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Free Yourself From Emotional Eating

When you're happy, your choice of food could be steak or pizza, when you're sad it could be ice cream or cookies and when you're bored it could be potato chips.  Food does more than fill our stomachs--it also satisfies feelings and when you quench those feelings with comfort food, that's emotional eating.

Exercising restraint from bad, unhealthy food is a form of mental exercise that can be taught using a series of techniques including mindfulness, emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

This 1 hour workshop will teach you the methods Dr. Christine Dickson has used to help people manage their hunger and emotional eating.  It is perfect for anyone who wants to get healthy and lose weight

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