The 2023 HYS Kick-off Conference is being offered both April 3 and April 12.

Registration is required. Please use the registration link below to receive the Zoom link to the 4/3 conference.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, data has suggested that the mental and emotional health of Black youth have worsened. Social influencers of health — such as disparities in access to mental health services; direct, indirect, and systemic experiences of racism; and greater risk of adverse childhood experiences — have all also been impacted by and exacerbated by the pandemic, further contributing to mental health concerns among Black youth. This presents a particularly important time to understand and identify treatments that address the specific and unique mental health concerns of Black youth, more specifically Black boys.  

Black boys are more likely to experience the pressures of Black masculinity roles, which suggest that they must be physically and emotionally strong, athletic, and places less emphasis and value on their emotional health and feelings. This webinar will provide the audience with an understanding of the unique experiences of Black boys, the negative impact of shame and stigma on their mental health (depression, anxiety, trauma, and suicide), and how collectively these factors may make vulnerability, sharing their feelings, and seeking help even more difficult. This presentation will also provide strategies for reducing the stigmatization of mental health, specifically among Black boys.

Join the National American Indian and Alaska Native PTTC for this four-part webinar series. In order to promote good health, prevent disease, and provide cultural connections we are offering a series to address the health disparities across Indian country.  We intend to bring together those who serve in American Indian/ Alaska Native communities to learn about Native nutrition and its impact on prevention and healing. Experts will share their traditional knowledge to connect us to ancestral foods that can be used today in our journey to wellness.

Sessions in this series will be held on: 

• Tuesday, March 21, 2023 
• Tuesday, March 28, 2023 
• Tuesday, April 4, 2023 
• Tuesday, April 18, 2023

A liberation-focused practice seeks to meet marginalized people where they are, within their cultural, historical, and community contexts, and to support clients in healing from the impacts of white supremacy, homophobia, gender binary rigidity, and other systems of dominance and oppression. We know that substance over-use is a common tool used by marginalized community members to find relief from the continual soul-scraping of living with degrading experiences, microaggressions, exploitation, intergenerational trauma, and colonial legacies.

Effective liberation prevention and treatment approaches are those that pull back from individual choices and focus on the underlying systems that create intolerable conditions for living. These frameworks engage structural and institutional analysis, including a critical look at the ways behavioral health care systems may act as a tool to reinforce systemic inequity, and offer community-nested, strengths-based, empowerment-focused healing approaches.

Join Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs on a national webinar designed to enhance tribal stakeholder knowledge of HRSA priorities, programs, technical assistance resources, and funding opportunities in Indian Country. This webinar will examine historical trauma and its impacts on the AI/AN workforce and discuss programs and strategies to alleviate workforce shortages and grow the AI/AN workforce population.

Schools are promising natural settings for service provision in the domain of youth mental health. Historically and contemporarily, schools are also frequently sites where societal inequities and oppression are replicated and perpetuated. With proper stewardship, data-based decision making within school contexts can advance equity in access and outcomes for youth. In this webinar, participants will learn to leverage data to identify injustice and advance equity in school mental health, with a focus on groups experiencing marginalization. Specifically, tangible strategies to identifying disproportionality in access and outcomes will be shared. Participants will have an opportunity to learn ways to tailor equitable data-based decision making to their settings and to communicate effectively about aligning mental health systems with socially just practices.

The mental health of youth and young adults has been a significant concern across the country in recent years. Increased needs for mental health services and support have not been met with adequate resources for care and treatment, often leading youth to the point of crisis. Services for youth struggling with their mental health, along with those living with a serious mental illness, are more necessary than ever. 

Having someone to talk with, making a connection, and finding resources can help prevent youth struggling with their mental health from reaching a point of crisis. Warmlines increase access to mental health services for young people who are struggling while also providing them with meaningful care and connection. Warmlines can offer a different approach to care and support for many youths experiencing mental health concerns or living with a serious mental illness. 

The South Southwest MHTTC presents Mental Health First Aid, which is an early intervention education program that teaches participants the signs and symptoms associated with mental health and/or substance abuse challenges. The session is designed to help participants with identification, learning how to listen without judgment, and provide guidance/resources to individuals experiencing mental health challenges.

The alcohol industry knows its message: that alcohol is part of having fun, having friends, playing sports, or being sexy or manly. This webinar will focus on the influence of advertising and alcohol industry practices on underage drinking. Presenters will provide a thorough inspection of industry practices that get kids’ attention with a special emphasis on emerging high risk alcohol products, which are defined as products that are produced, marketed or advertised in a way that creates an unreasonable risk of being attractive to teens or kids. Presenters describe and provide examples in 7 categories of high risk products, such as products designed to be “healthy”, youthfully packaged, flavorings, and the creation of alcoholic versions of beverages that are traditionally teen-oriented (and non-alcoholic). The session will also examine the role of social media in promoting these products.

The webinar will be presented by members of Dover Youth to Youth, a nationally recognized youth empowerment program based in Dover, NH. The webinar will also include an overview of the Dover program, their model of youth empowerment, and examples of advocacy taken in response to alcohol industry practices and influences on underage drinking.  Attendees will be provided with access to training materials sufficient to allow them to replicate a “High Risk Alcohol Products” awareness presentation in their own community. This training is ideal for community coalitions addressing underage drinking and other prevention professionals, particularly those working with youth advocates.

Effectively using social media platforms and being media literate is critically important in a digital age. Improving prevention practitioners’ media literacy and their use of social media platforms can enhance communication with key audiences and result in more effective prevention efforts. This three-part webinar series aims to do this by helping participants better understand core concepts such as media literacy, social media strategies, and the role of advertising in substance use, and develop skills to think critically about social media, its’ messages, and its role in prevention.

• Webinar 1: Social Media Best Practices - March 21, 2023, 11:30 - 1 p.m. 
• Webinar 2: Media Literacy as a Practical and Transferrable Skill - April 11, 2023, 11:30 - 1 p.m. 
• Webinar 3: Using Media in Susbtance Misuse Prevention - May 2, 2023, 11:30 - 1 p.m. 

• Describe the trends in alcohol consumption among women, including related harms
• Discuss how the four Ps (product, promotion, place, and price) of marketing directly affect women
• Identify opportunities and actions that individuals, coalitions, health departments, policy makers, and other stakeholders can take to prevent and reduce excessive drinking among women

Day 5 of 6; ASCOT is 6-day training facilitated by a team of regional leaders who have worked across Washington State and beyond in community engagement, policy development, prevention programming, leadership development, equity literacy, and community change. The Prevention Specialist Certification Board of Washington approves the training and permits participants who fully complete the course to earn 24 prevention credit hours. For 2023, the training is only offered remotely until it becomes much safer to convene in person. The Washington Association for Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention (WASVP) sponsors ASCOT and receives financial support from the NW HIDTA.

In exploring culturally responsive and equity-centered violence and substance use disorder prevention strategies and best practices, the ASCOT curriculum integrates the following -

• 4 cross-cutting themes
• 6 toolboxes
• Daily showcases
• A bank of online resources
• A participant completed course project

The Spring 2023 ASCOT training series is offered on Wednesdays over a seven (7) week period, 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM. Participants will be actively engaged utilizing the Zoom platform.

• Day One, Wednesday, 3/8/2023
• Day Two, Wednesday, 3/15/2023
• Day Three, Wednesday, 3/22/2023
• Day Four, Wednesday, 3/29/2023
• Day Five, Wednesday, 4/12/2023
• Day Six, Wednesday, 4/19/2023

Priority will be given to practitioners who are committed to fully attending all six (6) of the scheduled sessions and participating as an active member of the course learning community.

Scholarships and Training Costs:

Throughout 2023, Northwest HIDTA is providing a number of full tuition scholarships for interested Washington State community advocates, providers and leaders. Recipients of scholarships are asked to be diligent stewards of these fiscal resources by committing to attend all 30 hours of the online training.  If you would like to be a recipient of a scholarship, simply initiate the registration process via the Zoom link and indicate your interest.

$850 is the cost for the training, materials, and resources. 

Once you have completed the online registration, you will receive payment information directly from WASAVP. Once WASAVP is in receipt of your payment or confirmation about your scholarship, you will then receive written confirmation of your enrollment into the training series. The training is limited to the first 20 who complete registration and payment.

Questions:           Please link to WASAVP's website www.wasavp.org for additional information.

In registering for Day 1/6 of ASCOT (March 8, 2023) secures registration for all six days of the training.

Finding the right mix of volunteers for local prevention efforts can be tricky. No one wants to waste valuable time or resources, but we are left with a series of questions as we look to involve the next generation of leaders, including young adults (ages 18-25) throughout the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) process. What’s their incentive? Who are their connections? Where is their help most needed? How do we bring them into the fold? During this session we will go beyond wishing, hoping, and dreaming that our strategies are sticky enough to move Gen Z (and others) to join local prevention efforts.

The HYS 2023 Kick-off Conference is being offered both April 3 and April 12.

Registration is required. Please use the registration link below to receive the Zoom link to the 4/12 conference.

In this Northwest ATTC webinar, Paul LaKosky, PhD, Executive Director of Dave Purchase Project in Tacoma, WA, will present a brief, admittedly incomplete, description of the evolution of Harm Reduction in the US. He will introduce some of the major players in the US. Harm Reduction movement and the impact of their actions on the lives of people who use drugs (PWUD). Finally, he will provide an overview of how he and his colleagues practice Harm Reduction at Dave Purchase Project/Tacoma Needle Exchange.

Learning objectives:

1) Familiarize participants with the philosophy of Harm Reduction.

2) Participants will understand the genesis and evolution of the Harm Reduction Movement in the US and its roots in the European drug user movements of the 1980's.

3) Participants will know who key figures in the US Harm Reduction Movement are and the roles they played in the movement.

4) Participants will understand where the movement is heading and why drug user rights are human rights.

Attendees of the live webinar will receive a Certificate of Attendance which can be used to obtain CE.

On April 12th from 1:00 to 2:30pm PST, MENTOR Washington is hosting a Grant Finding and Writing workshop facilitated by non-profit development expert, Holly Newman Dzyband. Holly will guide participants in helpful tips and tools for finding aligned grant opportunities, as well as putting together meaningful and equitable grant applications. This workshop is designed for youth development organizations and aims to provide tangible and useable guidance to improve your grant application process. 

Register for this workshop at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuuvrD4vEtfynVT0DSK9vp37GAU...

Well-intended prevention efforts might not work the way we hope if our message does not meet the intended audience where they are in terms of considering change, increases defensiveness or resistance, or has unintended impacts. In this presentation, the importance of language and terminology and lessons learned from the stages of change model, motivational interviewing, and prevention science will be discussed. 

Emotional eating is a struggle that many of us have faced, particularly when feeling isolated, anxious, bored, empty, frustrated, or even excited. Join Laura MacLachlan, registered psychotherapist, in a 4-week educational course that will offer you the knowledge and practical strategies on conquering emotional eating and making peace with food. Laura helps people learn how to change their relationship with food and how to listen to their bodies. This course is for people who struggle with cravings, and emotional eating, or who have started a diet but haven’t been able to stick to it. Laura’s approach is grounded in cognitive behavior therapy and intuitive eating. She focuses on supporting people in understanding their desire to cope with their emotions using food while providing strategies to manage emotional discomfort without breaking healthy commitments. Additionally, this course will offer an understanding of the myths in society that promote weight gain and how the reptilian brain is involved in food addiction.  

This training, offered by the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Drug Misuse Prevention and Recovery, will provide learning opportunities aimed to improve use of data to set priorities, develop plans, monitor trends, forge partnerships, and identify and close health equity gaps. The session is geared toward early career prevention and recovery professionals, and those new to collecting and using data to plan programs, although all are welcome.

Sustainability planning is an intentional process of looking critically at your current prevention infrastructure, processes, and strategies to develop the necessary resources to sustain meaningful prevention outcomes beyond current funding. Sustainability planning involves a series of concrete tasks to create feasible, ongoing support for essential components of your prevention work. Elements of sustainability planning include examining the impact of strategic planning processes, such as SAMSHA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) and interventions, priority setting, resource and feasibility analysis, communication planning, and resource and grant development.

This learning series incorporates online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, self-study and reading assignments, group activities, and discussion designed to guide participants through five critical components of sustainability planning. Trainers will demonstrate how to use a set of tools to facilitate a sustainability process with community partners and will coach participants to set actionable steps and timelines to complete a plan over the next year.  

Session dates: 

• Session 1 - March 02, 2023
• Session 2 - March 09, 2023
• Session 3 - March 16, 2023
• Session 4 - March 23, 2023
• Session 5 - March 30, 2023
• Session 6 - April 06, 2023
• Session 7 - April 13, 2023

Please note, all sessions are held on Thursdays, as listed above, from noon to 1:30 p.m. 

Day 6 of 6; ASCOT is 6-day training facilitated by a team of regional leaders who have worked across Washington State and beyond in community engagement, policy development, prevention programming, leadership development, equity literacy, and community change. The Prevention Specialist Certification Board of Washington approves the training and permits participants who fully complete the course to earn 24 prevention credit hours. For 2023, the training is only offered remotely until it becomes much safer to convene in person. The Washington Association for Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention (WASVP) sponsors ASCOT and receives financial support from the NW HIDTA.

In exploring culturally responsive and equity-centered violence and substance use disorder prevention strategies and best practices, the ASCOT curriculum integrates the following -

• 4 cross-cutting themes
• 6 toolboxes
• Daily showcases
• A bank of online resources
• A participant completed course project

The Spring 2023 ASCOT training series is offered on Wednesdays over a seven (7) week period, 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM. Participants will be actively engaged utilizing the Zoom platform.

• Day One, Wednesday, 3/8/2023
• Day Two, Wednesday, 3/15/2023
• Day Three, Wednesday, 3/22/2023
• Day Four, Wednesday, 3/29/2023
• Day Five, Wednesday, 4/12/2023
• Day Six, Wednesday, 4/19/2023

Priority will be given to practitioners who are committed to fully attending all six (6) of the scheduled sessions and participating as an active member of the course learning community.

Scholarships and Training Costs:

Throughout 2023, Northwest HIDTA is providing a number of full tuition scholarships for interested Washington State community advocates, providers and leaders. Recipients of scholarships are asked to be diligent stewards of these fiscal resources by committing to attend all 30 hours of the online training.  If you would like to be a recipient of a scholarship, simply initiate the registration process via the Zoom link and indicate your interest.

$850 is the cost for the training, materials, and resources. 

Once you have completed the online registration, you will receive payment information directly from WASAVP. Once WASAVP is in receipt of your payment or confirmation about your scholarship, you will then receive written confirmation of your enrollment into the training series. The training is limited to the first 20 who complete registration and payment.

Questions:           Please link to WASAVP's website www.wasavp.org for additional information.

In registering for Day 1/6 of ASCOT (March 8, 2023) secures registration for all six days of the training.

This virtual training will cover two areas on April 19:

1. Fundamentals of youth development. In this fun and  interactive training participants will learn the framework of positive youth development. Participants will walk away with a clear understanding of both the philosophy and practice of positive youth development, including the youth development standards of practice. Through individual reflections, small group discussion and real-world scenarios, participants will be engaged and empowered to apply youth development best practices to their own programs.
2. Building equitable youth and adult partnerships. Youth are the leaders of today! Young people bring perspectives and experiences that are vital to social change and need the support and partnership of adult allies to fully realize their leadership power. In this fun and interactive virtual workshop we will learn and explore the philosophy and framework of positive youth and adult partnerships, the Hart’s Ladder of Youth Participation, adultism and anecdotes, and strategies for building powerful youth and adult partnerships. 

This workshop is hosted by the Rede Group and is part of a series of training opportunities designed for the Youth Cannabis & Commercial Tobacco Prevention Program (YCCTPP). The intended audience for this webinar are prevention practitioners in Washington.

Did you know that American Indians/Alaska Natives have one of the highest rates of abstinence from alcohol of any racial/ethnic group?

In honor of Alcohol Awareness Month, you are invited to join National American Indian & Alaska Native ATTC for this special 2-hour event. A listening session created to discuss the ongoing impact of alcohol on Indigenous communities and the personal journeys to wellness and recovery. Today's event will feature discussions on the role alcohol has played in AI/AN culture/communities in the past and its continued impact on the native peoples of this country today. Led by an informal panel of AI/AN professionals, this listening session aims to explore solutions, prevention, early intervention, treatment, harm reduction, and other alcohol-related recovery topics.

The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC) and the FPG Child Development Institute, UNC are hosting a congressional briefing on the benefits to children of school-based programs designed to foster social, behavioral, and emotional development. People competent in these domains tend to do better in every aspect of life—from health to wealth. Federal and state educational policies that support the provision of these programs will ensure our children are instilled with the skills needed for them to succeed throughout life. 

Children across the country have faced grief, uncertainty, and instability throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to unprecedented rates of learning difficulties and problems with mental and behavioral health. Because the brains and bodies of children and adolescents are continuously developing, their health and well-being can be negatively impacted by challenging circumstances, such as the COVID crisis. In the short-term, our children may have difficulty learning, developing healthy relationships, and managing their emotions. Longer term, such adversity increases risk for mental health disorders, substance abuse, unemployment, unstable relationships, and even chronic disease. 

Alarmingly, even before the pandemic, the United States was seeing an uptick in youth mental health issues, with youth suicidal ideation or behavior up 44% between 2009 and 2018. And now, in the mist of the pandemic, rates have risen even further with nearly half reporting depression and other mental health symptoms, including thoughts or attempts of suicide. In tandem, young people feel disconnected from schools, even after returning to in-person learning. As seen in this figure, the costs of neglecting this issue are enormous. 

Schools have a critical role to play in preventing these problems by supporting students’ emotional development and resilience through programs that build social, behavioral, and emotional competencies. Throughout the school day and outside of school, teachers can work with families to educate children in the five core competencies: self-awareness, situational awareness, ability to regulate emotion and stress, healthy relationship skills, and better decision-making. Incorporating such competencies into school routines curricula has been demonstrated to sustainably improve students’ abilities to achieve developmental and academic milestones, cope with stress, maintain quality relationships, and prevent mental and behavioral health problems, including substance misuse, violence, and suicide. These competencies have been successfully integrated into school systems across the country, from Texas to New York, and a variety of curricula are available that are acceptable to groups across the political spectrum. 

This is an expanded version of the popular TOR Care & Share sessions that began in early 2020, now open to all prevention, treatment, and recovery professionals working with Native populations. This session is a guided discussion for participants to share their expertise, unique tribal and community practices, and offer peer-to-peer support for others serving Native people and tribal communities. Discussion topics are determined by registration responses.

This session is held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.

This 7-week series offers a unique interactive experience that provides participants an opportunity to learn more about the key organizational elements that assist coalitions of all types to operate efficiently and effectively. This series will have a special focus on coalitions that promote healthy youth development to reduce substance misuse and other related problem behaviors. Participants will explore a variety of organizational principles that will assist them in the overall development of their coalition by learning more about how to engage and sustain involvement of key stakeholders and members over time, how to utilize dynamic group-development strategies, and how their efforts can connect with other coalition efforts in their area. The learning series is structured to provide online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and self-study activities, reading assignments, and discussion on topics essential to an effective community coalition structure when focusing on primary prevention. Participants will have the opportunity during the course to discuss specific "next steps" questions. 

Sessions will be held on Wednesdays, April 19 - May 31, 2023, 1-2:30 p.m. PT. 

• Session 1 - April 19, 2023
• Session 2 - April 26, 2023
• Session 3 - May 3, 2023
• Session 4 - May 10, 2023
• Session 5 - May 17, 2023
• Session 6 - May 24, 2023
• Session 7 - May 31, 2023

Audience: prevention practitioners, coalition coordinators, and allied partners working to prevent substance misuse in communities and tribes located in Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center HHS Region 10: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. 

Please note, this series is limited to 25 participants. 

The U.S. has an established history of racial violence and social regression in response to Black progress and social justice gains. The arc of this pattern, first evident after post-Civil War reconstruction, continues to manifest following the post-Obama presidency of 2008-2016. After the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, a door briefly opened onto a period of racial awakening and a renewed commitment to dismantle structural racism through diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. This webinar will examine why that door closed just as quickly as it opened, due to an acceleration of rhetoric designed to stifle free speech, racial literacy and critical thinking while sowing psychological chaos. The speaker will examine the use of either/or “Black or white” thinking to manage shame developed in response to this awareness of racial injustice and corresponding racial awakening.

Emotional eating is a struggle that many of us have faced, particularly when feeling isolated, anxious, bored, empty, frustrated, or even excited. Join Laura MacLachlan, registered psychotherapist, in a 4-week educational course that will offer you the knowledge and practical strategies on conquering emotional eating and making peace with food. Laura helps people learn how to change their relationship with food and how to listen to their bodies. This course is for people who struggle with cravings, and emotional eating, or who have started a diet but haven’t been able to stick to it. Laura’s approach is grounded in cognitive behavior therapy and intuitive eating. She focuses on supporting people in understanding their desire to cope with their emotions using food while providing strategies to manage emotional discomfort without breaking healthy commitments. Additionally, this course will offer an understanding of the myths in society that promote weight gain and how the reptilian brain is involved in food addiction.  

This workshop will introduce participants to the fundamental cultural and family dynamics of Latine/x cultures including familismo, marianismo, and machismo. The definition and examples of these cultural factors will be discussed and cultural considerations will be highlighted.

CEUs for mental health professionals and STARS hours are available. To learn more and sign up, see our training webpage.

Please join the National American Indian and Alaska Native ATTC for a 5-part Behavioral Health webinar series hosted by Dan Foster, PhD, (Western Band Cherokee-Dakota/Lakota) and Suzan McVicker, PhD, (Cherokee Descendent), Warren “Bim” Pourier, MA, LPC, (Lakota), as they present on Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. These 120-minute webinars will offer an overview of IFS and its applications in a clinical setting. Discussion also will include cultural considerations, recovery, re-entry, and addressing elements of the human condition. An interactive format will be used with a brief Q and A period reserved at the end of each event.

Sessions are the 4th Friday of the month:

• March 22
• April 26
• May 24
• June 28
• July 26

All sessions are 10 a.m. to noon. 

This 7-week series offers a unique interactive experience that provides participants an opportunity to learn more about the key organizational elements that assist coalitions of all types to operate efficiently and effectively. This series will have a special focus on coalitions that promote healthy youth development to reduce substance misuse and other related problem behaviors. Participants will explore a variety of organizational principles that will assist them in the overall development of their coalition by learning more about how to engage and sustain involvement of key stakeholders and members over time, how to utilize dynamic group-development strategies, and how their efforts can connect with other coalition efforts in their area. The learning series is structured to provide online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and self-study activities, reading assignments, and discussion on topics essential to an effective community coalition structure when focusing on primary prevention. Participants will have the opportunity during the course to discuss specific "next steps" questions. 

Sessions will be held on Wednesdays, April 19 - May 31, 2023, 1-2:30 p.m. PT. 

• Session 1 - April 19, 2023
• Session 2 - April 26, 2023
• Session 3 - May 3, 2023
• Session 4 - May 10, 2023
• Session 5 - May 17, 2023
• Session 6 - May 24, 2023
• Session 7 - May 31, 2023

Audience: prevention practitioners, coalition coordinators, and allied partners working to prevent substance misuse in communities and tribes located in Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center HHS Region 10: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. 

Please note, this series is limited to 25 participants. 

This webinar will discuss evidence-based prevention strategies for addressing underage alcohol use. It will cover both environmental and behavioral interventions, as well as opportunities to implement or expand policies and address the social determinants of health. The webinar will review both general strategies and those specifically focused on early adolescents or college-age youth. Lastly, it will provide an overview of Federal underage alcohol prevention efforts.

Emotional eating is a struggle that many of us have faced, particularly when feeling isolated, anxious, bored, empty, frustrated, or even excited. Join Laura MacLachlan, registered psychotherapist, in a 4-week educational course that will offer you the knowledge and practical strategies on conquering emotional eating and making peace with food. Laura helps people learn how to change their relationship with food and how to listen to their bodies. This course is for people who struggle with cravings, and emotional eating, or who have started a diet but haven’t been able to stick to it. Laura’s approach is grounded in cognitive behavior therapy and intuitive eating. She focuses on supporting people in understanding their desire to cope with their emotions using food while providing strategies to manage emotional discomfort without breaking healthy commitments. Additionally, this course will offer an understanding of the myths in society that promote weight gain and how the reptilian brain is involved in food addiction.  

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