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Welcome to Joyful Nourishment

Heal Emotional Eating with Self-Compassion

Imagine feeling free around food and connected to a deeper joy in your everyday life.

This course is your invitation to step off the rollercoaster of nighttime snacking, sugar binges, and stress eating. Through the healing power of self-compassion, you’ll learn how to soothe emotions without turning to food, and discover how joyful and peaceful eating can truly feel.

You’ve likely tried diets, meal plans, willpower, and mindset tricks—only to find yourself back in the same frustrating cycle.

You're not alone.

And it’s not because you’ve failed. It’s because most approaches ignore the emotional roots of eating and the healing power of self-compassion.

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That's what makes this course different.

About the Course

Joyful Nourishment is designed to gently guide you back to a loving relationship with food, your body, and yourself.

This isn’t about restriction or rigid control—it’s about listening deeply, softening the inner critic, and learning new ways to care for your emotions without turning to food.

 

Through a carefully crafted, step-by-step curriculum, you’ll:

  • Learn how to soothe your critical inner voice

  • Create space for emotional healing and self-kindness

  • Build a personalized, compassionate action plan for taking care of your body

  • Discover what truly nourishes you, physically, emotionally, and spiritually

 

As you quiet the noise of judgment and guilt, you’ll reconnect with your body’s natural wisdom and uncover a more joyful, sustainable way of relating to food.

This is more than a course, it’s a turning point.
A path back to peace, pleasure, and lasting freedom.

Course Details

Program Duration:

8 weeks

Investment:

$297

Payment Plans Available

Early Registration Bonus:

Register at least one week before the course begins and you will get a bonus session to meet others in the course and begin setting your intention for the 8 weeks!

PLUS

  • 8 hrs. of live instruction with me. This means that the course will be informed by your specific needs.

  • Unlimited email access to me with any questions you have along the way.

  • Lifetime access to the recordings so that you can review and watch the sessions on your own time.

  • Invaluable support and perspective from other group members.

  • Specialized Journaling prompts to help you cultivate Mindfulness and change your eating patterns.

  • PLUS My Self-Compassion Journal for Emotional Eating, AND

  • A FREE Individual Post Course Checkup these sessions will be 15 minutes and must be scheduled within 1 month after the course ends.

 

The bonus session will be held one week before the course start date at 5pm PST.

For Returning Students:

If you’ve taken this course before, welcome back! You already know that the journey of self-compassion isn’t a one-time event, it’s a practice. A relationship. A path you return to again and again, each time with new insight and a deeper capacity for kindness toward yourself.

 

This new round of Joyful Nourishment is designed to meet you exactly where you are now. Whether you're still navigating emotional eating, or you simply want to reconnect with self-compassion and bring more joy into your daily life, this course will support you.

 

While the core teachings remain rooted in self-compassion, the experience is never the same twice. The lessons will be adapted to reflect the needs and intentions of this group. There will be space for you to go deeper, ask new questions, and integrate the practices in a fresh way.

 

If you’ve been feeling called to return to this work, trust that nudge.
You're not starting over, you're starting from a new place within yourself.

If you're ready to feel lighter, freer, and more joyful in your relationship with food,

Joyful Nourishment is for you.

What is Emotional Eating?

Emotional eating is using food to cope with stress, overwhelm, loneliness, or boredom. It often shows up as impulsive or binge eating.
You may feel relief in the moment, but guilt and regret soon follow. You promise yourself you’ll “do better tomorrow,” and the cycle continues.
 

If this feels familiar, know that you’re not alone, AND that there’s a way through that is kind, empowering, and joyful.

The Self-Compassion Shift

According to researcher Dr. Kristin Neff, self-compassion has three core components:

  • Self-Kindness – Treating yourself with the same care you’d offer a loved one.

  • Common Humanity – Realizing you’re not alone in your struggles. Being human is messy, and that’s okay.

  • Mindfulness – Pausing to meet your emotions with presence, instead of pushing them away or numbing them with food.

How Self-Compassion Heals Emotional Eating and Sparks Joy

When we approach ourselves with warmth and care, our relationship with food begins to transform. You may notice:

  1. Less Emotional Eating – Responding to emotions with kindness reduces the need to seek comfort in food.

  2. More Emotional Resilience – Self-compassion helps you navigate life’s ups and downs with greater ease.

  3. Deeper Body Awareness – You’ll start to notice the difference between physical and emotional hunger.

  4. A Kinder Body Image – With self-compassion, you can appreciate your body as it is, leading to greater peace and confidence.

  5. A Renewed Sense of Joy – As emotional eating fades, space opens up for joy, creativity, and authentic nourishment.

Meet Your Instructor

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Hi, I'm Erica

I’m a licensed psychotherapist and a self-compassion educator, and I’ve been exactly where you are.


For years, I struggled with my weight and compulsive eating. I believed that once I lost the weight, everything in my life would fall into place. And when I finally did, I was surprised to discover that it wasn’t the end of the journey, it was the beginning.


What truly changed my life was learning to heal my relationship with food and my body through the practice of self-compassion. And now, that’s what I help others do.


In my work with clients and students, I’ve seen again and again: the more we practice self-compassion, the more freedom, joy, and well-being we experience not just with food, but in every area of life.

Ready to Begin Your Journey?

Take the first step towards a life filled with self-compassion and freedom from the challenges of food. Let's embark on this transformative journey together.

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  • Will practicing self-compassion make me unmotivated to make healthy changes?
    Not at all. Research shows that Self-compassion actually makes it easier and more natural to create lasting changes. When we care for ourselves with love rather than criticism, we’re more motivated to follow through in balanced, sustainable ways. Changes made with compassion last longer than changes made with shame.
  • If I’m kind to myself, won’t I just let myself off the hook?
    Self-compassion isn’t about letting yourself slide. It’s about holding yourself accountable in a kinder, more effective way. Research shows people who practice self-compassion are actually more motivated to make changes, because they’re not paralyzed by shame or fear of failure.
  • I’m afraid self-compassion will make me complacent. Don’t I need to be hard on myself to stay disciplined?
    Criticism may push us for a while, but it also wears us down, fuels shame and often backfires into the very behaviors we’re trying to change. Self-compassion gives you steady motivation, the kind that comes from encouragement and support rather than punishment.
  • Doesn’t self-compassion mean being selfish or self-indulgent?
    Not at all. Self-compassion is about treating yourself with the same care you would show a friend. It actually makes you more available and balanced for the people and responsibilities you care about, because you’re not running on empty.
  • What if I don’t deserve compassion? I’ve made too many mistakes.
    Everyone deserves compassion, especially when we feel we don’t. Self-compassion isn’t about ignoring mistakes; it’s about responding to them in a way that helps us learn, heal, and grow. The truth is, compassion is what allows change to happen.
  • Isn’t self-compassion just “positive thinking” or pretending everything is fine?
    Self-compassion is not about pretending. It’s about acknowledging pain, struggle, or mistakes honestly, and then responding with kindness instead of harshness. It’s grounded in reality, not avoidance.
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