Overcoming Emotional Eating

Break Free from Emotional Eating

If you’re stuck in the cycle of stress, cravings, and guilt around food, this course will show you a new way forward. With step-by-step videos, practical worksheets, and simple nutritional guidelines, you’ll learn how to calm cravings, manage emotions without food, and create healthier habits that last. This isn’t about dieting or willpower – it’s about building a balanced, guilt-free relationship with food and yourself.

75.00

Description

Course Description:

Do you find yourself reaching for food when you feel stressed, tired, lonely, or even when you’re celebrating? You’re not alone. Many people use food to cope with emotions rather than hunger – it can bring comfort in the moment but often leaves us feeling guilty, stuck, and out of control.

This self-directed online course is designed to help you break free from that cycle. You’ll gain a clear understanding of why emotional eating happens, what triggers it, and how you can create new habits that support both your emotional wellbeing and your physical health.

Through engaging videos, practical worksheets, and clear nutritional guidelines, you’ll be guided step by step to:

  • Recognise the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger.

  • Understand the link between food and mood, and why certain foods can make cravings worse.

  • Spot your emotional, mental, and environmental triggers before they lead to overeating.

  • Challenge self-sabotaging thoughts like “I’ve had a stressful day, I deserve this” that keep you stuck in old patterns.

  • Use mindfulness and mindful eating to enjoy food more, while naturally reducing overeating.

  • Develop healthier ways to manage stress, boredom, and difficult feelings – without relying on food.

  • Balance your meals and blood sugars with simple nutritional guidance to reduce cravings and support steady energy.

You’ll also discover tools such as the Feeling Wheel to help you name and process emotions, urge-surfing techniques to ride out cravings, and step-by-step strategies for forming new habits that last.

This is not a diet. It’s not about restriction or willpower. Instead, it’s about building a healthier relationship with food and with yourself. By the end of the course, you’ll feel more in control, less guilty, and more confident in your ability to cope with emotions without turning to food.

You can work through the lessons at your own pace, revisit the videos whenever you need, and use the worksheets and nutritional guidelines as daily supports to keep you on track.

-Lots of videos, worksheets and workbooks to guide you step by step through the process of understanding your emotions and putting an end to the mindless overeating when emotions take over

– The Roadmap to a Healthy Lifestyle Workbook is an extensive resource that not only reinforces your learning but also aids in monitoring your advancement and setting new objectives.

– With lifetime access to the course materials, you can always return for a refresher, staying up-to-date with any new content that becomes available.

 

Your Guide through this course

About Your Course Facilitator – Susi Lodola

When you join one of Susi Lodola’s CPD programmes, you’re learning from a psychotherapist, third-level lecturer, and clinical supervisor who brings years of real-world clinical experience into every session. Her teaching style is practical, engaging, and rooted in evidence-based approaches, ensuring that what you learn can be applied immediately in your work.

Alongside her private practice, Susi lectures at third level and has developed a variety of modules for psychotherapy training programmes. Her ability to blend academic rigour with real-world application means participants not only understand the theory but also leave confident in how to put it into practice. She has a gift for making complex concepts clear and relevant, creating an environment where professionals feel supported and inspired to grow their skills.

Her background includes delivering specialist training for mental health practitioners across a range of settings — from working with the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) to designing workshops for corporate wellbeing programmes. She continually invests in her own professional development, including advanced CBT training at the Beck Institute in Philadelphia, which informs her specialist work in emotional eating and weight management.

Susi is also a regular contributor to the Irish media on mental health topics, sharing her expertise to promote public understanding and awareness.

All of Susi’s CPD courses are approved by the IACP and focus on giving you practical tools for your practice — whether you’re learning new interventions for adolescent mental health, refining your CBT skills, or exploring strategies to support clients with emotional eating. Participants consistently comment on how interactive and applicable the training is, and leave with resources and skills they can use straight away.

Qualifications

  • MSc in CBT & Motivational Interviewing

  • BA (Hons) in Psychology

  • BA (Hons) in Linguistics

  • BA in Psychotherapy

  • Professional Certificate in Child & Adolescent Therapy

  • Professional Certificate in Mindfulness

  • Suicide Intervention Training

  • Diploma in Clinical Supervision

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