What you'll learn

Learn to Recognize and Respond to Emotional Eating Triggers

You’ll gain the skills to identify emotional and environmental triggers that drive you to eat for comfort, distraction, or escape. Through guided self-awareness exercises, you’ll explore how emotions like anxiety, boredom, loneliness, or shame can lead to impulsive eating. You'll learn how to pause, reflect, and use DBT tools to respond more skillfully to these urges, building greater emotional clarity and self-control over time.

Build Mindful and Compassionate Eating Habits

This course helps you slow down and reconnect with your body’s natural cues through mindfulness practices, such as eating with awareness and tuning in to hunger and fullness signals. You’ll also learn how to approach food choices with curiosity instead of judgment, and how to replace critical self-talk with self-validation and compassion—key components in healing your relationship with both food and your body.

Strengthen Emotional Coping Without Turning to Food

Instead of using food to numb, distract, or soothe, you'll develop a personalized toolkit of DBT coping strategies—from urge surfing and self-soothing to emotion regulation and distress tolerance. These skills empower you to manage difficult feelings without relying on food for relief, increasing your confidence, resilience, and long-term emotional well-being.

“DBT is about building a life worth living — not just reducing suffering, but cultivating meaning.” — Marsha M. Linehan

Emotional eating is not a lack of willpower — it’s a coping strategy. Often, food becomes a way to soothe, distract, or numb difficult emotions. While it may bring short-term relief, over time it can lead to frustration, guilt, and disconnection from both our bodies and our feelings. This 12-week group is designed to help you build a new relationship with food and emotions using skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). DBT is an evidence-based approach that teaches practical tools for managing intense emotions, improving mindfulness, and building emotional resilience.

Meet Anisa Grantham

Anisa is a Georgia Licensed Counselor, Clinical Trauma Professional, and Master Addictions Counselor (NAADAC). She has worked in emotional wellness and addiction recovery since 1990. She has worked in a variety of mental health and substance abuse settings, including inpatient treatment, psychiatric crisis stabilization, and local DUI Courts, and she has found outpatient therapy rewarding. Anisa earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master of Education Degree/Emphasis in Mental Health Counseling from Georgia Southern University. She is also a credentialed Bariatric Support Group Leader, Success Habits Trainer, Bariatric Life Coach, and Back on Track Facilitator. As a result of her own life challenges, Anisa’s passion is in helping others who struggle with everyday life stressors, substance abuse, and sugar addiction/sensitivity. She is a successful gastric bypass patient (2002) who has also dealt with weight recurrence over the years. She genuinely connects from a place of acceptance and empathy with an ability to hold individuals accountable without judgment. Anisa is committed to providing the community with quality education, coaching, and counseling services.

Course Curriculum

11 Chapters · 45 Lessons

  1. 1

    Welcome

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      DBT Introduction

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      Diary Card

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      Emotions Handout

  2. 2

    Week 1: Introduction to DBT & Emotional Eating

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      DBT & Emotional Eating

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      Wise Mind Handout

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      Wise Man Handout & Exercise

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      Daily Wise Mind Check-In Practice

  3. 3

    Week 2: Mindfulness - Eating with Awareness

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      Mindfulness

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      What is Mindfulness?

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      Mindfulness: DBT "What" and "How" Skills

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      Daily Mindfulness – "Name, Breathe, Notice"

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      Mindful Eating Homework

  4. 4

    Week 3: Understanding Emotional Triggers

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      Triggers & Emotional Vulnerability

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      This Week's Focus: Understanding Emotional Eating

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      DBT HALT and ABC Model Tracking

  5. 5

    Week 4: Pause & Practice

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      Pause & Reflect

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      Summary Questions

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      Pause & Practice – Reflection Worksheet

  6. 6

    Week 5: Distress Tolerance - Urge Surfing & Alternatives

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      Distress Tolerance Skills

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      Urge Surfing

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      TIPP

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      Temperature Skill Options

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      Practicing TIPP & Urge Surfing

  7. 7

    Week 6: Emotion Regulation - Naming Emotions

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      Linking Emotions with Food

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      Emotions Handout

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      Emotion Diary

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      Diving Deeper with Needs Worksheet

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      Naming Emotions Raising Awareness

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      Weekly Awareness Exercise

  8. 8

    Week 7: Radical Acceptance

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      Radical Acceptance

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      ACCEPTS

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      Distress Tolerance - Radical Acceptance Skills

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      Radical Acceptance Examples

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      Values List Exercise

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      Self-Forgiveness Acceptance Letter

  9. 9

    Week 8: Pause & Practice

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      Pause & Reflect

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      Name It to Tame It

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      Summary Questions

  10. 10

    Bonus Meditations

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      Mindful Meditation Video

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      Mindful Meditation Audio

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      Progressive Muscle Relaxation Meditation Video

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      Progressive Muscle Relaxation Meditation Audio

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      Guided Imagery Future Self Meditation Video

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      Guided Imagery Future Self Meditation Audio

  11. 11

    Resources and Tools

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      The DBT Solution for Emotional Eating

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