Building the Foundation for Self-Love CEU Syllabus
By purchasing the Building the Foundation for Self-Love e-course with 36 CEUs, you understand that you need to sign in and sign out on an online Google doc timesheet starting with day 3. We provide a Google doc timesheet in each email so you can track your time for CEUs.
Here is an example of how you will fill out the Google doc timesheet (Click on the image to make it larger):
Week 1
Day 1
Getting Started: Navigating Private Facebook Group Video Tutorial, SLD Private Facebook Group Introductions
Day 2
Setting Your Self-Love Diet Intentions
Day 3
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group Check-In
CEU Check-In
Topic: Support Network
Teaching Point: How to assess for the support system of your client.
Learning Objective: To help clients recognize who their support people are, in what ways they support them, or if they need to develop a support system.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, watching the video, doing the support circle activity, and sharing your experience with creating your support circle on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group.
Week 2:
Day 4
CEU Check-In
Topic: Self-Love as a Core Healing Principal in Recovery
Teaching Point: Love is a foundational component for healing
Learning Objective: Focus on self-love as a core issue in recovery from eating disorders and as an ongoing practice for self-care.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading the introduction, pages xv to xvii, and part one introduction, pages 1-2 from Self-Love Diet: The Only Diet That Works, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 5
CEU Check-In
Topic: Mindfulness & Appreciating the Gifts of Your Body
Teaching Point: Focus on mindfulness and gratitude to guide clients to connect with the positive sensation of appreciation in their body.
Learning Objective: By practicing mindfulness and delving deeper into the reasons for appreciation of your body, and connecting that appreciation to memories, you invite a somatic experience of appreciation.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 1, “Que Lastima!” – pages 3-5, watching the video, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 6
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group Check-In
CEU Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: Love is a foundational component for healing, and by focusing on mindfulness and gratitude towards your body, you can guide your clients to connect with the positive sensation of appreciation in their bodies.
Learning Objective: Use your response to – “How would your life be different if you regularly offered yourself love?” – as a guide to use this concept with your clients. Use your personal experience of connecting 5 memories to the emotion of gratitude and noticing your somatic experience to teach this process to your clients.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 4 and 5, as well as going through the activities again from days 4 and 5 to help your reflection process.
Week 3:
Day 7
CEU Check-In
Topic: Imagining Body Love and Acceptance
Teaching Point: Using Imagination and visualization to foster body acceptance.
Learning Objective: Read the “Dancing in the light of the Moon” story in session to facilitate body acceptance and the use of visualization with clients
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 2, “Dancing in the Light of the Moon,” pages 6-11, watching the video, looking at the painting, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 8
CEU Check-In
Topic: Using Online Resources to Enhance Body Acceptance
Teaching Point: Online resources can be used in therapy to address body acceptance
Learning Objective: Use the links to artwork, videos, and body love letters to enhance body acceptance for yourself and as resources for your clients.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, watching the video, looking at the painting, reading the three body love letters, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 9
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group Check-In
CEU Check-In
Topic: Clinical application
Teaching Point: The use of storytelling is a powerful tool that inspires your clients’ imaginations and offers the lessons you want your clients to learn. The story can be used as “shorthand” in future sessions, utilizing the shared knowledge of the story and its implications for recovery. Expanding the modalities of information through the use of artwork, inspirational videos, and body love letters offers your clients a sense of being connected to a larger recovery community and offers online support in-between sessions to further recovery.
Learning Objective: Use your personal experience of reading the story, “Dancing in the Light of the Moon,” practicing visualization, as well as using the online resources to guide your clients with these tools in fostering body acceptance as a first step towards body love.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, body love letters, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 7 and 8, as well as going through the videos, artwork, and activities again from days 7 and 8 to help your reflection process.
Week 4:
Day 10
CEU Check-In
Topic: The Impact You Have On Others When You Love Yourself
Teaching Point: Having a Self-Love Diet practice positively impacts your clinical work
Learning Objective: You will be able to use this week’s video, readings, and writing to model how one’s personal actions positively affects others. By asking your clients to recall a moment when their self-love work positively impacted someone else, or when someone else’s self-love work positively impacted them, this offers your clients examples of our interconnectedness and highlights the fact that they have something to offer others and the world through their personal recovery work. Teaching your clients this concept can help with motivation to proceed in recovery when it gets hard, especially for those clients who have children.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 3, “Our Bodies as Mirrors for Our World,” pages 12-15, watching the video, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 11
CEU Check-In
Topic: Debunking the Traditional Diet Mentality
Teaching Point: Help your clients to notice how the traditional diet mentality is not a tool for long-lasting self-esteem and acceptance and that data does not support the belief that weight is directly correlated to health.
Learning Objective: You will be able to discuss health at every size and offer resources for more information. You will be able to explore the traditional diet mentality myths with your clients and the impact it has had on them, helping them to separate their value from their bodies.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading Part 2 Introduction, pages 17-18, Chapter 4: “The ‘D’ Word,” pages 19-22, and Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon, PhD, watching the Terrarium and Amputation diet videos, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 12
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group Check-In
CEU Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: Learn how having a personal Self-Love Diet practice positively impacts your clinical work. Help your clients to notice how the traditional diet mentality is not a tool for long-lasting self-esteem and acceptance, and that data does not support the belief that weight is directly correlated to health.
Learning Objective: Use your personal experience of recalling a moment of how your self-love work has positively impacted someone else, or how someone else’s self-love work has positively impacted you to guide your clients to understand how their personal recovery work positively impacts others, and how they have something of value to offer others. Also, use your personal experience of how the traditional diet mentality has impacted your life to guide your clients in understanding how it has impacted their lives, helping them to explore and understand the traditional diet mentality myths, health at every size, and helping them to separate their value from their bodies.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the past emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 10 and 11, as well as going through the activities again to help your reflection process.
Week 5:
Day 13
CEU Check-In
Topic: Redefining and Reclaiming the Word Diet
Teaching Point: Understanding the definition of the Self-Love Diet. By redefining the word “diet” to mean “things regularly offered,” we can reclaim the word diet to mean regularly offering ourselves love.
Learning Objective: You will be able to reframe the concept of diet to mean having a practice of regularly offering yourself love. This revolutionary definition will help you guide your clients towards recovery and away from the traditional diet mentality that promotes weight loss as the ultimate goal.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading this email, reading chapter 5, “Diet Redefined: A Diet of Regularly Offering Yourself Love,” pages 23-27, watching the video, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 14
CEU Check-In
Topic: Acting As If You Love Yourself through Noticing and Consciously Changing Your Thoughts
Teaching Point: Acting as if you love yourself by thinking loving thoughts and choosing loving actions is the first step towards reaching the goal of truly loving yourself.
Learning Objective: You will be able to notice negative thoughts and replace them with a positive affirmation. When you tie the affirmation to daily routines, you will be able to create a consistent daily practice, which will result in building new neural pathways. You will be able to notice the positive emotional impact of this new set of beliefs. By having your personal practice, you will be able to embody this process and teach it with more power to your clients.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading this email, reading chapter 5, “Diet Redefined: A Diet of Regularly Offering Yourself Love,” pages 23-27, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 15
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group Check-In
CEU Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: By redefining the word “diet” to mean “things regularly offered,” you empower your clients to own the word as a reminder to offer themselves love. You can work with your clients where they are in the ability to love themselves by starting with the concept and practice of acting as if.
Learning Objective: Use your personal experience of redefining the definition of “diet” to mean “things regularly offered” to guide your clients towards loving, recovery based beliefs and actions. Use your personal experience of practicing the SLD tool of acting as if to help guide your clients in using it. Even if your clients don’t love themselves, they can begin a daily practice of loving thoughts, emotions, and actions through acting as if they do.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 13 and 14, as well as going through the activities again to help your reflection process.
Week 6:
Day 16
CEU Check-In
Topic: Comparing a Life Focused on Self-Love vs. a Life Focused on Weight Loss
Teaching Point: Focusing on what you really want in life, instead of weight loss, offers you the ability to create a life filled with activities and relationships that are part of a passionate, healthy life.
Learning Objective: You will be able to teach your clients to look at issues in their lives that have been neglected when you guide them away from focusing on weight loss as a means of building self-esteem. With this new focus you will be able to help them answer the question, “What do you really want in life?”
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 5, “Diet Redefined: A Diet of Regularly Offering Yourself Love,” pages 23-27, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 17
CEU Check-In
Topic: Getting Playful and Speaking Lovingly to Yourself Out Loud
Teaching Point: By developing a practice of saying loving and playful things out loud to yourself, you will create new neural pathways in your brain, which will foster a more loving relationship with yourself and others.
Learning Objective: You will be able to help your clients understand where their negative beliefs about themselves came from. With this knowledge, you can help them create new beliefs through a practice of creating a positive, loving, playful, or spiritual mantra that they will say every day to themselves, out loud, while looking in the mirror.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 5, “Diet Redefined: A Diet of Regularly Offering Yourself Love,” pages 23-27, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 18
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group Check-In
CEU Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: Helping your clients realize there are more important things in life to focus on than weight loss opens the door towards a passionate, healthy life. By having a personal practice of saying loving and playful things out loud to yourself, you will be able to model this SLD tool for your clients.
Learning Objective: By having a self-love focus, instead of a body centric focus, you will be able to help your clients change their body focus to an inner focus on themselves and those important relationships and goals in their life. Through your experience of using the SLD tool of speaking out loud in a loving, playful, or spiritual manner, your personal practice will enhance your ability to help your clients speak differently to themselves, creating new neural pathways in their brains, which will enhance their ability to love themselves and make positive changes in their lives.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 16 and 17, as well as going through the activities again to help your reflection process.
Week 7:
Day 19
Check-In
Topic: Ask Yourself, “What Would Love do?”
Teaching Point: Using the question “What would love do?” helps guide your clients to connect with their inner wisdom.
Learning Objective: You will be able to guide your clients to use their intuition to decide what is the most loving next step in any situation by asking the question, “What would love to?” This is not only a great Self-Love Diet tool that can help with decision making or self-soothing, but it also shows your clients that they have the answers they need within themselves. Asking this question can also be used as an intervention before unwanted behaviors, allowing for more reflection before taking action.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 5, “Diet Redefined: A Diet of Regularly Offering Yourself Love,” pages 23-27, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 20
Check-In
Topic: Acting As If You Love Yourself through Action
Teaching Point: By having your clients add self-loving actions into their lives, you will help them to build the habit of acting lovingly towards themselves.
Learning Objective: By adopting more self-loving behaviors into your personal life, you will be congruent when asking your clients to do the same. Also, adopting this SLD tool into your life will help you reduce stress and prevent burnout.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 6, “How Do You Begin to Love Yourself?” – pages 28-36, watching the video, “Self-Love Diet Practices,” and doing the writing assignment.
Day 21
Check-In
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: Asking your clients, “What would love do?” and having them use this question in-between sessions, helps guide your clients to connect with their inner wisdom. By encouraging your clients to increase self-loving activities in their lives, you are helping them to have self-loving behaviors become routine.
Learning Objective: By using the Self-Love Diet tool of asking yourself, “What would love do?” – you will be congruent when asking your clients to do the same, and will be better able to guide them to use their intuition to decide what is the most loving next step in any situation. By adopting more self-loving behaviors into your personal life, it will help reduce your stress and help prevent burnout. You will also be congruent when asking your clients to do the same, and you will have the option to share personal examples of your self-loving actions with your clients, modeling this new concept to them.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 19 and 20, as well as going through the activities again to help your reflection process.
Week 8:
Day 22
Check-In
Topic: Paying Attention to and Challenging Your Thoughts
Teaching Point: You can use your critical thoughts as an opportunity
to become aware of them in order to confront them. When you discover the context of these beliefs, you can use that information to challenge and change your perspective, and thus create new loving and empowering beliefs about yourself.
Learning Objective: You will be able to use your personal work in this area to guide your clients to view their self-critical thoughts as opportunities to use their awareness of these beliefs to challenge and change them.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 6, “How Do You Begin to Love Yourself,” pages 28-36, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 23
Check-In
Topic: Separating Your Inner Critic from Your Authentic Self
Teaching Point: By externalizing your inner critic, you’ll be better able to catch, confront, and change your negative thoughts.
Learning Objective: You will be able to help your clients give an identity to their inner critic. This will help them separate their inner critic from their authentic self, allowing them to become aware of, confront, and change their negative thoughts.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 6, “How Do You Begin to Love Yourself,” pages 28-36, watching the video, “Externalization,” doing the defining your inner critic activity, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 24
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group
Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: You can use your critical thoughts as an opportunity
to become aware of them in order to confront them. When you discover the context of these beliefs, you can use that information to challenge and change your perspective, and thus create new loving and empowering beliefs about yourself. By separating your inner critic from your authentic self, you’ll be better able to catch, confront, and change your negative thoughts.
Learning Objective: You will be able to use your personal work of utilizing your negative self-talk as opportunities to challenge and change them in order to guide your clients to do the same. Through your own personal work of externalizing your inner critic from your authentic self, you will be able to guide your clients to separate their inner critic from their authentic self, which will help them to become aware of, confront, and change their negative thoughts.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 22 and 23, as well as going through the activities again to help your reflection process.
Week 9:
Day 25
Check-In
Topic: Adopting the Five-Step Process – Catching, Confronting, & Replacing Your Negative Thoughts, Apologizing to Yourself, and Committing to Change
Teaching Point: Your inner critic can help you become aware of your thoughts, and practicing the 5-Step Process can help you change your thoughts.
Learning Objective: Through focusing on your client’s inner critic, you will be able to help your clients list out their negative thought patterns to help them become aware of them. Through the 5-Step Process, you’ll be able to guide your clients in catching, confronting, and replacing their negative thoughts, apologizing to themselves, and committing to change.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 6, “How Do You Begin to Love Yourself,” pages 28-36, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 26
Check-In
Topic: The Power of Just Noticing
Teaching Point: Using the SLD tool of just noticing can help you to neutralize and let go of your thoughts.
Learning Objective: By using just noticing, you will be able to help your clients disengage from their triggering thoughts and develop the skill to observe their thoughts. This skill of just noticing gives them the ability to bring calm, peace, and a sense of well-being to themselves.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 6, “How Do You Begin to Love Yourself?” pages 28-36, watching the video, “SLD Tool: Just Noticing,” and doing the writing assignment.
Day 27
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group Check-In
Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: Your inner critic can help you become aware of your thoughts, and practicing the 5-Step Process can help you change your thoughts. By using the SLD tool of just noticing, you will be able to soothe your emotions by letting your thoughts float by without attaching to them.
Learning Objective: You will be able to use your personal work of becoming aware of your inner critic’s thoughts and challenging those thoughts with the 5-Step Process to guide your clients to do the same. From your personal work of just noticing, you will be able to help your clients disengage from their triggering thoughts and develop the skill to observe their thoughts. This skill of just noticing gives them the ability to bring calm, peace, and a sense of well-being to themselves.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 25 and 26, as well as going through the activities and videos again to help your reflection process.
Week 10:
Day 28
Check-In
Topic: Healing Is Possible: Making Invisible Successes Visible
Teaching Point: By focusing on small, everyday successes, instead of focusing on failures, you are able to believe that healing is possible.
Learning Objective: You will be able to help your clients to uncover their small, daily progress and successes, which will encourage them to stay motivated in their recovery.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 8, “Is Healing Possible?” pages 46-52, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 29
Check-In
Topic: Healing through Deep Breathing
Teaching Point: Diaphragmatic breathing is a powerful SLD tool for self-soothing.
Learning Objective: You will be able to guide your clients to self-soothe themselves through diaphragmatic breathing.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 8, “Is Healing Possible?” pages 46-52, watching the video, “Diaphragmatic Breathing,” practicing diaphragmatic breathing, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 30
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group
Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: Healing is possible, and focusing on your everyday successes helps you to see your progress. Diaphragmatic breathing is a powerful SLD tool for self-soothing.
Learning Objective: By practicing the SLD tool of uncovering small, daily progress, you will be able to guide your clients in doing the same. Your personal diaphragmatic breathing practice will help you manage your emotions, bring health to your body, mind, spirit, and relationships, as well as help you guide your clients in developing their own practice.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 28 and 29, as well as going through the activities and videos again to help your reflection process.
Week 11:
Day 31
Check-In
Topic: Self-Love Diet Tool: Instant Replay
Teaching Point: Instant replaying a positive experience is a great self-soothing SLD tool that can help you to embody the thoughts, emotions, and sensations of a positive experience.
Learning Objective: You will be able to guide your clients in recalling and replaying a positive experience. This practice will help your clients to feel the positive sensations connected to this experience in their body.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 8, “Is Healing Possible?” pages 46-52, practicing the instant replay of a positive experience, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 32
Check-In
Topic: Safe Place Visualization
Teaching Point: The Safe Place Visualization is a self-soothing tool that can help you to feel safe, decrease feelings of anxiety and fear, and increase well-being.
Learning Objective: You will be able to guide your clients in creating their safe place through the Safe Place Visualization and by using bilateral stimulation through the action of tapping.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading Chapter 45, “Safe Place Visualization Script,” pages 295-298, doing the Safe Place Visualization activity, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 33
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group
Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: The SLD tool of Instant Replay brings back the sensations, thoughts, and emotions of a positive experience by replaying all the aspects of the memory: visual, auditory, olfactory, and sensate. The Safe Place Visualization, with bilateral stimulation, strengthens your ability to recall and embody all the senses that are a part of the Safe Place Visualization.
Learning Objective: From your personal work of instant replaying a positive experience, you will be able to guide your clients to do the same, and will be able to help them embody the positive sensations connected to their experience. By creating your own Safe Place Visualization, and using the process of bilateral stimulation to strengthen the benefits of the experience, you will be able to teach this self-soothing tool to your clients, enabling them to feel safe, decrease feelings of anxiety and fear, and increase well-being.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 31 and 32, as well as going through the activities again to help your reflection process.
Week 12
Day 34
Check-In
Topic: Living in the Present Moment and Cultivating Awareness
Teaching Point: Being in the present moment enhances your ability to be aware of all your senses. This powerful SLD tool counteracts uncomfortable emotions that are not based in the present moment, but rather, are effects of ruminating on past or future concerns.
Learning Objective: Through your personal practice of being in the present moment, you will be able to help your clients self-soothe when they get stuck in past traumas or future worries. You will help your clients realize all is well by bringing their attention to the present moment in session.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 8, “Is Healing Possible?” pages 46-52, practicing the present moment activity, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 35
Check-In
Topic: Using Nature as a Source for Spiritual Healing
Teaching Point: Just as our body, mind, and emotions need healing, so does our spirit. Nature can be used as a tool for spiritual healing, even for those people who do not believe in God.
Learning Objective: You will be able to address the importance of the spiritual path of the Self-Love Diet for those clients who do not consider themselves spiritual by having them experience a sense of something larger than themselves when they are in nature. You will be able to help raise their awareness of the physical, mental, and emotional benefits of seeking this connection with spirit through nature.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 8, “Is Healing Possible?” pages 46-52, practicing the nature activity, watching the video, “The Healing Power of Nature,” and doing the writing assignment.
Day 36
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group
Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: The SLD tool of being in the present moment counteracts uncomfortable emotions based on ruminating on past or future concerns, and it brings in a sense of calm by being in the present moment. Nature can be used as a tool for spiritual healing, even for those people who do not believe in God.
Learning Objective: By having a personal practice of being in the present moment, you will be able to teach your clients this powerful skill of being with what is, instead of being with their fears and anxieties of what was or may be. Through your personal practice of experiencing your connection to spirit through nature, you will be able to use this experience to introduce the concept of spirituality to those clients who have not explored this part of themselves.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 34 and 35, as well as going through the activities again to help your reflection process.
Week 13:
Day 37
Check-In
Topic: Eating When You Are Physically Hungry
Teaching Point: You can trust your body to tell you when it’s time to eat.
Learning Objective: You will be able to guide your clients in learning the early, mid, and starvation stages of hunger.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 9, “I Can’t Eat Love, So What Do I Eat?” Focus on #1: Eat when you are physically hungry, pages 53-55, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 38
Check-In
Topic: Stop Eating When You Are Satisfied
Teaching Point: You can trust your body to tell you when it is satisfied.
Learning Objective: You will be able to guide your clients to learn their bodies’ satiety signals, helping them to stop eating when satisfied.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 9, “I Can’t Eat Love, So What Do I Eat?” Focus on #2: Stop eating when you are satisfied, pages 55 and 56, doing the eating activity, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 39
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group
Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: Your body offers physical signals to tell you when it’s hungry and when it is satisfied.
Learning Objective: You will become familiar with your personal stages of hunger as you learn the symptoms of the basic stages of hunger. You will learn your body’s satiety signals and will be able to stop eating when satisfied. Through your personal practice of discerning your hunger and satiety levels, you will develop words to describe inner sensations you have experienced, which will help you to support your clients in their learning process.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 37 and 38, as well as going through the activities again to help your reflection process.
Week 14:
Day 40
Check-In
Topic: Notice If You Have Food Rules and Categories
Teaching Point: Becoming aware of food rules and categories will help you to neutralize food.
Learning Objective: You will be able to help your clients discern their food rules and categories, which is the first step in helping them to neutralize their food.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 9, “I Can’t Eat Love, So What Do I Eat?” Focus on #3: Neutralize foods and choose foods that you enjoy – “Notice if you have food categories,” and “Notice if you have food rules,” pages 56 and 57, and doing the writing assignments.
Day 41
Check-In
Topic: Test Driving Food & Discerning Your Body’s Cues
Teaching Point: Your imagination can help you make loving food choices through the “test drive food” SLD tool.
Learning Objective: Before your clients choose what to eat, you will be able to guide your clients in choosing physically satisfying foods through the two-step process of the “test drive food” SLD tool, which is 1) choosing a food and the portion size, and 2) imagining eating the food and how that food feels in their body afterwards.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 9, “I Can’t Eat Love, So What Do I Eat?” Focus on #3: Neutralize foods and choose foods that you enjoy, “Choose satisfying foods,” pages 58 and 59, watching the video, “Test Driving Your Food,” doing the “test drive food” activity, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 42
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group
Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: Becoming aware of food rules and categories will help you to neutralize food. Your imagination can help you make loving food choices by using the “test drive food” SLD tool.
Learning Objective: You will be able to neutralize your thoughts and emotions around food through the awareness of your own food rules and categories, which will enable you to help your clients to do the same.
You will be able to choose physically satisfying foods through the two-step “test drive food” process of imagining choosing a food and the portion size and then imagining how that food feels in your body after eating it. By having a personal practice of discerning your physical sensations, you will develop a vocabulary of sensate words which you will be able to teach to your clients.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 40 and 41, as well as going through the activities again to help your reflection process.
Week 15:
Day 43
Check-In
Topic: Bring Gratitude to Each Meal
Teaching Point: Each meal can be an invitation to focus on gratitude.
Learning Objective: You will be able to guide your clients in creating a gratitude practice, starting with each meal.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 9, “I Can’t Eat Love, So What Do I Eat?” Focus on #4: Mindfully bring gratitude to all of the people who grew, packaged, delivered, sold, and perhaps cooked this food for you, pages 59 and 60, practicing gratitude at your meals, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 44
Check-In
Topic: Treat Yourself like an Important Guest
Teaching Point: Imagining having a meal with someone you honor and respect guides you in how to eat lovingly.
Learning Objective: You will be able to help your clients eat more lovingly by inviting them to imagine having an honored guest for a meal.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 9, “I Can’t Eat Love, So What Do I Eat?” Focus on #5: Set the table for your meals; treat yourself like an important guest, page 60, preparing a meal like you’ve invited an honored guest activity, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 45
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group
Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: Each meal can be an invitation to focus on gratitude. Imagining having a meal with someone you honor and respect guides you in how to eat lovingly.
Learning Objective: Through developing your own daily gratitude practice with each meal, you will be better able to guide your clients in creating a gratitude practice with their meals. By imagining having your own honored guest at each meal, you will be able to draw upon this experience to help your clients eat more lovingly by inviting them to imagine having their own honored guest.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 43 and 44, as well as going through the activities again to help your reflection process.
Week 16:
Day 46
Check-In
Topic: Distinguishing Between Body Hunger and Emotional Hunger
Teaching Point: Your mind may signal hunger, but it may be symbolic hunger instead physical hunger.
Learning Objective: You will be able to use the Basic Hunger/Satiety Scale along with the HALT B-4 tool to distinguish between physical and emotional/symbolic hunger. Practicing these skills will prepare you to offer them to your clients.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 9, “I Can’t Eat Love, So What Do I Eat?” Focus on #6: Distinguish between body hunger and emotional hunger, pages 61-62, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 47
Check-In
Topic: Learning the Symbolic Messages of Your Food Cravings When Your Body Is Not Physically Hungry and Taking Non-Food Actions That Fill Your Symbolic Cravings
Teaching Point: Food cravings can be symbolic of non-food desires. Non-food cravings and behaviors, like alcohol and shopping, can also offer unfulfilling replacements for deeper needs.
Learning Objective: By using the decoding template and practicing with your own symbolic food cravings, you will be able to help your clients through the same process.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, reading chapter 9, “I Can’t Eat Love, So What Do I Eat?” Focus on #7: Learn the symbolic message of your food cravings when your body is not physically hungry and take non-food action steps that fill your symbolic cravings, pages 62-64, and doing the writing assignment.
Day 48
Reflection on the Past Week’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group
Check-In
Topic: Clinical Application
Teaching Point: There are two different types of hunger: symbolic/emotional hunger and physical hunger. Symbolic/emotional hunger offers an understanding of deeper, non-food needs.
Learning Objective: By having a daily practice of using the Basic Hunger/Satiety Scale, along with the HALT B-4 tools to discern the difference between your emotional and physical hunger, you will be prepared to teach these skills to your clients. When you become adept at using the de-coding template and practicing with your own symbolic food cravings, you will be able to help your clients to do the same and share personal experiences if appropriate.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email and responding to the reflection questions on the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group. It could also include re-reading the book, the emails, and your responses to the writing assignments in your Self-Love Diet journal from days 46 and 47, as well as going through the activities again to help your reflection process.
Week 17:
Day 49
Reflect on the Entire E-Course’s Self-Love Diet Work – SLD Private Facebook Group
Check-In
Topic: Reviewing Journal Entries Invites Validation of Progress
Teaching Point: Reviewing your journal entries offers a larger perspective of your work and allows you to see your growth.
Learning Objective: Reading your journal entries from the past 17 weeks will highlight the positive personal changes you’ve made and their favorable effects on the work you do with your clients.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, re-reading your journal entries, doing the writing assignment, and sharing your reflections in the Private Self-Love Diet Facebook group.
Day 50
Check-In
Topic: Mapping Out Your Self-Love Diet Practice
Teaching Point: Mapping out a consistent and continued practice cements new skills, behaviors, and thoughts.
Learning Objective: By creating your own Self-Love Diet map, and creating a plan with action steps to take in moving forward, you will be able to help walk your clients through this same process.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, watching the video, “Mapping Out Your Self-Love Diet Practice,” reading your journal mentioned in the email, doing the writing assignment, and creating your Self-Love Diet map.
Day 51
Reflect and Discuss Your Self-Love Diet Map – SLD Private Facebook Group Check-In
Check-In
Topic: This Last Day of the E-Course Is Just the Beginning
Teaching Point: Following your Self-Love Diet map is the beginning to your continued and strengthened Self-Love Diet journey.
Learning Objective: By following your Self-Love Diet map, and having a consistent practice, you will be authentically modeling what self-love looks like to your clients.
Track Your Time for These Activities: Reading the email, watching the video, “It’s Not the End, It’s the Beginning,” and doing the writing assignment.