Background: The principles of Intuitive Eating (IE) in the treatment of eating disorders will be discussed-- integrating research and case studies, presented by the co-pioneer of the IE model, Evelyn Tribole. Special attention will be given on to how to help patients cultivate interoceptive awareness--the perception of physical sensations that arise from within the body, which are impacted by emotions, thoughts, and biological states. Learn how to help your patients: remove barriers to interoceptive awareness, recognize somatic cognitive distortions and increase body cue awareness and life-affirming responsiveness to those cues.
Objectives: Following this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Explain three evidence-based benefits of Intuitive Eating.
- Describe 3 principles of IE that remove obstacles to interoceptive awareness.
- Utilize 3 techniques to help patients cultivate interoceptive awareness.
- Overview of the Intuitive Eating Framework
- Research—Review of studies indicating evidence of the benefits of intuitive eating-- from eating disorder prevention to treatment of eating disorders.
- 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating and how they apply to eating disorders treatment.
- Characteristic of Intuitive Eaters
- Interoceptive Awareness
- Definitions
- Objective Indicators
- Intuitive Eating and Interoceptive awareness
- Research on Intuitive Eating and interoceptive awareness
- IE Principles that help remove obstacles to interoceptive awareness
- IE Principles help cultivate interoceptive awareness
- Intuitive Eating and Eating Disorders: Dynamic Integration Process
- Activities to cultivate interoceptive awareness
- Creating the vocabulary of pure sensation
- Challenges: Somatic Cognitive Distortions
- Somatic Cognitive Reframing
- Differentiating Between: Direct Experience of Body Sensations vs Thought
- Creating experiments with patients
- Case Studies
- Group Experiential Activity
Using the framework of Intuitive Eating, current research and techniques will be explored on how to help your patients:
- Remove barriers to interoceptive awareness
- Recognize somatic cognitive distortions
- Increase body cue awareness and life-affirming responsiveness to those cues.
Author of 9 books, with a nutrition counseling practice specializing in eating disorders and Intuitive Eating. She enjoys public speaking and training health professionals on how to help their clients cultivate a healthy relationship with food through the process of Intuitive Eating, a concept she co-pioneered in 1995. To date there are over 700 Certified Intuitive Eating Counselors in 22 countries and over 90 studies showing benefits of Intuitive Eating. Evelyn qualified for the Olympic Trials in the first ever women’s marathon in 1984. Although she no longer competes, she is a wicked ping-pong player. Her favorite food is chocolate.
