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A change of heart can change your health

About Transformational Eating™

Transformational Eating™ is a class and support group that offers a radical departure from the normal healing approaches and uses the most dependable, sturdy healing tool we possess: your heart.

An introduction to and overview of my Transformational Eating™ program.

Transformational Eating™

It's time to create space to care for and love the part of you that struggles with food and your health.

Not in a "let me read about it on Instagram" manner, but in a tangible way with the help of an expert.

Consider this: What do you say to yourself when you're alone? Is it gentle and caring or a stream of harsh judgments?

Our inner voice around food and health challenges can vary, but it often carries hostile comments.

However, you can transition from this:

"You are so freaking stupid. See? You’ll never change. Any normal person would probably laugh if they knew how much you think about food and your health."

To this:

"Okay, this is a lot. Food and health are complicated for me. I'm unsure how to care for myself and maintain a healthy relationship with food. Sometimes, it feels scary and too difficult to sort out, but I can learn to be kind to myself during this process."

How? Discover what your heart holds as truth, then assess its validity. If it’s not true, you can change this perceived truth. I use two specific methods: Self-Compassion and Reparenting (inner child or parts work) in a small, safe space. If you are ready to take a deeper look at the framework of your relationship with food, chronic illness or repeating life patterns holding you back, this class is for you.

Transformational Eating™ — For Individuals is an evidence-based, 12-hour, 6-week live Zoom support group and skills class that teaches the skills of self-compassion and reparenting, helps explore underlying belief systems, and aids in showing kindness to internal hurt — all in the name of delivering solutions that break the damaging and exhausting cycle of emotional and disordered eating as well as overthinking about health issues.

In this very hands-on, highly interactive class that meets weekly in 2-hour blocks, you will:

  • Develop powerful tools for building a lifelong compassion practice

  • Explore belief systems and their connection to your challenges

  • Implement self-compassion skills to change old belief systems

  • Learn how to lean into discomfort

  • Practice using your compassionate heart space and energy

  • Create a personal practice that goes beyond Intuitive Eating, HAES, and diet culture

The total cost for the class is $475, including an expansive workbook and custom meditations. Additionally, all classes will be recorded and viewable for up to one week if you can’t attend and/or want to review.

This class is intentionally small (a maximum of ten people), so please sign up as soon as possible to ensure you get a spot.

Note: This is a 60% Support group and 40% Skills class. Participation is the hallmark of this class. Being present with your camera on and willing to share your experiences around food are two of the central focuses of the group.

Class + Support Group Overview

What we’ll do

  • Learn the basics of self-compassion and reparenting

  • Explore core belief systems

  • Examine how your stories became beliefs

  • Build self-trust

  • Focus time on the personal process for each participant

Class size

  • Typically, only 4-10 people

Timing

  • 2-hour blocks each week for 6 weeks, all via Zoom

Cost

  • $475 for 16-hour, 6-week course

Wednesdays 5:30-7:30 pm PST

May 15, 22, 29, June 5, 12, 19 2024

Cost $475 (can be paid in installments)

New Class!

What Is Your Family Cosmology of Eating? 

March 6, 13th, 20th, 27th 4-6pm PST $200

How do we genuinely reclaim our power around eating? Before we can truly give ourselves unconditional permission to eat, we learn where we have blocked unconditional loving for ourselves.

Looking at the cosmology of our family’s eating beliefs allows us to do this by understanding the patterns and beliefs informing our relationship with food.

  • What did your family (caretakers) believe and why?

  • What was the story you heard and how did that impact you?

  • Were there any conditions on the love you received from caretakers and how did that impact the love you currently give yourself?

This powerful, transformative work touches directly into your relationship with food and body freedom. Together we will construct your family cosmology tree of eating and examine how it limits and informs your current relationship with food and how to change through self-compassion.

Questions? Email Jessica directly: jessica@thelovingdiet.com

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This Is Not Your Typical Class…

Transformational Eating™ is not a diet or specific way of eating, nor is it a form of Intuitive Eating or mindful eating. Instead, it’s a powerful approach to healing emotional and disordered eating that uniquely blends self-compassion skills, belief work, and reparenting.

By focusing on you, your history, and your beliefs — rather than how and what you eat — it goes to the absolute core of your relationship with food. This is deep work that helps you acknowledge, soothe, and treat with kindness the very parts of you that hurt most.

“Before I took Jessica's course, I was completely hopeless that I would overcome my eating disorder. I had tried everything... nothing worked. At the end of the course, with her help and the shared insight of the group setting, I am coming up on two months of not practicing the eating disorder, and for the first time in years, it didn't feel like a tremendous burden. It just happened.”

— Shelby E.

About Class Participants

Transformational Eating™ class participants are women (generally) just like you — they’ve struggled with food for years, if not decades. They’re mentally and physically exhausted by the impact food has on their lives, their work, and their relationships, and are ready to find peace once and for all.

Whether triggered by elimination diets, significant life transitions, trauma, fear, self-awareness, body image concerns, and/or illness, among other factors, common food struggles of my class participants include:

  • Food anxiety

  • Stress eating

  • Binge eating disorder

  • Purging disorder

  • Bulimia nervosa

  • Orthorexia

  • Anorexia nervoisa

  • Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)

Class Participants Show +30% Increase
In Self-Compassion & Body Awareness

Interoceptive awareness is the ability to know and recognize one’s internal body cues and signals, such as hunger and satiety. Statistically, people struggling with emotional and disordered eating have lower interoceptive awareness, making it more difficult for them to listen to and/or trust the signs their bodies are sending about food.

Survey results from recent class participants demonstrate that Transformational Eating™ materially increases their ability to hear and trust internal signals, as well as their ability to show kindness toward themselves. Students saw double-digit improvements in every measured category (e.g., self-kindness, mindfulness, attention regulation, body listening, trusting) across the gold standards of testing: The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness and the Self-Compassion Scale - Short-Form.

This combination of results — hearing, trusting, and kindness — is the driver of impact for Transformational Eating™.

Hearing

Trusting

Kindness

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Client Testimonials

  • "This course created space for me to begin the journey of fostering compassion for myself. Jessica’s gentle guidance helped me probe questions I didn’t know I had, while sharing the experience as a group enabled me to learn more about my own healing."

    Shannon D.

  • "This class was truly life changing for me. I would actually recommend this class to all of my female friends and family. Having a safe space to learn, share and grow with a small group was so special to me. Jessica is a beautiful soul and truly takes time to understand and help each person in the class. Her teaching is clear, non judgemental and loving. The ideas, meditations and knowledge she brings to each class have been so revolutionary to me in every aspect of my life."

    Sarah P.

  • "Jessica's Transformational Eating Class lived up to its title - it was truly transformational for me. I've been in therapy many times to address disordered eating and didn't realize how much I needed to experience a group setting. Jessica's gentle leadership and the community of women I met in the class helped me find the ease I've been searching for when dealing with my relationship with food. More importantly, the class opened a door for a new relationship with myself where I am not seeking perfection in everything I do and instead am tending to my heart. "

    Kathleen M.

  • "It is hard to find the right words to describe my gratitude for Jessica and the incredible women that shared this course with me... Jessica provided an immense diversity of tools, ideas, educational resources, concepts, meditations, and vulnerable personal anecdotes that helped me begin the process of healing my relationship with food and my body."

    Kristi S.

  • "Jessica is a true gift and light! Access to her warm energetic presence was extremely healing... Through the class, I felt like I started to break down the walls protecting my heart for the very first time, despite years and years of therapy. I left this course feeling extremely hopeful!"

    Claire P.

  • "Before I took Jessica's course, I was completely hopeless that I would overcome my eating disorder. I had tried everything... nothing worked. At the end of the course, with her help and the shared insight of the group setting, I am coming up on two months of not practicing the eating disorder, and for the first time in years, it didn't feel like a tremendous burden. It just happened."

    Shelby E.

  • "My healing journey felt stalled - like I was hitting a ceiling, and that ceiling was way too low… And, the class proved to be the balm I needed. It was actually Transformational."

    Kirsten O.

  • “It's been a couple of months since I finished Jessica's program, and I feel resolutely steady in the transformation that happened within me during the eight weeks of the course. It's not that my struggles are gone - illness, pain, questions. It's how I relate to the whole picture that has fundamentally changed.”

    Michelle R.

  • “This class has transformed how I relate to my thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and I feel better able to be with difficult emotions, memories, and experiences without needing to fix, hide, or numb.”

    Anonymous

  • "I'm not sure I fully have the words to describe how amazing and transformational this course was! And even though it's over, the work is just beginning... Jessica is one of the most caring, loving humans I know. She has a gift for holding space for others and her loving has no bounds."

    Shirley T.

  • "This course was well worth the money, time, and energy. The levels of deep healing and transformation initiated in my life have been truly something I’ve never experienced before, creating the groundwork for a truly nourishing and compassionately navigated life."

    Kylie K.

  • "I was hoping for a quick shift in how to intuitively eat so I could lose weight - I left with a shift in how I looked at myself, how I spoke to myself, and the ability to give myself permission to sit with myself, whether on cloud-9 or in the midst of mental turmoil. I have for the first time... been able to extend deep love and care to myself genuinely... and to touch those places within that felt like they didn't deserve that kind of love."

    Leah

  • "Today I have tools to manage my relationship with food that I learned in the Transformational Eating class... and the hamster wheel of negative talk has left the building. I feel empowered and on the path to food freedom..."

    V C

  • "The 'AHHAAA!' moment was when I realized that my food issues were about ALL of me and my perceptions - and not just my gut. Jessica provides support to look deeper. Truly Transforming!"

    Cindy H.

  • "Jessica's approach and capacity to hold space for each client individually, as well as in a group, is nothing short of phenomenal. This was the first time in recent memory where I not only felt like actual healing took place, but the group dynamic was so supportive and special... If you feel like you have tried everything and you keep hitting dead ends, Jessica's guidance and loving approach will set it right."

    Stacy C.

  • "My time in the class empowered me to recognize why my Inner Eater exists, how she supports my inner critic, and how I can be grateful for both of them for protecting me and keeping me safe from trauma I have experienced. Seeing my Inner Eater from this perspective afforded me more compassion for myself and my classmates. Jessica is magic."

    Olympia A.

  • "The Transformational Eating class exceeded my expectations, and I’m truly grateful for the experience. Being able to connect with like-minded individuals on similar journeys was so helpful to me. I loved the format and flow of the class, getting to share weekly progress, and learning ways to incorporate self-compassion into my daily life. I can’t recommend this class enough if you’re someone who wants to learn more about your relationship to food from the basis of self-compassion."

    Erica F.