts to download.
Are you ready to end the struggle? Or maybe you’re not 100% all in, and that’s okay. Maybe you want to dip your toes in the water first.
If you just want to get an introduction into the basics of Intuitive Eating, this course is for you!
Yes, I need this now!
Praise
“Darling, I never step on the scale, because the scale doesn’t measure sexy.”
~Bella Dolce ~
Course Outline
This is a self-paced course that you can enjoy in the comfort of your own home (and pajamas!)
There are 12 modules with 12 pre-recorded, ~20 minute videos, plus between 1-5 worksheets to download for each module.
Each module has its own video to explain each of the principles of Intuitive Eating and Body Trust.
This is the fastest and most affordable way to work with me and to really understand the fundamentals of Intuitive Eating.
Module 1: Unpack the problem: Diet Culture
- $Challenge the health and wellness BS that is diet culture: debunking BMI, healthism, “healthy eating” etc.
- $Create your own health and wellness goals that are not fear based.
- $Learn strategies so you can break free of your self-sabotaging patterns- restrict-binge cycle of eating.
- $Learn how to change your mindset so it’s not set to default diet mentality mode.
Module 2: Restore Trust with your Body
- $Learn tools and practices to reconnect you to physical hungers.
- $Identify emotional and symbolic cravings and how to decode and feed these hungers.
- $Feel confident around how much, what and when to eat.
- $Feel connected and in control of your body’s hungers and desires.
Module 3: Make Peace with Food.
- $Learn to work with all foods so that it becomes JUST food and loses its power over you.
- $End the cycle of mindless overeating.
- $Experience eating without guilt, self doubt and worry of weight gain.
- $Reclaim your birthright to have a pleasurable relationship to food.
Module 4: Arrest your Inner Food Police!
- $Learn and practice strategies to loosen the grip of the internal critic aka Food Police.
- $Find new methods to access to your inner wise compassionate self to re- parent yourself.
- $Learn cognitive behavioral techniques (CBT) to replace the automatic negative thoughts to ones that are more empowering.
Module 5: Discover Fullness, Pleasure and Satisfaction with Eating.
- $Identify barriers that make it difficult to stop eating.
- $Experience how to fully embody this sensation so it feels safe to stop eating when your body says so (not your mind!).
- $Reclaim your birthright to enjoy all foods with pleasure and satisfaction instead of feeling guilt or worry about weight gain.
- $Mindful Eating 101: learn the fundamentals of mindful eating to break out of the mindless overeating cycle.
Module 6: How to Make Friends with your Feelings.
- $Learn how to make it safe to feel ALL your feelings without distracting yourself with self destructive behaviors.
- $Create your own road map on how to cope with feelings without turning to food/behaviors.
- $Emotional eating 101: learn how to decode your non-hunger food cravings to find more effective ways to nourish yourself that work better than food.
Module 7: Body Image Reboot: Stop Blaming your Body!
- $Body Image 101: Body-Shame Origin Stories.
- $Learn tools to stop body bashing/ find body respect.
- $Learn 4 steps to decode ‘Bad Body Thoughts.’
- $Decode the body shame spiral that keeps the focus on body instead of the real underlying issues.
Module 8: Body Image Reboot: F the Patriarchy!
- $Write a new body story; divest from the current oppressive culture.
- $Take action to F the patriarchy: harness strong emotions so that we are fighting the system not our bodies.
- $Body decoding: learn about your weight loss fantasy and how to unhook from this illusion.
- $Find out how to overcome fear of weight gain, how to decode “fat” feelings to heal body shame.
Module 9: Body Image Reboot: Reclaiming Radical Self Love!
- $Learn radical self love tools to live from a place of acceptance and compassion.
- $Embrace “Health at Every Size” to finally stop stressing about your weight/health.
- $Re-define what “healthy” is.
- $Body appreciation- move from a place of harsh criticism to one of neutrality and peace.
Module 10: Radical Self- Care & Boundaries
- $Create your own daily self-care practice that takes you from feeling defeated and overwhelmed to feeling confident and happy.
- $Learn how to feel grounded and safe in your body so that you can embody pleasure and relaxation.
- $Boundaries 101: set boundaries, find your assertive voice, let go of external validation and people pleasing.
- $Find out what to do and say when other people make comments about your weight and food.
- $Feel confident in your ability to unhook from the ‘compare’ and ‘despair’ game.
Module 11: Gentle Nutrition Basics & Joyful Movement.
- $Meal planning basics and gentle nutrition education to restore your metabolism and recalibrate your internal hunger/fullness cues.
- $Creat your own template of eating that provides safety, permission and restores any nutrient imbalance and choatic eating patterns.
- $Unpack exercise resistance and exercise addiction.
- $Re-connect with the pleasures of moving your Earth Suit so you can find ways to move that are sustainable and don’t lead to burn out.
Module 12: Reclaim Your Divine Feminine.
- $Learn how the patriarchy silences the feminine, and over-values the masculine.
- $Learn how to restore the balance between your inner masculine and your inner feminine.
- $Find ways to allow the feminine to feel safe and receive pleasure.
- $Strengthen and deepen access to your intuitive powers by reclaiming your relationship to the your divine feminine.
Intuitive Eating Fundamentals Course
INVESTMENT
$297
THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU IF:
- $You are new to intuitive eating and want to learn the 10 principals in a supportive online community.
- $You have been practicing IE for awhile but seem to be stuck with letting go of the diet mentality or body image hangups.
- $You know you don’t want to diet anymore, but you can’t seem to let go of the desire to lose weight and this holds you back from true food and body freedom.
- $You want to take a deeper dive into the root causes of your body image struggles.
- $You’re over how much time and energy you waste obsessing about food and your body.
- $You are ready to learn how to embody peace and pleasure and to finally come home to your body.
- $You are not ready to commit to 1:1 coaching (yet), this gives you an afforadable introduction to the work.
THIS COURSE IS NOT FOR YOU IF:
- $You have an active eating disorder.
- $You want to lose weight with a diet and are not ready to explore the underlying issues.
- $You are not ready to begin a self-care practice and prioritize yourself.
Also please know that this course is for educational purposes only and does not constitute nor serve as a substitute for behavioral health treatment and/or therapy.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the time requirements for this course?
Each module has a 20 minute video. This is approximately about 4 hours of viewing time to watch the videos. The worksheet are available to download for journaling. This is up to you as far as how much time you like to spend journaling and going through each of the worksheets. There are between 1-5 worksheets per module. Generally speaking, the more time you put into the process, the more you will get out of the course and the better results you will have.
Can I complete this course at my own pace?
It’s technically not a self-paced course, although you’ll have access to the modules and can go at your own pace. You’ll get the most out of the program by meeting in the live groups calls. If you get behind in the course or need to skip a week or two, that’s not a big deal since you’ll have access to the modules and the recorded meetings.
What if I want to lose weight?
It’s super normal to want to lose weight if you are drawn to learning about intuitive eating. It’s also such a normal desire in our weight obessed culture as well. While we are moving away from dieting, we can still talk about this desire to lose weight in a safe and non-shaming container. You’ll learn how to put your desire to lose weight on the back burner so that you can begin to accept your here and now body.
I’m struggling with an eating disorder, can I take this course?
This course is best for those who have at least 6 months into their recovery from an eating disorder. If you are currently working with an eating disorder therapist and or eating disorder dietitian, you may be able to take this course. It’s not a substitute for individual therapy but can certainly complement your recovery. Reach out to Karen if you have specific questions.
Is there refund policy? Cancellation policy?
Unfortunately, there are no refunds given on this type of purchase.
About the Instructor
Karen Louise Scheuner, MA, RDN (she/her) is a Bay Area-based weight-inclusive, anti-diet dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Certified Body Trust Provider who is passionate about freeing folks from the oppressive force of diet culture so they can reclaim their birthright to live and eat with pleasure, peace and freedom.
With over 19 years of experience, Karen has helped hundeds of folks break free from the dieting cycle and create a healthy and peaceful relationship with food and their bodies. Her philosophy is rooted in anti-diet and Health at Every Size frameworks, as well as Intuitive and Mindful Eating.
Karen earned dual Bachelor degrees in Nutrition Science and Psychology from Cal Poly SLO and a Master’s of Arts degree in Food Studies from New York University. She also went to culinary school at Bauman College in Berkeley and is a Certified Natural Chef. When she’s not helping clients free themselves from dieting and body shame, she can be found playing with her son, tending her garden, practicing yoga, cooking up new recipes, hiking in nature or skiing in Tahoe.
