Trauma and Emotional Eating: Must-Have Integrative Interventions to Reduce Shame, Improve Body Confidence & More

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Diane Petrella, MSW Related seminars and products

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Diane Petrella, MSW, is a clinical social worker and holistic licensed psychotherapist specializing in the effects of childhood trauma, emotional eating, and body confidence. Early in her nearly 40-year career she co-developed the first child sexual abuse treatment program in Rhode Island and was a forensic expert witness for sexual assault cases. She has worked with children, adolescents, and adult survivors. Diane has helped thousands of people overcome early trauma, create a respectful relationship with their body and food, and connect with their inner Wise Self for sustained healing She is the author of Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors: Trauma-Informed Practices to Nurture a Peaceful Relationship with Your Emotions, Body, and Food.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Diane Petrella maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Diane Petrella is a member of the National Association of Social Workers.

 

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Objectives

1. Evaluate the relationships between early trauma, attachment ruptures, and nervous system regulation with relation to emotional eating.
2. Determine the impact of weight stigma and body insecurity on clients who emotionally eat.
3. Utilize interventions that support clients’ ability to self-soothe without food.
4. Identify interventions to increase clients’ self-compassion.
5. Choose guided imagery practices to help clients access their inner wisdom.
6. Evaluate therapist biases related to food and body size that could impact treatment.

Outline

• Relationship between trauma and emotional eating
• Early trauma, attachment, and nervous system dysregulation
• Emotional eating as both a refuge and source of pain
• Impact of trauma on body image
• Paradigm shift – body positivity versus body support
• Help clients honour how food and eating help
• Emotional eating behaviours as a path to heal childhood pain
• Case study

• Explore client experiences of weight stigma and fat phobia
• The relationship between weight and health – a dilemma
• Essential psychoeducation
• Assess your clients’ relationship with food
• Decrease shame during assessment
• Controversy around food addiction
• Determine appropriate level of care
• Co-occurring mental health and medical issues
• How and why to access and use clients’ spiritual/religious beliefs
• Case Study
• Experiential exercise – guided visualisation to connect with inner Wise Self

• Parasympathetic activation practices for self-calming
• The 90-second rule of emotions
• Four-step practice for mindful processing of feelings
• Self-compassion interventions for self-punishment
• Transform trauma-induced self-doubt into empowering self-trust
• Create emotional distance between past and present
• Increase clients’ self-protection
• Improve interoceptive body awareness for body confidence
• Body wisdom practices
• Intuitive eating principles to shift clients’ relationship to food
• Overcome difficulties with intuitive eating skills
• Help clients take power over trigger foods
• Case study
• Experiential exercise: guided visualisation to connect with body wisdom

• Explore therapist implicit bias and assumptions
• Impact of therapist’s own trauma, eating, and body image issues
• The role of psychotropic and weight loss medications
• Collaborate with clients’ medical and other healthcare providers
• When clients need specialised eating disorder treatment
• Help clients create an emotionally safe sanctuary
• Continuum of healing
• Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counsellors
• Other Mental Health Professionals
• Nurses
• Physicians